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Outreach
- Research and Teaching Collaboration Within the University
at the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies
Joint Appointments
Paul G. Farnham is Associate Professor of Economics and Health Administration in the Institute of Health Administration within the Robinson College of Business and also in the Department of Economics.
Gary T. Henry is Professor in the Department of Public Administration and Urban Affairs, in the Department of Political Science, and in the Department of Education Policy Studies.
Michael Rushton is Associate Professor in Public Administration and Urban Studies and also in the Department of Economics.
Other Activities
Georgia Health Policy Center
collaborated with Patricia Ketche and William Custer of the J. Mack Robinson College of Business on the HRSA State Planning Grant for the Uninsured.
collaborated with Erdal Tekin of the Department of Economics to coordinate the Child Policy Speaker Series and Symposium.
helped develop a new Perspectives course, which will be offered in Spring 2006.
served as the PAUS faculty sponsor for the College of Law’s Urban Fellows Project, which included overseeing student projects.
taught a section in the Public Budgeting and Finance seminar for the International Studies Program's Summer Fiscal Training.
was asked by the Georgia State University Institute of Public Health to design a cost-effectiveness analysis component for the Evaluation Design and Pilot Evaluation for the Education and Community Services Engagement Linkage (ECSEL) program. This program, funded by the United Way of Metropolitan Atlanta, is an intensive case management pilot project for frequently institutionalized homeless persons with the goal of stabilizing and housing chronically homeless persons with dual diagnoses of mental health and substance abuse issues. The project is coordinated by James Emshoff, Department of Psychology, and Valerie Hepburn, Institute of Public Health.
helped develop and taught MBA 7030, Microeconomics for Managers, a foundation course in the MBA program in the Robinson College of Business.
was asked by the Georgia State University Institute of Public Health to teach PH 7530, Prevention Effectiveness and Economic Evaluation, in Spring 2005. This is a course open to students in the MPH, MA in Economics, MPA, and Joint Ph.D. in Public Policy programs.
served as a member of the teaching faculty in the Institute of Public Health.
See also Joint Appointments.
served as member of the Century Club, the GTA Trainers Group, and on the CTL Advisory Committee in The Center for Teaching and Learning at Georgia State University.
See Joint Appointments.
served as Member of the dissertation committee of Wonku Hong, Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Risk and Insurance.
served as a member of the dissertation committee of Grady Stone, Department of MES-IT, College of Education.
served as the evaluator of the study “The Organizational Relationships of Four Workforce Boards,” conducted for the U.S. Department of Labor by The Usery Center for the Workplace, August 2005.
co-authored an article in Human Resource Development Quarterly with Janet Z. Burns, College of Education.
taught a “Financial Econometrics” course, which is a required part of “Master in Mathematical Risk Management” curriculum in Robinson College of Business.
began a joint research project with Reza Mahani in the Finance Department, Robinson College of Business.
began a joint research project with Adam Speight in the Department of Risk Management and Insurance, Robinson College of Business.
collaborated with Sally Wallace, Department of Economics, on research for the Healthcare Georgia Foundation describing the economic impact of an aging population on Georgia.
collaborated with Patricia Ketche and William Custer of the J. Mack Robinson College of Business and Georgia Health Policy Center Staff on a HRSA State Planning Grant for the Uninsured.
lectured on his work with the Georgia Indigent Care Trust Fund to Patricia Ketche's (J. Mack Robinson College of Business) HA 8190 class, March 2005.
served as coordinator of the PAUS Writing Across the Curriculum program with the English Department in the College of Arts and Sciences.
guest lectured in Michael Eriksen’s MPH class “Social and Behavioral Sciences and Public Health,” Institute of Public Health, Georgia State University.
was affiliated with the Health Policy Center, associated with a Department of Human Resources project on foster care, and was an active member of the Child Policy Initiative.
co-authored with M.X. Thomas, Department of Music, the paper “The Economics of the Commercial Music Industry in Atlanta and the State of Georgia: Industrial Organization and New Estimates of Economic Impacts” for the Georgia Department of Economic Development.
See also Joint Appointments.
regularly served as reader for dissertation proposals in other academic departments and as an informal adviser to students in the Robinson College of Business via his Econ 8100 course in Applied Microeconomics.
worked closely with Fred Jacobs in the School of Accountancy, Robinson College of Business, on research and consulting issues related to immigration, taxation, and business organization.
lectured in Jon Mansfield’s undergraduate Economics class, October 6, 2005.
spoke to the Department of Economics' summer interns, July 1, 2005.
taught 9 sessions of “Credit Card Craze” during fall semester 2005. Over 500 underclassmen from all majors and departments, primarily freshmen, attended.
chaired a dissertation committee for Clifton Wilkinson in the Department of Political Science.
serves as an Urban Fellows Faculty Affiliate, a College of Law initiative to bring together faculty and students from across the university to work together on urban and regional issues.
collaborated with Patricia Ketche and William Custer in the J. Mack Robinson College of Business and Georgia Health Policy Center Staff on a HRSA State Planning Grant for the Uninsured.
served as dissertation advisor to Hyun Jung Park, a student in the joint public policy Ph.D. program in PAUS.
served as dissertation committee member for Alfred Kopi-Soffka, a student from Risk Management and Insurance, Robinson College of Business.
served as dissertation committee member for Catherine Cleveland in the School of Accountancy, Robinson College of Business.
holds a joint appointment in the Department of Political Science and is a member of the Political Science Graduate Faculty.
serves as chair of the dissertation committee for Rosa Hayes, Department of Political Science, College of Arts and Sciences.
mentored Simone Jenkins, an undergraduate student from Howard University, in the AYSPS Summer Intern Program, summer of 2005, whose project was on “The Roles of Nongovernmental Organizations in Emergency Management and Homeland Security.”
organized the Nonprofit Program 2005-2006 Brown Bag Seminar Series, open to university and community-wide participation. He presented “Understanding Nonprofit Revenue Mix of Nonprofit Organizations” in the Nonprofit Brown Bag Seminar Series, December 6, 2005.
organized the Associated Faculty Group for the Nonprofit Program which includes faculty from the Robinson College of Business.
