Jack Tsai

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About

Dr. Tsai currently serves as Regional Dean and Professor of Public Health at UTHealth. He also serves as Research Director for the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) National Center on Homelessness Among Veterans. He is an Adjunct Associate Professor of Psychiatry at Yale University School of Medicine where he previously served on the faculty for a decade before coming to UTHealth. His work has been funded by federal grants for 15 years and he has published over 500 peer-reviewed articles on topics related to homelessness, severe mental illness, trauma, and health disparities. He has been elected to leadership positions in the American Psychological Association and the American Public Health Association, and serves as Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Social Distress and Homelessness, and npj Mental Health Research. Dr. Tsai is Taiwanese American and enjoys spending time with his family.

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Center Affiliation

Center for Health Systems Research, Policy, and Practice

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Personal Links

• https://sph.uth.edu/campuses/san-antonio
• https://twitter.com/jtsailab
• https://www.tandfonline.com/loi/ysdh20
• https://www.va.gov/homeless/nchav/research/index.asp