Yongkang Zhang is an assistant professor of health policy and economics in the Department of Population Health Sciences at Weill Cornell Medical College. His research interests include end-of-life care use among high-need, high-cost patients, social determinants of health, and predictive modeling using large scale healthcare data. His research has been funded by NIA, NIDDK, NHLBI, PCORI, and private foundations. His research has published in Health Affairs, JAMA Network Open, Nature Communications, and other top tier health services research, health policy, and general science journals