Shin-Yi Wu

Biography

Shin-Yi Wu is a health systems engineer and the associate director of the Roybal Center for Health Policy Simulation at RAND. She is also an assistant professor of the Daniel J. Epstein Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering at University of Southern California, and affiliated faculty of the Pardee RAND Graduate School. Her research focuses on application of quality improvement and assessment methods, decision analysis and simulation modeling, cost-effectiveness analysis to improve health care delivery and health policy, and cost-effective quality improvement approaches to improve the care and health outcomes of chronic illness in the elderly. For the RAND Improving Chronic Illness Care Evaluation (ICICE), Wu is characterizing the efforts of organizations to improve delivery and quality of chronic illness care. Other current projects include a Medicare demonstration of smoking cessation programs; evidence reports for elder care; and community-based cancer screening promotion interventions. Wu's past research included an investigation of the impact of a patient-centered care approach on patient outcomes; a simulation of type 1 diabetes disease progression and a comparison of the cost-effectiveness of alternative treatments; a long-term projection of costs and prevalence of chronic illness; and an evaluation of a medical device to assist patient self-management and monitoring. Wu has also worked in the Office of Quality Improvement at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and in the Dean's Office, College of Engineering, at Chung-Yuan University in Taiwan.