Keri Vartanian, Ph.D. is a Research Scientist at the Providence Center for Outcomes Research and Education with a diverse research background exploring health from both medical and social perspectives. Her recent work has contributed to the study of the social determinants of health with emphasis on the investigation of the role housing plays in public health. She has expertise in supportive and affordable housing and connecting them to health care utilization, costs, and quality outcomes using medical claims data and surveys. Dr. Vartanian’s work on housing provides some of the first quantitative evidence, from medical claims, of the impact of supportive and affordable housing on health care utilization and cost. Her research also revealed the importance of integrated health services on reduced medical expenditures and emergency department use for individuals living in affordable housing sites.