Course Instructor
2026 Spring Empirical Methods for Health Research II, University of Illinois at Chicago
New Course Development (In-Person): Course Redesigned
Teaching Evaluation: Mean 4.9; Median: 5, Mode: 5
This is an advanced causal inference and empirical methods course that I invested substantial effort into developing and refining, particularly in transforming my teaching approach to help students better understand the intuition, importance, and practical implementation of causal inference methods. Students reported learning and benefiting greatly from the course, as reflected in their Qualitative Feedback
Target Students: Ph.D. and M.S. Students (M.S. in Clinical and Translational Science for M.D. and Clinicians) – Core Course
Covered Topics: Cause and Effects; Foundation of Causal Models: Potential Outcomes and Directed Acyclic Graphs; Unconfoundedness: Randomization and RCTs; Estimation: Subclassification, Matching, and Regression; Instrumental Variables (IV/2SLS) Approach; IV/2SLS Designs and Paper Discussions; Regression Discontinuity (RDD) Design; RDD Research Design, Checklist, and Examples; Panel Data and Estimators; Difference-in-Differences I: The Basics; The Issues; Difference-in-Differences II: Recent Advances; Synthetic Control Method; Additional Causal Frameworks: Target Trial Emulation, Mendelian Randomization and More; Applied Examples I & II
2024-Present Managerial Health Economics, University of Illinois at Chicago
MHA Core Curriculum (In Person): Course Redesigned
Teaching Evaluation: Mean 4.7; Median: 5, Mode: 5
Target Students: Master of Healthcare Administration (MHA) – Core Course
Covered Topics: Healthcare Spending, Healthcare Access, and Health Outcomes; Principles of Microeconomics; The Demand for Health and Health Care; Health Production and Health Disparities; Health Insurance and Moral Hazard; Health Insurance and Adverse Selection; Economic Evaluation; Government Intervention and Externalities; Supply of Healthcare: Hospitals and Physicians; Behavioral Health Economics; U.S. Healthcare System and Other Healthcare Financing Models; Pharmaceutical Industry; Applications in Health and Healthcare Economics
2025 Spring Economic and Social Determinants of Health, University of Illinois at Chicago
New Course Development (In Person)
Teaching Evaluation: Mean 5; Median: 5, Mode: 5
Target Students: Master and Ph.D. Students – Topical Course
Covered Topics: Conceptual Models to Understand Economic and Social Determinants of Health (SDOH); Economic Approaches and Evidence-Based Policy Making; Education and Health; Income, Poverty, and Occupation; Housing, Neighborhood, and Place; Environmental Factors; Health Behaviors and Public Policy; New Development in Social Genomics and Health; Life Course Perspectives on SDOH; Economic Growth and Health; Population Aging and Health Around the Globe; Policy Approach to Address SDOH and Health Disparities; Health Disparities, Inequalities and Inequities
2025-(Online) Introduction to the Economics of Health and Healthcare, University of Illinois at Chicago
New Course Development – MHA Core Curriculum (Online): Co-Instructor
Target Students: Professional Master of Healthcare Administration (PMHA) – Core Course
Covered Topics: Health Care Spending and Economic Concepts, Principles of Microeconomics, The Demand for Health and Health Care, Health Production, Health Disparities, Health Insurance and Moral Hazard, Health Insurance and Adverse Selection, Economic Evaluation, Government Intervention and Externalities, Behavioral Health Economics, Supply of Healthcare: Hospitals and Physicians, Pharmaceutical Industry, U.S. Healthcare System and Other Healthcare Financing Models, Applications in Health and Healthcare Economics
Teaching Fellow
2019-2023 Health Policy and Health Care Systems, Yale University
2022-2023 Course Enrollment: 253 Students (240 MPH, 7 MBA, 3 MMS, 1 BA, 1 MHS, 1 MEM)
2021-2022 Course Enrollment: 355 Students (340 MPH, 8 MBA 1 MAM, 1 MMSC, 1 MSN, 1 BA, 2 PhD, 1 MD)
2020-2021 Course Enrollment: 186 Students (166 MPH, 12 MBA, 1 MMS, 1 MMSC, 2 MSN, 3 PhD, 1 MD)
2019-2020 Course Enrollment: 200 Students (170 MPH, 12 MBA, 3 MS, 1 MMS, 2 BS, 7 PhD, 5 MD)
Guest Lecture & Training Sessions
2023 Summer Stata & R Programming Training for Tobin Research Fellow, Yale University
2023 Summer Using the Heath and Retirement Study for Economic Research, Yale University
2023 Fall Place Effects and Geographic Inequity in Health, Yale University
2023 Fall Identification of Place Health Effects, Yale University
2022 Summer Stata & R Programming Training for Tobin Research Fellow, Yale University
2022 Summer Using Global Health and Retirement Study for Economics Research, Yale University
2021 Fall Stata & R Programming Training for Tobin Research Fellow, Yale University
2021 Spring Stata & R Programming Training for Tobin Research Fellow, Yale University