TIFFANY L. GREEN PROFESSIONAL POSITIONS EDUCATION

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1 TIFFANY L. GREEN Virginia Commonwealth University Department of Healthcare Policy and Research P.O. Box Richmond, VA Office: (804) Fax: (804) Cell: (608) PROGRAM COORDINATOR Research and Education Training Core NIMHD Comprehensive Center of Excellence VCU Center on Health Disparities Virginia Commonwealth University May 2012-present ASSISTANT PROFESSOR Department of Healthcare Policy and Research Virginia Commonwealth University September 2011-present POSTDOCTORAL FELLOW Health Disparities Research Scholars Program Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology University of Wisconsin-Madison September 2009-August 2011 POSTDOCTORAL FELLOW Robert Wood Johnson Health and Society Scholars Program Department of Population Health Sciences University of Wisconsin-Madison September 2007-August 2009 PROFESSIONAL POSITIONS EDUCATION ECONOMICS, Ph.D. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, December 2007 Dissertation topic: The Effect of Maternal Health Inputs on the Incidence of Pediatric Asthma Diagnosis Academic Fields: Health Economics and Development Economics ECONOMICS, B.A. Florida A&M University, May 2001 RESEARCH AND TEACHING INTERESTS Health Economics, Applied Microeconomics, Development Economics, Population Health, Health Disparities, Maternal and Child Health, Public Health History, Historical Demography

2 GRANTS & AWARDS Current Stress reactivity and glycemia among African-Americans at high risk for type 2 diabetes A.D. Williams Research Award (Internal Proposal), August 2012-July 2013, Role: Co-Investigator (Briana Mezuk, Principal Investigator) P60 VCU NIMHD Comprehensive Center of Excellence (2P60MD ). Funded by the National Institute of Minority Health Disparities, May 2012-May 2015, Role: Program Coordinator, Training Core (Jerome Strauss, PI) Prenatal Insurance, Prenatal Care and Early Life Health among the Children of Black Immigrants. Funded by the Foundation for Child Development: Changing Faces of America s Children-Young Scholars Program (YSP), June May 2014, Role: Principal Investigator Completed The Historical Effects of Colorism on Health (Internal Proposal) Robert Wood Johnson Seed Grant, University of Wisconsin-Madison, RWJF Health & Society Scholars Program, January 2009-August 2009, Role: Principal Investigator Diversity Initiative for Tenure in Economics (DITE) Fellow. Funded by the National Science Foundation and Duke University, Understanding Racial/Ethnic Differences in Childhood Health Outcomes. Proposal Funded by the NIH Health Disparities Research Loan Repayment Program, October 2008-June 2010 Institute of African-American Research (IAAR) Dissertation Fellow, Fall 2006-Spring 2007 Selected by National Science Foundation and Lindau Foundation to attend 2 nd Annual Meeting of Economics Nobel Laureates, held in Lindau, Germany-August UNC-CH Graduate Student Opportunity Fund Grant, August 2006 UNC-CH Graduate School Travel Grant, July 2005 Minority Scholars Grant-Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study, August 2004-May 2005 UNC-CH Latané Interdisciplinary Fellowship, Fall 2001-Fall 2002 PEER- REVIEWED ARTICLES, Tiffany L. (2012). Examining the Temporal Relationships between Childhood Asthma and Obesity, Economics and Human Biology (in press), Tiffany L. and Hamilton, Tod. (2012) Beyond Black and White: Color and Mortality in Post Reconstruction Era North Carolina, Explorations in Economic History, 50(1), pp , Tiffany L. (2011). Infant Feeding and Childhood Asthma: Is Breast Milk Best?, Review of Economics of the Household, 9(4), pp , Tiffany L. and Darity Jr., William A. (2009). Under Our Skin: Using Theories from Biology and the Social Sciences to Explore the Mechanisms behind the Black/White Health Gap, American Journal of Public Health, 100 (Supplement 1), pp. S36-40 Page 2

3 WORKS IN EDITED VOLUMES AND OTHER PUBLICATIONS, Tiffany L. (2012). Black and Immigrant: exploring the effects of ethnicity and foreign-born status on infant health, Capps, R. and Fix, M. (eds), Young Children of Black Immigrants in America: Changing Flows, Changing Faces Interviewed for RWJF Blog, Health Data on Foreign-Born U.S. Residents Missing the Mark, published 11/15/12, Tiffany (2011). Weathering, forthcoming, Spring 2013, Encyclopedia of Race and Racism, 2 nd edition Conway, James and, Tiffany (2011). Childhood Immunization Policies and the Prevention of Communicable Disease, Pediatric Annals, 40(3), , Tiffany L. and Dickinson, Katherine. (2011). The Economics of Infant Feeding, Cohen, L.R. and Wright, J.D. (eds), Elgar Research Handbook in Family Law and Economics Manuscripts WORKS IN PROGRESS AND UNDER REVIEW Briggs, R.J. and, Tiffany L. (2013). The Impact of Smoking Bans on Birth Weight: Is Less More? (to be resubmitted Fall 2013), T. and Wolfe, B. (2013). The Role of Medicaid in Reducing the Black-White Infant Health and Mortality Gap in Dane County (to be resubmitted Fall 2013). INVITED PRESENTATIONS WASHINGTON AND LEE UNIVERSITY Lexington, VA., March 2013 Faculty Seminar: Panel: The Impact of Workplace Smoking Bans on Infant Health Student Lecture: A Brief Introduction to Health Disparities: Beyond Healthcare NIH SUMMIT: THE SCIENCE OF ELIMINATING HEALTH DISPARITIES Washington, D.C., December 2012 Panel: How is Racism Operating Here? Sample of Policy and Program Interventions Oral Session: Black Like Me: How Within-Group Differences Correspond to Health and Mortality SCIENCE MUSEUM OF VIRGINIA LUNCH BREAK SCIENCE SERIES IN HONOR OF RACE: ARE WE SO DIFFERENT? EXHIBIT, April 2012 Lectured for Lunch Break Science Series on economic approaches to the study of race and health NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH NCMHD COURSE-INTEGRATING PRINCIPLES OF SCIENCE, PRACTICE AND POLICY IN HEALTH DISPARITIES RESEARCH, June 2011 and September 2010 Lectured on health economics with a particular focus on the applications of the human capital approach to the study of health disparities Page 3

4 UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES-CAVE HILL Caribbean Institute in Gender and Development, July 2009 Workshop Instructor: The Economics of Health Disparities in the Caribbean: A Gendered Approach Taught 1-day workshop outlining the gendered nature of health disparities in the Caribbean, providing perspectives from health and feminist economics, as well as population health. CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR FEMINIST ECONOMICS (IAFFE) Annual Meeting, Barcelona, Spain, June 2012 Oral Session: Love, Marriage and the Black Immigrant Birth Weight Advantage: A Quantile Regression Approach SECOND WAVE RESEARCH CONFERENCE, THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY Inaugural Meeting, June 2012 Oral Session: Where are You From? The Role of Parental Inputs and Ethnicity in the Production of Infant Health MPI SYMPOSIUM ON YOUNG CHILDREN IN BLACK IMMIGRANT FAMILIES Washington, D.C., September 2011 Oral Session: Black and Immigrant: Exploring the Effects of Ethnicity and Foreign-Born Status on Infant Health POPULATION ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA (PAA) Annual Meeting, Washington DC, April 2011 Oral Session: Beyond Black and White: Color and Mortality in Post Reconstruction Era North Carolina AMERICAN ECONOMIC ASSOCIATION (AEA) Annual Meeting, Atlanta, GA, January 2010 Oral Session: The Temporal Relationships between Pediatric Asthma and Obesity NIH SUMMIT: THE SCIENCE OF ELIMINATING HEALTH DISPARITIES Washington, D.C., December 2008 Panel: Understanding and Eliminating Health Disparities Among African-Americans Oral Session: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives on Race, Racism and Health SOUTHERN ECONOMIC CONFERENCE (SEA) Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, November 2008 Oral Session: The Temporal Relationships between Pediatric Asthma and Obesity INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR URBAN HEALTH CONFERENCE (ISUH) Annual Meeting, Vancouver, BC, October 2008 Oral Session: The Temporal Relationships between Pediatric Asthma and Obesity AMERICAN SOCIETY OF HEALTH ECONOMISTS (ASHE) Biannual Meeting, Durham, NC, June 2008 Poster Session: Infant Feeding and Childhood Asthma: Is Breast Milk best? INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR FEMINIST ECONOMICS (IAFFE) Annual Meeting, Torino, Italy, June 2008 Oral Session: Infant Feeding and Childhood Asthma: Is Breast Milk best? Page 4

5 INTERNATIONAL HEALTH ECONOMICS ASSOCIATION (IHEA) Biannual Conference, Barcelona, Spain, June 2005 Oral Session: The Impact of Skin Shade on Insurance Participation and Health Outcomes among African-Americans (also presented at the annual meeting of the Southern Economics Association) Poster Session: Understanding Child Health Outcomes among Mexican Immigrants TEACHING EXPERIENCE TEACHING ASSISTANT American Economic Association Minority Pipeline Summer Program Duke University, Summer 2004 and Summer 2006 Held review sessions and assisted students with course material for econometrics and microeconomics courses. INSTRUCTOR Department of Economics University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Summer 2003 and Spring 2006 Taught beginning-level microeconomic and macroeconomic theory. HEAD TEACHING ASSISTANT Department of Economics University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Fall 2002-Spring 2003; Fall 2005 Taught two review sessions per week, performed various administrative duties for course. RESEARCH EXPERIENCE DATA COMMITTEE RESEARCHER Dane County Infant Mortality Collaborative, Fall 2009-present Generated hypotheses and performed quantitative economic analyses using data from Vital Statistics and hospital records to understand the dramatic improvements in the African-American infant mortality rate in Dane County, WI RESEARCH ASSISTANT University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Fall 2001 and Fall 2003-Spring 2004 Supervisor: Professor William A. Darity, Jr. Analyzed data from Luxembourg Income Study for research project examining international income inequality between ethnic groups in an international context. Researched the effects of phenotype on physical outcomes among African-Americans. RESEARCH ASSISTANT Center for Urban and Regional Studies University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Spring-Fall 2002 Performed data collection and mapped various geographical regions using GIS for homeownership pilot study. Page 5

6 SERVICE AND PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES Service to Department of Healthcare Policy and Research Doctoral Committee, September 2011-Present Service to Virginia Commonwealth University VCU Council for Community Engagement, September 2012-present VCU Council for Community Engagement, Grants and Gifts Committee, September 2012-present VCU Faculty Senate, September 2012-May 2013 Chair, Steering Committee for certificate in population health/health disparities, September 2012-present Service to the Profession Journal Reviewer ( ) Health Economics, Review of Black Political Economy, Maternal and Child Health, Review of Economics of the Household Grant Reviewer ( ) Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Organizational Memberships and Affiliations American Economic Association, American Society of Health Economics, International Health Economics Association, International Association for Feminist Economics, University of Wisconsin Madison Center for Demography and Ecology Affiliate, Committee on the Status of Women in the Economics Profession, International Health Economics Association, National Economic Association ( Board Member) REFERENCES William A. Darity Jr. Art Goldsmith John Mullahy Sanford Institute of Public Policy Department of Economics Department of Population Health Sciences 202 Sanford Inst. Building 212 Huntley Hall 787 WARF Building, 610 Walnut Street Duke University Washington and Lee University University of Wisconsin-Madison Durham, NC Lexington, VA Madison, WI Phone: (919) Phone: (540) Phone: (608) Barbara Wolfe La Follette School of Public Policy 204 Observatory Hill Office Building University of Wisconsin-Madison Madison, WI Phone: (608) Page 6