Jangho Yoon PhD, MSPH

Education

Post-Doctoral Scholar, The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) Mental Health Economics Training Program (T32 National Research Service Award), The University of California, Berkeley, 2007-2009.
Ph.D., Health Policy and Administration (Minor: Economics), Gillings School of Global Public Health, The University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 2007.
M.S.P.H., Health Policy and Administration (Minor: Economics), Gillings School of Global Public Health, The University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 2002.
B.H.A., Health Administration, Yonsei University, South Korea.

Biography

Dr. Jangho Yoon is a Professor and Vice Chair for Research in the Department of Preventive Medicine and Biostatistics (PMB). He also serves as the Director of the Military Health Economics and Policy Research Laboratory within PMB. Dr. Yoon received a PhD in Health Policy and Administration from the Gillings School of Global Public Health at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (UNC), as well as doctoral training in Health Economics from UNC and Duke University. Upon completing his doctoral studies, Dr. Yoon was selected as a National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) T32 Post-doctoral Scholar of Mental Health Economics and completed his post-doctoral training in mental health economics at the University of California, Berkeley (2007-2009). As a seasoned health economist, applied econometrician, and health systems and policy researcher, Dr. Yoon focuses his research on mental health policy and economics, value-based health insurance designs, and health care delivery innovation. As a methodologist, Dr. Yoon has a strong background in economic analysis and health econometrics such as quasi-experimental analysis, causal inference, big data analytics, record linkage, analysis of complex survey and health care claims data, and cost-effectiveness analysis. As a passionate educator and graduate mentor, Dr. Yoon has directed >20 doctoral dissertations and >40 master's projects, providing rigorous research training for graduate students in health policy, healthcare management, health services research, public health, applied economics, and public policy. He has delivered courses on U.S. health policy, health economics, quantitative research methods, applied health econometrics, cost-effectiveness analysis, and econometric evaluation of health care policies and programs. Throughout his career, Dr. Yoon has provided service and leadership for numerous international, national, and regional organizations and professional communities, including, among others, World Health Organization in Geneva, Korean Society of Health Policy and Administration, Korea Institute for Health and Social Affairs, AcademyHealth, American Society of Health Economists, and American Public Health Association.

Career Highlights: Positions, Projects, Deployements, Awards and Additional Publications

“Impacts of TRICARE’s Behavioral Health Benefit Expansions on Behavioral Health Care Utilization, Beneficiary Health, and Health Readiness of the Force”, October 1, 2023 – September 30, 2025. Funding Agency: DOD/DHA 2023 Military Health Systems Research, $1,032,356. Role: PI.

“Integrating Simulation-Based Low Dose, High Frequency Life Support Training into the Defense Health Agency”, July 1, 2025 – June 30, 2027. Funding Agency: DoD DHA, 1,188,000. Role: Co-PI. [PI: Bolane Olapeju]

“Efficient Measures and Effective Solutions for Burnout”, July 1, 2025 – June 30, 2028. Funding Agency: DoD DHA, 850,000. Role: Co-PI. [Lead PI: Bolane Olapeju]

“A Systems Approach to Perinatal Opioid Exposure and Maternal Suicidality”, October 2021 – September 2023. Funding Agency: American Foundation for Suicide Prevention, $99,699. Role: PI.

“Assessing the Effect of the Military Health System Consolidation under a Single Management Structure on Health Care Utilization, Cost, Quality and Military Readiness”, October 1, 2023 – September 30, 2025. Funding Agency: DoD/DHA 2023 Military Health Systems Research Program, $1,235,705. Role: Co-I [PI: Patrick Richard]

“A Data-Driven Approach to Optimizing MHS GENESIS Queue Management: Reducing Care Delays, Improving Patient and Provider Outcomes, and Enhancing System Efficiency”, July 2025 – December 2026. Funding Agency: DoD DHA, 1,038,000. Role: PI.

“Emergency Department Psychiatric Boarding Study”, November 2015-September 2016. Funding Agency: Oregon Health Authority, #139058, $119,732. Role: PI.

“Medicaid Expansion in Oregon: Access and Health Outcomes for Women and Infants”, September 30, 2013 – September 30, 2019. Funding Agency: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, $1,500,000. Role: Co-I. [Co-PIs: Marie Harvey, and Jeff Luck]

Willard Manning Award in Mental Health Policy and Economics Research – 2021 (with Marisa Domino, Edward Norton, Gary Cuddeback, and Joseph Morrissey)

Policy Champion Award, Oregon Public Health Association, October 10, 2017.

Representative Bibliography

Yoon J., Hawks B. (2025). Improvement in physical and mental health attributable to the affordable care act. Frontiers in Health Services, 5:1466958. doi: 10.3389/frhs.2025.1466958.

Yoon J., Ghim, S., Luck. J. (2025) Effect of Medicaid accountable care on preventable emergency department and hospital admissions: rural-urban heterogeneity. Frontiers in Health Services, 5:1475140. doi:10.3389/frhs.2025.1475140.

Yoon J, Harvey SM, Luck J. (2022). “Medicaid Expansion and Depression Screening and Treatment Among Pregnant and Postpartum Women in Oregon.” Frontiers in Health Services. https://doi.org/10.3389/frhs.2022.942476

Yoon J, Bruckner TA, Das A, Richard P. (2022). “Firearm Availability, Suicide, and the Role of Public Mental Health System.” Journal of Mental Health Policy and Economics 25(2):61-73.

Yoon J, Bui L., Govier D., Cahn M, Luck J. (2020). “Determinants of boarding of psychiatric patients with severe mental illness in hospital emergency departments.” The Journal of Mental Health Policy and Economics, 23(2): 61-75.

Yoon J, Luck J. (2016) “Inter-System Return on Investment in Public Mental Health: Spill-Over Effect of State Mental Health Expenditures on the Jail System.” Social Science & Medicine 170: 133-142. doi: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2016.10.015.

Yoon J, Bernell SL. (2016). “Link between Perceived Body Weight and Smoking Behavior among Adolescents.” Nicotine and Tobacco Research. 18(11): 2138-2144. doi: 10.1093/ntr/ntw116.

Yoon J, Bruckner TA., Brown TT. (2013). “The Association Between Client Characteristics and Recovery in California’s Comprehensive Community Mental Health Programs.” American Journal of Public Health, 103(10):e89-95. PMID: 23865662. PMID: 23865662.

Yoon J. (2011). “Effect of Increased Private Share of Psychiatric Resources on Jail Population Growth: Evidence from the United States.” Social Science & Medicine, 72 (4): 447-455. PMID: 20801574.

Yoon J, Bruckner TA. (2009). “Does Deinstitutionalization Increase Suicide?” Health Services Research, 44 (4): 1385-1405. PMID: 19500164.