Biography:

Jangho Yoon is an Assistant Professor in Health Policy and Management.  He has a PhD and MSPH in Health Policy and Administration from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, with specialization in Health Economics and Econometrics.

Before coming to Georgia Southern, Dr. Yoon was a National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) Mental Health Economics Post-Doctoral Scholar at the University of California (UC), Berkeley. Also, as a researcher at the Global Center for Health Economics and Policy Research at UC Berkeley, Dr. Yoon has also been serving as a consultant to the World Health Organization, Switzerland. He also holds a research fellow of the California Department of Health Care Services. He is a member of AcademyHealth and the American Society of Health Economists.

Dr. Yoon’s research interests entail the evaluation of mental health policies and programs, community health policy, and health economics.  He has explored how changes in the financing and delivery of public mental health services may affect suicide risk, access to services, substance abuse, and contacts with the criminal justice system among persons with severe psychiatric disorders.  His research also examines racial/ethnic disparities in the quality of care, the interplay between physical and mental health, and the enhancement of social capital as a potential community health policy tool that may promote healthy behaviors and reduce obesity risk. Examining critical issues in public health, Dr. Yoon analyzes large datasets from both multi-agency databases and complex surveys using rigorous research designs and econometric techniques with a particular emphasis on causal inference.

His work has received several awards and honors.  In 2008, he received an honorary award from the 14th NIMH Biennial Research Conference on the Economics of Mental Health for his work in mental health economics and policy research.

Dr. Yoon teaches Public Health Policy Development and Evaluation (HSPM 7135), Health Policy and Management (PUBH 6534), and Health Care Economics and Policy (HSPM 6030).