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Colleen M Grogan, PhD

Deborah R. and Edgar D. Jannotta Professor, Faculty Director for Climate Heath and Society (CHAS), Faculty Director for Graduate Program in Health Policy & Administration (GPHAP)
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Areas of Expertise
Climate & Health
Comparative Health Systems
Government and Policy
Health Policy & Politics
Medicaid Policy & Reform
Substance Use Disorder Policy Reform
Health
International
Public Health
Public Policy
Social Welfare Policy
Substance Abuse
Welfare
Crown Family School Affiliations
Center for Climate, Health, and Society (CHAS)
Graduate Program in Health Administration and Policy (GPHAP)
UChicago Affiliations
Center for Global Health
Center for Health and the Social Sciences
Other Affiliations

Fellow, National Academy of Social Insurance; Fellow, American Academy of Social Work and Social Welfare; Member, Scholars Strategy Network; American Political Science Association; Health Policy & Politics Section

Professor Grogan is among the intellectual leaders studying health policy and politics with a primary focus on the US health care system and its complex entitlement programs. Her first book, Healthy Voices/ Unhealthy Silence: Advocacy and Health Policy for the Poor, and numerous articles focused on elite decision-making around America’s extremely large and growing Medicaid program and offered a fundamentally new way to view the politics of the program as both middle-class incorporation while stigmatizing the poor and vulnerable. Her forthcoming second book, Grow and Hide: The History of America's Health Care State, documents the extent of public provision in developing the U.S. health care system, and shows how public discourse hid the role of government and public funding from 1860 to present. Grogan argues that while the US health care system is often described as rooted in classic American liberal ideology, the state invested heavily in the system starting early in the 20th Century. Today, the state’s role is larger than ever and yet remains largely hidden, because stakeholders successfully, and repeatedly, present the illusion of minimal government involvement, resulting in a highly unequal distribution of benefits and scarce accountability.
 
Grogan is at work on two major research projects. The first is focused on the opioid epidemic. She is currently Co-Principal Investigator of a large multi-institution NIH study to determine the effect of Medicaid Managed Care Organizations’ coverage on access to treatment and health outcomes for person with Opioid Use Disorder. The second is a new project on the role of financialization in the U.S. health care system and its implications for health politics and health equity.

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U.S. Health System & Policy

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Center for Climate, Health, and Society Launches New Chapter at Climate Frontiers 2026
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Colleen Grogan Moderates Aspen Ideas Panel on Community Health Resilience
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New Book by Colleen M. Grogan details the history of the American health care state and Reveals that the Public has been Misled.
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Professors Yoonsun Choi and Waldo E. Johnson, Jr. are inducted as 2023 fellows by the American Academy of Social Work & Social Welfare (AASWSW)
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Books

Grogan, Colleen M. 2023. Grow and Hide: The History of America’s Health Care State.
(Oxford University Press).
Grogan, Colleen M. and Michael K. Gusmano. 2007. Healthy Voices/Unhealthy Silence:
Advocacy and Health Policy for the Poor (Washington DC: Georgetown University Press). https://www.amazon.com/Healthy-Voices-Unhealthy-Silence-Governance-ebook/dp/B001HZZRXM/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=Grogan%2C+colleen&qid=1578959707&sr=8-1

Special Issues

  • Cohen, Alan, Colleen M. Grogan, Jediah Horwitz. (Guest Editors) 2017. “Introduction: The Many Roads toward Achieving Health Equity.” Journal of Health Politics, Policy & Law, (42.5 September). https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28663177

Articles, and Chapters

  • Hinds, O. M., Westlake, M. A., Patel, S., Gross, S. B., Abraham, A. J., Grogan, C. M., & Andrews, C. M. (2026). “Trends in Medicaid managed care benefits for opioid use disorder treatment, 2015–2019.” Journal of Substance Use & Addiction Treatment, 189. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.josat.2026.210014
  • Feltus, Sage R., Christina M. Andrews, Lauren Peterson, Colleen M. Grogan, Amanda J. Abraham, Olivia M. Hinds, Maureen T. Stewart. 2026. “Medicaid Managed Care Plan Alignment with State Substance Use Disorder Treatment Coverage Requirements.” The Milbank Quarterly. https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-0009.70083
  • Yelton, B., Westlake, M.A., Abraham, A.J., Grogan, C.M., Hinds, O., Andrews, C.M. (2026). “Single state agency licensure requirements for substance use disorder treatment programs in the United States: results of a national survey.” Substance Abuse Treatment, Prevention, and Policy. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13011-026-00724-7
  • Abraham, A.J., Estrada, M.A.G., Cooper, Grogan, C.M., Andrews, C.M. (2026). “Diagnosis of Alcohol Use Disorder and Receipt of Mediciations in Medicaid Managed Care: Evidence from 17 States.” Journal of Substance Abuse and Dependence.
  • Estrada, M.A.G., Steuart, S.R., Andrews, C.M., Grogan, C.M., Hinds, O.M., Lawler, E.C., Peterson, L., Lozano-Rojas, F., Westlake, M.A., Wing, C., & Abraham, A.J. (2025). “Relationship Between Medicaid Coverage Design and Receipt of Medication for Alcohol Use Disorder (MAUD): Probability of Receipt Increases Based on Comprehensives of Plan.” Drug and Alcohol Dependence Reports, 16 (September), 2025. [Selected for Editor’s Choice Award.]
  • Steuart, Shelby R., Miguel Antonio G. Estrada, Christina M. Andrews, Colleen M. Grogan, Olivia M. Hinds, Emily C. Lawler, Lauren A. Peterson, Felipe Lozano-Rojas, Melissa A. Westlake, Coady Wing, Amanda J. Abraham. 2025. “Medicaid managed care organization service coverage and diagnosis and treatment of opioid use disorder: evidence from quasi-random auto-assignment in Kentucky.” Health Affairs Scholar, 3(7), qxaf119. https://doi.org/10.1093/haschl/qxaf119
  • Statchen, Thomas and Colleen M. Grogan. May 2025. “Health Inequity Profiteering by Private Equity Firms.” AMA Journal of Ethics, 27(5): Exxx-xxx.
  • Statchen, Thomas, Colleen M. Grogan, Harold Pollack, Amanda Abraham and Christina Andrews. (2025). “Substance Use Disorder Medicaid Waivers: Opportunities and Challenges.” Journal of Health Politics, Policy & Law.
  • Grogan, Colleen M. 2025. “Medicaid’s Political Development Since 1965: How a Fragmented and Unequal Program Has Expanded.” Journal of Health Politics, Policy & Law, 50(2): 137-164. Special Issue: “Medicaid at 60.”
  • Rooke-Ley, Hayden, Dana Brown, Colleen Grogan. 2025. “Reviving public provisioning in US health care.” Health Affairs Scholar, 3(3), qxaf013.
  • Peterson, Lauren, Melissa Westlake, Christina Andrews, Amanda J. Abraham, Colleen M. Grogan. 2024. “Most States Allow Medicaid Managed Care Plans Discretion to Restrict Substance Use Disorder Treatment Benefits.” Health Affairs, 43(7): 1038-1046.
  • Silverman, Allie, Melissa Westlake, Olivia Hinds, Amanda Abraham, Colleen M. Grogan, Samantha Harris, Christina Andrews. 2024. “Medicaid Managed Care Carve Out Structure.” Journal of Substance Use and Addiction Treatment, 161(209357).
  • Lewis, Cashell, Christina Andrews, Amanda J. Abraham, Melissa Westlake, Faye S. Taxman, Colleen M. Grogan. (2024). “State Medicaid Initiatives Targeting Substance Use Disorder in Criminal Legal Settings, 2021.” American Journal of Public Health, pp. e1-e4.
  • Bruch, Joseph Dov, Victor Roy and Colleen M. Grogan. (2024). “The Financialization of Health in the United States.” New England Journal of Medicine, 390(2): 178-182.
  • Andrews, C. M., Melissa Mull, Samantha J. Harris, Sadia Jehan, Colleen M. Grogan, Amanda Abraham. (2024). “Prior Authorization for Buprenorphine: Role of Profit Status and Partisanship in Medicaid Managed Care.” Health Affairs, 43(1): 55-63.
  • Estrada, Miguel Antonio G., Amanda J. Abraham, Christina M. Andrews, Colleen M. Grogan. (2024). “Statewide efforts to address the opioid epidemic: Results from a national survey of single state agencies.” Journal of Substance Use and Addiction Treatment, 160 (May).
  • Morris, Rebecca, Sara Rosenbaum, Colleen M. Grogan, Meredith Rhodes and Christina Andrews. (2023). “How Does Medicaid Managed Care Address the Needs of Beneficiaires with Opioid Use Disorders? A Deep Dive into State Contract Design for Private Actors.” American Journal of Law & Medicine, 49(2-3): 339-348.
  • Grogan, Colleen M., Stephanie Yu and Miriam J. Laugesen. 2023. “Private Equity, Value-Based Payments, and Hollow Promises.” Public Policy & Aging Report, 33: 70-72.
  • Andrews, C.M., Olivia M. Hinds, Felipe Lozano-Rojas, Wendy L. Besmann, Amanda J. Abraham, Colleen M. Grogan, and Allie F. Silverman. 2023. “State Funding for Substance Use Disorder Treatment Declined in the Wake of Medicaid Expansion.” Health Affairs, 42(7): 981-990.
  • Harris, Samantha J., Amanda J. Abraham, Felipe Lozano-Rojas, Sophia Negaro, Christina M. Andrews, Colleen M. Grogan. 2023. “Allocation of federal funding to address the opioid overdose crisis in the criminal legal system.” Journal of Substance Use and Addiction Treatment, 150 (July). https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S2949875923001145
  • Shoulders, Angela, Christina M. Andrews, Melissa A. Westlake, Amanda J. Abraham, Colleen M. Grogan. 2023. “Changes in Medicaid Fee-for-Service Benefit Design for Substance Use Disorder Treatment During the Opioid Crisis, 2014 to 2021.” JAMA Health Forum, 4(8): e232502.
  • Crable, E.L., Grogan, C.M., Purtle, J., Roesch, S.C., Aarons, G.A. 2023. “Tailoring dissemination strategies to increase evidence-informed policymaking for opioid use disorder treatment: Study protocol.” Implementation Science Communications, 4:16.
  • Abraham, A.J., Andrews, C.M., Harris, S.J., Westlake, M.M., Grogan, C.M. 2022. “Coverage and Prior Authorization Policies for Medications for Opioid Use Disorder in Medicaid Managed Care.” JAMA Health Forum, 3(11), November 4.
  • Grogan, Colleen M., Michael K. Gusmano, Richard Fording. (In press, 2023). “Chapter 12:
    Social Welfare Policy.” In Eds., Thad Kousser, Jamila Michener. Politics in the American States. 11th Edition (CQ/Sage Press).

    Abraham AJ, Andrews CM, Harris SJ, *Westlake MM, Grogan CM. 2022. Coverage and Prior Authorization Policies for Medications for Opioid Use Disorder in Medicaid Managed Care. JAMA Health Forum. Nov 4;3(11).
     
  • Natalie Kofler and Colleen M. Grogan. (In press, 2022). “Giving Voice to the Voiceless in Environmental Gene Editing.” Hastings Center Report.
  • Grogan, Colleen M., Michael K. Gusmano, Richard Fording. (In press, 2022). “Chapter 12: Social Welfare Policy.” In Eds., Thad Kousser, Jamila Mischener. Politics in the American States. 11th Edition (CQ/Sage Press).
  • Grogan, Colleen M. (In press, 2022). Chapter 2: The Dominance of Public Funding for Private Provision in the U.S. Health Care System. In Ed. Howard Palley. Comparing Different Varieties of the Public/Private Sector Mix in the Financing and Delivery of Healthcare Services (Oxford University Press).
  • Erwin, Paul C., Fox, Daniel M., Grogan, Colleen M., Morabia, Alfredo. 2021: Lessons From the Pandemic: What Is Wrong and What Is Fixable in US Health Policy and Practice? American Journal of Public Health 111, 540_541,https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.2021.306179
  • Grogan, Colleen M. Yu-An Lin, and Michael K. Gusmano. 2021. “Unsanitized and Unfair: How COVID Bailout Funds Refuel Inequity in the US Health Care System.” Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law, 46(3) (forthcoming).
  • Grogan, Colleen M. Yu-An Lin, and Michael K. Gusmano. 2021. “Health Equity and the Allocation of COVID-19 Provider Relief Funds.” American Journal of Public Health, 111(April): 628-631.
  • Park, S., Mosley, J. E., Grogan, C. M., Pollack, H. A., Humphreys, K., D’Aunno, T., Friedmann, P. D. 2020. “Patient-centered Care’s Relationship with Substance Use Disorder Treatment Utilization.” Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment, 118(Nov: 1-6).
  • Grogan, Colleen M. 2020. “Medicaid’s Post-ACA Paradoxes.” Journal of Health Politics Policy & Law, 45.4: 617-632. Special Issue: “ACA at 10.”
  • Smith, Bikki Tran, Colleen M. Grogan, Christina M. Andrews, Amanda J. Abraham, Melissa A. Westlake, and Samantha J. Harris. 2020. “Medicaid for People with Substance Use Disorder” Ch. 11 in Current Issues in Medicaid: Enrollment, Eligibility, and Politics, ed. Daniel Lanford. Hauppauge, NY: Nova Science Publishers.
  • Grogan, Colleen M. C.S. Bersamira, P.M. Singer, B.T. Smith, H.A. Pollack, C.M. Andrews, A.J. Abraham. 2020. Are Policy Strategies to Address the Opioid Epidemic Partisan? A View from the States. Journal of Health Politics Policy & Law, 45.2, Special Issue: “The Politics of the Opioid Epidemic.” https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31808787
  • Abraham, A.J., Smith, B.T., Andrews, C.M, Bersamira, C.S., Grogan, C.M., Pollack, H.A., & Friedmann, P.D. 2019. Changes in Technical Assistance Priorities and Block Grant Funds After ACA Implementation. American Journal of Public Health, (PAP, April 18, 2019). https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30998407
  • Andrews, C.M., Pollack, K. A.J. Abraham, C.M. Grogan, Bersamira, C.S., D’Aunno, T. and P.D. Friedmann. 2019. “Medicaid Coverage in Substance Use Disorder Treatment after the Affordable Care Act.” Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment, 102(July): 1-7. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31202283
  • Andrews, CM, Abraham, AJ and Grogan, CM., M.A. Westlake, H.A. Pollack and P.D. Friedmann. 2019. “Impact of Medicaid Restrictions on Availability of Buprenorphine In Addiction Treatment Programs.” American Journal of Public Health, 109, no. 3 (March 1, 2019): pp. 434-436. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30676789
  • Grogan, Colleen M., Surinder Jaswal, Gao Xiang and Joan Yoo. 2019. “Chapter 3. Social Exclusion as a Policy Idea: Dissemination, Adaptation, and Application.” In: Chaskin, Robert J., Bong Joo Lee and Surinder Jaswal (eds.) Social Exclusion in Cross National Perspective: Actors, Actions, and Impacts from Above and Below. New York: Oxford University Press. https://global.oup.com/academic/product/social-exclusion-in-cross-national-perspective-9780190873776?cc=us&lang=en&
  • Grogan, Colleen M., Surinder Jaswal and Jung Min Park. 2019. “Chapter 10: Health Policy and Social Exclusion.” In: Chaskin, Robert J., Bong Joo Lee and Surinder Jaswal (eds.) Social Exclusion in Cross National Perspective: Actors, Actions, and Impacts from Above and Below. New York: Oxford University Press. https://global.oup.com/academic/product/social-exclusion-in-cross-national-perspective-9780190873776?cc=us&lang=en&
  • Mouleshri Vyas, Jennifer Mosley, Colleen M. Grogan, Yan Loing, Hyoung Yong Kim and Robert J. Chaskin. 2019. “Chapter 9: Democratic Engagement and Mobilization: The Role of Grassroots Movements.” In: Chaskin, Robert J., Bong Joo Lee and Surinder Jaswal (eds.) Social Exclusion in Cross National Perspective: Actors, Actions, and Impacts from Above and Below. New York: Oxford University Press. https://global.oup.com/academic/product/social-exclusion-in-cross-national-perspective-9780190873776?cc=us&lang=en&
  • Andrews, C.M., C.M. Grogan, B.T. Smith, A.J. Abraham, H.A. Pollack, K. Humphreys, M.A. Westlake and P.D. Friedmann. 2018. “Medicaid Benefits for Addiction Treatment Expanded After Implementation of the Affordable Care Act.” Health Affairs, 37(8), August: 1216-1222. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30080460
  • Grogan, Colleen M. and Sunggeun (Ethan) Park. 2018. “Medicaid Retrenchment Politics: Fragmented or Unified?” Journal of Social Policy & Aging, 30:3-4, 372-399. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29630463
  • Abraham, A.J., Andrews, C.M., Grogan, C.M., Pollack, H.A., Humphreys, K.N., D’Aunno, T. & Friedmann, P.D. 2018. State Targeted Funding and Technical Assistance to Increase Access to Medication Treatment for Opioid Use Disorder. Psychiatric Services, 69:448-455. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29241428
  • Grogan, Colleen M. and Sunggeun (Ethan) Park*. 2017. “The Politics of Medicaid: Most Americans are Connected to the Program, Support Its Expansion, and Do Not View It as Stigmatizing.” The Milbank Quarterly, December, 95(4):749-782. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29226447
  • Smith, Bikki Tran*, Kathleen Seaton, Christina Andrews, Colleen M. Grogan, Amanda Abraham, Harold Pollack, Peter Friedmann & Keith Humphreys. 2017. “Benefit requirements for substance use disorder treatment in state health insurance exchanges.” The American Jounral of Drug and Alcohol Abuse, published online 20 Dec 2017, pages 105: http://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/ftfY9ZCnE4V8Qf2yf6Rj/full https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29261341
  • Andrews CM, Grogan CM, Westlake MA, et al. 2017. Do benefits restrictions limit Medicaid acceptance in addiction treatment? Results from a national study. J Subst Abuse Treat. 87:50-55. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29471926
  • Grogan, Colleen M. and Sunggeun (Ethan) Park*. 2017. “The Racial Divide in State Medicaid Expansions.” Journal of Health Politics, Policy & Law, (42.3 May). https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28213393
  • Grogan, Colleen M., Phillip M. Singer* and David K. Jones*. 2017. “Rhetoric and Reform in Waiver States.” Journal of Health Politics, Policy & Law (Special Issue: ACA and Policy Diffusion), forthcoming (42.2 March). https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28007801
  • Grogan, Colleen M., Michael K. Gusmano, Richard Fording. 2017. “Chapter 12: Social Welfare Policy.” In Eds., Virginia H. Gray, Russell L. Hanson and Thad Kousser. Politics in the American States. 11th Edition (CQ/Sage Press). https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/politics-in-the-american-states/book244709
  • Cohen, Alan, Colleen M. Grogan, and Jed Herwitz,. 2017. “The Many Roads Towards Achieving Health Equity.” Journal of Health Politics, Policy & Law, 42(5): 739-748.  https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28663177
  • Grogan CM, Andrews CM, Abraham A, Humphreys K, Pollack HA, Smith, BT. And Friedmann PD. 2016. “Survey Highlights Differences in Medicaid Coverage for Substance Use Disorder and Opioid Use Disorder Medications.” Health Affairs (December 2016). https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5304419/
  • Park, S*., J. Mosley and CM Grogan. 2016. “Do Residents of Low Income Communities Trust Organizations to Speak on Their Behalf? Differences by Organizational Type.” Urban Affairs Review 1-28. https://ssa.uchicago.edu/sites/default/files/uploads/ParkMosleyGrogan.ResidentsTrust.2017.pdf
  • Andrews CM, Grogan CM, Brennen M., Pollack HA. 2015. Lessons from Medicaid's Divergent Path on Mental Health and Addiction Services. Health Affairs, Special Issue on Medicaid’s 50th Anniversary (July) 34(9): 1131-1138. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26153307
  • Andrews CM, Abraham A, Grogan CM, Pollack HA, Bersamira CS, Humphreys K,Friedmann PD. 2015. How are States Assisting Providers And Adjusting their Block Grant Funding for Substance Abuse Treatment Services in Response to ACA Policies? Health Affairs (May) 34(5): 828-835. https://ps.psychiatryonline.org/doi/full/10.1176/appi.ps.201700196
  • Grogan, Colleen M. 2015. The Role of the Private Sphere in US Healthcare Entitlements: Increased Spending, Weakened Public Mobilization and Reduced Equity, The Forum, 13(1): 119-142.   https://www.degruyter.com/view/j/for.2015.13.issue-1/for-2015-0007/for-2015-0007.xml
  • Grogan, Colleen M. 2014. “Public Engagement and the Importance of Content, Purpose and Timing,” Synthetic Future: Can We Create What We Want Out of Synthetic Biology? Special Report, Hastings Center Report 44(6): S40-S42. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/hast.399
  • Grogan, Colleen and Christina Andrews. 2014. Invited chapter on “Medicaid.” Oxford Handbook of U.S. Social Policy (Oxford University Press).   https://www.oxfordhandbooks.com/view/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199838509.001.0001/oxfordhb-9780199838509
  • Grogan, Colleen M. 2013. “Medicaid: Designed to Grow” In: James Morone and Daniel Ehlke, Eds. Health Politics and Policy (Stamford, CT: Cengage Learning) 5th Edition, pp. 142-163.   https://www.cengage.com/c/health-politics-and-policy-5e-morone/9781111644154/
  • Makelarski JA*, Lindau ST, Fabbre VD, Grogan CM, Sadhu EM, Silverstein JC, Tran TTT, Van Haitsma M, Whitaker E, & Johnson D. 2012. Are your asset data as good as you think? Conducting a comprehensive census of built assets to improve urban population health. Journal of Urban Health: Bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine, 2012, September 15. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22983720
  • Mosley, J.E., and Grogan, C.M. 2012. Representation in Nonelected Participatory Processes: How Residents Understand the Role of Nonprofit Community-based Organizations. Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory. 23(4):839-863. https://academic.oup.com/jpart/article/23/4/839/961360
  • Chung, Phillip*, Colleen M. Grogan, Mosley, Jennifer. 2012. “Who speaks for the community? Residents’ perceptions of effective community representation in local health decision-making” Social Science and Medicine 74:1652-1659. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/221974529_Residents'_Perceptions_of_Effective_Community_Representation_in_Local_Health_Decision-Making
  • Kieran O’Doherty, Francois-Pierre Gauvin, Colleen Grogan, Will Friedman. 2012. “Implementing a Public Deliberative Forum.” Hastings Center Report 42(2): 20-23. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/228066562_Implementing_a_Public_Deliberative_Forum
  • Grogan, Colleen M. 2012. “Behind the Jargon: Prevention Spending,” and “Editor’s Note: The Hidden Strength of Prevention Politics.” Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law, Themed Issue: Prevention Politics and Public Health Governance, 37(2), (April), pp.177-180; 329-342. https://read.dukeupress.edu/jhppl/article/37/2/329/13482/Prevention-Spending      https://read.dukeupress.edu/jhppl/article/37/2/177/13458/The-Hidden-Strength-of-Prevention-Politics
  • Winitzer, Rebecca F., Joanna Bisgaier, Colleen Grogan, Karin Verlaine Rhodes. 2012. “He Only Takes Those Types of Patients on Certain Days: Specialty Care Access for Children with Special Health Care Needs.” Disability and Health Journal, Vol 5(1):26-33 (January).   https://www.researchgate.net/publication/221730208_He_only_takes_those_type_of_patients_on_certain_days_Specialty_care_access_for_children_with_special_health_care_needs
  • Grogan, Colleen M. 2011. “The New Medicaid under PPACA: What Will it Mean for General Internists?” Journal of General Internal Medicine, 26(12):1502-5.   https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21915766
  • Grogan, Colleen M. 2011. “You call it Public, I call it Private, Let’s Call the Whole Thing Off?” and “Introduction,” 2011. Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law, Special Issue: Critical Essays on Health Care Reform, 36(3):369-371; 401-411 (June). https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21673237
  • H. Luke, Shaefer, C.M. Grogan and H. Pollack. 2011. “Transitions from Private to Public Health Coverage Among Children: Estimating Effects on Out-Of-Pocket Medical Costs and Health Insurance Premium Costs.” Health Services Research, 46(3):840-58 (June). https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3097405/
  • H. Luke, Shaefer, C.M. Grogan and H. Pollack. 2011. “Who Transitions from Private to Public Health Insurance? Lessons from Expansions of the State Children’s Health Insurance Program” Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved, 22: 359-370. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21317528
  • Grogan, Colleen M. and Christina Andrews. 2011. “The Politics of Aging within Medicaid” In: Hudson, Robert B., ed., The New Politics of Old Age Policy. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press)2nd Edition.. [Note: this is an updated version of chapter in earlier volume with new research on politics from 1995-2005.] https://jhupbooks.press.jhu.edu/title/new-politics-old-age-policy
  • Grogan, Colleen M. and Christina Andrews. “Medicaid.” 2011. In: Cunion, William E and Paul Quirk, Eds. Governing America: Major Policies and Decisions of Federal, State, and Local Government (Facts on File Press). [Note: This is a detailed 5,500 word historical encyclopedia entry.] https://www.worldcat.org/title/governing-america-major-decisions-of-federal-state-and-local-governments-from-1789-to-the-present/oclc/460053865
  • Grogan, Colleen M. and Michael K. Gusmano. 2009. “Political Strategies of Safety-Net Providers in Response to Medicaid Managed Care Reforms.” Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law, 34(1), February. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19234292
  • Grogan, Colleen M. and Elizabeth Rigby. 2009. “Federalism, Partisan Politics, and Shifting Support for State Flexibility: The Case of the U.S. State Children's Health Insurance Program.” Publius: The Journal of Federalism 39: 47-69. https://academic.oup.com/publius/article/39/1/47/1913634
  • Grogan, Colleen M. and Michael K. Gusmano. 2009. “The Voice of Advocates in Health Care: Policymaking for the Poor,” Social Work in Public Health, 23(4), 2008. Also published in: Palley, Howard A. Community-based programs and policies: contributions to social policy development in health care and health care-related services (London: Routledge). https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19213481
  • Grogan, Colleen M. and Vernon Smith. 2008. “From Charity Care to Medicaid: Governors, States, and the Transformation of American Health Care.” In: Sribnick, Ethan, Ed. A More Perfect Union (University of Pennsylvania Press). https://books.google.com/books?id=9H5I-idBdaAC&pg=PA204&lpg=PA204&dq=From+Charity+Care+to+Medicaid:+Governors,+States,+and+the+Transformation+of+American+Health+Care&source=bl&ots=NE9UUc23ta&sig=ACfU3U2BqAF8UqQlt4xpQksI9ht1i1uvlA&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjMyoSn3YPnAhVCWs0KHe0QAmQQ6AEwCXoECAoQAQ#v=onepage&q=From%20Charity%20Care%20to%20Medicaid%3A%20Governors%2C%20States%2C%20and%20the%20Transformation%20of%20American%20Health%20Care&f=false
  • Grogan, Colleen M. 2008. “Medicalization of Long-Term Care: Weighing the Risks.” In: Cynthia Massie Mara and Laura Katz Olson, Eds. Handbook of Long-Term Care Administration and Policy (New York, NY: CRC Press: Taylor &Francis Group). https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9780429245480/chapters/10.1201/9781420013245-12
  • Grogan, Colleen M. 2008. “Chapter 15. Medicaid: Health Care for You and Me?” In: James Morone, Theodor Litman, and Leonard Robins, Eds. Health Politics and Policy (NY: Delmar Thompson), 4th Edition, pp.329-354. https://www.cengage.com/c/health-politics-and-policy-5e-morone/9781111644154/
  • Grogan, Colleen M. 2006. “A Marriage of Convenience: The History of Nursing Home Coverage and Medicaid.” In: Stevens, Rosemary A, Charles E. Rosenberg, and Lawton R. Burns, Eds., Putting the Past Back In: History and Health Policy in the United States (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press). https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt5hj4vt
  • Grogan, Colleen M. 2005. “The Politics of Aging within Medicaid” In: Hudson, Robert B., ed., The New Politics of Old Age Policy. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press).   https://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=tHLcIsY-AWwC&oi=fnd&pg=PA219&dq=The+Politics+of+Aging+within+Medicaid&ots=O9HiLJlrxh&sig=qYhjOAqM_j48XMq7LNfEGSvmcp8#v=onepage&q=The%20Politics%20of%20Aging%20within%20Medicaid&f=false
  • Grogan, Colleen M. and E. Patashnik. 2005. “Medicaid at the Crossroads.” In: Brown, L, Jacobs, L. and J. Morone eds., Healthy, Wealthy and Fair: Health Care and the Good Society (New York: Oxford University Press). https://www.researchgate.net/publication/284584456_Medicaid_at_the_Crossroads
  • Grogan, Colleen M. and Michael K. Gusmano. 2005. “Deliberative Democracy in Theory and Practice: Connecticut’s Medicaid Managed Care Council.” State Politics & Policy Quarterly, 5(2) Summer. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/153244000500500202
  • Kandula, N.R., C.M. Grogan, P.J. Rathouz, D.S. Lauderdale. 2004. “The Unintended Impact of Welfare Reform on Medicaid Enrollment of Eligible Immigrants” Journal of Health Services Research, 39(5):1509-1526. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15333120
  • Grogan, Colleen M. and Eric Patashnik. 2003. “Between Welfare Medicine and Mainstream Program: Medicaid at the Political Crossroads.” Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law, 28(5):821-858, October. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/14604214
  • Grogan, Colleen M. and Eric Patashnik. 2003. “Universalism within Targeting: Nursing Home Care, the Middle Class, and the Politics of the Medicaid Program” Social Service Review, 77(1): 51-71, March. https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/345704?mobileUi=0
  • Grogan, Colleen M. 1999. “The Influence of Federal Medicaid Mandates on State Medicaid and AFDC Decisionmaking.” Publius: The Journal of Federalism, 29(3):1-30, Summer. https://academic.oup.com/publius/article/29/3/1/1939963
  • Grogan, Colleen M. and Michael K. Gusmano. 1998. “How Are Safety-Net Providers Faring under Medicaid Managed Care?” Health Affairs 18(2):233-237, March/April. https://www.healthaffairs.org/doi/full/10.1377/hlthaff.18.2.233
  • Bradley, E.H., S.M. Horwitz, C.M. Grogan and M. Roberto. 1998. “Monitoring Clinical Quality in Medicaid Managed Care,” Connecticut Medicine, 62(4):227-232, April. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9611418
  • Grogan, Colleen M. 1997. “The Medicaid Managed Care Policy Consensus for Welfare Recipients: A Reflection of Traditional Welfare Concerns,” Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law, 22(3):813-836, June. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9185019
  • Grogan, CM and EH Bradley. 1997. “Emphasizing Patient Participation: The Key to Determining Appropriate End-of-Life Care?” Health Care Management: State of the Art Reviews, June; 3(1): 23-30. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10169500
  • Grogan, Colleen M. 1995. “Urban Economic Reform and Access to Health Care Coverage in the People’s Republic of China,” Social Science & Medicine, 41(8):1073-1084.   https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/027795369400419T
  • Grogan, Colleen M. 1995. “Hope in Federalism? What Can the States Do and What Are They Likely to Do?” Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law, 20(2):477-484, Summer.   https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7636139
  • Grogan, Colleen M. 1994. “The Political-Economic Factors Influencing State Medicaid Policy,” Political Research Quarterly 47(3): 589-622, September. https://www.jstor.org/stable/449104?seq=1#metadata_info_tab_contents
  • Grogan, Colleen M., Feldman, R., Nyman, J. and Shapiro, J. 1994. “How Will We Use Clinical Guidelines? The Experience of Medicare Carriers” Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law 19(1): 7-26, Spring. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8014424
  • Grogan, Colleen M. 1993. “Federalism and Health Care Reform,” American Behavioral Scientist, 36(6): 741-759, July. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0002764293036006006
  • Scheffler, R., Grogan, C.M., Cuffel, B. and Penner, S. 1993. “A Specialized Mental Health Plan for Persons with Severe Mental Illness under Managed Competition,” Hospital and Community Psychiatry, 44(10): 937-942, October. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8225274
  • Grogan, Colleen M. 1992. “Deciding on Access and Levels of Care: A Comparison of Canada, Britain, Germany, and the United States,” Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law, 17(2):213-232, Summer.   https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1500646
  • Moscovice, I.S., Johnson, J., Finch, M., Grogan, C., and Kralewski, J. 1991. “The Structure and Characteristics of Rural Hospital Consortia,” Journal of Rural Health, 7(5):575-588, Fall.   https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10117239
  • Christianson, J.B. and Grogan, C.M.1990. “Alternative Models for the Delivery of Rural Health Services,” Journal of Rural Health, 6(4):419-436, October. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10107683
  • Nyman, J.A., Feldman, R., Shapiro, J., Grogan, C. and Link, D. 1990. “Changing Physician Behavior: Does Medicare Review of Part B Medicare Claims make a Difference?” Inquiry, 27(2):127-137, Summer. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2142131
  • Christianson, J.B., Moscovice, I.S., Johnson, J., Kralewski, J. and Grogan, C. 1990. “Evaluating Rural Hospital Consortia,” Health Affairs, 9(1):135-147, Spring.   https://www.healthaffairs.org/doi/full/10.1377/hlthaff.9.1.135

Book Reviews

  • Grogan, Colleen M. (forthcoming 2027). “Naming the Ideology.” Book Review Essay on John E. McDonough, America's Wrong Turn: US Health Care in the Neoliberal Era. Health Affairs.
  • Grogan, Colleen M. 2026. “Book Review: Welfare Workforce: Why Mental Health Care Varies Across Affluent Democracies by Isabel M. Perera.” Political Science Quarterly.
  • Grogan, Colleen M. 2024. “Review Essay: Regimes of Inequality: The Political Economy of Health and Wealth by Julia Lynch.” Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law.
  • Grogan, Colleen M.  “Review Essay: The Intention Behind Government Distrust And Its Consequences. Social Service Review.
  • Fox, Daniel M. and Colleen M. Grogan. 2018. Review of Health Divided by Daniel Sledge. American Journal of Public Health, (forthcoming).
  • Fox, Daniel M. and Colleen M. Grogan. 2017. “A Platform to Launch a Collective Discussion about Reforming US Health Politics and Policy.” American Journal of Public Health, 107(8):1200-1202. Review of American Sickness by Elisabeth Rosenthal. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5508174/
  • Grogan, Colleen M. 2000. “Principles of Social Justice by David Miller.” In Social Service Review.   https://www.researchgate.net/publication/275151273_David_Miller_Principles_of_Social_Justice_Principles_of_Social_Justice
  • Grogan, Colleen M. 1998. “Health Care Reform and the Battle for the Body Politic by Dan E. Beauchamp.” In Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law, 23(5):864-866, October.   https://read.dukeupress.edu/jhppl/article/23/5/864/64614/Health-Care-Reform-and-the-Battle-for-the-Body
  • Grogan, Colleen M. 1997. “Benchmarks of Fairness for Health Care Reform by Norman Daniels, Donald W. Light and Ronald L. Caplan.” In Inquiry, 34(2):183-184, Summer.   https://muse.jhu.edu/article/401370/summary
  • Grogan, Colleen M. 1996-97. “Catastrophic Politics: The Rise and Fall of the Medicare Catastrophic Coverage Act of 1988 by R. Himelfarb.” In Political Science Quarterly, 111(4):728-9, Winter.   http://www.psupress.org/books/titles/0-271-01465-2.html
  • Grogan, Colleen M. 1994.“Mama Might be Better off Dead by L.K. Abraham.” In Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law, 19(2):470-473, Summer.  https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10133594

Commentary, Audios, and Editorials

Colleen Grogan is the Deborah R. and Edgar D. Jannotta Professor in the Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy & Practice at the University of Chicago. Grogan’s research focuses on health policy and health equity. She is the new Director of the Center for Climate, Health and Society (CHAS) implementing a new strategic mission that seeks to advance health equity in frontline and climate-vulnerable urban communities disproportionately affected by climate change. 

CHAS is launching new partnerships to work with local communities to co-create climate solutions, backed by rigorous evidence, and rooted in justice, resilience, and inclusive development. Grogan is also Co-Principal Investigator of an NIH study to determine the effect of Medicaid Managed Care Organizations’ coverage on access to treatment and health outcomes for person with Opioid Use Disorder, and Co-Director of the Policy Landscape Core for the NIH-funded Methodology and Advanced Analytics Resource Center (MAARC) whose mission is to provide a suite of data intensive capabilities that will enhance quality and impact of the Justice Community Overdose Innovation Network interventions. Grogan’s most recent book is Grow and Hide: The History of America's Health Care State, and she is currently working on the Financialization of Health Policy & Health Politics.