Neil J. Sehgal

Neil Jay Sehgal, PhD, MPH, is an affiliate at the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research. Sehgal is also the Austin Ross Endowed Chair of Health Administration and an associate professor in the Department of Health Systems and Population Health at the University of Washington School of Public Health, where he also serves as director of the Master in Health Administration graduate programs. In these roles, he teaches, mentors graduate students, and leads programmatic and curricular initiatives to train the next generation of health care leaders. '

Sehgal's research focuses on the impact of partisanship and race on COVID-19 incidence and mortality, sociodemographic correlates of health care outcomes, disparities in salary and promotion among health care workers, and the use of large datasets to study patient safety and health care quality,.

Prior to joining the University of Washington faculty, Sehgal was an assistant professor in Health Policy and Management at the University of Maryland School of Public Health. He previously held research leadership roles at the UCSF Center for Digital Health Innovation and the UCSF-Samsung Digital Health Innovation Lab, served as the health policy lead for the UCSF-Cisco Comprehensive Health Interoperability Platform collaboration, and worked as a medical effectiveness policy analysis lead for the California Health Benefits Review Program. 

Earlier in his career, Sehgal was the Data Access and Confidentiality (DAC) Manager for the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research, where he redesigned confidentiality protections and data access for the California Health Interview Survey (CHIS). 

Sehgal holds a PhD in health services and policy analysis from UC Berkeley, where he was a founding graduate research fellow of the Center for Healthcare Organizational and Innovation Research. He earned his Master of Public Health in Health Policy and Management and a bachelor’s degree in philosophy from UCLA.