Marianne Fahs

Her scholarly interests centered on cost effective strategies to improve health, economic productivity, and quality of life. Her research focused on innovative approaches to improving 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 at 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 New York City, where she pioneered the first cost-effectiveness analysis of cancer prevention strategies among U.S. 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 taught advanced research methods and policy analysis on healthy urban aging at the masters and doctoral levels. She served on numerous national, state, and local advisory committees, including the National Advisory Panel on Payment for Preventive Health Services of the U.S. 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 publicly 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 master’s and doctoral levels and is the author of over 100 peer-reviewed publications. She received her BA from Sweet Briar College in Virginia, and her MPH and PhD from the University of Michigan.