Dr. Aryana Sepassi, Pharm D, MAS

Professor Sepassi is a pharmacist, health economist, and outcomes scientist. Her research mission is to improve healthcare accessibility for immigrants in the United States by generating empiric data that accomplishes three main goals:

1. To identify socioeconomic disparities and their contributions among immigrants and other disadvantaged populations that prevent access to high-quality healthcare.
2. To quantify the harmful health effects of discriminatory health policies toward these populations.
3. To aid in the development of cost-effective interventions to bridge gaps and improve care.

Professor Sepassi's research focuses on the use of econometric, epidemiologic, data science, and causal inference methods to carry out quasi-experimental projects. She has experience with the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey, California Health Interview Survey, insurance claims data from IQVIA (formerly Quintiles IMS), Medicare claims data, linked SEER-Medicare data, Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project data, and EMR data specific to the UC system.

Professor Sepassi has mentored several students who have gone on to accept fellowship and industry positions, and her work on health literacy and immigrant populations in the United States has been cited by Migration Policy Institute. Her work has been funded by the American Cancer Society, and the Arthritis Foundation. She is the recipient of a 2024 Loan Repayment Program Award from the National Cancer Institute for work on access to targeted oral anticancer medications among self-identified racial/ethnic minority populations in the United States.