Ashley Railey

Ashley Railey joined the OSU Department of Sociology in Fall 2022. Her current research focuses on the social and economic dimensions of healthcare seeking and utilization, primarily in community health and rural settings. A secondary line of research evaluates the relationship between animal disease, biosecurity, and human health. Funding of her research includes by Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, US Health Resources & Services Administration, National Institute of Mental Health, National Institute on Aging, and US Department of Agriculture. Before OSU, she completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the intersection of public health and sociology at Indiana University and was a health economics researcher at the Institute for Research and Education to Advance Community Health at Washington State University.

Research Interests:

Social network analyses, impact evaluation, health disparities