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Robert Morgan

Professor Non-Tenure Research

Management, Policy & Community Health

713/500-9000

[email protected]

Reuel Stallones Building
1200 Pressler Street, Houston, TX 77030-3900

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About

Dr. Morgan is a Professor (Research) in the Department of Management, Policy and Community Health (MPACH) at the University of Texas Health Science Center’s (UTHealth) School of Public Health. He received his PhD from the University of Texas at Austin in 1983 with a specialization in psychometric theory and quantitative methods, followed by a post-doctoral fellowship at the L.L. Thurstone Psychometric Laboratory at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. In 1987, Dr. Morgan took a position as Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, with a joint appointment at the Miami Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center (VAMC). Dr. Morgan moved to the Baylor College of Medicine (Medicine/Health Services Research) and the Houston Michael E. DeBakey VAMC in 1999, and served as the Chief of the Design and Analysis Division at the Houston Center for Quality of Care and Utilization Studies, a VA Health Services Research National Center of Excellence. Dr. Morgan moved to the UTHealth School of Public Health in 2008, and served as the Chair of the Department of Management, Policy, and Community Health from 2014 to 2021. Before he retired from teaching in 2022, Dr. Morgan taught courses on research methods and on healthcare payment systems and policy. He continues to conduct research on quality of care and access to care. Dr. Morgan has extensive experience in the development, management, and analysis of administrative/claims data sets, including projects requiring linkage across data sets, as well as experience in health care survey design. He has examined quality and access to care within the VA, Medicare, and Medicaid systems, with a specific focus on multi-system use and the impact of managed care. He is currently studying care for individuals within Medicare-Medicaid certified long term care facilities and State Veterans' Homes.

Center Affiliation

  • Center for Health Systems Research, Policy, and Practice

Research Interests

  • Aging / Gerontology
  • Dementia and Alzheimer’s Disease
  • Global Health
  • Health Services / Outcomes Research
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