Steven P. Dehmer, PhD
Senior Research Investigator and Health Economist

About

Other offices: Research fellow, International Science and Technology Practice and Policy (InSTePP) Center, University of Minnesota.

Joined the Institute: 2009

Education and training: PhD, applied economics, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis.

Overview/research interests: Research interests include the economics of prevention (with an emphasis on cardiovascular disease, diabetes and obesity), the impact of health technologies on individual behavior, health and science policy, and the social determinants of health. Methodological expertise includes microsimulation modeling, disease risk estimation, cost-effectiveness analysis, economic policy analysis, and approaches to causal inference from observational data.

Current research activities and funding:

  • Co-Principal Investigator (with Dr. Leif Solberg) for the Minnesota Care Coordination Effectiveness Study (MNCARES), which is funded by the Patient-Centered Outcomes Institute (PCORI) (IHS-2019C1-15625)
  • Principal Investigator, Mode

Affiliation

positions

  • Health Economist and Research Investigator, Health economics
  • Publications While At HealthPartners

    selected publications

    Journal Article
  • Care coordination in primary care: views of clinicians and clinic leaders
    Journal of Nursing Care Quality. 2025
  • Care coordination: how is it implemented and is it different if a social worker is on the team?
    Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine. 2025
  • Clinical decision support and cardiometabolic medication adherence: a randomized clinical trial
    JAMA network open. 2025
  • A learning health system to generate and accelerate innovation: the HealthPartners Institute
    NEJM Catal Innov Care Deliv. 2024
  • Protocol of a patient randomized clinical trial to improve medication adherence in primary care
    Contemporary Clinical Trials. 2024
  • Chapter
  • Complex systems science and modeling
    Issue briefs to inform development and implementation of Healthy People 2030. 2018
  • The shifting structure of agricultural R&D: worldwide investment patterns and payoffs
    From agriscience to agribusiness: theories, policies and practices in technology transfer and commercialization. 2018
  • Investments in and the economic returns to agricultural and food R&D worldwide
    Encyclopedia of agriculture and food systems. 2014
  • Contact

    full name

  • Steven P. Dehmer, PhD
  • primary email

  • Steven.P.Dehmer@healthpartners.com
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