Current Position:
Associate Professor
Boston University School of Public Health
Contact information:
Justin S. White, PhD
Department of Health Law, Policy & Management
Boston University School of Public Health
715 Albany Street, Room 249West
Boston, MA 02118
Academic site: http://profiles.bu.edu/Justin.White
Phone: +1 (415) 476-8045
Email: juswhite [AT] bu [DOT] edu
Twitter: @justinswhite
Bluesky: @justinwhite.bsky.social
Research fields:
Health economics, health policy, behavioral economics, applied econometrics, impact evaluation, tobacco regulatory science, nutrition policy
About me:
I am an Associate Professor in the Department of Health Law, Policy and Management (HLPM) at Boston University School of Public Health. I am a health economist who conducts research to evaluate the effects of interventions and policies on behavioral risk factors for chronic disease and related health outcomes in underserved populations. Much of my recent work has focused on tobacco use and nutrition. 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.
Prior to coming to BU in 2023, I spent 8 years as a faculty member at the UCSF School of Medicine in the Philip R. Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies and the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics. 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. I also 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
Boston University School of Public Health
Contact information:
Justin S. White, PhD
Department of Health Law, Policy & Management
Boston University School of Public Health
715 Albany Street, Room 249West
Boston, MA 02118
Academic site: http://profiles.bu.edu/Justin.White
Phone: +1 (415) 476-8045
Email: juswhite [AT] bu [DOT] edu
Twitter: @justinswhite
Bluesky: @justinwhite.bsky.social
Research fields:
Health economics, health policy, behavioral economics, applied econometrics, impact evaluation, tobacco regulatory science, nutrition policy
About me:
I am an Associate Professor in the Department of Health Law, Policy and Management (HLPM) at Boston University School of Public Health. I am a health economist who conducts research to evaluate the effects of interventions and policies on behavioral risk factors for chronic disease and related health outcomes in underserved populations. Much of my recent work has focused on tobacco use and nutrition. 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.
Prior to coming to BU in 2023, I spent 8 years as a faculty member at the UCSF School of Medicine in the Philip R. Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies and the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics. 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. I also 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.