Dr. Y. Alicia Hong, Professor of Health Services Research at the Department of Health Administration and Policy George Mason University. Her current research focuses on how to effectively apply health information technology, including mobile apps, sensors, and artificial intelligence, in chronic selfcare and caregiving. She employs community-engaged user-centered design to develop culturally tailored programs and personalized interventions that are easy to adopt and sustain in underserved communities, ultimately reducing health disparities.

Dr. Hong has developed and evaluated digital health interventions for immigrants, racial and ethnic minorities, people living with HIV, people living with Alzheimer’s Disease or related dementias and their caregivers, cancer survivors, and older adults with multiple chronic conditions. These projects have increased disease screening and vaccination, promoted physical activity and health living, enhanced patient-provider communication, connected patients to communities and social services, and improved patient-centered health outcomes.

Dr. Hong has served as PI, Co-PI, or sub-PI in over 20 extramurally funded research projects and published 100+ peer-reviewed journal articles; she has served on expert rosters and review 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.