Marianne Fahs

Her scholarly interests center on cost effective strategies to improve health, economic productivity, and quality of life. She enjoys developing research to investigate the effectiveness of innovative approaches to improve health outcomes as well as analytic strategies to reinforce translating results into evidence for public health practice and policy. She was the founding Research Director of the Brookdale Center for Healthy Aging of Hunter College, where she led a team in multidisciplinary research examining neighborhood determinants of healthy aging; community-based interventions for prevention and control of diabetes and heart disease; and prevention of immigrant health disparities. Working with public policy and community-based leaders, she and her colleagues developed an evidence-based toolkit to help guide implementation of community-based chronic disease prevention and self-management programs. Prior to that she directed the Health Economics Division at Mount Sinai Medical Center in NYC, where she pioneered the first cost-effectiveness analysis of cancer prevention strategies among US older women. Her findings contributed to Congressional passage of the first Medicare preventive benefit. She is the author of over 100 peer-reviewed publications and has served on numerous local, state, and national advisory committees, including scientific review committees for the National Institutes of Health and the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. Professor Fahs teaches advanced research methods; policy analysis; and healthy urban aging: economic and policy issues, at the masters and doctoral levels. Dr. Fahs has served on numerous national, state, and local advisory committees, including the National Advisory Panel on Payment for Preventive Health Services of the US Congress, the National Institutes of Health, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation; the NYS Governor’s Statewide Advisory Council; and the NYC Mayor’s Advisory Committee. Her scholarly interests center on cost effective strategies to improve health, economic productivity, and quality of life. She has developed and led multi-million dollar public health initiatives, both publically and privately funded, and is experienced in multi-disciplinary consortium building across academic institutions, departments, public agencies, and the private sector. She teaches policy analysis at the masters and doctoral levels and is the author of over 100 peer-reviewed publications. Mimi received her BA from Sweet Briar College in Virginia, and her MPH and PhD from the University of Michigan.