Glen Mays, PhD, MPH

Professor
University of Kentucky
College of Public Health
111 Washington Avenue - #204b
Lexington, KY
USA 40536

Biographical Sketch: Glen P. Mays serves as professor and chairman of the Department of Health Policy and Management in the Fay W. Boozman College of Public Health at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS). He also is director of the Ph.D. program in Health Systems Research at UAMS. Dr. Mays’ research focuses on strategies for organizing and financing public health services, preventive care, and chronic disease management for underserved populations. Currently, he directs the Public Health Practice-Based Research Networks Program funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, which brings together public health agencies and researchers from around the nation to study innovations in public health practice. He also directs the NIH-funded Health Services Research Program of the UAMS Center for Clinical and Translational Research, which organizes research on strategies to improve the clinical and cost-effectiveness of health care across the state. Mays is co-PI of the CDC-funded North Carolina Preparedness and Emergency Response Research Center conducted in collaboration with UNC-Chapel Hill. Mays earned an undergraduate degree in political science from Brown University, earned M.P.H. and Ph.D. degrees in health policy and administration from UNC-Chapel Hill, and completed a postdoctoral fellowship in health economics at Harvard Medical School.

Papers:
3194.0 Local health department efficiency: A data envelopment analysis 4041.0 Dollars and disparities: A longitudinal study of the effects of title v investments on select maternal and child health outcomes 4312.0 Hospital collaboration in public health: How hospitals can impact the scope of public health services 4333.0 Who benefits from public health spending and how long does it take? estimating community-specific spending effects 4408.0 Recessions, risks, and reforms: Changes in interorganizational efforts to improve public health 5000.1 Informal unpaid caregiving for alzheimer's disease and other dementias and its relationship with long-term care Medicare nursing home expenditures