معرفی
Sarah Stith serves as Associate Professor and Undergraduate Director in the Department of Economics at the University of New Mexico. Her research affiliations include:
- Senior Fellow, UNM Center for Health Policy
- Research Fellow, Center for Financial Security (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
- Affiliated Researcher, UNM Medical Cannabis Research Fund
Her research program focuses on applied microeconomic analysis of healthcare systems:
- Efficiency and equity impacts of health regulation
- Provider behavior in organ transplantation markets
- Cannabis-pharmaceutical market interactions
- Public assistance-healthcare intersections
Publications from 2014-2020 reveal consistent methodological rigor in health policy evaluation, with recurring themes of regulatory gaming, market spillovers, and access-to-care dynamics across transplantation, insurance, and cannabis sectors. Her work bridges theoretical industrial organization with real-world policy analysis.
As Undergraduate Director, she oversees academic programming while maintaining active research collaborations. Her center affiliations facilitate interdisciplinary work connecting economics, public health, and policy implementation through institutional partnerships.
