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Peter Shin, Ph.D., M.P.H.

Peter W. Shin is an Associate Professor.

Peter Shin, Ph.D., M.P.H., is Director of the Geiger Gibson Program (GGP) in Community Health Policy, RCHN CHF Research Director, and an Associate Professor in the Department of Health Policy (DHP) at the GW School of Public Health and Health Services. Dr. Shin is one of DHP’s most experienced policy and health services researchers, with expertise in qualitative and quantitative analyses, and has focused on the health care safety net for over a decade. He has authored nearly one hundred reports on safety net financing and economic impacts, quality of care, and community health centers and access to care for migrants and seasonal farmworkers and their families, persons with physical disabilities and behavioral challenges, low-income children, minority populations, and military families. Dr. Shin is also an experienced administrator, overseeing the entire suite of research undertaken in the Geiger Gibson program, which includes millions in funding from a variety of foundations, including the RCHN Community Health Foundation, the Commonwealth Fund, the Kaiser Family Foundation, St. Luke’s Health Initiatives, the United Health Foundation, and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, as well as other public and private sponsors. Most notably, Dr. Shin has extensive experience in directing and executing federally research grants for the VA, HRSA, BPHC, AHRQ, ASPE, and SAMHSA on immediate and emerging issues that require quick turnaround reports, briefs, and analyses. Dr. Shin was the Project Director or a Principal Investigator for nearly all DHP task orders under HRSA and the PSC.

Education

Bachelor of Arts (Biology), Oberlin College, 1991
Master of Public Heath (Epidemiology), The George Washington University, 1993
Doctor of Philosophy (Public Policy), The George Washington University, 2002

Teaching

PubH 6099-Welfare and Health Policy, Department of Health Policy Research Methods on the Medically Underserved, Department of Health Policy
PubH 6008: Management Approaches to Public Health, Capstone course

Research

Among Dr. Shin's areas of research interest are health care reform, disparities, managed care, community health centers, the health care safety net, quality improvement, health economics and the delivery and financing of care in both the public and commercial sectors.

Community Service

Professor Shin has reviewed articles for Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health and served as a survey analyst for a Hepatitis B outreach project in Fairfax, Virginia.

Expertise

  • Community Health Centers
  • Community Health Centers
  • Health Care Financing
  • Health Care Financing
  • Health Care Safety Net
  • Health Care Safety Net
  • Health Quality
  • Health Quality

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Institutes & Centers

Selected Publications