Miranda Yaver is a political scientist and Assistant Professor of Health Policy and Management in the School of Public Health at the University of Pittsburgh, where she conducts research at the intersection of U.S. health politics, policy, and law. Her forthcoming book Coverage Denied: How Health Insurers Drive Inequality in the United States draws on original survey research and semi-structured interviews to examine the health politics driving health insurance coverage denials in the U.S., and the ways in which this insurance practice reinforces existing health and economic inequities along race and class lines. Her other research falls broadly into the following three areas: how administrative burden drives inequality in U.S. policy, the law and politics of health reform, and reproductive health policy in the aftermath of the overturning of Roe v. Wade. She has broad interests in American political economy and policy implementation, and in addition to her peer-reviewed work is the co-leader of the Central Pennsylvania chapter of the Scholars Strategy Network, which works with scholars to do public-facing work on politics and public policy. Toward that end, she has additionally published in such outlets as The New York Times, The Washington Post, and The Guardian and appeared numerous times on France 24 to discuss political and policy developments in the U.S. Prior to coming to Pitt, she was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at Wheaton College (MA), where she taught classes on American politics, public law, and research methods. Before finding her home in academia, she worked on numerous political campaigns including the presidential campaigns of Barack Obama.

Courses Taught at Pitt

• Introduction to Health Policy and Management: (Fall 2024)
• Administrative Burden and Inequality in U.S. Health Care: (Spring 2025)
• The Politics of Health Policy: (Spring 2025)

Courses Taught Elsewhere

• Constitutional Law
• Judicial Politics
• Law and Public Policy
• Health Law and Politics
• Introduction to American Politics
• Research Methods in Political Science
• Introduction to Public Policy
• Congress
• Bureaucracy and Public Policy