Denise Anthony

Denise Anthony

Denise Anthony is Associate Professor and past-Chair (2007-11) in the Department of Sociology at Dartmouth College. She is also Research Director of the Institute for Security, Technology, and Society (ISTS) at Dartmouth, and a faculty affiliate at the Center for Health Policy Research at the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice. Dr. Anthony's research interests include collective action and trust, economic sociology and the sociology of health care. She has explored mechanisms for producing cooperation, trust and social capital in a variety of settings, from micro-credit borrowing groups to online groups such as Wikipedia. In health care, she has studied variation in managed care practices and physician referral behavior. More recently her work examines variation in patient preferences for medical care, the use and implications of information technology in health care, including compliance with HIPAA requirements, and for the privacy and security of protected health information in health care delivery. Her multi-disciplinary research has been published in journals in sociology as well as in health policy and computer science, including among others the American Sociological Review, Social Science and Medicine, Health Affairs, and IEEE Privacy & Security. She has received grants from the National Science Foundation and the Department of Health and Human Services Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT SHARP program, among others.

Prior to her appointment at Dartmouth, Dr. Anthony was a Robert Wood Johnson Health Policy Post-doctoral Scholar at the University of Michigan from 1997-1999. She has a PhD in Sociology (1997) from the University of Connecticut.