Samantha Iovan

On May 13, 2019, Michigan News published a Q&A with the Ford School’s Samantha Iovan and Paula Lantz, along with the Department of Emergency Medicine at U-M Medical School’s Mahshid Abir. The three, with help from student Katie Allan (MPP ‘19), condu...

In August, John Z. Ayanian published a policy–focused article with colleagues in the New England Journal of Medicine titled “ Mitigating the risks of Medicaid work requirements.” Michael S. Barr teamed up with Howell E. Jackson and Margaret E. Ta...

Ford School professor Paula Lantz and researcher Samantha Iovan were published in the December 2018 issue of Behavioral Science & Policy. The journal article “Using pay-for-success financing for supportive housing interventions: Promise & challenges”...

“‘Pay for Success’ Projects: financing interventions that address social determinants of health in 20 countries,” a journal article by Ford School researchers Samantha Iovan and Paula Lantz, along with student Shoshana Shapiro (PhD ‘21), was publishe...

An article by Paula Lantz and Samantha Iovan, "When Does Pay-for-Success Make Sense?" was published in the Stanford Social Innovation Review in December. IntroductionThere is growing excitement about the potential of pay-for-success (PFS) financing, ...

Harnessing the private sector for effective social programs ANN ARBOR—A set of seven recommendations for “pay-for-success” interventions identified by researchers at the University of Michigan can help governments and private investors work togeth...

A new study led by Paula Lantz is mentioned in Elizabeth Whitman’s Novemer 9 article for Modern Healthcare: “Initiatives to improve population health are disparate and face numerous hurdles.” Lantz’s study examines a new public-private funding model ...