Arrianna Marie Planey, MA, PhD

Dr. Arrianna Marie Planey is an associate professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management at the University of North Carolina Gillings School of Global Public Health and a fellow at the Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research. Her research uses spatial, analytic, statistical and epidemiologic methods to study interactions among healthcare policies, healthcare access and utilization, and population-level health inequities. At the core of her research agenda is equity in access and outcomes, with attention to the intersections of race, class, gender and disability status. Dr. Planey’s ongoing research includes collaborative studies of (a) obstetric service access and birth outcomes (preterm birth and low birth weight), (b) the disparate effects of rural hospital closures and mergers on acute care access, and (c) the joint burdens of financial toxicity and travel burdens for cancer care among cancer survivors. Prior to joining the University of North Carolina, Dr. Planey was a pre-doctoral fellow in the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Health Policy Research Scholars program. Dr. Planey received a bachelor’s degree in History from the University of California, Berkeley; a master’s degree in Social Sciences (concentration: Political Science) from the University of Chicago; and a PhD in Geography from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

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