Dr. Zhuo (Adam) CHEN is Associate Professor and DrPH Program Coordinator, Department of Health Policy and Management, College of Public Health, University of Georgia (UGA), Athens, Georgia, USA, and Visiting Professor of Health Economics, School of Economics, University of Nottingham Ningbo China. Dr. Chen leads the Interdisciplinary Approaches to Social Determinants of Health Pre-Seed Team at UGA and co-leads the Health Disparities Research Workgroup within the UGA College of Public Health. He earned his Ph.D. in Economics and M.S. in Statistics from Iowa State University. Before Dr. Chen joined the University of Georgia, he was a senior health economist with the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). He has been a guest researcher since 2017 with the CDC Office of Genomics and Precision Public Health. Dr. Chen is affiliated with the Atlanta-based China Research Center and the Core China Research Group - Universidad de Navarra.

Dr. Chen’s current research interests include health economics, the economics of genomics, social determinants of health, global health, health systems, mental health, and economic evaluation. He has published more than 100 peer-reviewed publications. His works have appeared in Lancet, JAMA Network Open, Health Policy, Health Economics, Journal of Health Economics, Genetics in Medicine, Social Science & Medicine. He was a recipient of the CDC Excellence in Social and Behavioral Science Research Award in 2013 for his work on examining the role of geographic scale in testing the income inequality hypothesis. He serves as an Associate Editor of Health Equity, Academic Editor of PLOS One, and on the Editorial Board of Journal of Family and Economic Issues, China CDC Weekly, and Global Health Research and Policy.