Richard W. Hass, PhD

Associate Professor
Program Director, PhD in Population Health Science
Program Director, Health Data Science

Contact Information

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901 Walnut Street, 10th Floor
Philadelphia , PA 19107

Email Richard W. Hass

Associate Professor
Program Director, PhD in Population Health Science
Program Director, Health Data Science

Research & Practice Interests

Healthcare Utilization
Data Science and Real-World Evidence 
Psychometrics and Patient Reported Outcomes
Clinical Prediction Models

Education

PhD, Psychology, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA 2009
BA, Psychology, La Salle University, Philadelphia, PA 2003 

Publications

Awards

  • 2021 Award for Outstanding Adjunct Teaching in Population Health Science (PhD), Jefferson College of Population Health 
  • Daniel E. Berlyne Award for Excellence in Early Career Research, 2019 (Division 10 of the American Psychological Association)

BIOGRAPHY

Richard W. Hass, PhD, is Associate Professor in the Jefferson College of Population Health. He serves as the Program Director for both the PhD in Population Health Science and the Master's in Health Data Science programs. Dr. Hass is an accomplished quantitative scientist who began his career working at the nexus of mathematical psychology, cognitive science, and education research. Over the last 8 years his work has shifted toward three general areas: development and validation of patient-reported outcomes and experience measures,:extraction and analysis of real-world data from electronic medical records; registries;  CDC national interview datasets; and investigations into the relationship between health-related social needs and healthcare utilization. This work is bolstered by collaborators in family medicine, oncology, head and neck surgery, neurology, hepatology and gastroenterology, and emergency medicine. He has authored dozens of articles on these topics, chaired several dissertation committees, and mentored countless undergraduate and graduate students on research design, statistics, and the scientific method more generally.