Essentials of the U.S. Health Care System

About Douglas A. SinghLeiyu Shi

Dr. Leiyu Shi is Professor of health policy and management from Johns'Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health Department of Health'Policy and Management. He is also Director of Johns Hopkins Primary Care Policy'Center. He serves as Co-Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal for Equity in Health. He received his doctoral education from University of California'Berkeley majoring in health policy and services research. He also has a masters'in business administration focusing on finance. Dr. Shis research and practice focus on'primary care hospitals health care systems community health centers health disparities and vulnerable'populations. He has conducted extensive studies about the association between'primary care and health outcomes particularly on the role of primary care in'mediating the adverse impact of income inequality on health outcomes. Dr. Shi'is also one of the developers of the Johns Hopkins Primary Care'Assessment Tools that have been widely used internationally to measure primary'health care performance at the individual practice and system levels. Dr. Shi has consulted extensively for hospitals health care systems and international agencies. He is a well-known expert on innovative practices and systems change. Dr.'Shi is the author of twelve textbooks and over 250 scientific journal'articles. He is named by Thomson Reuters in 2014 as among the top cited (and therefore most influential) scientists in the world in the area of Social'Science general. Dr. Singh teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in health care delivery policy finance and management in the School of Business and Economics and in the Department of Political Science at Indiana University-South Bend. He has authored/coauthored four books and has published in peer-reviewed journals. Before pursuing an academic career he spent over 15 years in the long-term care industry and held positions of administrator regional manager vice president and consultant. He was awarded the long-term care research award by the Foundation of American College of Health Care Administrators in 1995.