Albert W. Wu

Biography

Albert W. Wu is Professor of Health Policy and Management at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, with joint appointments in Epidemiology, International Health, Medicine, Surgery, and the Carey Business School. He is director of the Center for Health Services and Outcomes R search, and of the PhD Program in Health Services Research. Dr. Wu received his M.D. from the Weill Medical College at Cornell University, and his M.P.H from the School of Public Health at the University of California-Berkeley. Dr. Wu is PI or co-investigator on 4 current PCORI funded projects, and co-directs the Research Facilitating Team for the CMMI funded Johns Hopkins Community Partnership. He teaches a series of courses at Johns Hopkins on health outcomes, quality of care, comparative effectiveness and patient safety and has 25 years of experience as a practicing internist and HIV physician at the Johns Hopkins Hospital. He is currently a member of the National Quality Forum Patient Safety Measures Permanent committee. Dr. Wu developed several of the most widely-used patient reported outcome (PRO) measures in HIV, founded the Outcomes Committee of the NIH AIDS Clinical Trials Group, and led PRO measurement for the National Eye Institute’s SOCA Research Network. He has used both qualitative and quantitative research methods in many studies of patient centered outcomes and effectiveness

Research Interest

His research interest in on patient safety