Duncan Thomas is Robert F Durden Professor of Economics and Professor of Global Health at Duke University. He holds a secondary appointment at the Sanford School of Public Policy. Before joining Duke in 2007, he was professor of economics at UCLA and director of the California Center for Population Research. He has been senior economist at RAND and associate professor of economics at Yale University. Thomas' research interests focus on population health and development. Thomas' research has been supported by the National Institutes of Health, National Science Foundation, Hewlett Foundation, MacArthur Foundation and the World Bank. His work has been published in such journals as the American Economic Review, Journal of Political Economy, Economic Journal, Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Demography, and the American Journal of Public Health.
