Paul G. Farnham is an Associate Professor in the Department of Economics at Georgia State University. His areas of specialization are health care economics, the economics of HIV/AIDS, public sector economics, and public policy. Farnham has been a visiting health economist at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention where he analyzed the economic costs of HIV/AIDS to business and worked on the economic analysis of HIV prevention programs. His research has been published in journals such as Public Health Reports, the American Journal of Preventive Medicine, and Inquiry. His earlier research on local government debt and expenditure decisions has been published in the Southern Economic Journal, Public Choice, Public Finance Quarterly, Urban Affairs Quarterly, and Social Science Quarterly, among other journals. He is co-author of Cases in Public Policy Analysis. Farnham has refereed articles for journals such as AIDS, the New England Journal of Medicine, Pharmacoeconomics, the American Economic Review, and the Southern Economic Journal.

Farnham has taught health economics to undergraduates and to students in the Master of Health Administration program, public sector economics to students in the Master of Public Administration program, and managerial economics to students in the Master of Business Administration and Executive MBA programs. He has also developed a new interdisciplinary undergraduate course, "Disease Prevention and Control."

Farnham received his B.A. in economics from Union College, Schenectady, New York, and his M.A. and Ph.D. in economics from the University of California, Berkeley. He is a member of the American Economic Association, the American Public Health Association, the Association for Health Services Research, the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management, and the Southern Economic Association.