I am a Health Economist and an Assistant Teaching Professor of Healthcare Administration University of Massachusetts Dartmouth. My research focuses on the economics of unhealthy behaviors and the role of public policy in shaping individual decision-making. I am an experienced educator with a teaching portfolio that spans high school mathematics to university-level courses such as Principles of Microeconomics, Econometrics and Data Analytics, Labor Economics, and, most notably, Health Economics. 

I earned my Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Illinois Chicago, where my dissertation examined the economic and public health effects of tobacco control policies—specifically, Tobacco 21 laws, cigarette excise taxation, and smoking-related birth outcomes.