Dr. Shinyi Wu

Biography

Shinyi Wu is an Associate Professor in the Daniel J. Epstein Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering at the University of Southern California's Viterbi School. She joined the faculty in January 2008 and is currently the Associate Director of the USC Roybal Center for Health Policy Simulation. Her professional focus is on identifying and applying fundamental industrial engineering tools and techniques to solve significant system performance problems in the health care sector related to health promotion policy. Dr. Wu earned her Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering with a specialization in Health Systems from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, in 2000. Before her tenure at USC, she worked as an engineer in the Health Program & Technology Applied Sciences Group at the RAND Corporation. Her research spans a broad range of health care process improvement issues, including chronic illness care, hospital delivery efficiency, culturally competent care, and health information technology implementation. Also prominent in health policy projects, she has tackled issues in healthy aging strategies, physical activity promotion, disease projections, and HIV prevention planning. Wu has secured funding from various national agencies, including the National Institute on Aging and the National Cancer Institute, and she was honored by the RAND Corporation in 2007 for her outstanding contributions to policy decision-making through research analysis.

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