I'm Austin Henderson, PhD, a lecturer at the University of Otago Department of Economics.
I'm a health and behavioral economist with particular interests in experiments, aging, and health interventions, especially in minoritized and Indigenous communities.
At the University of Otago, I teach Health Economics and Game Theory.
I'm also the senior economist and a co-investigator on Community Organizations for Natives: COVID-19 Epidemiology, Research, Testing, and Services (CONCERTS) project, a large National Institutes of Health funded grant to improve COVID-19 related outcomes among American Indian and Alaska Native peoples. I am the lead author on several papers on topics including identifying the social determinants of COVID-19 infection, the economic consequences of infection, and how infection is associated with stress.
On the behavioral side of my research, I'm interested in how chronic and acute stress systematically modify decision-making, and how to translate these relationships into improved policy.
Other sites
University web page: https://www.otago.ac.nz/economics/staff/austin-henderson
Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=l8prGssAAAAJ&hl=en
