Joseph H. Cook
Joseph H. Cook
Assistant Professor of Public Affairs
Ph.D., University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 2007
Contact Information:
Parrington Hall, Room 207A
jhcook@u.washington.edu
206.685.8927
Areas of Specialization:
Environmental Economics, Health Economics, Water and Sanitation Policy in Developing Countries, Benefit-Cost Analysis
Joseph Cook joined the Evans School faculty in 2007. His research uses tools from economics to inform environmental and health policy in economically-developing countries. His current focus is primarily on water and sanitation policy and vaccine policy. He is also affiliated with the Benefit-Cost Analysis Center at the Evans School.
While at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill for his graduate training, Cook studied private demand for cholera and typhoid vaccines using stated preference methodologies (both contingent valuation and stated choice), doing extensive fieldwork in India, Vietnam, and Mozambique. He has also worked as a research assistant at the non-partisan think-tank Resources for the Future in Washington D.C., examining the benefits of natural resource improvements in Adirondack State Park, the costs and benefits of controlling air pollution from informal brick kilns in Mexico, and willingness-to-pay to avoid mortality risks.
Outside of academia, he served as a consultant to the Asian Development Bank on Nepal’s Melamchi water supply project, the International Vaccine Institute, the Hopi Tribe, and Orange County (NC).
Scholarly work by Cook has been published in the Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, Economic Inquiry, Environment and Development Economics, and the Value in Health. He also co-authored a chapter in Small Firms and the Environment in Developing Countries: Collective Impacts, Collective Action (RFF Press, 2006).
Cook holds a Ph.D. and MS in environmental management and policy from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. He also holds a BS in natural resources from Cornell University.
Curriculum Vitae (204KB PDF)
