Faculty and Staff

HAP Faculty

  • Debora Goetz Goldberg

    Associate Professor, HAP

    Dr. Goldberg is an Associate Professor at George Mason University in the Department of Health Administration and Policy. She is a mixed methods researcher with an emphasis on survey and qualitative research methodologies. Her research focuses on primary care practice transformation, patient experience, and care for the underserved.
  • Assistant Professor, Health Administration and Policy

    Dr. Hafeez is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Health Administration and Policy.
  • Associate Professor, HAP

    Dr. Renady Hightower is an Associate Professor in the Department of Health Administration and Policy.
  • Dr. Y. Alicia Hong

    Professor, HAP

    Dr. Alicia Hong’s current research interests focus on how to effectively apply health information technology in disease prevention and health promotion, particularly on chronic disease management and caregiving. She employs community-engaged user-centered design to develop culturally tailored programs, integrating low-cost digital tools with clinical care to deliver personalized programs that are easy to adopt and sustain in underserved communities, ultimately reducing health disparities.
  • Jeah Jung

    Professor, HAP

    Dr. Jeah Jung is a Professor in the Department of Health Administration and Policy. Jung’s research analyzes health policy issues using approaches to infer causal relations from observational data. 
  • Headshot photo of Panagiota Kitsantas

    Professor, HAP

    Dr. Kitsantas' research focuses on integrating data science with statistical/epidemiological methods to address health issues in vulnerable populations of women and their children.
  • Assistant Professor, HAP

    Dr. Hansoo Ko is an assistant professor in the Department of Health Administration and Policy. Hansoo is a public health physician and health services researcher with training in health economics.
  • Dr. Yikuan Li

    Assistant Professor, HAP

    Dr. Yikuan Li is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Health Administration and Policy. His research integrates multimodal machine learning, reinforcement learning, and large language models to advance clinical prediction, decision support, and health data interoperability.
  • Hua Min

    Associate Professor, HAP

    Dr. Hua Min is an associate professor in the Department of Health Administration and Policy. Min’s research interests are ontology-based data integration, ontology-based machine learning methods, data extraction and analysis from various EHR systems.
  • Assistant Professor, HAP

    Hedyeh Mobahi is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Health Administration and Policy at George Mason University.