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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 ]