Sabrina K Young, PhD MA
PhD Graduate
Health Policy and Administration
Pronouns: She/Her/Hers
About
Dr. Sabrina Young is a graduate from the PhD program in UIC's School of Public Health with a concentration in Health Policy and Administration. She is currently a Research Agricultural Economist at the Economic Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture. Her work focuses on food insecurity, nutrition, and the impact of benefit transfers, especially the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP - formerly the Food Stamps Program), on health outcomes such as food insecurity, diabetes management, opioid use, hospitalizations, and mortality. Please see Dr. Young's profile on the ERS website for more on her current research: https://www.ers.usda.gov/authors/ers-staff-directory/sabrina-young/
Selected Grants
National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Health consequences of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program administrative decisions across the monthly SNAP benefit cycle (1F31CA232324-01A1), Principal Investigator