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Titus Galama

Director of the Center for the Study of Health Inequality
Email galama@usc.edu Office VPD 505-G

Bio

Titus Galama, Ph.D., MBA, is an Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Southern California’s (USC) Dornsife Center for Economic and Social Research (CESR) and at USC’s Economics Department, Director of the CESR Center for the Study of Health Inequality (CSHI), Associate Professor of Economics at the School of Business and Economics (SBE), Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, and  Research Fellow at the Tinbergen Institute, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

Titus is an award-winning astrophysicist who turned to business/management then policy analysis, economics and social-science genetics. Titus Galama was awarded an...

Education

Ph.D. Economics, University of Tilburg, The Netherlands, 07/2011
M.B.A. Business, INSEAD Singapore/Paris, 07/2003
Ph.D. Astrophysics, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 12/1999
M.S. Physics, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 12/1995

Academic Appointment, Affiliation, and Employment History

  • Senior Economist, USC Center for Economic and Social Research, 03/2013-present
  • Fairchild Postdoctoral Prize Fellow in Astrophysics, California Institute of Technology, 1999-2002
  • Professor, Pardee RAND Graduate School, 2012
  • Economist, RAND Corporation, Santa Monica, 2006-2013
  • Senior Policy Analyst, RAND Europe, The Netherlands, 2006-2006
  • Senior Strategy Consultant, L.E.K. Consulting, Los Angeles, 2003-2005
  • Fairchild Postdoctoral Prize Fellow in Astrophysics, California Institute of Technology, 1999-2002