Ph.D. in Health Economics Students

Ruqoyat Abdulsalam is an international student from Nigeria. She earned her BSc in Economics from the University of Lagos. Her research interests lie at the intersection of health economics and public economics. She is interested in developing models and researching the effect of public health insurance on health behaviors. She is also interested in the health outcomes of immigrants and natives and in linking health outcomes to productivity in Nigeria.

Richard Adjei-Boateng is from Ghana. He earned a B.A. in Social Sciences from the University of Cape Coast and an M.S. in Mathematics from Western Kentucky University. He is interested in using mathematical models and econometric techniques to study the causal impacts of health care interventions.

Soumak Basumallik is from India, where he earned B.A. and M.A. degrees in Economics from Jadavpur University. While pursuing his Master’s degree, Soumak published health related articles in the peer reviewed journals International Journal of Research on Social and Natural Sciences and International Journal of Creative Research Thoughts. His research interests include investigating the role income and other socio-economic inequalities play in health outcomes across countries.

Selathang Chanthan is an international student from Cambodia. He earned an M.A. degree economics in 2009 and an M.S. degree in Applied Math in 2019 at CU Denver. His research interests lie at the intersection of health economics and development economics. His long-term goal is to work with NGOs to improve the public health, and access to the healthcare system, in Cambodia and other developing countries.

Abigail Humphreys earned her B.A. in Economics at SUNY Binghamton in 2018, where she made the Dean's list, won an Outstanding Achievement award in Economics, and worked as a research assistant for several professors. She has already begun coauthoring papers with economic professors. Her goal is to become professor of health economics and continue to conduct research on the health care system.

Major Bryson Rintala earned a B.S. in Economics from the U.S. Air Force Academy in 2005, an M.A. in Education from the University of West Florida in 2009, an M.A. in Economics from the University of Colorado in 2014, and Ph.D. in Health Economics from the University of Colorado Denver in 2020. Major Bryson Rintala teaches Economics at the U.S. Air Force Academy.

From India, Sneha/Xinni has a bachelors in Commerce and Accounting, MA in Diplomacy, Law and Business, and MA in Econometrics. Their research interests lie in the intersection of health economics and gender. They had previously worked as a research assistant on how pain affects productivity of female flower-stringers.

Kristin Wain earned a B.S. in Mathematics with a concentration in Statistics from Colorado State University in 2004. Kristin currently works for Kaiser Permanente’s Institute for Health Research (IHR), as a data manager and SAS programmer. His research interests include implementing economic methodologies into healthcare intervention research. While at Kaiser, Kristin has published in the peer-reviewed journals Vaccine and Psychiatric Services.