Ming Tai-Seale, Ph.D.
School of Rural Public Health, Health Policy & Management 1266 TAMU
College Station, TX 77843-1266
Email : MTaiSeale@srph.tamhsc.edu
Phone: 979.845.2387
Fax: 979.458.0656
Ming Tai-Seale, PhD, is an associate professor of health economics in the Department of Health Policy and Management at Texas A&M Health Science Center. Her research focuses on 1) the effect of financial and organizational incentives on practice behavior of health care providers and the subsequent impact on cost, utilization and quality of health care; 2) the economics of health care disparities; and 3) the economics of mental health services in primary care. Dr. Tai-Seale has contributed to the understanding of time allocation decision making in primary care practices regarding biomedical and mental health care. Her current research includes application of theoretical perspectives and empirical methods from economics and communications research to the area of physician agency.
Dr. Tai-Seale has won the Article-of-the-Year Award from the AcademyHealth, a career development award from the National Institute of Mental Health, National Institute of Health and is a member of the editorial board of the journal Health Services Research. She is the Chair of the Health Economics Interest Group of Academy Health. She has served as a grant proposal reviewer for various federal agencies including the NIMH and AHRQ. In addition to contributing original research to peer-reviewed journals, her research has been discussed in hearings in the U.S. Senate and in the popular press such as the New York Times, Good Housekeeping, and the Lady's Home Journal. She has also won the award for excellence in research from her school. Dr. Tai-Seale received her MPH degree from Emory University and her PhD degree in Health Services with a cognate in economics from the University of California at Los Angeles. She received medical training in Jiaotong University School of Medicine (previously Shanghai Second Medical University) in Shanghai, China.
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