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Shoma Ghose
Associate Vice President
Contact
ShomaGhose@westat.comOverview
Shoma Ghose, PhD, is an Associate Vice President for Behavioral Health and Health Policy. She has dedicated her career to improving the lives of individuals struggling with behavioral health conditions and creating a responsive health care system. She has more than 2 decades of experience in health care and disabilities research, technical assistance, policy analysis, and federal contracts management. Ghose has directed and played leadership roles on 30+ federal contracts such as the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) Center for Financing Reform and Innovations (CFRI), Social Security Administration’s Supported Employment Demonstration, and the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) Early Psychosis Intervention Network National Data Coordinating Center.
Ghose was invited to work with the White House and U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to coordinate with 14 federal agencies to support the publications of 2 Long COVID reports. Earlier, Ghose coordinated with 10+ federal agencies to draft Interdepartmental Serious Mental Illness Coordinating Committee (ISMICC) Reports to Congress, which help guide federal initiatives to serve the needs of individuals with serious mental illnesses and children with severe emotional problems.
Education
- PhD, Clinical Psychology, with a minor in Public Health, Indiana University
- BA, Honors Psychology, University of Michigan
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Perspective
EPINET Draws Global Interest in Early Psychosis InterventionDecember 2023
International interest is growing in EPINET—the Early Psychosis Intervention Network—established by the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) (part of the National Institutes of Health…
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Vaccine effectiveness against influenza-associated urgent care, emergency department, and hospital encounters during the 2021–2022 season, VISION Network
Journal of Infectious Diseases
January 2023
M.W. Tenforde, Z.A. Weber, M.B. DeSilva, E. Stenehjem, D.-H. Yang, B. Fireman, M. Gaglani, et al.
DOILink for: Vaccine effectiveness against influenza-associated urgent care, emergency department, and hospital encounters during the 2021–2022 season, VISION Network -
Accuracy of COVID-19-like illness diagnoses in electronic health record data: Retrospective cohort study
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JMIR Formative Research
January 2023
S. Rao, C. Bozio, K. Butterfield, S. Reynolds, S.E. Reese, Sarah Ball, A. Steffens, et al.
DOILink for: Accuracy of COVID-19-like illness diagnoses in electronic health record data: Retrospective cohort study