Jose Pagan

José Pagán
Jose Pagan
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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

Decoding Nonadherence to Hypertensive Medication in New York City: A Population Segmentation Approach

Diabetes Management Through Remote Patient Monitoring: The Importance of Patient Activation and Engagement with the Technology

Implementing Project Extension for Community Healthcare Outcomes for Geriatric Mental Healthcare in Long-Term Care Facilities

Measuring Efforts of Nonprofit Hospitals to Address Opioid Abuse After the Affordable Care Act

Patient Perception and Cost-Effectiveness of a Patient Navigation Program to Improve Breast Cancer Screening for Hispanic Women

Preface

Spatial enablement to support environmental, demographic, socioeconomics and health data integration and analysis for big cities: A case study with asthma hospitalizations in New York City

The Impact of Ritual Bathing in a Holy Hindu River on Waterborne Diseases

Assessing the role of access and price on the consumption of fruits and vegetables across New York City using agent-based modeling

Cost-effectiveness analysis of intensive hypertension control in China

Power Up for Health—Participants’ Perspectives on an Adaptation of the National Diabetes Prevention Program to Engage Men

Remote Patient Monitoring and Clinical Outcomes for Postdischarge Patients with Type 2 Diabetes

Cost-effectiveness of a patient navigation program to improve cervical cancer screening

Delivery and Payment Redesign to Reduce Disparities in High Risk Postpartum Care

Identifying policy levers and opportunities for action across states to achieve health equity

Integrating principles from behavioral economics into patient navigation programs targeting cancer screening

Nutrition Label Use and Sodium Intake in the U.S.

Systems science simulation modeling to inform urban health policy and planning

Li, Y., Boufford, J. I., & Pagán, J. A. (n.d.). In Springer Optimization and Its Applications (1–).

Publication year

2017

Page(s)

151-166
Abstract
Abstract
More than half of the population in the world lives in cities and urban populations are still rapidly expanding. Increasing population growth in cities inevitably brings about the intensification of urban health problems. The multidimensional nature of factors associated with health together with the dynamic, interconnected environment of cities moderates the effects of policies and interventions that are designed to improve population health. With the emergence of the “Internet of Things” and the availability of “Big Data,” policymakers and practitioners are in need of a new set of analytical tools to comprehensively understand the social, behavioral, and environmental factors that shape population health in cities. Systems science, an interdisciplinary field that draws concepts, theories, and evidence from fields such as computer science, engineering, social planning, economics, psychology, and epidemiology, has shown promise in providing practical conceptual and analytical approaches that can be used to solve urban health problems. This chapter describes the level of complexity that characterizes urban health problems and provides an overview of systems science features and methods that have shown great promise to address urban health challenges. We provide two specific examples to showcase systems science thinking: one using a system dynamics model to prioritize interventions that involve multiple social determinants of health in Toronto, Canada, and the other using an agent-based model to evaluate the impact of different food policies on dietary behaviors in NewYork City. These examples suggest that systems science has the potential to foster collaboration among researchers, practitioners, and policymakers from different disciplines to evaluate interconnected data and address challenging urban health problems.

Telementoring Primary Care Clinicians to Improve Geriatric Mental Health Care

Using systems science to inform population health strategies in local health departments: A case study in San Antonio, Texas

Who does not reduce their sodium intake despite being advised to do so? A population segmentation analysis

Agent-based modeling of chronic diseases: A narrative review and future research directions

An agent-based model for ideal cardiovascular health

Does telemedicine improve treatment outcomes for diabetes? A meta-analysis of results from 55 randomized controlled trials

Leveraging the Food Environment in Obesity Prevention: the Promise of Systems Science and Agent-Based Modeling

Contact

jose.pagan@nyu.edu 708 Broadway New York, NY, 10003