Dr. Lisa A. Frazier is a senior researcher at the Battelle Center for Science, Engineering and Public Policy, a center within the John Glenn College of Public Affairs. Frazier leads the center’s exploration of complex public problems at the intersection of technology and society. In addition to research, Frazier also teaches and manages strategic and administrative initiatives for the center. Her approach is grounded in the understanding that science, engineering, research and technology can and should be used for innovation in the public’s interest.
Frazier is a scholar of health policy, holding a bachelor’s degree in anthropology and political ecology from Mount Holyoke College as a Phi Beta Kappa, Mary Lyon Scholar; a master’s degree in public health (epidemiology) from The Ohio State University College of Public Health; and a doctoral degree in public policy and management from The Ohio State University John Glenn College of Public Affairs.
Frazier uses econometric and computational social science methods to model complex relationships among policy contexts, outputs and outcomes. She has published research on a range of complex health policy issues, including state opioid policy, reproductive health and substance use policy, Medicaid eligibility policy and administration, the household impacts of COVID and state policy responses, and the role of health informatics in public policy. She brings this background to a number of applied research projects, including the NIH-funded HEALing Communities Study, for which she serves as the policy lead for the Ohio team, and in her role as the university’s designee to the Public Interest Technology University Network (PIT-UN).
Prior to joining the Battelle Center, she was a research scholar at Ohio State’s Center for Health Outcomes and Policy Evaluation Studies, assistant professor in the department of political science at Miami University, research fellow for the Ohio Policy Evaluation Network and Ohio State’s Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, and a research and policy analyst at the Health Policy Institute of Ohio.
Frazier is a dedicated teacher, concerned with solving wicked public problems through structural innovation and training the next generation of the citizen-workforce to do the same. She has received recognition for teaching excellence at the Glenn College and Miami University as well as praise for workshops and guest lectures in both academic and non-academic settings. She teaches public policy analysis, foundations of health policy, decision making and policy communication to audiences at every level.
