Marianne C. Fahs

Mimi Fahs is a health economist, with more than 30 years of experience. She holds a joint appointment in the City University of New York as a professor of health policy with the Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy and professor of economics with the Graduate Center. She was the founding research director of the Brookdale Center for Healthy Aging of Hunter College, and the founding director of the Health Policy Research Center at the New School in New York City. Prior to that, she directed the Health Economics Division at Mount Sinai Medical Center in NYC, where she pioneered the first cost-effectiveness analysis of cancer prevention strategies among older women in the US. She has authored numerous articles and consults regularly with the National Institutes of Health.

Mimi received her B.A. from Sweet Briar College in international relations, and her M.P.H. and Ph.D. from the School of Public Health, University of Michigan. Married, with one adult son, she divides her time between Manhattan and Orient Point, Long Island.