Lizheng Shi, PhD, MsPharm, MA

Lizheng Shi, PhD, MsPharm, MA, is the Neal A. and Mary Vanselow Endowed Chair in the Department of Health Policy and Management at the School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine of Tulane University, and a Clinical Faculty in Tulane’s Department of Medicine (Section of Endocrinology) and Department of Psychiatry. He is the founding director of Tulane’s Health Systems Analytics Research Center (HSARC). He leads the research team that receives awards from professional organizations. He has published more than 300 papers in peer-reviewed journals and served as principal investigator and co-PI for more than 40 research grants and contracts from AHRQ, CDC, NIH, PCORI, and other public and private funding sources. Dr. Shi is dedicated to disseminating and translating population health knowledge at the local, national, and international levels. He is the associate editor of Value In Health and Co-Editor In Chief for Pharmacoeconomics and Policy. Dr. Shi’s current health services research interest focuses on innovative health technologies to improve healthcare quality, access, and cost of patient-centered, using pharmacoeconomics, health technology assessment, health analytics, and policy evaluation. He has fostered extensive and inclusive partnerships with state government agencies, community nonprofit organizations, patients, health systems, federally qualified health centers, and payers.