Professor of Health Policy and Management
College of Public Health, University of Georgia (UGA)
Dr. Zhuo (Adam) Chen is Professor and DrPH Program Director, 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 the Lancet, Journal of Health Economics, and Social Science & Medicine. Adam earned his Ph.D. in Economics and M.S. in Statistics from 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). Adam served as the President (2017-2018) of the Chinese Economists Society (CES), a US non-profit organization serving economists with interests in China’s economy or with Chinese heritage. He led the efforts to establish the US-based 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.
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Iowa State University, Department of Economics
PhD in Economics August 1999 - August 2004
Iowa State University, M.S. in Statistics August 1999 - May 2002
University of Science and Technology of China, M.Mgt. in Management Science Sep. 1996 - Jul. 1999
University of Science and Technology of China, B.S. in Management Science Sep. 1991 - Jul. 1996
Aspire Fellow, University of Georgia 2024
Civilian Award of Excellence in Diversity, Federal Asian Pacific American Council 2016
CDC Excellence in Social and Behavioral Science Research Award 2013
Oct 08, 2026 — Dr. Chen is elected as a Governing Councilor in the Health Administration (HA) Section, American Public Health Association with a 2 year term starting on November 5, 2026.
Nov 09, 2025 — Dr. Chen presented his work on the economic evaluation of health informatics systems at The 5th International Conference on Trends in Electronics and Health Informatics
The lasting impact of the Tuskegee Syphilis Study: COVID-19 vaccination hesitation among African Americans
Hou X, Jiao Y, Shen L, Chen Z# (# corresponding author)
Journal of Population Economics 2024
Academic profile of Chinese economists: productivity, pay, time use, gender differences, and impacts of COVID-19
Jiao Y, Qi L, Chen Z# (# corresponding author)
China Economic Review 2023
Prevalence, frequency, intensity, and location of cigarette use among adolescents in China from 2013-14 to 2019: Findings from two repeated cross-sectional studies
Zhao Y, Di X, Li S, Zeng X, Wang X, Nan Y, Xiao L, Koplan J, Chen Z#, Liu S# (# corresponding author)
Lancet Reg Health West Pac 2022
US–China health exchange and collaboration following COVID-19
Li L, Wang K, Chen Z, Koplan JP
Lancet 2021
Melancholy or mahjong? Diversity, frequency, type, and rural-urban divide of social participation and depression in middle- and old-aged Chinese: A fixed-effects analysis
Wang R, Chen Z, Zhou Y, Shen L, Zhang Z, Wu X
Social Science & Medicine 2019
The Role of Geographic Scale in Testing the Income Inequality Hypothesis as an Explanation of Health Disparities
Chen Z, Crawford Gotway CA
Social Science & Medicine 2012
Calculating the Concentration Index with Repetitive Values of Indicators of Economic Welfare
Chen Z, Roy K
Journal of Health Economics 2009
Beefing up with the Chans: Evidence for the effects of relative income and income inequality on health from the China Health and Nutrition Survey
Chen Z, Meltzer DO
Social Science & Medicine 2008