Tara Templin:
Tara Templin, PhD, is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management at the Gillings School of Global Public Health at the University of North Carolina and a Faculty Fellow at the Carolina Population Center.
About the Role
Dr. Templin is a health economist who studies the causes of population health improvement in resource-constrained settings using a wide range of quantitative tools, from applied microeconometrics to machine learning for causal inference.
Her research focuses on the population-level socioeconomic causes and consequences of noncommunicable diseases (NCDs), and cost-effective public health policies for their prevention and treatment.
Research Focus
- Economic drivers of nutrition-related chronic illness
- Impact of conditional cash transfers on obesity and hypertension rates
- Global health system financing and preparedness for NCDs
- Effective treatments for cardiometabolic disease within resource-constrained health systems
Background
Dr. Templin was previously a National Institute on Aging T32 Postdoctoral Fellow at the Berkeley Population Center and in the Department of Demography at the University of California, Berkeley, and a Data Science Scholar at Stanford Data Science. Prior to Stanford, she was a research fellow at the University of Washington's Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation and worked for the Center for Global Development and Council on Foreign Relations.
Education
- B.A., Economics - Mathematics, Special Concentration in Business Management, Columbia University, 2013
- Master of Science, Statistics, Stanford University, 2017
- Doctor of Philosophy, Health Policy / Economics, Stanford University, 2022
Contact: 1 (919) 966-3891 | ttemplin@unc.edu | 1102C McGavran-Greenberg Hall CB #7411 Chapel Hill, NC 27599-7411