John Mullahy

"Obtaining better knowledge of population health outcomes and determinants presents a fascinating set of challenges for an economist. These challenges range from constructing novel theoretical approaches to characterizing the relationships between determinants and outcomes, to developing innovative measurement strategies that can usefully describe population health outcomes and determinants, to amassing the data that operationalize such measures, to developing and applying econometric methodologies that tie together all these considerations and deliver evidence useful for decisionmaking."

John Mullahy, Ph.D.

John Mullahy is Professor of Population Health Sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. He received his Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Virginia in 1985 and his B.A. in Economics magna cum laude from Georgetown University in 1979, where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. He has held postdoctoral fellowships at Yale University and at the University of Connecticut Health Center. His research interests include the economic aspects of tobacco and alcohol use, children's health issues, preventive care, health care evaluation methodologies, and applied econometrics. He has authored or co-authored a variety of journal articles and book chapters on these and other topics. Some of his publications have appeared in the Review of Economics and Statistics, the Journal of Health Economics, the Journal of Econometrics, the Journal of Applied Econometrics, the Journal of Labor Economics, Medical Decision Making, and the Journal of Human Resources. He is presently on the editorial boards of the International Journal of Health Care Finance and Economics and Health Economics. He is married to Joan McGovern, with whom he enjoys four terrific children. In his scant spare time, he jogs, golfs, and follows the variable fortunes of the New York Mets.