Gordon Shen
Assistant Professor
Management, Policy & Community Health
713/500-9161
Reuel Stallones Building
1200 Pressler Street, Houston, TX 77030
About
Gordon C. Shen, PhD, SM, is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Management, Policy, and Community Health at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston School of Public Health. Dr. Shen’s research focuses on responsible innovation, or the implementation of innovations that are socially desirable and of managerial interest. This entails a nuanced understanding of culture, co-creation, and context. He draws from and contributes to institutional theory and high-reliability organizing, as theoretical lenses to examine empirical contexts in health care globally. His work has been published in interdisciplinary journals such as Academy of Management Perspectives, Sociology of Development, Voluntary Sector Review, and numerous health journals. He was elected as the 2024-2026 Academic-at-Large of the Academy of Management's Health Care Management Division. Before joining UTHealth Houston in 2019, Dr. Shen was on the faculty in the Department of Health Policy and Management at the City University of New York Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy. He holds a PhD in Health Services and Policy Analysis, with a concentration in management and organizational theory, from the University of California, Berkeley, an SM in Epidemiology, with a concentration in psychiatric epidemiology, from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, and a BS in Psychobiology and Public Health from the University of California, Los Angeles. He completed a postdoctoral fellowship in global health at the Yale School of Public Health. Dr. Shen was a Fulbright student in China from 2012 to 2013 and a Fulbright-Fogarty Fellow in Public Health in Ethiopia in 2014. He has consulted for the World Health Organization, World Bank, and The United States Agency for International Development.
Center Affiliation
Center for Health Systems Research, Policy, and Practice
Research Interests
- Behavioral/Mental Health
- Global Health
- Management and Health Policy