Dr. Leiyu Shi is Professor of health policy and management from Johns'Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health Department of Health'Policy and Management. He is also Director of Johns Hopkins Primary Care Policy'Center. He serves as Co-Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal for Equity in Health. He received his doctoral education from University of California'Berkeley majoring in health policy and services research. He also has a masters'in business administration focusing on finance. Dr. Shi's research and practice focus on'primary care, hospitals, health care systems, community health centers, health disparities, and vulnerable'populations.

He has conducted extensive studies about the association between'primary care and health outcomes, particularly on the role of primary care in'mediating the adverse impact of income inequality on health outcomes. Dr. Shi'is also one of the developers of the Johns Hopkins Primary Care'Assessment Tools that have been widely used internationally to measure primary'health care performance at the individual, practice, and system levels. Dr. Shi has consulted extensively for hospitals, health care systems, and international agencies. He is a well-known expert on innovative practices and systems change. Dr.'Shi is the author of twelve textbooks and over 250 scientific journal'articles.

He is named by Thomson Reuters in 2014 as among the top cited (and therefore most influential) scientists in the world in the area of Social'Science general.