CURRENT ADDRESS:
Department of Economics
Georgia State University
Atlanta, Georgia 30303
(404) 651-2624 (Phone)
(404) 651-4985 (FAX)
ecopgf@langate.gsu.edu
EDUCATION:
B.A., 1970, Economics, Union College, Schenectady, New York
M.A., 1974, Economics, University of California, Berkeley
Ph.D., 1978, Economics, University of California, Berkeley
EXPERIENCE:
Visiting Senior Health Economist, Division of Prevention Research and Analytic Methods, Epidemiology Program Office, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 1996-1998.
Visiting Health Economist, Division of HIV/AIDS Prevention, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 1993-1996.
Visiting Health Economist, National AIDS Information and Education Program, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 1990-1993.
Associate Professor of Economics, Georgia State University, 1984-present.
Assistant Professor of Economics, Georgia State University, 1977-1984.
Research Assistant, University of California, Institute of Industrial Relations, 1971-1972; 1974-1976.
Teaching Assistant, University of California, Department of Economics, 1972-1973; 1973-1974.
Research Associate, National Planning Association, Summer 1972-Summer, 1973.
Research Assistant, National Planning Association, Summer, 1971.
HEALTH ECONOMICS PUBLICATIONS AND RESEARCH:
Refereed Journals:
Gorsky RD., Farnham PG., Straus WL., Caldwell B., Holtgrave DR., Simonds RJ., Rogers MF., Guinan ME. Preventing Perinatal Transmission of HIV--Costs and Effectiveness of a Recommended Intervention. Public Health Reports 111 (July/August, 1996): 335-341.
Farnham PG., Gorsky RD., Holtgrave DR., Jones WK., Guinan ME. Counseling and Testing for HIV Prevention: Costs, Effects, and Cost-Effectiveness of More Rapid Screening Tests. Public Health Reports 111 (January/February, 1996): 44-53.
Farnham PG., Gorsky RD. Costs to Business for an HIV-Infected Worker. Inquiry 31 (Spring, 1994): 76-88.
Farnham PG. Defining and Measuring the Costs of the HIV Epidemic to Business Firms. Public Health Reports 109 (May-June, 1994): 311-318.
Guinan ME., Farnham PG., Holtgrave DR. Estimating the Value of Preventing a Human Immunodeficiency Virus Infection. American Journal of Preventive Medicine 10 (1994): 1-4.
Farnham PG. Knowledge, Attitudes, Beliefs, and Behaviors of the Business
Community Relative to HIV-AIDS. Public Health Reports 106 (November-December, 1991): 663-666.
Other Publications:
Farnham, PG. Economic Evaluation of HIV Counseling and Testing Programs: The Influence of Program Goals on Evaluation. In D.R. Holtgrave (ed.), Handbook of Economic Evaluation of HIV Prevention Programs. New York: Plenum Press, 1998, 63-79.
Farnham PG, Reggy A, Simonds RJ, Guinan ME. Evaluation of Alternative Perinatal HIV Prevention Policy Options in the United States. A Conference on Global Strategies for the Prevention of HIV Transmission From Mothers to Infants: Abstracts. Washington, DC: September 3-6, 1997, 22.
Farnham PG., Ackerman SP., Haddix AC. Study Design. in A.C. Haddix, S.M. Teutsch, P.A. Shaffer, D.O. Dunet (eds.), Prevention Effectiveness: A Guide to Decision Analysis and Economic Evaluation. New York: Oxford University Press, 1996, 12-26.
Farnham PG. Review of Private Choices and Public Health: The AIDS Epidemic in an Economic Perspective by Tomas J. Philipson and Richard A. Posner. Inquiry 31 (Winter 1994/95): 452.
Farnham PG. The Economic Costs of HIV/AIDS. in J.M. Pogodzinski (ed.),
Readings in Public Policy. Cambridge, MA: Blackwell Publishers, 1995, 65-86.
Presentations:
Farnham, PG. Economic Evaluation of Alternative Perinatal HIV Prevention Policy Options in the United States. Presented at the Turning Research Into Prevention Seminar, Division of HIV/AIDS Prevention, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, December 16, 1997, and at the Prevention Effectiveness Seminar, Epidemiology Program Office, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, December 17, 1997.
Farnham, PG. Economic Impact of HIV/AIDS. Plenary session at the Fall 1997 Interdisciplinary AIDS Symposium: New Clinical Approaches for the Treatment of HIV/AIDS, Northwest Area Health Education Center, The Bowman Gray School of Medicine of Wake Forest University, November 7, 1997.
Farnham PG. Evaluating Alternative Public Health Policies: Perinatal HIV Prevention. Presented at the American Evaluation Association Meeting, November 7, 1996.
Farnham PG., Holtgrave DR., Rogers MF., Guinan ME. Preventing Perinatal HIV Infection: Costs and Effects of a Recommended Intervention in the U.S. Abstract Th.C.4817, XI International Conference on AIDS, Vancouver, July 7-12, 1996.
Farnham, PG. The Costs to Business of an HIV Infected Worker: Implications for the ADA. Presentation at Mealey's Americans With Disabilities Act Conference 1994, sponsored by Mealey Publications, Inc., Philadelphia, PA, September 29, 1994.
Gorsky RD., Farnham PG., Holtgrave DR., Guinan ME. Method to Compare the Cost of Providing HIV Counseling and Testing in Four Settings: Drug Clinic, Street Outreach, STD Clinic and Acute Care Hospitals. Presented at the 1993 American Public Health Association Meeting, San Francisco, CA, October, 1993.
Guinan ME., Farnham PG., Gorsky RD., Holtgrave DR. Critical Factors for Success of U.S. HIV Prevention Program and their Evolvement Through Evaluation. Presented at the Ninth International Conference on AIDS, Berlin, June, 1993.
Gorsky, RD., Farnham, PG, Holtgrave DR., Guinan ME. Model to Allocate Resources Among HIV Prevention Programs. Presented at the TIMS/ORSA Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL, May, 1993.
Farnham, PG. The Economic Impact of HIV/AIDS on Business. Presentation at Session EB 206, Relating to AIDS as an Employer, 31st Annual Conference of the Risk and Insurance Management Society, Inc., Orlando, FL, April 29, 1993.
Farnham PG., Gorsky RD., Holtgrave DR., Guinan ME. Assessing HIV Prevention Effectiveness: The Role of Economic Evaluation. Presented at the Annual Research Conference of the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management, Denver, CO, October, 1992.
Guinan ME., Farnham PG., Gorsky RD. Economic Evaluation of HIV Prevention Strategies in the United States. Presented at the Eighth International Conference on AIDS, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, July, 1992.
Farnham PG., Gorsky RD. Estimating the Costs of HIV/AIDS to Business: A
Preliminary Model. Presented at the Annual Meeting of the American
Economic Association, New Orleans, LA, January, 1992.
Works in Progress:
Farnham PG, Simonds RJ, Guinan ME. Alternative Perinatal HIV Prevention Policies
in the United States: Cost-Effectiveness of Voluntary Versus Mandatory
Screening and the Rapid HIV Test.
Other:
Farnham, PG. 1994. Health care reform will have widely varying impact on firms.
Atlanta Journal-Constitution. 13 February. F-13.
OTHER PUBLICATIONS AND RESEARCH:
Refereed Journals:
Farnham PG. The Impact of Citizen Influence on Local Government Expenditure. Public Choice 64 (March, 1990): 201-212.
Farnham PG. Evaluating Urban Financial Conditions: The Urban Conditions Index Versus Municipal Bond Ratings. Urban Affairs Quarterly 24 (December, 1988): 268-294.
Farnham PG. The Impact of State Regulatory Activity on the Use of Local Government Debt. Journal of Urban Affairs 10 (1988): 63-76.
Farnham PG. Form of Government and the Median Voter. Social Science Quarterly 68 (September, 1987): 569-582.
Farnham PG. The Impact of Government Functional Responsibility on Local Expenditure. Urban Affairs Quarterly 22 (September, 1986): 151-165.
Farnham PG., Bryant S. Form of Local Government: Structural Policies and Citizen Choice. Social Science Quarterly 66 (June, 1985): 386-400.
Farnham PG. Re-examining Local Debt Limits: A Disaggregated Analysis. Southern Economic Journal 51 (April, 1985): 1186-1201.
Cluff GS., Farnham PG. A Problem of Discrete Choice: Moody's Municipal Bond Ratings. Journal of Economics and Business 37 (December, 1985): 277-302.
Cluff GS., Farnham PG. Standard and Poor's Vs. Moody's: Which City Characteristics Influence Municipal Bond Ratings? Quarterly Review of Economics and Business 24 (Autumn, 1984): 72-94.
Farnham PG., Cluff GS. The Bond Rating Game Revisited: What Information Can Local Officials Use?" Journal of Urban Affairs 6 (Fall, 1984): 21-38.
Farnham PG., Cluff GS. Municipal Bond Ratings: New Results, New Directions. Public Finance Quarterly 10 (October, 1982): 427-455.
Farnham PG. The Targeting of Federal Aid: Continued Ambivalence. Public Policy
29 (Winter, 1981): 75-92.
Textbooks:
Guess GM., Farnham PG. Cases in Public Policy Analysis. White Plains, NY:
Longman, Inc., 1989.
Works in Progress:
Guess GM, Farnham PG. Cases in Public Policy Analysis, 2nd ed. Washington, DC:
Georgetown University Press, forthcoming.
SELECTED PAPERS PRESENTED:
Farnham PG. How is Managerial/Microeconomics Being Taught: Preliminary Survey Results. Presented at the Annual meeting of the Southern Economic Association, Orlando, FL, November, 1989.
Farnham PG. The Impact of Citizen Influence on Local Government Expenditure. Presented at the Annual meeting of the Southern Economic Association, San Antonio, TX, November, 1988.
Farnham PG. Evaluating Alternative Measures of Urban Fiscal Conditions. Presented
at the Eighth Annual Research Conference of the Association for Public Policy
Analysis and Management, Austin, TX, October, 1986.
HONORS AND AWARDS:
B.A., Summa cum laude, Honors in Economics
Phi Beta Kappa
Georgia State University, College of Business Administration Faculty Recognition
Award, August, 1990.
MEMBERSHIP IN PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES:
American Economic Association
American Public Health Association
Association for Health Services Research
Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management
Southern Economic Association
JOURNAL REFEREE:
AIDS Public Finance Review
American Economic Review Social Science Quarterly
Inquiry Southern Economic Journal
New England Journal of Medicine Urban Affairs Review
Pharmacoeconomics
COURSES TAUGHT:
Health Economics (Master of Health Administration program and undergraduate)
Disease Prevention and Control (Undergraduate core)
Economics of the Public Sector (Master of Public Administration program and undergraduate)
Economics for Managers (Master of Business Administration and Executive M.B.A. program)
Principles of Microeconomics (Undergraduate)
Principles of Macroeconomics (Undergraduate)
Intermediate Microeconomics (Undergraduate)