Promotora assisted depression and self-care management among predominantly Latinos with concurrent chronic illness: Safety net care system clinical trial results | Contemporary Clinical Trials
Class of 2023 PhD, DSW, MSW and MSN
Fall 2023 Late Deadline: Full-Time - June 9
Dr. Wu is a distinguished researcher who takes an engineering approach to research that spans many social work applications.
Dr. Wu is a distinguished researcher who takes an engineering approach to research that spans many social work applications.
Shinyi Wu is an associate professor with a secondary appointment at the USC Viterbi School of Engineering. She is also a senior scientist at the USC Edward R. Roybal Institute on Aging. Wu brings an engineering approach to research that spans many social work applications, from health, behavioral health, mental health, aging, organization and management, to policy analysis and transformation. With her cross-disciplinary perspective, she identifies, develops and analyzes real-world approaches and technology applications; these approaches have the potential to amplify humanity in health care delivery systems and to improve quality, efficiency and equity of services for disadvantaged populations with chronic illnesses. With a joint appointment in the Epstein Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Viterbi. Wu was the principal investigator of the Diabetes-Depression Care-Management Adoption Trial (DCAT), evaluating an automated technology system that implemented evidence-based depression care management to improve outcomes and reduce disparities among low-income diabetes patients. Shaped by three research projects in which she also played a leadership role: a systematic review of the impact of health information technology on quality, efficiency and costs of medical care; an analysis of implementation costs and lessons learned for a national evaluation of innovative language access services for Spanish-speaking patients with limited English proficiency; and an evaluation that used a systems approach to assess the effects of lean management principles implementation in four public hospitals to improve congestive heart failure care. Wu’s current research focuses on testing interventions to reduce health care disparities. She is contributing to the design of a mobile health technology application for team-based care management in community settings and will evaluate the technology’s effectiveness in stroke care management and coordination from the perspective of multiple stakeholders. In addition, she has a key leadership role in a Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) study to test a promotora (community health care worker) intervention for patients with multiple chronic illnesses and depression. To reference the work of Shinyi Wu online, we ask that you directly quote their work where possible and attribute it to "Shinyi Wu, a faculty at the USC Suzanne Dworak-Peck School of Social Work” (LINK: https://dworakpeck.usc.edu)
PhD 2000
MS 1993
BS 1992
Promotora assisted depression and self-care management among predominantly Latinos with concurrent chronic illness: Safety net care system clinical trial results | Contemporary Clinical Trials
Using Beta-Version Mhealth Technology for Team-Based Care Management to Support Stroke Prevention | JMIR Publications
Using Beta-Version mHealth Technology for Team-Based Care Management to Support Stroke Prevention: An Assessment of Utility and Challenges | JMIR Research Protocols
Latinos & Alzheimer's Disease: New Numbers Behind the Crisis | USC Edward R. Roybal Institute on Aging and the LatinosAgainstAlzheimer’s Network
An agent-based simulation model of patient choice of health care providers in accountable care organizations | Health Care Management Science
Complexity in Redesigning Depression Care: Comparing Intention Versus Implementation of an Automated Depression Screening and Monitoring Program | Population Health Management
July 2014–August 2017 To understand the full potential of mobile computing technology to improve quality of life and health outcomes of older adults with disabilities, this project will provide mobile technology training, access, and intergenerational support by young volunteers to adults 50 years old or older with diabetes and disabilities in Taiwan to promote their self-care and self-help. A randomized controlled trial with 350 older adults and 140 young volunteers will be conducted to test the program effectiveness. April 2014– August 2014 Hold a public symposium and research workshop in Taiwan to plan a cross-country (US and Taiwan) comparative study of IMTOP that target older people with chronic illness or functional disability and train younger generations to teach these older people to use mobile technology for self-care and self-help. March 2014–March 2015 Test feasibility of using mobile health automated phone-messaging technology to address the unmet need to improve physical activity among low-income, Spanish-speaking adults with type 2 diabetes. March 2014–August 2014 Make prediction models from diabetes+depression clinical trial datasets to predict the depression course and to identify predictors among patients with diabetes in order to design a patient-centered, scalable depression management system. February 2013–September 2013 Evaluate efficacy of the San Francisco Broadband Technology Opportunities Program (SF-BTOP), which aims to increase broadband Internet usage among seniors and adults with disabilities in order to improve their psychosocial well-being and health.