Norma B. Coe, PhD
Professor of Medical Ethics and Health Policy
Senior Fellow, Leonard Davis Institute, University of Pennsylvania
Affiliate Faculty, Palliative and Advanced Illness Research Center, University of Pennsylvania
Co-Director, Analysis Core, Center for Improving Care Delivery for the Aging (CICADA), University of Pennsylvania
Member, Institute on Aging (IoA), University of Pennsylvania
Research Associate, Population Aging Research Center, University of Pennsylvania
Research Associate, Population Studies Center (PSC), University of Pennsylvania
Co-Director, Get Experience in Aging Research Undergraduate Program (Gear-UP), University of Pennsylvania
Division Leader, Division of Epidemiology, Social Science, and Policy at the Institute on Aging, University of Pennsylvania
HEDAP Faculty Co-Director, Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics (LDI), University of Pennsylvania
Director of Research, Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics (LDI), University of Pennsylvania
Department: Medical Ethics and Health Policy
Graduate Group Affiliations
Contact information
Department of Medical Ethics and Health Policy
Health Policy Division
11th Fl Blockley Hall
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Health Policy Division
11th Fl Blockley Hall
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Email:
nbcoe@pennmedicine.upenn.edu
nbcoe@pennmedicine.upenn.edu
Education:
BA (Economics)
College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA, 1997.
PhD (Economics)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA , 2005.
Permanent linkBA (Economics)
College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA, 1997.
PhD (Economics)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA , 2005.
Selected Publications
Zahodne LB, Miller K, Sun C, Sharifian N, Parisi JM, Rebok GW, Aiken Morgan AT, Gross AL, Thomas KR, Felix C, Coe NB.: Perceived Control, Cognitive Training, and Incident Alzheimer's Disease and Related Dementias in the ACTIVE Study The Journals of Gerontology. Series B, Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences Page: gbaf086, May 2025 Notes: Online ahead of print.Miller KEM, Coe NB, Kreider AR, Hoffman A, Rhode K, Gonalons-Pons P: Increasing Expenditures on Home-and-Community-Based Services: Do Home Care Workers Benefit? Health Services Research 60 Suppl 2(Suppl 2): e14399, Apr 2025.
Coe NB, Sun C, Van Houtven CH, Basu A, Konetzka RT: Home-Based Care Outcomes: Does the Care Provider Matter? Health Economics Apr 2025 Notes: Online ahead of print.
Coe NB, Werner RM: Your Parents Deserve More From Their Nursing Home (Guest Essay). The New York Times Feb 2025 Notes: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/07/opinion/nursing-home-care-parents.html.
Coe NB, Sun C, White L, Shapiro LN, Taylor JS, Crane PK: Health care utilization and cost differences across cognitively-defined Alzheimer’s disease subgroups. Alzheimer's & Dementia; The Journal of the Alzheimer's Association. Public Health 20(S7): e13338, Jan 2025.
Coe NB, Sun C, Travers J, Chen K, Burke R, Pogorzelska-Maziarz M, Castle N, Falvey J: Which Nursing Homes Received Paycheck Protection Program Funding? Alzheimer's & Dementia; The Journal of the Alzheimer's Association. Public Health 20(S7), Jan 2025.
Werner RM, Coe NB, Kim S, Konetza RT: The Effects of Post-Acute Care Payment Reform on the Need For and Receipt of Caregiving. American Journal of Health Economics 11(2): 247-273 Spring 2025.
Gonalons-Pons P, Hoffman A, Coe NB, Kreider A, Miller KEM: Worker Wages Stagnate as Medicaid Home Care Spending Rises. Raising Reimbursement Rates and Wages Would Support a Stable Workforce and Better Care, LDI Fellows Say (Blog Post). Penn LDI Research & Policy Updates Dec 2024 Notes: https://ldi.upenn.edu/our-work/research-updates/worker-wages-stagnate-as-medicaid-home-care-spending-rises/
White LLY, Sun C, Coe NB: Quality of Hospices Used by Medicare Advantage and Traditional Fee-for-Service Beneficiaries. JAMA Network Open 7(12): e2451227, Dec 2024.
Aamodt WW, Sun C, Dahodwala N, Elser H, Schneider ALC, Farrar JT, Coe NB, Willis AW: End-of-Life Health Care Service Use and Cost Among Medicare Decedents With Neurodegenerative Diseases. Neurology 103(9): e209925, Nov 2024.