Zhuo (Adam) Chen
Professor of Health Policy and Management
Logo College of Public Health, University of Georgia (UGA)

Dr. Zhuo (Adam) Chen is Professor and DrPH Program Director, Department of Health Policy and Management, University of Georgia (UGA), USA; Visiting Chair Professor of Health Economics and Director (0.2FTE), Centre for Health Economics, School of Economics, University of Nottingham Ningbo China. Dr. Chen leads the Interdisciplinary Approaches to Social Determinants of Health Pre-Seed Team at UGA. He has published more than 140 peer-reviewed publications in leading journals, including the Lancet, Journal of Health Economics, and Social Science & Medicine. Adam earned his Ph.D. in Economics and M.S. in Statistics from Iowa State University. Before Dr. Chen joined the University of Georgia, he was a senior health economist with the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Adam served as the President (2017-2018) of the Chinese Economists Society (CES), a US non-profit organization serving economists with interests in China’s economy or with Chinese heritage. He led the efforts to establish the US-based China Health Policy and Management Society (CHPAMS) and served as the President of CHPAMS during 2016-2018. He also served as the President of the Asian Pacific Islander Employees of CDC/ATSDR during 2014-2016.

Curriculum Vitae

Education
  • Iowa State University
    Iowa State University
    Department of Economics
    PhD in Economics
    August 1999 - August 2004
  • Iowa State University
    Iowa State University
    M.S. in Statistics
    August 1999 - May 2002
  • University of Science and Technology of China
    University of Science and Technology of China
    M.Mgt. in Management Science
    Sep. 1996 - Jul. 1999
  • University of Science and Technology of China
    University of Science and Technology of China
    B.S. in Management Science
    Sep. 1991 - Jul. 1996
Honors & Awards
  • Aspire Fellow, University of Georgia
    2024
  • Civilian Award of Excellence in Diversity, Federal Asian Pacific American Council
    2016
  • CDC Excellence in Social and Behavioral Science Research Award
    2013
News (See all news)
2025
Dr. Chen presented his work on the economic evaluation of health informatics systems at The 5th International Conference on Trends in Electronics and Health Informatics Featured
Nov 09
Dr. Chen was invited to join the editorial board of Health Policy in Asia
Oct 02
Selected Publications (view all )
Melancholy or mahjong? Diversity, frequency, type, and rural-urban divide of social participation and depression in middle- and old-aged Chinese: A fixed-effects analysis
Melancholy or mahjong? Diversity, frequency, type, and rural-urban divide of social participation and depression in middle- and old-aged Chinese: A fixed-effects analysis

Ruoxi Wang, Zhuo Chen, Yongjie Zhou, Lining Shen, Zhiguo Zhang, Xiang Wu

Social Science & Medicine 2019 Spotlight

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Melancholy or mahjong? Diversity, frequency, type, and rural-urban divide of social participation and depression in middle- and old-aged Chinese: A fixed-effects analysis

Ruoxi Wang, Zhuo Chen, Yongjie Zhou, Lining Shen, Zhiguo Zhang, Xiang Wu

Social Science & Medicine 2019 Spotlight

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