Yucheng Hou

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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 services 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 examines how system-level factors, such as market consolidation, organizational structure, and payment incentives, affect care coordination, costs, and quality of care for individuals with complex care needs, including those with serious mental illness and those living with 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
• Center for Healthcare Data

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Research Interests

• Aging / Gerontology
• Biostatistics and Data Science
• Dementia and Alzheimer’s Disease
• Health Economics
• Health Services / Outcomes Research
• Mental Health