David W Palm, PhD
Associate Professor, UNMC Department of Health Services Research & Administration
Director, UNMC Center for Health Policy
David W. Palm, PhD, is an associate professor in the Department of Health Services Research & Administration of the UNMC College of Public Health and serves as director of the college's Center for Health Policy. He also has been an instructor in the Department of Economics of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
Prior to joining UNMC in 2014, Dr. Palm worked for 40 tears for the Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services. His roles included serving as administrator of the Office of Community and Rural Health, as a strategic planner in the Division of Strategic and Financial Planning, and as director in the Division of Health Systems Planning and Evaluation.
He also was director of the Bureau of Health Planning and Data Management, director of the Division of Health Systems Planning, and a health economist in the Division of Health Systems Planning.
- 1976, PhD, Economics and Industrial Relations, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
- 1968, MS, Economics, University of Wyoming, Laramie
- 1967, BA, Business Administration, Augustana College, Sioux Falls, South Dakota
- Xiaoting Sun, David Palm, Brandon Grimm, and Li-Wu Chen, “Building Stronger Linkages between Public Health and Health Care: The Nebraska Experience,” Submitted to Preventing Chronic Disease, August 2019.
- Xiaoting Sun, David Palm, Brandon Grimm, and Li-Wu Chen, “Building Stronger Linkages between Public Health and Health Care: The Nebraska Experience,” Submitted to Preventing Chronic Disease, October 2018.
- Li-Wu Chen, Abbey Gregg, and David Palm, “Longitudinal Evaluation of Quality Improvement in Public Health Accreditation Readiness in Nebraska Local Health Departments, 2011-2016,” Public Health Reports, Volume 133, No. 3, 2018.
- Yang Wang, Fernando Wilson, Jim Stimpson, Hongmei Wang, David Palm, Baojiang Chen, and Li-Wu Chen, “Fewer Immigrants Have Preventable Emergency Department Visits in the United States,” The American Journal of Emergency Medicine, 2018.
- Abbey Gregg. Sarbinaz Bekmuratova, David Palm, Lisa Van Raemdonck, Gianfranco Pezzino, Li-Wu Chen, and Peter Manetta, A Comparison of Local Health Department Accreditation Readiness and Quality Improvement Maturity in Colorado, Kansas, and Nebraska,” Journal of Public Health Practice and Management.
- Public Health Association of Nebraska
- American Public Health Association
- Nebraska Rural Health Association
- National Rural Health Association