Christina H. Paxson, PhD (Secretary)
Christina H. Paxson, PhD, is Dean of Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University and the founding Director of the Center for Health and Wellbeing, an interdisciplinary health research center at Woodrow Wilson. Dr. Paxson works as a research associate for the National Bureau of Economic Research and serves as member of its aging, health, and children programs. She also works as a research associate at Princeton's Office of Population Research and serves as a member of The MacArthur Foundation's Research Network on Socioeconomic Status and Health. Over the course of her professional career, Dr. Paxson has researched areas such as applied economics, health, and development economics. Her current research focuses on economic status and children's health outcomes. She is the principal investigator of National Institutes of Health studies on
Economic Status, Public Policy, and Child Neglect and
Parental Resources and Child Wellbeing. Dr. Paxson earned her PhD from Columbia University in 1987.
