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Risk Management and Healthcare Policy

ISSN: 1179-1594


Dr Jongwha Chang

Dr Chang

Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Irma Lerma Rangel School of Pharmacy, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, USA

Dr. Chang is an Associate Professor of Health outcomes in Texas A&M University. He obtained his PhD from the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor with focus on health management, health services research and outcomes research in 2012. In addition, Dr. Chang completed two other master’s degrees focusing on Statistics from Columbia University in the City of New York and Health Policy and Management from Texas A&M Health Science Center.

His research generally focuses on examining issues related to effectiveness of medical care delivery and health outcomes in chronic disease and cancer. His research work in this context has examined diverse topics related to economic evaluation of pharmaceuticals, risk adjustment of health outcomes, quality of primary care, medication and patient safety, applied statistical methodology in health services evaluation, and patient-centered outcomes evaluation.


Dr Gulsum Kubra Kaya

Dr Kaya

Safety and Accident Investigation Centre, School of Aerospace, Transport and Manufacturing, Cranfield University, Cranfield, United Kingdom

Dr. Gulsum Kubra Kaya is a Lecturer at the Safety and Accident Investigation Centre, Cranfield University. She obtained her PhD from the University of Cambridge in Engineering, focusing on risk assessment and patient safety, and she developed a systems-based risk assessment framework to ensure safety in hospitals.

Dr. Gulsum Kubra Kaya has experience in developing, applying and teaching safety engineering methods. She is a chartered Ergonomist and Human Factors Specialist. Her particular areas of interest are system safety, safety culture, human factors/ergonomics, risk assessment and decision-making. Most of her research studies focus on exploring system interactions and applying Safety-II techniques to ensure system safety in complex healthcare processes.


Dr Haiyan Qu

Dr Qu

Department of Health Services Administration, University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB), Birmingham, AL, USA

Haiyan Qu, Ph.D., is a Professor in the Department of Health Services Administration at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB). She received her doctoral degree in Administration-Health Services with a specialization in Health Services Research from UAB in 2007. Dr. Qu educates graduate students on quantitative research methods, provides mentorship to doctoral students, post-doctoral fellows, and junior faculty, and contributes as an investigator and methodologist for more than 30 funded research projects spanning various disciplines.

Dr. Qu's research focuses on addressing health disparities, promoting health equity, enhancing healthcare quality, and conducting patient-centered outcomes research utilizing mixed methods. Since 2013, she has served as a scientific reviewer on multiple merit review panels at the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI). Additionally, since 2018, she has contributed as a scientific reviewer for PCORI research reports. Her work has been published in various esteemed peer-reviewed journals.


Professor Kyriakos Souliotis

Professor Souliotis

School of Social and Political Sciences, University of Peloponnese, Corinth, Greece

Kyriakos Souliotis is Professor of Health Policy and Dean at the School of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Peloponnese. He was Vice Rector of Social and Regional Development (2016-2017). He also teaches courses on health policy, health economics and health care management at the Medical School of the University of Athens and the Medical School of the University of Crete. He is currently President of the Scientific Board of the Hellenic Association of Political Scientists and President of the Scientific Committee of the Greek Patient Association. He is also serving as a member of the Steering Committee of PACT (The Patient Access Partnership on Equity of Access to Quality Healthcare - Brussels) and as a member of the Scientific Committee of the OIS (Osservatorio Internazionale della Salute - Rome). He is the founder, chair and scientific director of the Health Policy Institute.

He has acted as Scientific Advisor to the Social Insurance Institute (IKA) and the Ministry of Health and Welfare (2002 -2004), Member of the Board of Directors of the A’ Health Care Trust of Attica (2002 -2004), Head of Human Resources Management at the Onassis Cardiac Surgery Center (2002-2006), Administrative Director at MITERA (Hygeia Group, 2006-2007) and Managing Director of Planning and Development and Chief Planning Officer at the Mutual Health Fund of the National Bank of Greece Personnel (2007-2010). From May 2010 to December 2011, he served as President of OPAD (Health Care Organization for Public Servants), and from May 2011 to September 2012, as Vice President of EOPYY (National Organisation for Health Care Services Provision). From June 2010 to August 2013, he was a member of the National Ethics Committee for Clinical Trials and the Steering Committee for Rare Diseases. 

He has acted as a country expert on cancer at the OECD and Senior Associate Director at the Medical Technology Research Group of the LSE Enterprise. He has extensive research experience in Greece and abroad and he has acted as the Scientific Lead / Project Manager in 40 research projects. He has published 29 books and more than 300 chapters in books and papers in peer reviewed journals on health policy and economics, organization and administration of health services, economic inequalities, etc.


Editorial Board

Carole Baskin, St Louis County Department of Public Health, St Louis, MO, USA.

Steven S. Coughlin, Professor, Division of Epidemiology, Department of Population Health Sciences, Medical College of Georgia, Augusta University, Augusta, GA, USA

Hong-Wen Deng, Ph. D. Professor, Chief, Section of Biomedical Informatics and Genomics. Director, Tulane Center of Biomedical Informatics and Genomics Deming Department of Medicine, School of Medicine, Tulane University, New Orleans, USA. 

Professor Mihajlo (Michael) Jakovljevic, Full Professor of Health Economics, Institute of Comparative Economic Studies, Hosei University, Tama Campus, Tokyo, Japan

David R. Lairson, Ph.D, Professor Emeritus at UTHealth, School of Public Health, Professor of Health Economics, Division of Management Policy and Community Health; and Director for Center for Health Services Research, University of Texas Houston Health Science Center, TX, USA.

Xin Li, Dr, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Chengdu Women's and Children's Central Hospital, China

Chien-Chang Liao, PhD, MPH; Associate professor of Department of Anesthesiology, School of Medicine, College of Medicine, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan.

Roger Lee Mendoza, Ph.D., Healthcare Management professor, College of Business and Economics, California State University-Los Angeles, California, USA.

Satish Chandrasekhar Nair Dr. Director Medical Research & Innovation, Senior Specialist, Johns Hopkins Medicine (USA) Affiliate-Tawam Hospital, Associate Clinical Professor, College of Medicine, UAE University, Al Ain, UAE.

Christian Napoli, MD, Associate professor of Public health, Department of Medical and surgical sciences and translational medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Psychology, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy. Director, Operative Unit Risk management, Accreditation and quality, Sant'andrea Teaching Hospital, Rome, Italy.

John Archie Pollock, Biological Sciences, Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

Jianguo (Tony) Sun, Professor, Statistics, University of Missouri Columbia, MO, USA.

Chiara Verbano, Ph.D., Professor of Management and Engineering Economics and Innovation and Project Management at the Department of Management Engineering of the University of Padova, Italy.

Sandul Yasobant, Ph.D. MPH, Indian Institute of Public Health Gandhinagar, India.