Personnel
Michael French, Ph.D.
Professor, University of Miami, Departments of Sociology, Economics, Epidemiology and Public HealthAssociate Director of Health Administration and Policy Program, University of Miami; Director, Health Economics Research Group
Tel: (305) 284-6039
Fax: (305) 284-5310
Email : mfrench@miami.edu
Mailing Address
University of Miami
Department of Sociology
5202 University Drive
Merrick Building, Room 121F
P.O. Box 248162
Coral Gables
Florida, 33124-2030
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Background
Dr. French is a professor of health economics in the Department of Sociology at the University of Miami, with secondary appointments in the Department of Economics and Department of Epidemiology and Public Health. He is also director of the Health Economics Research Group (www.miami.edu/herg) in the Department of Sociology and research director of the Health Administration and Policy Program in the School of Business Administration. His research interests and experience includes health policy and program evaluation, substance abuse research, health economics, alternative health care delivery systems, human resource economics, and the economics of crime. He has been principal investigator or project leader on numerous research grants with the National Institutes of Health, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and several state agencies. Dr. French served on the Health Services Research Initial Review Groups (IRG) for NIDA (1995-2004) and NIAAA (1998-2001), as well as various Extramural Contract and Grant Review Committees for public and private organizations. He is currently on the editorial board for Health Services Research and Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment and serves on several research advisory boards for universities and health care organizations. He was a technical consultant for the National Science Foundation and a technical advisor on evaluation studies of health care programs for the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. In addition, he has provided expert testimony on several legal cases, serves as a research consultant to various public and private organizations, and is a frequent referee for numerous peer-reviewed professional journals. Dr. French has published approximately 150 peer-reviewed articles in a variety of multidisciplinary professional journals including Journal of Health Economics, American Journal of Public Health, Medical Care, Medical Care Research and Review, American Journal of Health Promotion, Health Services Research, Labour Economics, Social Science and Medicine, Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment, Evaluation and Program Planning, Health Economics, Journal of Quantitative Criminology, Journal of Adolescent Health, The Gerontologist, Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine, Journal of Studies on Alcohol, Law and Policy, Journal of Public Health Policy, Social Science Research, Drug and Alcohol Dependence, Applied Economics, Journal of Health and Social Behavior, Justice Quarterly, Public Health Reports, Evaluation and the Health Professions, Telemedicine and e-Health, Economics of Education Review, Journal of Internal Medicine, Addiction, Social Science Quarterly, Social Science Research, Journal of Mental Health Policy and Economics, Journal of Behavioral Health Services and Research, Evaluation Review, Population Health Management, and Southern Economic Journal.
