Shinyi Wu is a researcher in the RAND Corporation’s Health Program and Technology & Applied Sciences Group, where she also serves as Associate Director of the Roybal Center for Health Policy Simulation, an interdisciplinary program focused on improving the precision of estimates of the effects of health policy changes. She is also an assistant professor of the Daniel J. Epstein Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering at University of Southern California, and an affiliated faculty of the Pardee RAND Graduate School. Wu has applied industrial engineering methods, such as cost-effectiveness analysis, decision analysis, simulation modeling, and quality improvement and system redesign methods, to address a wide range of social and technical issues in health care systems. Her research interests include accelerating the implementation of health information technology, increasing efficiency in the delivery of hospital care, improving the quality and coordination of care for chronic illnesses, and promoting cultural competence among healthcare providers. In addition to her research on health services, Wu has worked on many health policy projects, including simulation of lung cancer trends in the United States, economic analyses of investment in smallpox vaccination strategies, evaluation of electronic prescribing standards, development of tools for efficient allocation of resources to prevent falls among older people, and comparisons of cost-effectiveness of health promotion strategies, such as physical activity, disease prevention, and HIV prevention. Wu has received research grants from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality and agencies of the National Institute of Health, including the National Institute on Aging, the National Cancer Institute, and the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. In 2007, she was honored by the RAND Corporation for “outstanding contributions to furthering RAND's mission of improving policy and decisionmaking through research and analysis.”
Health Care Delivery
Language Access Services for Latinos with Limited English Proficiency: Lessons Learned from Hablamos Juntos (with M. Susan Ridgely, JD; Jose J. Escarce, MD, PhD; and Leo S. Morales, MD, PhD), Journal of General Internal Medicine (2007)
Motivation to Change Chronic Illness Care: Results from a National Evaluation of Quality Improvement Collaboratives (with Michael K. Lin, Jill A. Marsteller, Stephen M. Shortell, Peter Mendel, Marjorie Pearson, and Mayde Rosen), Health Care Management Review (2005)
This article examines the motivation of health care professionals to improve quality of chronic illness...
An Evaluation of an Adult Asthma BTS Collaborative and the Effect of Patient Self-Management (with M Schonlau, R Mangione-Smith, M Rosen, K Chan, T A. Louis, and EB Keeler), Annals of Family Medicine (2005)
Purpose: To examine whether a collaborative to improve asthma care influences process and outcomes of...
The Role of Perceived Team Effectiveness in Improving Chronic Illness Care (with Stephen M. Shortell,; Jill A. Marsteller; Michael Lin; Marjorie L. Pearson; Peter Mendel; Shan Cretin; and Mayde Mayde), Medical Care (2004)
Background/Objectives: The importance of teams for improving quality of care has received increased attention. We...
Health Policy
Reducing the Risk of Falls and Fall-related Injuries among Older People (with David A. Ganz), Report prepared for the Workshop on the Social Determinants of Adult Health and Mortality. Organized by National Academies of Sciences, Washington, DC, (2007)
This paper reviews approaches to preventing falls in older adults at the individual, community and...
HIV PREVENTION CASE MANAGEMENT IS NOT COST-EFFECTIVE (with Deborah A. Cohen and Thomas A. Farley), American Journal of Public Health (2006)
Structural Interventions to Prevent HIV/Sexually Transmitted Disease: Are They Cost-Effective for Women in the Southern United States? (with Cohen Cohen and Thomas Farley), Sexually Transmitted Diseases (2006)
Background: Structural interventions are theoretically promising for populations with a low prevalence of HIV, because...
Systematic Review: Impact of Health Information Technology on Quality, Efficiency, and Costs of Medical Care (with Basit Chaudhry, Jerome Wang, Margaret Maglione, Walter Mojica, Elizabeth Roth, Sally C. Morton, and Paul G. Shekelle), Annals of Internal Medicine (2006)
Background: Experts consider health information technology key to improving efficiency and quality of health care....
. A Cost-Effective National HIV Prevention Strategy for the United States (with Deborah A. Cohen and Thomas A. Farley), Health Affairs (2005)
Relative to the magnitude of the epidemic, government funds available for HIV prevention are scarce....