Who We Are

 The following faculty members participated in the Consumers, Pharmaceutical Policy and Health Program.

Alan D. Mathios, Ph.D. is the Rebecca Q. and James C. Morgan Dean of the College of Human Ecology and an expert in how economics and public policy interacts with legal and regulatory systems to impact human welfare. 

Rosemary J. Avery, Ph.D. is the Chair of the Department of Policy Analysis and Management. Her research focuses on the impact of pharmaceutical advertisements on health behaviors, along with child welfare policy in foster care systems.

John Cawley, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor in the Department of Policy Analysis and Management whose work focuses on the economics of obesity.

R. Richard Geddes, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor Department of Policy Analysis and Management. His work focuses on corporate governance, womens property rights, surface transportation policy, postal services, and antitrust

Ronald Goetzel, Ph.D, vice president of consulting and applied research at Medstat, a business of The Thomson Corporation.

Donald Kenkel, Ph.D. is a Professor in the Department of Policy Analysis and Management. His research focuses on the economics of disease prevention and health promotion, and cost-benefit analysis of public policies, especially policies that affect health. 

Dean Lillard, Ph.D. is a Senior Research Associate in the Department of Policy Analysis and Management. His research in health economics is primarily focused on the economics of cigarette marketing and consumption.

Alvin I. Mushlin, M.D., Sc.M. is Professor and Chair of the Department of Public Health at Weill Cornell Medical College.

Sean Nicholson, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor in the Department of Policy Analysis and Management. He is currently conducting research in four areas: the value of new medical technologies; how physicians develop their treatment styles; measuring the financial benefit to an employer of investing in the health of its workers; and the causes of autism.

John S. Rizzo, Ph.D. is Professor of economics and preventative medicine at Stony Brook University.

Hirsch S. Ruchlin, Ph.D. is a Professor Emeritus of Economics in Public Health at Weill Cornell Medical College.

Kosali Ilayperuma Simon, Ph.D. is Associate Professor in the Department of Policy Analysis and Management. She has studied the income elasticity of demand for prescription medications.