Jose Pagan

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

Professional overview

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

Publications

A quasi-experimental study of New York City's sodium warning regulation and hypertension prevalence, 2005–2020

Adolescent utilization of school based mental health services in the United States

Cost-effectiveness of population-based screening for chronic kidney disease among the general population and adults with diabetes in China: a modelling study

Diabetes Management Through Remote Patient Monitoring: A Mixed-Methods Evaluation of Program Enrollment and Attrition

Experiences of patient-provider concordance in healthcare among All of Us participants, 2017–2023

Forging hospital and community partnerships to enable care coordination for opioid use disorder

Implementation Strategies to Enhance Safety-Net Hospitals’ Adoption of Screening, Brief Intervention, and Referral to Treatment for Opioid Use Disorder

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

Population, demographic and socioeconomic characteristics associated with state preemption laws in the United States, 2009-2018

Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Adolescent Utilization of School Based Mental Health Services

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

Violent crime victimization and mental health among adolescents in Mexico

Working from home is associated with lower odds of inflation stress Among employed US adults in the Household Pulse Survey

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