Lindsay L. Shea, DrPH, MS
DrPH, Drexel University
About Dr. Shea
Leadership & Core Faculty
Lindsay Lawer Shea, DrPH, MS is the director of the Rutgers Center for State Health Policy. Dr. Shea also holds a faculty appointment at the Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School Department of Psychiatry. She is experienced in public health, health services, and disability policy research, with special expertise in the use of large administrative datasets, including national Medicaid claims, to understand population-level trends among individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD). Dr. Shea focuses much of her work on improving health outcomes and service systems for autistic adolescents, adults, and older adults, with an emphasis on service access, addressing health disparities, and policy-driven system reform.
Ongoing projects include the Autism Transition Research Project (ATRP), which examines transition outcomes for youth entering adulthood, and Advancing the System of Care for Autistic Older Adults, which seeks to improve services for older autistic individuals. Her research portfolio includes several major NIH-supported projects, including National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD)-funded research programs focused on aging, maternal health outcomes, and disparities in health outcomes among Medicaid-enrolled individuals with autism.
Dr. Shea has been recognized for her work by organizations including the School District of Philadelphia, where she received the Denny O’Brien Excellence in Community Advocacy Award (2016). Prior to joining Rutgers, she served as the director of the Policy and Analytics Center at the A.J. Drexel Autism Institute and an Associate Professor and interim Department Chair in the Health Management and Policy Department at the Dornsife School of Public Health at Drexel University. She earned her Doctor of Public Health in Health Policy and Social Justice from the Dornsife School of Public Health at Drexel University and holds a Master of Science in Social Policy from the University of Pennsylvania.