Health Policy and Management


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Phaedra S. Corso

Associate Professor & Department Head
pcorso@uga.edu

University of Georgia
Athens, GA 30602
706.583.8926 (voice)
706.583-0695 (fax)



Educational Background

Ph.D., Health Policy, Harvard University

Research Interests

  • Economic evaluation of public health interventions
  • Quality of life assessment for vulnerable populations
  • Evaluating preferences for health risks
  • Violence, injury, and substance use prevention

    • Professional Affiliations

  • American Public Health Association - www.apha.org
  • Society for Medical Decision Making - www.smdm.org

    • Selected Publications

    Corso P , Fertig A. The economic impact of child maltreatment in the United States: Are the estimates credible? Child Abuse & Neglect, in press 2010.


    Corso P , Filene J. Programmatic cost analysis of the Family Connections program. Protecting Children, in press 2009.


    Corso P , Edwards V, Fang X, Mercy J. Health-related quality of life in adults who experienced maltreatment during childhood. American Journal of Public Health. 2008;98(6):1094–1100.


    Fang X, Corso P. Gender differences in the connections between violence experienced as a child and perpetration of intimate partner violence in young adulthood. Journal of Family Violence. 2008;71(3):284–303.


    Rothman E, Corso P. Propensity for intimate partner abuse and workplace productivity: Why employers should care about changing the behavior of men who batter. Violence and Women. 2008;14(9):1054–1065.

      Corso PS, Mercy JA, Simon TR, Finkelstein EA, and Miller TR. Medical costs and productivity losses due to interpersonal and self-directed violence in the United States. American Journal of Preventive Medicine. 2007;32(6):474–482.

     Fang X, Corso P. Child maltreatment, youth violence, and intimate partner violence: a developmental trajectory. American Journal of Preventive Medicine. 2007;33(4):281–290.

    Prosser L, Corso P. Measuring preference-based quality of life for child maltreatment. Health and Quality of Life Outcomes. 2007;5(42):1-10 (accessed from www.hqlo.com/contents/5/1/42).

    Corso PS. Prevention just in case or treatment just because: Measuring societal preferences. Harvard Health Policy Review, 2006;7(2):32–41.

    Parmer JE, Corso PS, Ballesteros MF. A cost analysis of a smoke alarm installation and fire safety education program. Journal of Safety Research 2006;37:367–373.

    Corso PS, Finkelstein EA, Miller TR. The incidence and costs of injuries. Injury Prevention 2006;12:212–218 .

    Stephens JA, Corso PS, Finkelstein EA, Miller TR. The costs of fatal and nonfatal falls among older adults. Injury Prevention 2006;12:290–295.

    Corso PS, Lutzker JM. The need for economic analysis in child maltreatment prevention research. Child Abuse & Neglect 2006;30:727–738.

    Arias I, Corso PS. Average cost per person victimized by an intimate partner of the opposite gender: A comparison of men and women. Violence and Victims 2005;20(4):379–391.

    Stevens JA, Corso PS, Finkelstein EA, Miller TR. News and Notes: CDC economic analysis of fall-related injuries among older adults. Injury Prevention 2005;11(5):275.

    Corso PS, Grosse S, Finkelstein E. The skinny on COI analysis. Obesity Research 2004; 12(7):1189.

    Finkelstein E, Corso P. Cost-of-illness analyses for policy making: a cautionary tale of use and misuse . Expert Review of Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research. 2003;3(4):367–9.

    Corso PS, Kramer MH, Blair KA, Addiss DG, Davis JP, Haddix AC. Cost of illness in the 1993 waterborne Cryptosporidium outbreak, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Emerging Infectious Diseases. 2003;9(4):426–31.

    Corso PS, Thacker SB, Koplan JP. The value of prevention: experiences of a public health agency. Medical Decision Making. 2002;22(5):S11-S15.

    Corso PS, Hammitt JK, Graham JD, Dicker RC, and Goldie SM. Assessing preferences for prevention versus treatment using willingness to pay. Medical Decision Making. 2002;22(5):S92-S100.

    Corso PS, Hammitt JK, Berg GD. Attitudes toward uncertain longevity under expected utility and cumulative prospect theories. Abstract in Medical Decision Making. 2001;6:543.

    Corso PS, Hammitt JK, and Graham JD. Valuing mortality-risk reduction: using visual aids to improve the validity of contingent valuation. Journal of Risk and Uncertainty. 2001;23(2):165-184.


    Courses Taught

    HADM 7600: Intro to Health Policy & Management
    HADM 8400: Advanced Topics in Health Policy
    HADM 8850: Economic Evaluation in Public Health