She has secondary appointments in the Department of Economics and the Department of Biomedical Informatics, and is affiliated faculty at the Health Policy Institute. In 2011 Dr. Driessen completed her PhD in Economics at the Johns Hopkins University. Her research interests include program evaluation and the links between health interventions and socioeconomic status, with an emphasis on the indirect and downstream effects of health interventions and policies. She has a long-standing interest in examining these themes in the context of global health interventions such as childhood vaccinations and health IT applications. Within the U.S., she is currently exploring interventions such as interprofessional models of care and health IT in nursing homes.