Email:

umghimi@iu.edu

Departments:

Health Policy and Management

Degrees:

MS, Health Services Research, Policy, and Administration, University of Minnesota

MPH, University of Eastern Finland

Research Interests

• Public Health Systems Research
• Foundational Public Health Services
• Health Financing
• Health Policy
• Health Equity

Selected Publications

• Ghimire, U., Taylor, H., Houle, S., Pusalavidyasagar, S., Khalil, W. (2026). Billing Disparities in Home Sleep Testing: The Role of Sleep Medicine Board Certification and Practice Setting (in Production)
• Ghimire, U., Yeager, V. A., & Dixon, B. E. (2026). Workplace Dissatisfaction and Mental or Emotional Health: A Predictor of Turnover Intentions Among Governmental Public Health Employees. Journal of Public Health Management and Practice, 32(3), 313-324
• Rajamani, S., Gunashekar, D. R., Ghimire, U., Leider, J. P., & Dixon, B. E. (2026). Training needs in data, informatics and technical skills in the US governmental public health workforce. Frontiers in Public Health, 14, 1766682
• Dixon, B. E., Ghimire, U., Richter, B., Bowditch, C., Rahurkar, S., Finnell, J. T., & Vest, J. R. (2025). Influences on Emergency Clinician Use of Health Information Exchange: Interview Study. JMIR Medical Informatics, 13, e75865
• Sharma, V., Epstein, R., Arora, M.K., Edinger, T., Dahlquist, M., Flessner, C., Mac McCullough, J., Ghimire, U., Smith, L.U. and Ortiz, M.R., 2025. Academic-Nonprofit Partnership for Public Health: Document Analysis and Systematization of the Implementation of a Multijurisdictional Long COVID Surveillance Platform. Journal of Public Health Management and Practice, pp.10-1097.
• Ghimire, U., Dixon, B., Achieving Data Modernization Requires Addressing the Digital Divide among Local Health Departments. Journal of Public Health Management & Practice. 2024 Nov. 19:10.1097/PHH.0000000000002087
• McCullough, J.M., Ghimire, U., Orr, J.M., Onal, S.O., Edmiston, A., Patel, K., McCall, T.C. and Leider, J.P., Not Only How Much But How: The Importance Of Diversifying Funding Streams In A Reimagined Public Health System. Health Affairs, 2024 43(6), pp.846-855.

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Courses Taught

• Summer 2026 Teaching Assistant for Information Exchange for Population Health 7186
• Summer 2025 Teaching Assistant for Information Exchange for Population Health 7186
• Spring 2024 U.S. Health Care System and Health Policy

Current Projects

• Scoping review on INPC/Regenstrief-enabled research
• HIE utilization in Indiana emergency departments