Healthcare Delivery Science

The Healthcare Delivery Science (HDS) core group within the SC CTSI advances health system innovations through research awards, training, and collaborations with LA County Department of Health Services and other partners. They support a number of projects through the Safety Net Innovation Awards in partnership with the UCLA CTSI. They also disseminate HDS results and research findings to health systems, researchers, and the community. Click here to learn more about their current and planned projects.

Read our 2023 annual report, which includes the Health Delivery Science Center's personnel and partners, accomplishments from our first year, future plans, and updates from past pilot awardees.

You can also find this report and lots more info at the SC HDS Center website.

The HDS core also hosts a training program in which our affiliates present on a variety of topics such as: how to engage in the community in the science of healthcare delivery, funding opportunities for the study of healthcare delivery, and how to use the power of behavioral economics to improve quality and efficiency of patient-centered care.

We have published all of the courses in our Healthcare Delivery Science training program, a multidisciplinary online series of courses covering multiple topics. Students ranging from clinicians to public health students from any institution can receive digital badges for individual courses as well as a Certificate of Completion for finishing all courses. Go to this page on the HDS Center site to find out more.

Amytis Towfighi, MD, HDS Center Director, USC; Wendy J. Mack, Ph.D., Professor of Population and Public Health Sciences, USC; Rachel R. Ceasar, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Population and Public Health Sciences, USC

Course	Instructors
Introduction to HDS "Safety Net Innovation" award program	Amy Towfighi, MD, Director of SC CTSI Healthcare Delivery Science core and Director of Neurological Services and Innovation for Los Angeles County Department of Health Services
Dissemination & Implementation	Barbara Turner, MD, MSED, MACP, and Albert Farias, PhD, MPH, faculty in The USC The Gehr Family Center For Health Systems Science And Innovation, in conjunction with Brian Mittman, PhD, Senior Scientist at Kaiser Permanente with affiliations at USC and UCLA
Behavioral Economics	Jason Doctor, PhD, The Norman Topping National Medical Enterprise Chair in Medicine and Public Policy and Professor of Public Policy, University of Southern California
Leadership & Management	Dave Logan and Ashleigh Rodriguez from Care4th
Quality Improvement	Bob Lloyd, PhD, Director of Performance Improvement for the Institute for Healthcare Improvement
Stakeholder Engagement	Jennifer Tsui, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Population and Public Health Sciences, University of Southern California
Research Methods	Amytis Towfighi, MD, HDS Center Director, USC; Wendy J. Mack, PhD, Professor of Population and Public Health Sciences, USC; Rachel R. Ceasar, PhD, Assistant Professor of Population and Public Health Sciences, USC
Health Systems Engineering	Shinyi Wu, PhD, Associate Professor of Social Work and Industrial & Systems Engineering, University of Southern California; David Belson, Director, Mixed Reality Research; Michelle Shin, Ph.D.