Kara Zivin
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BIO
Kara Zivin is a health services and policy researcher who uses social science and public health tools to improve health and functional outcomes for vulnerable populations with mental health and substance use disorders (behavioral health conditions), including pregnant and postpartum women, Veterans, and older adults.
She is a faculty associate of the University of Michigan Population Studies Center at the Institute for Social Research.
She is the Marcia A. Valenstein, MD Collegiate Professor of Psychiatry, Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology, and Professor of Health Management and Policy at the University of Michigan; Research Career Scientist at the Department of Veterans Affairs; and Senior Health Researcher at Mathematica, located in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
Dr. Zivin aims to increase public awareness about and influence policy addressing behavioral health conditions by combining research expertise (data) and personal narrative (story).
- Tipirneni, Renuka, Karmakar, Monita, Ayanian, John Z., Kara Zivin, Donovan Maust, Kenneth M Langa. 2026. Predictors and Consequences of Poor Health Trajectories Among US Adults Ages 50-64: A Latent Class Growth Analysis. Journal of General Internal Medicine 41:83-92.
- Renuka Tipirneni, Eric T. Roberts, Helen G Levy, Andrei R. Stefanescu, Kenneth M Langa, Kara Zivin, Donovan T. Maust, John Z. Ayanian. 2025. Health Care Utilization and Costs for Older Adults Aging Into Medicare After the Affordable Care Act. JAMA Health Forum 6(1):e245025-e245025.
- Platt, I. S. , Kara Zivin, Xiaosong, Z. , Tilea, A. , et al. 2025. Frontiers | Association between abortion restrictiveness and suicidality among birthing people in the United States 2010 to 2020. Frontiers in Reproductive Health 7:1553493.
- Kara Zivin, Chuwen Zhong, Alejandro Rodríguez-Putnam, Emma Spring, Qingyi Cai, Alyson Miller, Lily Johns, Viktoryia Alexandrovna Kalesnikava, Anna Courant, Briana Mezuk. 2024. Suicide Mortality During the Perinatal Period. JAMA Network Open 7(6):e2418887-e2418887.
- Briana Mezuk, Viktoryia Kalesnikava, Aparna Ananthasubramaniam, Annalise Lane, Alejandro Rodriguez-Putnam, Lily Johns, Courtney Bagge, Sarah Andrea Burgard, Kara Zivin. 2024. Psychosocial and pandemic-related circumstances of suicide deaths in 2020: Evidence from the National Violent Death Reporting System. PLOS ONE 19(10):e0312027.
- Kara Zivin, Chuwen Zhong, Alejandro Rodriguez-Putnam, Emma Spring, Qingyi Cai, Alyson Miller, Lily Johns, Viktoryia Alexandrovna Kalesnikava, Anna Courant, Briana Mezuk. 2024. Suicide Mortality During the Perinatal Period. JAMA Network Open 7(6):e2418887-e2418887.
- Rebecca K. Sripada, Kayla Smith, Heather M. Walters, Dara Ganoczy, Myra Kim, Peter P. Grau, Inbal Nahum-Shani, Kyle K. Possemato, Eric R. Kuhn, Kara Zivin, Paul N. Pfeiffer, Kipling M. Bohnert, Jeffrey A. Cigrang, Kimberly M. Avallone, Sheila A.M. Rauch. 2023. Testing adaptive interventions to improve PTSD treatment outcomes in federally qualified health centers: Protocol for a randomized clinical trial. Contemporary Clinical Trials 129:107182.
- Marcia Valenstein, Rebecca Clive, Dara Ganoczy, James Garlick, Heather M. Walters, West,Brady Thomas, Hyungjin M. Kim, Daniel Eisenberg, Kipling M. Bohnert, Stephen L. DesJardins, Kara Zivin, Lepkowski,James M, Paul N. Pfeiffer. 2022. A nationally representative sample of veteran and matched non-veteran college students: Mental health symptoms, suicidal ideation, and mental health treatment. Journal of American College Health 70(2):436-445.
- Marilyn Sinkewicz, Ola S Rostant, Kara Zivin, Ryan Jay McCammon, Philippa J Clarke. 2022. A life course view on depression: Social determinants of depressive symptom trajectories over 25 Years of Americans' Changing Lives. SSM - Population Health 18:101125.
- Tipirneni, Renuka, Levy, Helen G, Langa, Kenneth M, McCammon, Ryan Jay, Zivin, Kara, Luster, Jamie, Karmakar, Monita, Ayanian, John Z. 2021. Changes in Health Care Access and Utilization for Low-SES Adults Aged 51-64 Years After Medicaid Expansion. The Journals of Gerontology: Series B 76(6):1218-1230.