Research Overview
Health Policy, Economics and Health Services Research
Dr. Yuhua Bao is Assistant Professor in the Division of Health Policy in the Department of Public Health at Weill Cornell Medical College. Her current interests include studying the payment and performance evaluation policies to provide incentives for evidence-based depression care in medical settings. She also conducts studies to understand mechanisms underlying racial/ethnic and socioeconomic disparities in health care, and to identify policies to eliminate such gaps. Dr. Bao maintains interests in methodological issues in health services research including modeling service utilization and costs, making causal inferences based on observational data, and decision analytical methods to assess stakeholder preferences in health care.
Dr. Bao’s current research projects include:
- Principal Investigator, Health policies to improve antidepressant adherence among older patients, Pfizer Scholar’s Grant in Health Policy, 2008-2010
- Principal Investigator, Cost of an evidence-based depression care management intervention in home health and payment implications, NIMH, 2009-2011
- Principal Investigator, Designing Payment and Performance Evaluation for Depression Care Management, Mentored Research Scientist Career Development Award, NIMH, 2010-2015
- Co-investigator, Cornell Advanced Center for Innovations in Services and Intervention Research (ACISIR) in Late Life Depression, NIMH, 2009-2014
- Co-investigator of Cornell subcontract, Telehealth Problem-Solving Therapy for Depressed Homebound Older Adults, NIMH, 2009-2012
