Dr. Olivia Jung

Assistant Professor

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Biography

Olivia Jung’s work in healthcare management informs interdisciplinary training in organizational behavior, general management, and health policy. Drawing on organizational theories, she studies ways to motivate, organize, and support innovation among frontline healthcare workers who are closest to care delivery. Innovating involves generating, championing, and implementing ideas to improve care delivery, solve organizational problems, and enhance working environments, focusing on worker/patient experience and care equity. Her research program examines the organizational structures, processes, and cultures that support bottom-up, distributed innovation. A central feature of her work involves partnering with organizations to collect original data, utilizing various research methods including field experiments, surveys, interviews, and observations to study the complexities of life within organizations and communities. To date, she has collaborated with hospitals, primary care clinics, and government agencies to design, implement, measure, and analyze the impact of innovation activities.

Research Interests

Courses

Leadership in Healthcare Organizations Health Services Organization Management Theory

Requirements for University of California Los Angeles

Doctorate Program
Requirements
GPA Requirement
Required:3
GRE General
Verbal
Required:160
Quantitative
Required:160
Analytical Writing
Required:5
Overall
Required:5
TOEFL
Total
Required:87
IELTS
Overall
Required:7
Prerequisites
Bachelor's degree Strong background in Economics and Mathematics
Application Checklist
  • Online application
  • Statement of Purpose
  • Transcripts
  • 3 Letters of Recommendation
  • GRE General Test scores
Specialization Notes

Department of Economics admits primarily for the PhD program.