Misty Heggeness

Misty L. Heggeness leads the BD-WH project "Telemedicine, Caregivers, and Rural Population Health", focused on rural caregivers, mostly women, who struggle with limited access to services and resources, worsened by COVID-19. This project examines how expanded telemedicine helps these caregivers by analyzing health records and big data.

In addition, Heggeness is an Associate Professor in the School of Public Affairs and Administration and an associate research scientist in the Institute for Policy and Social Research at the University of Kansas. She has over a decade of experience leading high-profile research that informed decision-making within the U.S. federal government. Her research focuses on poverty & inequality, gender economics, and the high-skilled workforce and has appeared in outlets like The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, NPR, The Economist, and Science.