Assessing Health and Health Care in Prince George's County
Assesses the health care needs of the residents of Prince George's County, Maryland, and the capacity of the county's health care system to meet those needs.
Regina A. Shih
Afilliated Adjunct Health Policy Partner
She/Her
Expertise
Regina Shih is an affiliated adjunct health policy partner at RAND. Her research experience spans healthy aging, long-term care policy, and the epidemiology of mental disorders, substance use, and dementia. Her recent projects include understanding rural-urban, racial/ethnic and gender disparities in dementia, mental health, and substance use disorders; developing a national database of demographic, social, economic, and physical characteristics of neighborhoods; estimating chemical exposure risks following climate change-related weather events; developing standardized measure of medication reconciliation for Medicare post-acute care settings; improving sleep policies in the military; and fostering a research network to advance measurement of dementia home- and community-based services. She holds a Ph.D. in psychiatric epidemiology from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
Education
Ph.D. in psychiatric epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health; B.A. in neuroscience, Johns Hopkins University
Concurrent Non-RAND Positions
Professor, Emory Rollins School of Public Health; Board Member, National Alliance for Caregiving
Selected Work
- Siconolfi D, Shih RA, Friedman EM Kotzias VI, Ahluwalia SC, Phillips JL, Saliba D, "Rural-urban disparities in access to home- and community-based services and supports: Stakeholder perspectives from 14 states. ," Journal of the American Medical Directors Association, 2019
- Siconolfi D, Ahluwalia S, Shih RA, Friedman E, Saliba, "Engagement of providers and advocates in a rebalancing initiative to increase HCBS access for Medicaid beneficiaries," Journal of the American Medical Directors Association, 2020
- Shih, Regina A., Thomas W. Concannon, Jodi L. Liu, and Esther M. Friedman, Improving Dementia Long-Term Care: A Policy Blueprint, RAND Corporation (RR-597), 2014
- Weden MM, Shih RA, Kabeto MU, Langa KM., "Secular trends in dementia and cognitive impairment of U.S. rural and urban older adults.," American Journal of Preventive Medicine, 2018
- Shih RA, Rodriguez A, Parast L, Pedersen ER, Tucker JS, Troxel WM, Kraus L, Davis JP, D’Amico EJ, "U.S. prevalence and predictors of informal caregiving for dementia," Health Affairs, 2015
- 7.Shih RA, Rodriguez A, Parast L, Pedersen ER, Tucker JS, Troxel WM, Kraus L, Davis JP, D’Amico EJ, "Associations Between Young Adult Marijuana Outcomes and Availability of Medical Marijuana Dispensaries and Storefront Signage," Addiction, 2019
- Kovalchik SA, Friedman EM, Miles JNV, Slaughter ME, Shih RA, "Racial/Ethnic Composition and Segregation and Trajectories of Cognitive Decline Among U.S. Older Adults," Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, 2015
- Ahluwalia SC, Friedman EM, Siconolfi D, Saliba D, Phillips JL, Shih RA, "Promises and Pitfalls of Health Information Technology for Home- and Community-Based Services," Journal of Applied Gerontology, 2021