{"id":4397,"date":"2024-06-04T13:49:13","date_gmt":"2024-06-04T17:49:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/public-health-sciences\/?p=4397"},"modified":"2024-06-04T13:49:33","modified_gmt":"2024-06-04T17:49:33","slug":"phs-welcomes-dr-youngji-jo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/public-health-sciences\/2024\/06\/04\/phs-welcomes-dr-youngji-jo\/","title":{"rendered":"PHS Welcomes Dr. Youngji Jo"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Youngji Jo, PhD, joins us as an assistant professor from the Boston University Clinical HIV\/AIDS Research Training Program, Boston Medical Center. She has studied infectious diseases such as TB and HIV in the US and internationally, using statistical modeling to assess cost effectiveness of interventions and inform policy decisions.<\/p>\n

Dr. Jo is an Assistant Professor\/ Dr. Jo\u2019s research approach 1)\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span>explores ways to construct health systems\/cost-effectiveness\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span>models that account for epidemiologic factors as well as supply and\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span>demand-side constraints to improve efficiency, equity, and financial\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span>sustainability of the health system 2) elucidates the underlying\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span>processes and mechanisms that contribute to the outcome, beyond\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span>simple association and prediction, and 3) integrates new sources of\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span>data, methods, and practice, such as Digital Health, in expanding\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span>our\u00a0<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/span>understanding of disease transmission pathways and improving\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span>current practice related to disease prevention and control. Her\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span>research has contributed to identifying the specific epidemic and\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span>health systems conditions and threshold points in which an\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span>intervention can achieve its optimal cost-effectiveness at scale or by\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span>targeting subpopulations. Dr. Jo\u2019s current research interest includes\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span>developing a mathematical model to assess the clinical impact and\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span>cost-effectiveness for integrated and multi-month drug dispensing\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span>scenarios for people living with HIV and other chronic diseases to\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span>guide optimal drug dispensing strategy. Her long-term goals are to\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span>identify how dynamic trajectories of supply and demand-side factors\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span>might alter the existing understanding of causal relationships in the\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span>context of HIV\/TB service delivery and develop a working model of\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span>health systems\u2019 performance that can help design and implement\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span>HIV\/TB prevention and treatment in resource-limited settings.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Youngji Jo, PhD, joins us as an assistant professor from the Boston University Clinical HIV\/AIDS Research Training Program, Boston Medical Center. She has studied infectious diseases such as TB and HIV in the US and internationally, using statistical modeling to assess cost effectiveness of interventions and inform policy decisions. Dr. Jo is an Assistant Professor\/ […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3717,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-03 23:53:36","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/public-health-sciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4397"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/public-health-sciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/public-health-sciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/public-health-sciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3717"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/public-health-sciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4397"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/public-health-sciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4397\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4400,"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/public-health-sciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4397\/revisions\/4400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/public-health-sciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/public-health-sciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/public-health-sciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}