Department of Pharmacy Practice
Dr. Chenghui Li is an Associate Professor at the Division of Pharmaceutical Evaluation and Policy College of Pharmacy. She is an economist by training specialized in econometrics. This training has allowed her to apply her analytical skills to a variety of research areas that are of health policy importance. Over the years, she had developed extensive experience working with large secondary databases including administrative databases of both privately insured and publicly insured, All-Payer Claims Database, cancer registries, and large national survey databases. Her current research interests include cancer prevention, treatment outcomes, and quality of care; healthcare database research; applied econometrics techniques; economic evaluation of pharmaceutical products; mental health and substance abuse.
Education & Training
- Saint Vincent College, Latrobe, PA (BS)
- Indiana University, Bloomington, IN (PhD)
Teaching Responsibilities
- Pharm.D. Curriculum:
- COP PHPR 7303: Evidence-based Medicine, Biostatistics, and Pharmacoeconomics (Biostatistics Portion)
- COP PHPR 7102: US Health Care System for Pharmacists (Introduction to Health Economics Lecture)
- Graduate Curriculum:
- GRAD PSGP 5122: Applied Health Econometrics
- GRAD PSGP 5109: Pharmaceutical Evaluation and Policy Seminar (Team-Taught)
- GRAD PSGP 5116 Foundations of Pharmaceutical Evaluation and Policy Research Methods (Team-Taught)
Research & Scholarly Interests
Cancer prevention, treatment outcomes, and quality of care; Healthcare database Research; Applied econometrics techniques; Economic evaluation of pharmaceutical products; Tobacco cessation; Mental health and substance abuse
Honors & Awards
- 2006 Post-doctoral Fellow, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ
- 2008 University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Medical Research Endowment Award
Spring - 2009 Biomedical Informatics MBL/NLM Course Fellow, Woods Hole, MA (Sponsored by the National Library of Medicine)
Memberships
- American Heart Association (AHA)
- American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO)
- American Statistical Association (ASA)