Christina Nguyen

Christina A. Nguyen is an Assistant Professor of Strategy and Statistics at Fordham University’s Gabelli School of Business. Her research examines how organizational design shapes performance and innovation. She focuses on organizational strategy: how organizations structure incentives, measure performance, and manage human capital, and the consequences of those choices for behavior and outcomes. Dr. Nguyen’s expertise spans both research and policy. She has worked at the White House National Economic Council, the Department of Health Care Policy at Harvard Medical School, and the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics at the University of Pennsylvania. She has also written white papers on federal R&D funding and the design of performance measurement systems. Dr. Nguyen earned her PhD and SM from the Technological Innovation, Entrepreneurship, and Strategic Management (TIES) group at the MIT Sloan School of Management, where she was a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow and an MIT Presidential Fellow. She holds an AB in sociology with highest honors from Harvard University, where she also earned graduate certificates in data science and business.

• PhD in Management (Tech. Innovation, Entrepreneurship, and Strategic Management) from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2026.
• SM, Management Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2022.

• Nguyen CA, Beaulieu ND, Wright AA, Cutler DM, Keating NL, Landrum MB. Organization of Cancer Specialists in U.S. Physician Practices and Health Systems. Journal of Clinical Oncology. 2023; 41(26):4226-4235.
• Nguyen CA, Gilstrap LG, Chernew ME, McWilliams JM, Landon BE, Landrum MB. Using Consistently Low Performance to Identify Low-Quality Physician Groups. JAMA Network Open. 2021; 4(7):e2117954.
• Nguyen CA (corresponding author), Chernew ME, Ostrer I, Beaulieu ND. Comparison of Healthcare Delivery Systems in Low- and High-Income Communities. The American Journal of Accountable Care. 2019; 7(4):11-18. (Lead article)
• Gilstrap LG, Chernew ME, Nguyen CA, Alam S, Bai B, McWilliams JM, Landon BE, Landrum MB. Association Between Clinical Practice Group Adherence to Quality Measures and Adverse Outcomes Among Adult Patients with Diabetes. JAMA Network Open. 2019; 2(8):e199139.
• Nguyen CA, Gilstrap LG, Chernew ME, McWilliams JM, Landon BE, Landrum MB. Social Risk Adjustment of Quality Measures for Diabetes and Cardiovascular Disease in a Commercially-Insured US Population. JAMA Network Open. 2019; 2(3):e190838.
  • Invited commentary: JAMA Network Open. Press: First Report Managed Care. Cited by the American Medical Association. Selected for Poster Walk, AcademyHealth Annual Meeting, 2018.
• McDowell A, Nguyen CA, Chernew ME, Tran KN, McWilliams JM, Landon BE, Landrum MB. Comparison of Approaches for Aggregating Quality Measures in Population-based Payment Models. Health Services Research. 2018; 53(6):4477-4490.
• Auriemma CL, Chen L, Olorunnisola M, Delman A, Nguyen CA, Cooney E, Gabler NB, Halpern SD. Public opinion regarding financial incentives to engage in advance care planning and complete advance directives. American Journal of Hospice and Palliative Care. 2017; 34(8):721-728.
• Nguyen CA. The Importance of Country of Origin for Health Service Utilization Among Immigrants in the United States. The Harvard Undergraduate Research Journal. Fall 2014; 7(2):24-31. (only peer-reviewed journal of undergraduate research at Harvard)
• Nguyen CA (corresponding author), Shih JA, Lin KV, Aladesanmi OA. Targeting National Emergency Department Overuse: A Case for Primary Care, Financial Incentives, and Community Awareness. Harvard Health Policy Review. Fall 2014; 14(1):23-26.
• Auriemma CL, Nguyen CA, Bronheim R, Kent S, Nadigu S, Pardo D, Halpern SD. Stability of End-of-Life Preferences: A Systematic Review of the Evidence. JAMA Internal Medicine. 2014; 174(7):1085-1092.
  • Invited commentary: JAMA Internal Medicine.