Who was the late Dr Gerald A. Mumma
The Gerald A. Mumma had a Ph.D. in Agricultural Economics from Mississippi State University Mississippi where he worked under Dr. Albert J. Allen and graduated in 2000.
After graduating Dr. Mumma joined the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) as a post-doctoral fellow in the Prevention Effectiveness (PE) Fellowship. The PE Fellowship is intended to build and strengthen CDC's capacity and expertise in quantitative policy analysis.
Dr. Mumma worked as an economist with the Prevention Effectiveness Health Economics Branch CDC and led the Steven M. Teutsch Prevention Effectiveness (PE) Fellowship since Juli 2002. From Juli 2000-2002 Dr. Mumma was assigned to the Foodborne and Diarrheal Diseases Branch of the National Center for Infectious Diseases CDC as a PE Fellow.
He worked on research and projects dealing with food and water safety economics and served as the branch's in-house consultant on food and safety economics issues. Dr. Mumma served as a CDC consultant to the World Health organization (WHO) on the economics of Buruli Ulcer disease and on the economics of Public Health Laboratory Networks CARE-Kenya on the economics of the Safe Water System (SWS).
At CDC Dr. Mumma was a member of the core group that teaches economic evaluation to CDC staff Epidemiology Intelligence Officers state and county Departments of Health.
For 2 years prior to joining the PE Fellowship Dr. Mumma taught micro- and macroeconomics as a visiting professor at Mississippi University for Women and worked as a teaching and research assistant at Mississippi State University and Alabama A&M University from where he received two Master of Science degrees. His research interests were in health improvement and behavioral economics especially with respect to methodology interventions and statistical issues econometrics statistics spatial statistics and most applied economics areas. He had several publications in refereed journals proceedings and numerous research abstracts papers and poster presentations at professional meetings in areas ranging from food safety economics transportation economics and quality and system assurance.
The late Dr. Mumma was born on Januari 15 1964 in Sigoti Kisumu Kenya-Africa.
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