Gordon Shen, Ph.D., S.M., is an Assistant Professor of Health Care Management in the Department of Management, Policy, and Community Health at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth Houston) School of Public Health. Dr. Shen’s research focuses on responsible innovation, or the implementation of innovations that are socially desirable and of managerial interest. This entails a nuanced understanding of culture, co-creation, and context. His interdisciplinary work has been published in journals such as Academy of Management Perspectives, Sociology of Development, Voluntary Sector Review, and numerous health journals. Before joining UTHealth Houston in 2019, Dr. Shen was on the faculty in the Department of Health Policy and Management at the City University of New York Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy. He holds a PhD in Health Services and Policy Analysis from the University of California, Berkeley and an SM in Epidemiology from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. He completed a postdoctoral fellowship in global health at the Yale School of Public Health. Dr. Shen was a Fulbright student in China from 2012 to 2013 and a Fulbright-Fogarty Fellow in Public Health in Ethiopia in 2014. He has consulted for the World Health Organization, World Bank, and The United States Agency for International Development.
Gordon Shen is a 2024 grantee of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's Health Data for Action program, managed by AcademyHealth.