Jay Shen, Ph.D., is Associate Dean of the School of Public Health and Interim Director of Center for Health Disparities Research. He is also a professor of healthcare administration and policy. He teaches healthcare systems and financing, health economics, organizational theory, and management of health information systems. His research covers health services research and public health with focuses on clinical outcomes and quality of care, healthcare disparities, effectiveness and efficiency of healthcare delivery in such areas as cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, diabetes, palliative care, maternal health, behavioral and mental health. He has been funded as PI and co-PI by AHRQ, PCORI, CDC, CMS, and NCSBN. He has served on the grant review study sections of AHRQ, NIH, DoD, and the National Science Foundation of New Zealand. He has authored and co-authored over 200 peer-reviewed journal articles, books, book chapters.