Jeffrey S. Hoch, Ph.D.

Specialties

Health Economics and Health Policy

Cost-Effectiveness Analysis

Title

Professor, Department of Public Health Sciences
Associate Director, Center for Healthcare Policy and Research

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Clinical Interests

Dr. Hoch’s experience is in health services research related to cancer, mental health, and other health issues affecting poor and vulnerable populations.

Research/Academic Interests

An award winning teacher, Dr Hoch has taught Health Economics and Economic Evaluation classes in the United States and internationally. Dr Hoch pursues research making health economics more useful to decision makers.

Division

Public Health Sciences

Center/Program Affiliation

Public Health Sciences
Center for Healthcare Policy and Research

Education

Ph.D., Health Economics, The Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, Baltimore MD 1999

MA, Economics, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore MD 1994

B.A., UC San Diego, San Diego CA 1992

Professional Memberships

Society for Medical Decision Making

Honors and Awards

Teaching Award, Best Short Course Faculty. Society for Medical Decision Making, USA., 2013

Teaching Award, Dept of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Canada., 2008

Dean’s Award of Excellence (Research and Teaching), School of Medicine, University of Western Ontario, Canada., 2004

Research Excellence Award for Methodology Excellence, International Society for Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research, USA, 2003

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News

Center for Healthcare Decisions and Center for Health Policy and Research, University of California, Davis, to Join Up

The Center for Healthcare Policy and Research (CHPR), University of California, Davis, and the Center for Healthcare Decisions (CHCD) are pleased to announce their merger, effective September 2017. The two organizations have teamed on projects for many years, and leadership of both organizations are enthusiastic about combining their respective bodies of work going forward.
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CHPR Members Contribute to AcademyHealth and AHRQ--NRSA Research Trainee Conferences

CHPR members and fellows contributed their health services and policy research to two national conferences in June 2017.

Seven of our members reported sharing their research findings at the 2017 Annual Research Meeting in New Orleans, where researchers excelling in health services research share methodological research advances and peer-reviewed research findings aimed improving health outcomes. Read more>>

Five of our QSCERT Fellows were invited to present at the 23rd Annual AHRQ National Research Services Award (NRSA) Research Trainees Conference in New Orleans, where awardees of the National Research Service Award formally present research results from their fellowship training.

As part of the “Topics in Health Policy” panel, Ethan Evans, PhD, presented “The Challenge of Choice in the Individual Market: Learning from California’s Enrollment Assistance Infrastructure” and Brock Daniels, MD, MPH, presented “Physician in Triage Does Not Improve Patient-Centered Metrics in an Overcrowded, Academic Emergency Department.” Read more>>

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CHPR welcomes Sun Y. Jeon, PhD

Sun joined the center as a statistician in 2017. Prior to CHPR, she worked as a Presidential Doctoral Research Fellow at Utah State University from 2012 to 2017, and conducted research on socio-demographic contributors to health outcomes, particularly suicide, mental health, and obesity, using national health surveys such as National Health Interview Survey (NHIS), National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES), and National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY) datasets. She also has experiences of studying the application of multivariate models, statistical machine learning techniques, and age-period-cohort (APC) models to health research.

She has Master’s degrees in Statistics and Sociology, and a Ph.D. in sociology from the Utah State University.