Peter Shin

Peter Shin, Ph.D., M.P.H., is Director of the Geiger Gibson Program (GGP) in Community Health Policy, RCHN Community Health Foundation Research Director, and a tenured Associate Professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management (HPM) at the GW Milken Institute School of Public Health. Dr. Shin is one of HPM's most experienced policy and health services researchers, with expertise in qualitative and quantitative analyses, and has focused on the health care safety net for over two decades. He has authored over a hundred reports on safety net financing and economic impacts, workforce, quality of care, reproductive health/family planning, social determinants, health information technology/telehealth and access to care for Medicaid enrollees, migrants and seasonal farmworkers and their families, rural residents, persons with physical disabilities and behavioral challenges, low-income children, minority populations, and military families. Dr. Shin is also an experienced administrator, overseeing the entire suite of research undertaken in the Geiger Gibson program, which includes millions in funding from a variety of foundations, including the RCHN Community Health Foundation, the Commonwealth Fund, the Kaiser Family Foundation, St. Luke's Health Initiatives, the United Health Foundation, and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, as well as other public and private sponsors.

Most notably, Dr. Shin has extensive experience in directing and executing federally research grants for the NIH, VA, HRSA, BPHC, AHRQ, ASPE, and SAMHSA on immediate and emerging issues that require quick turnaround reports, briefs, and analyses. Dr. Shin is the Project Director or a Principal Investigator for many DHP task orders under HRSA and the PSC.

Dr. Shin has designed and led a number of courses, including courses on advanced policy analysis, welfare reform, research methods on underservice, and policy and management, and currently directs and teaches the MPH@GW fundamentals of health policy course (6012).