Current Position:
Associate Professor of Health Economics
University of California, San Francisco (UCSF)
Contact information:
Justin S. White, PhD
Philip R. Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies
University of California, San Francisco
490 Illinois Street, Box 0936
San Francisco, CA 94158
Academic site: http://profiles.ucsf.edu/justin.white
Phone: +1 (415) 476-8045
Email: Justin.White [AT] ucsf [DOT] edu
Twitter: @justinswhite
Research fields:
Health economics, health policy, behavioral economics, applied econometrics, impact evaluation, tobacco regulatory science
About me:
I am a health economist in the UCSF School of Medicine, with joint appointments in the Philip R. Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies (IHPS) and the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics (DEB). I am also an affiliate of the Center for Tobacco Control Research and Education (CTCRE), Institute for Global Health Sciences (IGHS), and Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center (HDFCCC) at UCSF. I am a founding co-organizer and Executive Committee member of the Tobacco Online Policy Seminar (TOPS), a webinar series that features experimental and quasi-experimental research on tobacco policy.
I study the effects of interventions and policies on chronic disease risk factors, notably smoking cessation, and related health outcomes in underserved populations. In one stream of research, I apply quasi-experimental econometric techniques to evaluate the effects of social and economic policies on mitigating chronic disease risk. Recent and ongoing evaluation projects focus on: taxation of unhealthy products, cash and food assistance programs, and poverty alleviation programs. In a second stream, I design and implement incentive-based interventions to change health behavior among low-income groups, evaluated through randomized trials and informed by insights from the field of behavioral economics. Recent and ongoing interventional studies focus on: smoking cessation and prevention, diet, and oral health.
I hold a PhD in health policy and a concurrent MA in economics from UC Berkeley and an MSPH in health policy from UNC Chapel Hill. Prior to coming to UCSF, I completed a postdoctoral fellowship in cardiovascular disease prevention at Stanford University's Prevention Research Center.
You can download my CV here.
You can find details on my research activities here.
Associate Professor of Health Economics
University of California, San Francisco (UCSF)
Contact information:
Justin S. White, PhD
Philip R. Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies
University of California, San Francisco
490 Illinois Street, Box 0936
San Francisco, CA 94158
Academic site: http://profiles.ucsf.edu/justin.white
Phone: +1 (415) 476-8045
Email: Justin.White [AT] ucsf [DOT] edu
Twitter: @justinswhite
Research fields:
Health economics, health policy, behavioral economics, applied econometrics, impact evaluation, tobacco regulatory science
About me:
I am a health economist in the UCSF School of Medicine, with joint appointments in the Philip R. Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies (IHPS) and the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics (DEB). I am also an affiliate of the Center for Tobacco Control Research and Education (CTCRE), Institute for Global Health Sciences (IGHS), and Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center (HDFCCC) at UCSF. I am a founding co-organizer and Executive Committee member of the Tobacco Online Policy Seminar (TOPS), a webinar series that features experimental and quasi-experimental research on tobacco policy.
I study the effects of interventions and policies on chronic disease risk factors, notably smoking cessation, and related health outcomes in underserved populations. In one stream of research, I apply quasi-experimental econometric techniques to evaluate the effects of social and economic policies on mitigating chronic disease risk. Recent and ongoing evaluation projects focus on: taxation of unhealthy products, cash and food assistance programs, and poverty alleviation programs. In a second stream, I design and implement incentive-based interventions to change health behavior among low-income groups, evaluated through randomized trials and informed by insights from the field of behavioral economics. Recent and ongoing interventional studies focus on: smoking cessation and prevention, diet, and oral health.
I hold a PhD in health policy and a concurrent MA in economics from UC Berkeley and an MSPH in health policy from UNC Chapel Hill. Prior to coming to UCSF, I completed a postdoctoral fellowship in cardiovascular disease prevention at Stanford University's Prevention Research Center.
You can download my CV here.
You can find details on my research activities here.