Yaver is an assistant professor of health policy and management, with a secondary appointment in the Department of Political Science at the University of Pittsburgh. She teaches courses at the intersection of health policy and politics, and her research emphasizes health insurance barriers and inequities, as well as the politics of health reform in the US. Her book Coverage Denied: How Health Insurers Drive Inequality in the United States (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming 2026) is about how health insurance coverage denials worsen health and economic inequities through the imposition of administrative burden. Yaver has published public health and health policy research in Scientific Reports and the Journal of Health Politics, Policy, and Law as well as in such outlets as the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Hill, and the Guardian and has appeared on such outlets as NPR Morning Edition, France 24, and CNBC Digital. In addition to her academic appointment, she coleads the Central Pennsylvania chapter of the Scholars Strategy Network, which brings together academics, journalists, and policymakers to translate research findings into improving public policy and democracy. She received her PhD in political science from Columbia University, after which she did postdoctoral research in health policy and management at UCLA.