Jose Pagan

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Chair and Professor of the Department of Public Health Policy and Management

Dr. Pagán received his PhD in economics from the University of New Mexico and is a former Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health & Society Scholar with expertise in health economics and population health. He has led research, implementation, and evaluation projects on the redesign of health care delivery and payment systems. He is interested in population health management, health care payment and delivery system reform, and the social determinants of health. Over the years his research has been funded through grants and contracts from the Department of Defense, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, the National Institutes of Health, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, the European Commission, and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, among others.

Dr. Pagán is Chair of the Board of Directors of NYC Health + Hospitals, the largest public healthcare system in the United States. He also served as Chair of the National Advisory Committee of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Health Policy Research Scholars and was a member of the Board of Directors of the Interdisciplinary Association for Population Health Science and the American Society of Health Economists.

Areas of research and study

Applied Economics

Health Economics

Population Health

Public Health Policy

Publications

Need of the hour: A service failure recovery reorientation for U.S. hospitals

SpaCE: a spatial counterfactual explainable deep learning model for predicting out-of-hospital cardiac arrest survival outcome

Barriers and Facilitators to Establishing Partnerships for Substance Use Disorder Care Transitions Between Safety-Net Hospitals and Community-Based Organizations

Cost-Associated Unmet Dental, Vision, And Hearing Needs Among Low-Income Medicare Advantage Beneficiaries

Cost-Effectiveness of the Second COVID-19 Booster Vaccination in the USA

Discrimination in Medical Settings across Populations: Evidence From the All of Us Research Program

Enrollment Patterns of Medicare Advantage Beneficiaries by Dental, Vision, and Hearing Benefits

Examining the relationship between social determinants of health, measures of structural racism and county-level overdose deaths from 2017–2020

Global prevalence of violence against children and adolescents during COVID-19: A meta-analysis

Medical financial hardship between young adult cancer survivors and matched individuals without cancer in the United States

Medicare Advantage Plan Star Ratings and County Social Vulnerability

Racial and ethnic differences in the receipt of continuous positive airway pressure treatment for obstructive sleep apnea

Rural-urban disparities in the availability of hospital-based screening, medications for opioid use disorder, and addiction consult services

The Ecology of Economic Distress and Life Expectancy

The Impact of Medicaid Accountable Care Organizations on Health Care Utilization, Quality Measures, Health Outcomes and Costs from 2012 to 2023: A Scoping Review

The role of quality management in healthcare

United States Federal Policies Contributing to Health and Health Care Inequities in Puerto Rico

Use of calibration to improve the precision of estimates obtained from All of Us data

Weighting the United States All of Us Research Program data to known population estimates using raking

An observational, sequential analysis of the relationship between local economic distress and inequities in health outcomes, clinical care, health behaviors, and social determinants of health

Association of Medicaid expansion and 1115 waivers for substance use disorders with hospital provision of opioid use disorder services: a cross sectional study

Practical considerations for reinterpretation of individual genetic variants

Rural-urban disparities in health outcomes, clinical care, health behaviors, and social determinants of health and an action-oriented, dynamic tool for visualizing them