Dr. Frederick Zimmerman is professor of health policy and management in the Fielding School of Public Health and co-director of the UCLA Center for Health Advancement at the University of California, Los Angeles.
He is an economist with a background in institutional and behavioral economics. His research illuminates the intersection of economics and the determinants of health. Dr. Zimmerman also teaches and does research in ethical aspects of public health policy.
Dr. Zimmerman has a particular interest in how economic structure—including poverty and inequality—influence population health. Research topics have included the effects of media on child health; the effects of food marketing on obesity; and the opportunity costs of medical spending; and the political economy of health and social policy.
Dr. Zimmerman’s work has integrated economic, sociological, and psychological perspectives of behavior into a multi-level theory that unifies both individual and population-level determinants of health. His current research is in the UCLA Center for Health Advancement, where he has developed a simulation model of the impact of health and social policy on population health, high-school graduation rates, crime rates, and local government finances for several jurisdictions around the country.
Dr. Frederick Zimmerman is professor of health policy and management in the Fielding School of Public Health and co-director of the UCLA Center for Health Advancement at the University of California, Los Angeles.
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