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Overview

David Grande is affiliated with the University of Pennsylvania in the United States. Their research spans several interconnected fields, primarily focusing on health professions, medicine, and social sciences with particular attention to general health professions, sociology and political science, economics and econometrics, information systems, and public health.

Their scholarly output includes a diverse range of topics such as healthcare policy and management, mobile health and mHealth applications, COVID-19 digital contact tracing, privacy, security, and data protection, health literacy and information accessibility, patient satisfaction in healthcare, and primary care and health outcomes.

David Grande has contributed publications to a variety of academic journals. Their most frequent venues of publication include:

  • Journal of General Internal Medicine
  • JAMA Network Open
  • Journal of Medical Internet Research
  • European Journal of Public Health
  • Health Affairs

Several selected papers illustrate the scope and evolution of their research interests:

  • Health Policy and Privacy Challenges Associated With Digital Technology (2020), published in JAMA Network Open
  • Consumer Views on Using Digital Data for COVID-19 Control in the United States (2021), published in JAMA Network Open
  • Consumer Willingness to Share Personal Digital Information for Health-Related Uses (2022), published in JAMA Network Open
  • Consumer Views on Privacy Protections and Sharing of Personal Digital Health Information (2023), published in JAMA Network Open
  • Evidence-Based Community Health Worker Program Addresses Unmet Social Needs And Generates Positive Return On Investment (2020), published in Health Affairs

David Grande frequently collaborates with several coauthors, demonstrating recurring professional partnerships. Notable frequent coauthors include:

  • David A. Asch
  • Raina M. Merchant
  • Nandita Mitra
  • Carolyn C. Cannuscio
  • Meghana Sharma

Their work reflects significant engagement with issues related to digital health technologies, data privacy, and public health responses to the COVID-19 pandemic. This combination of health professions expertise with digital and policy dimensions characterizes their interdisciplinary approach.

Best Publications

  • Understanding Why Patients Of Low Socioeconomic Status Prefer Hospitals Over Ambulatory Care

    Shreya Kangovi;Frances K. Barg;Tamala Carter;Judith A. Long

  • Residents' suggestions for reducing errors in teaching hospitals.

    Kevin G.M. Volpp;David Grande

  • Prior experiences of racial discrimination and racial differences in health care system distrust.

    Katrina Armstrong;Mary Putt;Chanita H. Halbert;David Grande

  • Patient-centered community health worker intervention to improve posthospital outcomes: a randomized clinical trial.

    Shreya Kangovi;Nandita Mitra;Nandita Mitra;David Grande;David Grande;David Grande;Mary L. White

  • Community Health Worker Support for Disadvantaged Patients With Multiple Chronic Diseases: A Randomized Clinical Trial

    Shreya Kangovi;Nandita Mitra;David Grande;Hairong Huo

  • Effect of Community Health Worker Support on Clinical Outcomes of Low-Income Patients Across Primary Care Facilities: A Randomized Clinical Trial.

    Shreya Kangovi;Nandita Mitra;Lindsey Norton;Rory Harte

  • Evidence-Based Community Health Worker Program Addresses Unmet Social Needs And Generates Positive Return On Investment

    Shreya Kangovi;Nandita Mitra;David Grande;Judith A. Long

  • A Decade of Controversy: Balancing Policy With Evidence in the Regulation of Prescription Drug Advertising

    Dominick L. Frosch;David Grande;Derjung M. Tarn;Richard L. Kravitz

  • Public Preferences about Secondary Uses of Electronic Health Information

    David Grande;David Grande;Nandita Mitra;Anand Shah;Fei Wan

  • Hospital Readmissions—Not Just a Measure of Quality

    Shreya Kangovi;David Grande

  • Understanding the Leaky Pipeline: Perceived Barriers to Pursuing a Career in Medicine or Dentistry Among Underrepresented-in-Medicine Undergraduate Students

    Brandi Kaye Freeman;Alden Landry;Robert Trevino;David Grande

  • Association of Rideshare-Based Transportation Services and Missed Primary Care Appointments: A Clinical Trial

    Krisda H. Chaiyachati;Krisda H. Chaiyachati;Rebecca A. Hubbard;Alyssa Yeager;Brian Mugo

  • Challenges Faced by Patients with Low Socioeconomic Status During the Post-Hospital Transition

    Shreya Kangovi;Frances K. Barg;Tamala Carter;Kathryn Levy

  • Racial Disparities in Geographic Access to Primary Care in Philadelphia

    Elizabeth J. Brown;Daniel Polsky;Corentin M. Barbu;Jane W. Seymour

  • Effect of Exposure to Small Pharmaceutical Promotional Items on Treatment Preferences

    David Grande;Dominick L. Frosch;Andrew W. Perkins;Barbara E. Kahn

  • Beyond books: public libraries as partners for population health.

    Anna U. Morgan;Roxanne Dupuis;Bernadette D’Alonzo;Andria Johnson

  • Limiting the influence of pharmaceutical industry gifts on physicians: self-regulation or government intervention?

    David Grande

  • From Rhetoric to Reality — Community Health Workers in Post-Reform U.S. Health Care

    Shreya Kangovi;David Grande;Chau Trinh-Shevrin

  • Perceptions of readmitted patients on the transition from hospital to home.

    Shreya Kangovi;Shreya Kangovi;Shreya Kangovi;David Grande;David Grande;Patricia Meehan;Nandita Mitra

  • Rideshare-Based Medical Transportation for Medicaid Patients and Primary Care Show Rates: A Difference-in-Difference Analysis of a Pilot Program.

    Krisda H. Chaiyachati;Rebecca A. Hubbard;Alyssa Yeager;Brian Mugo

  • Pharmaceutical Industry Gifts to Physicians: Patient Beliefs and Trust in Physicians and the Health Care System

    David Grande;Judy A. Shea;Katrina Armstrong

Frequent Co-Authors

Craig Evan Pollack
Craig Evan Pollack Johns Hopkins University
Frances K. Barg
Frances K. Barg University of Pennsylvania
Charles C. Branas
Charles C. Branas Columbia University
Daniel Polsky
Daniel Polsky Johns Hopkins University
Kevin G. Volpp
Kevin G. Volpp University of Pennsylvania
Raymond De Vries
Raymond De Vries University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Chau Trinh-Shevrin
Chau Trinh-Shevrin New York University
Jeremy Mennis
Jeremy Mennis Temple University

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