I earned a PhD in Economics from UC Santa Barbara, now an Associate Professor of Spatial Science and Health Economics in the School of Public Health and in the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies at Georgia State University. Prior to this appoin
...MoreI earned a PhD in Economics from UC Santa Barbara, now an Associate Professor of Spatial Science and Health Economics in the School of Public Health and in the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies at Georgia State University. Prior to this appointment, I was a Research Professor at Arizona State University in the School of Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning. Prior to that, I was a Senior Research Fellow at RTI International for about 11 years. While at RTI, I spearheaded the effort to establish a Census Research Data Center (RDC) lab on the RTI main campus. Under the auspices of my approved Census RDC project entitled "Methodologies for Analyzing Risk Assessment", I have begun various studies of community risk and resilience using restricted microdata. Health studies may also be conducted inside the RDCs, through cooperation between the US Census, CDC, and NCHS. A renewal of my R01 grant with NIH/NCI enables my team to study cancer incidence and outcomes at small geographic scales across the entire US, under a National Centers for Health Statistics approval for this work, to be conducted inside RDCs. I am a leader in the area of applied spatial science analyses in healthcare research.
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