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.