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Noted Health Economist Joins Bryan School Faculty
GREENSBORO, N.C. – Dr. Joseph Terza, a health economist who studies the economic causes and consequences of substance abuse and the economics of tobacco use, has joined the faculty of the Bryan School of Business and Economics at The University of North Carolina at Greensboro.
A full professor, Terza arrived at UNCG from the University of Florida, where he taught as a professor of epidemiology and health policy research in the College of Medicine and Department of Economics. In almost three decades in academia, he has also served on the faculty of the Medical University of South Carolina, worked for 17 years at Pennsylvania State University and spent the first six years of his career at the University of Georgia.
Dr. Stuart Allen, head of the Bryan School’s Department of Economics, said Terza is a valuable addition to the faculty. “Terza has important graduate teaching, mentoring and dissertation advising experience; has been successful obtaining federal grants and contracts and has an active research agenda and portfolio,” Allen said. “A strategic hire in health economics, he will strengthen the university's expertise in the life sciences.”
Terza, whose primary area of research is in health econometrics, has published 40 articles and has been a principal or co-principal investigator to more than 20 research grants. In addition to research on the economics of tobacco use and substance abuse, his main fields of interest in health policy include prescription drug utilization and financing for the elderly and analysis of the labor market outcomes of individuals with spinal cord injury. He is a past associate editor of the Journal of the American Statistical Association and serves on the editorial boards of Foundations and Trends in Econometrics and Health Services Research.
Terza holds master’s and PhD degrees in economics from the University of Pittsburgh.
He joins a cohort of noted health and public policy economists at UNCG. Dr. Christopher Ruhm, the Jefferson Pilot Excellence Professor, has researched the impact of economic recessions on favorable health outcomes and the economic impact of obesity. Dr. Charles Courtemanche, an assistant professor, is cited for his research on the correlation of obesity and gas prices, and the effect of big box stores on obesity.