Richard P. Nathan Public Policy Fellow
Ohbet Cheon is an assistant professor in the Department of Health Policy, Management & Behavior at the University at Albany. She received her PhD in political science from Texas A&M Universityc and her master’s in public administration and public policy from Seoul National University (South Korea). With a robust background in public policy and healthcare management, her work focuses on how healthcare organizations adopt innovations in response to policy changes and performance feedback. She is also interested in assessing health disparities and in designing, implementing, and evaluating health services interventions. She has published in Health Services Research, American Journal of Medical Quality, Population Health Management, International Public Management Journal, Public Management Review, and other leading journals. Prior to joining the University at Albany, she served as an assistant professor of healthcare management at Clarkson University and as a postdoctoral fellow at the Houston Methodist Research Institute and the NSF Center for Health Organization Transformation.