MARIANNE CULLEN FAHS

Dr. Marianne Cullen Fahs is the Director and Associate Professor in the Health Services Management and Policy Program at the Milano Graduate School of The New School for Social Research. Formerly, Dr. Fahs was Director of the Division of Health Economics at Mount Sinai Medical Center, City University of New York, (CUNY). Dr. Fahs now holds joint appointments as adjunct associate professor in the Department of Health Policy, NYU-Mount Sinai School of Medicine, and the Program in Economics, Graduate Center, City University of New York.

Prior to her 13 years at the Mount Sinai Medical Center, where she held joint appointments in the Departments of Community Medicine, Geriatrics, and the Program in Economics of the Graduate Center, CUNY, Dr. Fahs served 4 years in the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research.

Dr. Fahs, a health economist, is the author of over 100 articles and reports in the health services research literature, including empirical analyses and methodological appraisals of cost-effectiveness analysis of preventive services for elderly, vulnerable, and other population groups, costs of illness, episodes of care, and the relationship between utilization and patient, provider and insurance characteristics.

Dr. Fahs pioneered the first cost-effectiveness analysis of a preventive screening program among elderly women. Following publication of the results by the Journal of the American Medical Association, she served as one of the lead investigators on a cost-effectiveness analysis of cervical cancer screening for US elderly women, conducted under contract to the US Congressional Office of Technology Assessment. This policy model was instrumental in Congressional passage of the first secondary screening benefit provided by Medicare to women aged 65 and over.

Currently, Dr. Fahs is conducting an international comparative analysis of health and social policies for preventing and moderating the progression of age-related illness and injury in four large urban centers (New York, Paris, Tokyo, and Berlin). Dr. Fahs received her PhD from the Rackham School of Graduate Studies, the University of Michigan in 1985.

She has served on the faculties of several universities, including the University of Michigan, Columbia University, New York University, and the Graduate Center, City University of New York.

Her research interests include methodologies to measure concepts of social value and economic costs underlying health policy models. Dr. Fahs is currently analyzing the economic consequences of environmental pollution on U.S. children, the cost effectiveness of new strategies for breast cancer control for African American women, and the benefits of increased access to occupational health and medical care of New York City garment workers with occupational carpal tunnel syndrome. Dr. Fahs has served on several national advisory committees, including the National Advisory Panel on Payment for Preventive Health Services for the Elderly under Medicare for the Office of Technology Assessment, United States Congress; the United States Prevention Services Task Force Subcommittee on Cost Effectiveness Analysis; the Services Research Review Subcommittee of the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research; the Epidemiologic and Services Research Review Committee, National Institute of Mental Health; the Review Committee for the Home Care Research Initiative, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation; the National Advisory Committee for Cooperative Studies, Department of Veterans Affairs, Veterans Health Administration; and the Special Emphasis Panel, Health Services Research in Occupational Safety and Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. She is currently Co-Chair, with Dr. Peter Arno and Dr. Jeanne Mandelblatt, of the Task Force on the Economics and Urban Policy of Preventive Health Interventions.

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