Mimi Fahs Professor and Director, Brookdale Center for Healthy Aging and Longevity	Office:  BC1312HN Email: mfahs@hunter.cuny.edu Phone: 212 481-5420 Fax: 212 481-5260

Professional Interests:
Cost effectiveness of prevention, health policy analysis, economics of illness, urban aging, health disparities, public health economics, health care access, immigrant health, health outcomes. A health economist whose work focuses on vulnerable urban populations, particularly immigrants and the elderly, and on programs and policies impacting public health in their neighborhood physical and social environments. Joined Hunter faculty 2004. Founding Director of the Health Policy Research Center at New School University. Formerly with the Division of Health Economics, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, where she held joint appointments in the Departments of Community Medicine and Geriatrics. Pioneered the first cost-effectiveness analysis of a preventive screening program among low income older women, resulting in Congressional passage of the inaugural Medicare preventive benefit, cervical cancer screening. Currently heads up a grant from the National Cancer Institute, and in collaboration with the NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, is evaluating culturally-sensitive tobacco control interventions among Chinese Americans in two NYC communities. Also collaborating with the NYC Department for the Aging to design and conduct the first formal health status survey in NYC of seniors attending senior centers.

Primary Teaching Areas:
Public Health Economics, Health Policy Analysis, Public Health Management

Selected Publications:
Freudenberg N, Fahs MC, Galea S, Greenberg A. Public Health Then and Now: The Impact of New York City's 1975 Fiscal Crisis on the Tuberculosis, HIV, and Homicide Syndemic. American J of Public Health. 96: 424-434. 2006.
Shelley D, Fahs MC, Swain S, Qu J, Burton D: Acculturation and Tobacco Use Among Chinese Americans. American J of Public Health 94:300-307, 2004.
Muennig P, Fahs MC, Davis S. Health Status and Hospital Utilization of Recent Immigrants to New York City. Preventive Medicine 35, 225-231, 2002.

Education:
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