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An Unhealthy AmericaMilken InstituteABOUT THE AUTHORSRoss DeVol is Director of Regional Economics and the Center for Health Economics at the Milken Institute. Heoversees the Institute’s research on the dynamics of comparative regional growth performance, and technologyand its impact on regional and national economies. DeVol authored the ground-breaking study America’s High-Tech Economy: Growth, Development, and Risks for Metropolitan Areas, an examination of how clusters of high-techindustries across the country affect economic growth in those regions. He also created the Best Performing CitiesIndex, an annual ranking of U.S. metropolitan areas that shows where jobs are being created and economies aregrowing. His most recent work involves the study of biotechnology and other life science clusters, and the impactthese industries have on regional economies. He was the lead author of Mind-to-Market: A Global Analysis ofUniversity Biotechnology Transfer and Commercialization, released in September 2006, which looked at thecommercialization of university-developed intellectual property on a global basis, with particular focus on thefield of biotechnology. Prior to joining the Institute, DeVol was senior vice president of Global Insight Inc. (formerlyWharton Econometric Forecasting), where he supervised the Regional Economic Services group. He was the firm’schief spokesman on international trade. He also served as the head of Global Insight’s U.S. Long-Term MacroService and authored numerous special reports on behalf of the U.S. Macro Group. He has been ranked among the“Super Stars” of Think Tank Scholars by International Economy magazine.Armen Bedroussian is a Research Economist with the Institute’s Regional Economics group. His research focuseson econometrics, statistical methods and other modeling techniques. Before joining the Institute, he was aneconomics teaching assistant, in micro- and macroeconomics, at the University of California, Riverside. Bedroussianhas co-authored numerous studies, including The Impact of 9/11 on U.S. Metropolitan Economies; ManufacturingMatters: California’s Performance and Prospects; America’s Biotech and Life Science Clusters; Biopharmaceutical IndustryContributions to U.S. and State Economies; The Greater Philadelphia Life Sciences Cluster; Economic Benefits of ProposedUniversity of Central Florida College of Medicine, and others. In addition to co-authoring annual reports on BestPerforming Cities, Bedroussian is responsible for compiling the Milken Institute’s Cost of Doing Business Index. Heearned a B.S. in applied mathematics and a master’s in economics from UC Riverside.Anita Charuworn is a Research Analyst in Regional Economics at the Institute. Her projects involve estimating theintergenerational impacts of health improvements on state-level productivity, as well as compiling the StateTechnology and Science Index. Charuworn received her Ph.D. in economics from the University of California,Irvine, and a bachelor’s degree in economics from the University of California, Los Angeles. Her research examinesthe distribution impact of public policies on health outcomes, and how intellectual property rights protectiondrives innovation within pharmaceuticals. Prior to joining the Institute, she worked as a business consultant,advising clients on ways to develop competitive pricing strategies in a global marketplace.Anusuya Chatterjee is a Research Analyst in the Regional Economics group at the Institute. Her expertise covershealth-care economics, labor economics, economic forecasting, and public-policy issues. Her doctoral dissertationexamined the effects of the Head Start program on children’s cognitive development and receipt of preventivehealth care. She co-authored “Forecasting Macroeconomic Indicators of Indiana in a Bayesian VAR Framework”(published in the Journal of Business and Economic Perspectives), “Effects of Macroeconomic News Announcementson Stock Returns” (published in Proceedings of the Midwest Business Economics Association Meeting, 2005) and“Estimating the Cost of Providing Outpatient Chemical Dependency Treatment Services in New York State”(presented at the Association for Health Services Research annual meeting in 2000). Chatterjee previously worked[ 237 ]
An Unhealthy AmericaMilken Instituteas an assistant professor in economics at the University of Southern Indiana. She has also served as a member ofthe team for funded research projects with the New York State Office of Alcoholism and Substance Abuse Services.She received a Ph.D. in economics from the State University of New York, Albany, a master’s degree from the DelhiSchool of Economics, and a bachelor’s degree from Jadavpur University, India.In Kyu Kim is a Senior Research Analyst at the Center for Health Economics under the Regional Economics group.His research focuses on health economics, labor economics and demography. Prior to joining the Institute, heworked at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention under a Prevention Effectiveness Fellowship,focusing on training and applications to public health, epidemiologic models and economic evaluation methods.Kim received his Ph.D. in economics from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York (CUNY), with afocus on obesity. He received a bachelor’s degree in international trade from Kookmin University and a master’sdegree in economics from Yonsei University in Seoul, Korea.Soojung Kim is a Research Analyst in the Regional Economics group at the Institute. Her research interests includeregional economics, economic development and infrastructure. Her expertise covers econometric modeling,transportation network analysis, and GIS applications. Kim has participated in research projects on national andregional economic impact analysis, applying Input-Output models and other econometrics models. Kim hascontributed to the Institute’s Best Performing Cities Index and its Cost of Doing Business Index. Prior to her graduatestudy at the University of Southern California, she was a transportation researcher at the Seoul DevelopmentInstitute. Kim received her Ph.D. in urban planning from the University of Southern California. She received abachelor’s degree from Yonsei University and a master’s degree in city planning from Seoul National University in Korea.Kevin Klowden is a Managing Economist in Regional Economics at the Milken Institute, specializing in the studyof demographic and spatial factors, and how these are influenced by public policy and affect regional economies.He has an interest in the role of transportation infrastructure as it relates to the movement of goods and people inthe development of regional competitiveness. He coordinated the Institute’s Los Angeles Economy Project, seekingpublic policy and private-sector solutions to challenges the region faces amid a growing unskilled labor pool.He served on the editorial board of Millennium, the international affairs journal of the London School of Economics,where he earned a master’s degree in the politics of world economy. Klowden also earned a master’s in economicgeography, from the University of Chicago.[ 238 ]
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