Dr. Y. Tony Yang is Professor and Executive Director of the Center for Health Policy and Media Engagement at George Washington University School of Nursing. He also holds a joint appointment at the Milken Institute School of Public Health in the Department of Health Policy and Management. His scholarship explores the effects of law and policy on health care delivery and population health outcomes. He has authored more than 100 peer-reviewed articles. His first-authored work has appeared in leading medical (including the New England Journal of Medicine and the Journal of the American Medical Association), health policy and services (including Health Affairs and Medical Care), public health (the American Journal of Public Health and Public Health Reports), and health law (the Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics and the Food and Drug Law Journal) journals. The impact of his scholarship is observable in media coverage on outlets such as CNN, Fox News, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, the LA Times, the San Francisco Chronicle, the Chicago Tribune, the Philadelphia Inquirer, USA Today, and Huffington Post. Dr. Yang has received honors such as the Early Career Award for Excellence from the American Public Health Association. His work has been funded by various organizations, including the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Food and Drug Administration, the National Academy of Medicine, Veterans Affairs, INOVA Health System, and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. He is an associate editor of BMC Health Services Research. He holds graduate degrees in public health (Harvard), health policy (Harvard), and law (University of Pennsylvania).