Dr. Y. Alicia Hong
Researcher, Educator, and Public Health Communicator
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Dr. Y. Alicia Hong, Professor of Health Services Research at the Department of Health Administration and Policy George Mason University. She is an expert in behavioral interventions with research interests on the intersection of health services delivery and consumer informatics. Her work primarily explores chronic care and self-care solutions through innovative digital technologies, aiming to improve patient-centered outcomes and enhance healthcare accessibility.
In health services research, Dr. Hong’s research focuses on implementation and dissemination science. Specifically, she’s interested in: How to develop and deliver tailored, customizable, and personalized health services for chronic patients with diverse needs? How to disseminate evidence-based programs efficiently and effectively? How to use multilevel and multimodal data to optimize health services resources?
In consumer health informatics, Dr. Hong’s research focuses on leveraging digital technologies to enhance health services delivery. Specifically, she’s interested in: How to use AI to support personalized chronic care and self-care? How to improve adoption and sustained use of digital tools? How to integrate patient- or consumer- generated data with EHR data to optimize clinical decision making?
Dr. Hong has developed and evaluated digital health interventions for cancer survivors (iCanFit), persons living with HIV (Run4Love), family caregivers of persons with Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias (WECARE), racial and ethnic minority communities (Stronger2), just to name a few. Her work has increased disease screening and vaccination rates, promoted physical activity and healthy living, enhanced patient-provider communication, strengthened connections to social and community services, and improved patient-centered health outcomes.
Since 2007, Dr. Hong has served as PI, Co-PI, or Sub-PI on more than 20 large extramurally funded research projects. She has published over 120 peer-reviewed journal articles and presented at more than 150 academic conferences. She has served on expert panels for national and international agencies including NIH, NSF, HRSA, and WHO.
Dr. Hong received PhD in Public Health from Johns Hopkins in 2007. Prior to joining Mason, she was a professor at Texas A&M University School of Public Health from 2007 to 2019.
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January 16, 2025
January 2025: New publication from the team:
Our paper Two-year follow-up of dementia caregivers after a digital health intervention WECARE: a mixed-method study. Aging & Mental Health. 2024 Dec 31:1-8. has been published. PubMed.
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November 20, 2024
Dr. Alicia Hong Receives Funding for ADRD Awareness Project
Dr. Alicia Hong received funding from Virginia Center for Aging Geriatric Training and Education (GTE) Initiative to support her innovative research. This one-year project, entitled.
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October 22, 2024
Dr. Alicia Hong Joins NIH Panel on Lifestyle and Behavioral Health
Dr. Alicia Hong was invited to serve on the NIH Study Section of Lifestyle Change and Behavioral Health (LCBH), which reviews grant applications focusing on.
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September 12, 2024
Dr. Alicia Hong Discusses Recruiting Dementia Caregivers at UCSF Brain Trust
Dr. Alicia Hong was invited to give a virtual presentation at the UCSF CARE Registry Brain Trust meeting. Her presentation, entitled “Recruiting Underserved Asian Americans.
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July 1, 2024
Lab Members Present at Academy Health Annual Research Meeting
Lab members Shema Salim, Kang Shen, Jo-Vivian Yu, Wish Chang, and Dr. Alicia Hong made multiple presentations at Academy Health Annual Research Meeting in Baltimore,.