Justin S. White
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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.