Kyle Gavulic

Kyle A. Gavulic was born in Flint, MI and raised in the small neighboring town of Goodrich. He holds a Bachelor of Arts in French and in Medicine, Health, and Society with a concentration in health economies and policies from Vanderbilt University. Prior to affiliating with Yale, Kyle served as a Health Policy Services Analyst in the Department of Health Policy in the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine. In this capacity, he conducted quantitative health services research, focusing on high-cost prescription drugs and the Food and Drug Administration’s accelerated approval pathway. From July 2020 to May 2022, Kyle also served as Editorial Intern of JAMA Health Forum.

Kyle is now a MD-PhD candidate pursuing a PhD in health policy and economics at the Yale School of Public Health and is a member of the SCALE Medicaid Lab under the supervision of Jacob Wallace, PhD. He is a student research fellow at the Solomon Center for Health Law and Policy at the Yale Law School and an affiliate of the Clinical and Health Services Research Core at Yale's Center for Interdisciplinary Research on AIDS. His research uses quasi-experimental methods to investigate access to health care including high-cost prescription medications, Medicaid policy and the impact of managed care, LGBTQ population health, and the social and political determinants of health.

Kyle also has interest in medical education, most notably pertaining to health equity and structural competency. Since July 2022, he has led a working group to implement new clinical skills curriculum on caring for transgender and gender diverse patients at Yale School of Medicine. He is a member of the Management Team and Co-Chair of the Curriculum Working Group of the Deans' Advisory Council on LGBTQI+ Affairs. He previously served as co-leader of Yale School of Medicine's Chapter of the American Medical Student Association (AMSA) and has been a mentor to students applying to MD/PhD programs via the Program to Advance Training in Health & Sciences (PATHS).