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Davina Ling
Davina Ling, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor of Economics and the Director for the International Center for the Economics of Pharmaceuticals, Aging and Health (ICEPAH) at California State University Fullerton. She received a Ph.D. in Economics from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1999 and obtained her Bachelor of Arts (majoring in Economics) from Wellesley College. She had also studied economics at University of Cambridge (in UK) and obtained post-doctoral training from Harvard University. She was a visiting scholar at the University of Chicago.
She has worked extensively in the pharmaceutical industry. Before joining Cal State Fullerton, she worked as a Project Director and Economist with the Thomson MEDSTAT group, conducting economic evaluations of medical technologies. Her clients were Fortune 500 pharmaceutical and medical device companies. Dr. Ling has specifically dealt with economic analyses of health issues and policy in the US and in China. Most of her research has been inter-disciplinary, combining social science research methodologies with health policy analyses as well as carefully integrating knowledge and methods from economics, public health, and statistics. She has more than 18 publications, and has published not only in peer-reviewed journals in economics but also in medicine, pharmacoeconomics, public health, nursing, aging, and sociology. She is an expert on North Asia, particularly China and Hong Kong, and has traveled extensively around the world to teach and to give lectures. She had been an adjunct faculty at the Chinese University of Hong Kong and at the WHO Centre for Health Economics at Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok, Thailand.
She also serves as an expert witness and provides estimation of economic damages to law firms, specifically in cases involving personal injury, wrongful death, and employment issues. She has her own consulting firm, Economic Consulting Group, LLC (www.econconsultants.com) and serves as a consultant to corporations, businesses, and individual investors. She speaks and writes on a variety of issues including health insurance, long-term care, retirement planning, and various aspects of the economy. She has been active in writing for magazines and is currently working on a few articles for the Orange County Business Journal focusing on the medical device and health care industry in Orange County. She has been involved with a number of nonprofits in California including the California Health Advocates and Christian Legal Aid of Los Angeles. She has also done humanitarian work in Mauritius, Turkey, Cambodia, Thailand, Hong Kong, and China as well as in inner-city nonprofits in Los Angeles, Boston and Philadelphia. For more information about Dr. Ling, please see www.davinaling.net.
