Ronald Buie

Ronald W. Buie received his MS in Biomedical and Health Informatics, and MPH in Health Services: Health Systems and Policy, both from the University of Washington. He is currently pursuing his PhD in Biomedical and Health Informatics while working as an epidemiologist in Public Health Seattle & King County’s Assessment, Policy Development, and Evaluation Unit. His dissertation is a study of analytics teams in population health and health care settings, with an aim of describing the work, structures, and interdependencies of these teams. His professional work centers around the evaluation of health care and population health programs where he develops analytics systems in support of continuous improvement processes, systems integration, and informed decision making by grantors, program leadership, researchers, and communities.