[Zhuo (Adam) Chen Lab]

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Dr. Zhuo (Adam) Chen is Professor and DrPH Program Coordinator, Department of Health Policy and Management, University of Georgia (UGA), USA; Visiting Chair Professor of Health Economics and Director (0.2FTE), Centre for Health Economics, School of Economics, University of Nottingham Ningbo China. Dr. Chen leads the Interdisciplinary Approaches to Social Determinants of Health Pre-Seed Team at UGA. He has published more than 140 peer-reviewed publications in leading journals including Lancet, Journal of Health Economics, Social Science & Medicine. He earned his Ph.D. in Economics and M.S. in Statistics from the Iowa State University. Before Dr. Chen joined the University of Georgia, he was a senior health economist with the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). He was a recipient of the CDC Excellence in Social and Behavioral Science Research Award in 2013. 

Dr. Chen’s current research interests include health economics, social determinants of health, global health, health systems, economics of obesity, mental health, genomics, and economic evaluation.

Dr. Chen served as the President (2017-2018) of the Chinese Economists Society (CES). He led the efforts to establish the China Health Policy and Management Society (CHPAMS) and served as the President of CHPAMS during 2016-2018. He also served as the President of the Asian Pacific Islander Employees of CDC/ATSDR during 2014-2016 and was awarded the Civilian Award of Excellence in Diversity by the Federal Asian Pacific American Council in 2016. Dr. Chen serves on the Editorial Board of Journal of Family and Economic Issues, China CDC Weekly, Social Science & Medicine, and Global Health Research and Policy. He is an Associate Editor of Health Equity. He is a member of the Workforce Subcommittee of the Consortium of Universities for Global Health, a Section Councilor for the Health Administration Section, American Public Health Association, and a Convenor of the Econ-Genomics Special Interest Group of the International Health Economics Association.