Inas Rashad

Assistant Professor, Department of Economics
Ph.D., CUNY Graduate Center, New York

Phone: 404-651-4967
E-mail: irashad@gsu.edu

Vita (pdf)

Specialties:

Health Economics
Labor Economics
Public Finance

Rashad’s current research is centered around the rapid acceleration in the obesity rate in the United States and in finding causes and solutions for the epidemic. She is also interested in other demand-driven health economics problems such as risky adolescent behavior and drug abuse. Her research has been funded by the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases. Rashad has written for the Dallas Morning News and has been cited in articles in the New York Times, Washington Post, Obesity Policy Report, Chronicle of Higher Education, Britain’s Guardian Magazine, and Canada’s National Post. Her articles have appeared in the Journal of Health Economics, Public Policy Research, the Public Interest, Advances in Health Economics and Health Services Research, the Journal of Biosocial Science, the Eastern Economic Journal, the Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance, and Gender Issues.