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Andrew Ward, Ph.D, M.P.H., Ph.D., Senior Analyst, conducts and analyzes research related to health insurance and social determinants of health disparities. Before joining KHI, Ward was an instructor in the Division of Health Policy and Management at the School of Public Health at the University of Minnesota and was part of a research team at the Minnesota Population Center working to harmonize National Health Interview Survey data collected from 1963 to present. He has held faculty positions at several universities, including the Georgia Institute of Technology, San José State University, University of Delaware, and University of Minnesota. Additionally, Ward was a Research Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, University of Edinburgh and also served as project co-director for the Georgia Institute of Technology Rehabilitation Engineering Research Center on Workplace Accommodations, Policy Initiatives to Support Workplace Accommodations. He has earned two doctorate degrees: one in health services research, policy, and administration from the University of Minnesota and another in philosophy from the University of Kansas. In addition, he holds a master’s degree in public health, specializing in public health administration, from the University of Minnesota and a bachelor’s degree in mathematics from Luther College in Decorah, Iowa.