PhuongGiang Nguyen is an assistant policy analyst and a PhD student at the Pardee RAND Graduate School. Her interests are in health services research—particularly with provider payment models, the health care workforce, quality of care, and hospital financing.
She has experience with analyses of survey, clinical, and secondary data, as well as modeling the cost-effectiveness of clinical treatments/interventions. She received a Master of Science in Public Health at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, where she studied health policy/management with special emphases on econometrics and decision modeling. Her master paper involved an analysis of the association between hospital profitability and patient health outcomes.
At RAND, she works on projects assessing the effects of physician supply on health care costs, quality, access, and utilization, as well as examining barriers/facilitators to implementing nurse practitioner residencies. Prior to RAND, Nguyen worked on process/outcomes evaluations of a community health worker intervention in the U.S.-Mexico border region, and analyzed the intervention's impact on clinical and behavioral health outcomes. She has also developed databases for project monitoring/evaluation, conducted assessments of data quality and health management information systems, and analyzed program expenditures with the U.S. Agency for International Development.
Nguyen's interests include hospital financing, health care payment reforms, health economics, and comparative effectiveness research.
Selected Publications
Sanchez V, Cacari-Stone L, Moffett M, Nguyen P, Muhammad M, Nicolae L, Bleecker M, Urias-Chauvin R., "Process Evaluation of a Promotora de Salud Intervention for Improving Hypertension Outcomes for Latinos Living in a Rural U.S.-Mexico Border Region," Health Promotion Practice, 15(3):356-364, 2014
