Yucheng Hou
Assistant Professor
Management, Policy & Community Health
713/500-9000
Reuel Stallones Building
1200 Pressler Street, Houston, TX 77030
About
Yucheng Hou, PhD, MPP is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Management, Policy and Community Health at UTHealth Houston School of Public Health. As a health economist and health service researcher, Dr. Hou’s research focuses on evaluating policies related to organization, payment, and delivery of services in health care markets using large-scale administrative data and advanced causal inference methodologies. Her current work studies the extent to which system-level factors—market consolidation, organization structure, and payment incentive—affect the process and outcome of care in various patient populations and care settings, including behavioral health and Alzheimer's Disease and Related Dementias. Her work has been published in high-impact peer-reviewed journals, including JAMA Health Forum and JAMA Network Open. Dr. Hou earned her PhD in Health Policy and Management (Economics Track) from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and her MPP from the University of Michigan.
Center Affiliation
Center for Health Systems Research, Policy, and Practice
Research Interests
- Big Data/Data Science
- Health Economics
- Health Services/Outcomes Research
- Program Evaluation