Description of Research Expertise

Sara Handley, MD, MSCE, is a neonatologist and health services researcher focused on evaluating the impact of the perinatal health care system, including institutional structure, organizational culture, and unit processes on perinatal outcomes and outcome variation. Perinatal health system factors in her research include perinatal regionalization (e.g., access to hospital-based childbirth care, levels of care, risk-appropriate care delivery, rural-urban differences), organizational culture (e.g., dyad-centered culture, resuscitation team culture), and neonatal care processes (i.e. moderate and preterm infant care, resuscitation). She conducts her work in collaboration with experts in biostatistics, obstetrics, organizational psychology, and health care management.