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

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

Social Determinants of Cardiovascular Health: A Longitudinal Analysis of Cardiovascular Disease Mortality in US Counties From 2009 to 2018

Spatiotemporal Optimization for the Placement of Automated External Defibrillators Using Mobile Phone Data

Stakeholder Perspectives on Data-Driven Solutions to Address Cardiovascular Disease and Health Equity in New York City

Substance Use Disorder Program Availability in Safety-Net and Non–Safety-Net Hospitals in the US

The Health and Economic Impact of Expanding Home Blood Pressure Monitoring

Trends in the Prioritization and Implementation of Substance Use Programs by Nonprofit Hospitals: 2015-2021

Use of Telehealth to Address Depression and Anxiety in Low-income US Populations: A Narrative Review

Uses of Social Determinants of Health Data to Address Cardiovascular Disease and Health Equity: A Scoping Review

Utilizing Publicly Available Community Data to Address Social Determinants of Health: A Compendium of Data Sources

COVID-19 vaccine inequality: A global perspective

Federal Paid Sick Leave Is Needed to Support Prevention and Public Health and Address Inequities

Generational differences in beliefs about COVID-19 vaccines

Geographical and Temporal Analysis of Tweets Related to COVID-19 and Cardiovascular Disease in the US

How Patient-Centered Medical Homes Integrate Dental Services Into Primary Care: A Scoping Review

Income inequality and the disease burden of COVID-19: Survival analysis of data from 74 countries

Racial/ethnic disparities in the availability of hospital based opioid use disorder treatment