Noah Gibson, PhD

Dr. Noah Gibson joined the Ohio Colleges of Medicine Government Resource Center (GRC) in March 2026 as a Senior Researcher. He has expertise in statistical methods, survey design, causal inference, and data analytics. His research interests include social determinants of health, food and nutrition policy, and health inequalities. At GRC, he currently works on the Ohio Medicaid Assessment Survey (OMAS), Outcomes Acceleration for Kids (OAK), and the Medicaid Outcomes Distributed Research Network quality improvement initiative (MODRN EQUIP).

Prior to joining GRC, Dr. Gibson was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Sanford School of Public Policy at Duke University, where he worked on USDA- and NIFA-funded projects focused on food insecurity and designed and conducted survey experiments on front-of-package nutrition labels. He also served as an Adjunct Researcher at RAND, contributing to a mixed-methods study of food insecurity in the military. 

Dr. Gibson earned his PhD in Sociology and Public Policy from Duke University and holds an M.S. in Applied Economics and a B.S. in Economics from The Ohio State University. A list of his publications is available here.