Dr Mark McGovern is an Associate Professor at Rutgers University. Prior to this he held appointments at Queen’s University Belfast and Harvard University. His main research interests are in health, development, and labour economics, including a variety of topics in ageing, HIV, and maternal/child health. His main focus within these areas is on the life cycle impact of inequality at birth. His methodological work deals with missing data and causal inference, particularly the application of quasi-experimental approaches to address policy questions in population health related to health disparities. His work has been featured in journals such as the Journal of the American Statistical Association, the Journal of Population Economics, the Journal of Health Economics, Epidemiology, the American Journal of Epidemiology, and the International Journal of Epidemiology. In 2016 he was awarded the Barrington Medal by the Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland for his research on infant mortality and inequality.
