When LDI Senior Fellow Jalpa Doshi and collaborator Lorraine Dean of Johns Hopkins University published a landmark paper in 2024 showing how rising copays restrict preventive care, many researchers might have logged the study on their CVs and moved on.
But Doshi and Dean didn’t follow the script. When a federal court case threatened to virtually eliminate free preventive care in the United States, the pair realized their study could show judges how damaging that would be. They sprang into action, translating their work into an infographic, op-ed, and other materials to share with the article’s release in Health Affairs in early 2024.
“Once the paper was published, the outreach campaign took over my life for a while,” Doshi recalled. “It was pretty insane.”