Gies College of Business

Four Gies faculty win $1.6 million research award from NIH

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Aug 2, 2021 Faculty Finance Research


Four faculty members in the Gies Department of Finance have been awarded more than $1.6 million from the National Institutes of Health to support their project “The Long-Run Impacts of Natural Disasters on Mortality and Disease Burden Among US Elderly and Disabled Adults.”

Four faculty members in the Gies College of Business Department of Finance have been awarded more than $1.6 million from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to support their project “The Long-Run Impacts of Natural Disasters on Mortality and Disease Burden Among US Elderly and Disabled Adults.” The project, developed by Associate Professor Tatyana Deryugina,  Daniel and Cynthia Mah Helle Professor of Finance Nolan Miller, Assistant Professor David Molitor, and Assistant Professor Julian Reif, extends prior research by Deryugina and Molitor on the long-run mortality impacts of Hurricane Katrina to a wider range of natural disasters.

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