Chenjuan Ma

Chenjuan Ma, PhD, is an Assistant Professor and health services researcher at NYU Rory Meyers College of Nursing (Meyers). She also serves as the Deputy Director of the Occupational and Environmental Health Nursing (OEHN) training program at NYU Meyers. Her program of research focuses on promoting care quality for optimal health outcomes and safety of older adults across care settings, with a particular focus on home health care. Her research utilizes theories and methodologies from various disciplines, including but not limited to nursing, sociology, medicine, statistics, and data science. Ma has extensive experience in large data management and sophisticated quantitative methods.

Ma is currently the PI of a NYU-funded project that aims to prototype an AI-powered culturally and linguistically tailored mobile application that will bridge communication gaps and promote teamwork in home health care. She is also a Co-I of the evaluation of the Mother Cabrini Health Foundation’s $51 million 5-year Nursing Initiative that supports the nurse workforce in safety net hospitals across New York state. Recently, she completed an NIA-funded R03 project that examined racial and ethnic disparities in home health care for persons with Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Dementias utilizing various national datasets, including home health assessment (i.e., OASIS) and Medicare claims and administrative data from the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services.

Ma has published widely on topics of home health care, hospital nursing, care quality, workforce issues, patient safety and outcomes, health disparities, dementia, and aging. She has presented her work at regional and national health services research, gerontological, and nursing conferences.