Sammy Zahran is a professor of economics and demography at Colorado State University and holds a joint appointment in the Department of Epidemiology at the Colorado School of Public Health. A leading expert in environmental health economics, Zahran’s research explores the economic, health, and social costs of pollution and environmental risks, with a strong focus on causal inference and applied econometric methods. His work has been widely published in top-tier journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Health Economics, Environmental Science and Technology, and the American Journal of Public Health. From 2012 to 2014, he was a Robert Wood Johnson Health and Society Fellow at Columbia University, and in 2010, he was awarded the prestigious Monfort Professorship at Colorado State. He is also the founder of Mountain Data Group, which applies rigorous data science to real-world policy issues. Through his research and teaching, Zahran continues to influence public understanding and policy around the human capital impacts of environmental externalities.
