We are pleased to welcome two new faculty members to UAB's Department of Health Services Administration. Soumya Niranjan, PhD, who was selected to participate as a scholar in the 2018-19 Health Disparities Research Education Award Certificate Program and winner of the William C. Bailey Award for Excellence in Cancer Prevention and Control Research, started as an Assistant Professor in September. Monica Aswani, PhD, joined our team January 1, 2019 as an Assistant Professor. Her research employs econometric methods to investigate how national payment reform efforts relate to the quality of and disparities in healthcare delivery. Her work has been published in Health Services Research, Journal for Healthcare Quality, and the Annual Review of Medicine.