F. Reed Johnson

Expertise

Health Economics
Environmental Economics

Biography

F. Reed Johnson, PhD, Senior Fellow and principal economist, appointed March 2002, has over 35 years of academic and research experience in health and environmental economics. He has served on the faculty of several universities in the United States, Canada, and Sweden. As a staff member in the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's environmental economics research program during the 1980s, Dr. Johnson helped pioneer the development of basic nonmarket valuation techniques. These techniques are now widely used for cost-benefit analysis in health and environmental economics. Dr. Johnson has over 80 publications in peer-reviewed journals and has coauthored a book on techniques for using existing environmental and health value estimates for policy analysis. His current research involves estimating general time equivalences among health states and patients' willingness to accept side-effect risks in return for therapeutic benefits.

Education

PhD, Economics, State University of New York, Stony Brook; MA, Economics, State University of New York, Stony Brook; BA, Economics, Occidental College.

Selected Publications

Johnson, F.R., Ozdemir, S., Mansfield, C., Hass, S., Miller, D.W., Siegel, C.A., & Sands, B.E. (Sep 2007). Crohn's disease patients' risk-benefit preferences: Serious adverse event risks versus treatment efficacy. Gastroenterology, 133 (3):769-79.

Johnson, F.R., Ozdemir, S., Hauber, B., & Kauf, T.L. (Sept 2007). Women's willingness to accept perceived risks for vasomotor symptom relief. Journal of Womens Health, 16 (7):1028-1040.

Johnson, F.R., Ozdemir, S., Manjunath, R., Hauber, A.B., Burch, S.P., & Thompson, T.R. (2007 Jun). Factors that affect adherence to bipolar disorder treatments: A stated-preference approach. Medical Care, 45 (6):545-552.

Cook, J., Whittington, D., Canh, D.G., Johnson, F.R., & Nyamete, A. (February 2007). Reliability of Stated Preferences for Cholera and Typhoid Vaccines with Time to Think in Hue, Vietnam. Economic Inquiry, 45 (1):100-114.

Johnson, F.R., Manjunath, R., Mansfield, C., Clayton, L.J., Hoerger, T.J., & Zhang, P. (June 2006). High-risk individuals' willingness to pay for diabetes risk-reduction programs. Diabetes Care, 29 (6):1351-1356.

Johnson, F.R., Hauber, A.B., Osoba, D., Hsu, M.A., Coombs, J., & Copley-Merriman, C. (Mar 2006). Are Chemotherapy Patients' HRQoL Importance Weights Consistent with Linear Scoring Rules? A Stated-choice Approach. Quality of Life Research, 15 (2):285-298.

Osoba, D., Hsu, M.A., Copley-Merriman, C., Coombs, J., Johnson, F.R., Hauber, B., Manjunath, R., & Pyles, A. (March 2006). Stated preferences of patients with cancer for health-related quality-of-life (HRQOL) domains during treatment. Quality of Life Research, 15 (2):273-283.

Smith, V.K., Taylor, D.H., Sloan, F.A., Johnson, F.R., & Desvousges, W.H. (2001). Do smokers respond to health shocks? Review of Economics and Statistics, 83 (4):675-687.

Johnson, F.R., Banzhaf, M.R., & Desvousges, W.H. (2000 Jun). Willingness to pay for improved respiratory and cardiovascular health: a multiple-format, stated-preference approach. Health Economics, 9 (4):295-317.

Desvousges, W.H., Johnson, F.R., & Banzhaf, H. (1998). Environmental Policy Analysis with Limited Information: Principles and Applications of the Transfer Method. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing Limited.

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