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Regina Shih is a Professor in the Departments of Epidemiology and Health Policy and Management at Emory University’s Rollins School of Public Health. She holds affiliations with RAND as a Health Policy Partner, the National Alliance for Caregiving as a Board Member, and secondary appointments in the Emory Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing and Emory School of Medicine. Her work focuses on mental health, aging, dementia, and caregiving, with expertise in policy analysis, large dataset multi-level analysis, and program evaluation.
Education:
- PhD in Psychiatric Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
- Post-Doc in Children’s Environmental Health, NICHD Division of Epidemiology, Statistics, and Prevention Research
- BA in Neuroscience, Johns Hopkins University
Research Interests: Dr. Shih’s research emphasizes community-engaged approaches and policy-relevant outcomes. Key areas include substance use prevention, dementia long-term services, climate change preparedness for older adults, and environmental health risk assessments. Her work bridges scientific inquiry with actionable policy solutions, such as medication reconciliation in post-acute care and sleep interventions in the U.S. military.
Current Projects & Grants:
- Leads the State Alzheimer’s Research Support (StARS) Center (NIA), fostering state-level dementia care coordination.
- Directs the Creating and Advancing Caregiving Research and Evidence Network (ACL), aligning Older Americans Act programs with evidence-based practices.
- Develops infrastructure for dementia home/community-based services research (NIA U24).
- Assesses environmental health risks and green space impacts on cognitive health (CDC/NIA).
Her grants include training programs like the NIA T32 postdoctoral fellowship and studies on caregiving networks during the pandemic. Dr. Shih’s work aims to improve aging-related health outcomes through interdisciplinary collaboration and policy innovation.
Labs/Teams: Active in multi-institutional collaborations, including the BOLD Public Health Center of Excellence on Dementia Caregiving and the Alzheimer’s Disease Home and Community Based Services Research Network.
