Neil J. Sehgal, PhD, MPH is the Austin Ross Endowed Chair in Health Administration, an Associate Professor of Health Systems and Population Health, and Director of the Graduate Programs in Health Administration at the University of Washington School of Public Health. Neil holds a PhD from UC Berkeley, where he studied health services organizations and was a founding graduate research fellow of the Center for Healthcare Organizational and Innovation Research, and holds a Master’s degree in Public Health and a Bachelor’s degree in Philosophy from the University of California, Los Angeles. He is affiliated with UCLA Center for Health Policy Research.

Neil has a background in both health services and clinical research, clinical validation, biomedical and research ethics, health management and policy, and organizational behavior, with extensive research experience at UC San Francisco, UC Berkeley, UCLA, and the NIH. His research interests include the impact of partisanship and race on COVID-19 incidence and mortality, sociodemographic correlates to healthcare outcomes, gender and race based disparities in salary and promotion of healthcare workers, the use of large datasets to study patient safety and the quality of health care delivery, validating emerging health technologies, and understanding how innovation is translated into clinical practice. As a doctoral student, Neil studied the emergence of accountable care organizations and continues to be interested in how alternative organizational structures impact access to and availability of health services.