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Dr. Titus J. Galama, Ph.D., MBA, is an Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Southern California's Dornsife Center for Economic and Social Research (CESR)[1] and School of Business and Economics (SBE), Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.[2] He also serves as the Director of the USC Center for the Study of Health Inequality[3] and is a Research Fellow at the Tinbergen Institute, Amsterdam,[4] The Netherlands. He holds dual Ph.D.s, one in Astrophysics (cum laude, 1999) and the other in Economics (cum laude, 2011), both from the University of Amsterdam, Netherlands and an MBA from INSEAD, France/Singapore (2003). Dr. Galama's multidisciplinary expertise encompasses astrophysics, business, management, policy analysis, economics, and social-science genetics. He has made significant contributions across various domains, including groundbreaking insights into gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) in astrophysics[5] and pioneering work on understanding health disparities by socioeconomic status, integrating economic principles and social-science genetics methodologies.  Dr. Galama has been recognized for his collaborative astrophysical research, including a study acknowledged by science magazine as among the top ten scientific discoveries of 1997 and 1999.[6]

Awards and Recognitions:[edit]

  • Fairchild Postdoctoral Prize Fellow at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech).[7]
  • Principal Investigator on projects funded by the National Institute of Aging (NIA) R01 AG055654[8]and the Netherlands Science Foundation (NWO).
  • Recognized for collaborative astrophysical research, including a study acknowledged by Science magazine as among the top ten scientific discoveries of 1997 and 1999.[9]

Publications:[edit]

  • "Accounting for the Rise of Health Spending and Longevity" (2021).[10][11] Published in the Journal of the European Economic Association, co-authored with R. Fonseca, P.C. Michaud, and A. Kapteyn.
  • "A Theory of Socio-economic Disparities in Health over the Life Cycle" (2019).[12][13] Published in the Economic Journal, co-authored with J. van Kippersluis.

Research Findings:[edit]

Dr. Galama's research contributions include groundbreaking insights into gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) in astrophysics and pioneering work on understanding health disparities by socioeconomic status, integrating economic principles and social-science genetics methodologies.[14]

References:[edit]

  1. ^ "Home".
  2. ^ "School of Business and Economics".
  3. ^ "Home".
  4. ^ "Tinbergen Institute - Graduate school and research institute in economics, econometrics and finance".
  5. ^ academic.oup.com https://academic.oup.com/astrogeo/article/40/5/5.10/176681. Retrieved 2024-05-08. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  6. ^ "Titus Galama". USC Dornsife. Retrieved 2024-05-08.
  7. ^ "Titus Galama | HCEO". hceconomics.uchicago.edu. Retrieved 2024-05-07.
  8. ^ "Center for the Study of Health Inequality (CSHI)". Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. Retrieved 2024-05-07.
  9. ^ "Titus Galama | HCEO". hceconomics.uchicago.edu. Retrieved 2024-05-07.
  10. ^ Fonseca, R.; Michaud, P. C.; Galama, T.; Kapteyn, A. (2021). "Accounting for the Rise of Health Spending and Longevity". Journal of the European Economic Association. 19 (1): 536–579. doi:10.1093/jeea/jvaa003. PMC 7935060. PMID 33679266.
  11. ^ Fonseca, Raquel; Michaud, Pierre-Carl; Galama, Titus; Kapteyn, Arie (February 2021). "Accounting for the Rise of Health Spending and Longevity". Journal of the European Economic Association. 19 (1): 536–579. doi:10.1093/jeea/jvaa003. ISSN 1542-4766. PMC 7935060. PMID 33679266.
  12. ^ Galama, T. J.; Van Kippersluis, H. (2018). "A Theory of Socio-economic Disparities in Health over the Life Cycle". Economic Journal (London, England). 129 (617): 338–374. doi:10.1111/ecoj.12577. PMC 6430209. PMID 30905971.
  13. ^ Galama, Titus J.; van Kippersluis, Hans (January 2019). "A Theory of Socio-economic Disparities in Health over the Life Cycle". Economic Journal (London, England). 129 (617): 338–374. doi:10.1111/ecoj.12577. ISSN 0013-0133. PMC 6430209. PMID 30905971.
  14. ^ "History of gamma-ray burst research", Wikipedia, 2023-07-21, retrieved 2024-05-07

External Links:[edit]

Titus J. Galama[1] publications indexed by Google Scholar.

  1. ^ "Titus J. Galama". scholar.google.com. Retrieved 2024-05-07.