Employment
Research Assistant
Professor in Health and Behavioral Economics (2023-Current)
Washington State University
- Elson S. Floyd College of Medicine - Institute for Research and Education to Advance
Community Health, Seattle, Washington
Postdoctoral Research
Associate in Health and Behavioral Economics (2020-2022)
Washington State
University - Elson S. Floyd College of Medicine - Institute for Research and
Education to Advance Community Health, Seattle, Washington
Senior Research Assistant (2012-2015)
Claremont Graduate
University – Center for Neuroeconomics Studies, Claremont, California
Education
University of California
San Diego, San Diego, California (2015–2020)
PhD in Management. Dissertation:
Essays in Behavioral Economics
Pomona College, Claremont, California (2010–2014)
Research
Publications
· · Austin Henderson, Robert Rosenman, Amber Fyfe-Johnson, Tori Taniguchi, Joy Standridge, Tyra Shackleford, Clemma Muller, Jason Umans, Valarie Blue Bird Jernigan. The cost-efficacy of a healthy food box for managing hypertension within a native American population: a group randomized controlled trial. Arch Public Health 82, 59 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1186/s13690-024-01274-9
· Austin
Henderson, Amber Fyfe-Johnson,
Denise Dillard, Krista Schaefer, Michael Todd, Clemma J. Muller, Jason G. Umans,
Robert Rosenman. Tradeoffs between
Accuracy and Health Outcomes in Algorithms for Home Blood Pressure Monitoring
Devices. Health Services Research
& Managerial Epidemiology 11 (2024) doi:10.1177/23333928241253686
· Tori Taniguchi, Jessica
Williams-Nguyen, Clemma Muller, Amber Fyfe-Johnson, Austin Henderson,
Jason G. Umans, Joy Standridge, Tyra Shackleford, Robert Rosenman, Dedra
Buchwald, Valarie Blue Bird Jernigan. Pilot Study of a Heart-Healthy Food Box
Intervention for Native Americans with Uncontrolled Hypertension: Methods and
Results from the Chickasaw Healthy Eating Environments Research Study (CHEERS).
Forthcoming at Health Education Research
· Austin
Henderson, Richard MacLehose, Spero
M. Manson, Dedra Buchwald. Stress
in Urban American Indian and Alaska Native Men and Women during the COVID-19 Pandemic:
Associations with Infection and Testing. Revise and resubmit at Quality of Life Research
· Valarie Blue Bird
Jernigan, Tori Taniguchi, Cassandra J. Nguyen, Sara M. London, Austin
Henderson, Tara Lauren Maudrie, Stephanie Blair, and Tvli Jacob Food Systems, Food Sovereignty, and Health: Symposium Shares Linkages to
Support Indigenous Community Health. Health Promotion
Practice 24.6 (2023): 1109-1116
· Cassandra J. Nguyen,
Rachel E. Wilbur, Austin Henderson, Jennifer Sowerwine, Megan Mucioki,
Dan Sarna, Gary Ferguson, Tara L. Maudrie, Harleigh Moore-Wilson, Kyle Wark,
Valarie Blue Bird Jernigan. Framing an Indigenous Food Sovereignty Research
Agenda. Health Promotion Practice 24.6 (2023): 1117-1123
· Valarie Blue Bird
Jernigan, Tori Taniguchi, Cassandra J. Nguyen, Sara M. London, Austin
Henderson, Tara Lauren Maudrie, Stephanie Blair, and Tvli Jacob Food Systems, Food Sovereignty, and Health: Symposium Shares Linkages to
Support Indigenous Community Health. Forthcoming at Health Promotion Practice
· Cassandra J. Nguyen,
Rachel E. Wilbur, Austin Henderson, Jennifer Sowerwine, Megan Mucioki,
Dan Sarna, Gary Ferguson, Tara L. Maudrie, Harleigh Moore-Wilson, Kyle Wark,
Valarie Blue Bird Jernigan. Framing an Indigenous Food Sovereignty Research
Agenda. Forthcoming at Health Promotion Practice
· J Nikolaus,
Selisha Johnson, Tia Benally, Tara Maudrie, Austin Henderson, Katie
Nelson, Trevor Lane, Valerie Segrest, Gary L Ferguson, Dedra Buchwald, Valarie Blue
Bird Jernigan, and Ka’imi Sinclair. Food Insecurity Among American Indian and Alaska
Native People: A Scoping Review to Inform Future Research and Policy Needs. Advances in Nutrition (2022)
· Alex Meyers, Austin
Henderson, Corry McDonald, and Jerrod Keith. Factors Associated with Matching into Surgical
Specialties. Journal of Surgical
Research 270, 300-312 (2022)
· Corry McDonald, Austin
Henderson, Patrick Barlow, and Jerrod Keith. Assessing factors for choosing a primary care specialty
in medical students; A longitudinal study. Medical Education Online 26, 1 (2021)
· Austin
Henderson, Garrett Thoelen, Amos
Nadler, Jorge Barraza, and Gideon Nave. Testing the influence of testosterone administration on
men’s honesty in a large laboratory experiment. Scientific Reports 8, 11556 (2018)
· Gary Charness, Uri Gneezy,
and Austin Henderson. Experimental
methods: measuring effort in economics experiments. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization
149, 74-87 (2018)
Papers Under Review
· Austin
Henderson. Auditing with Rewards for Honesty and
Punishments for Cheating. Under review at
Journal of Behavioral Economics for Policy
· Austin
Henderson, Richard MacLehose, Spero
M. Manson, Dedra Buchwald. Social
Determinants of COVID-19 Infection in American Indians and Alaska Native
Peoples. Under review at International
Journal of Social Determinants of Health and Health Services.
· Austin
Henderson, Krista Schaefer, Azhar
Uddin, Richard MacLehose, Spero M. Manson, Dedra Buchwald. Barriers to COVID-19 Testing among American
Indian and Alaska Native People. Under review at Health Promotion Practice.
· Austin
Henderson, Krista Schaefer, Richard
MacLehose, Spero M. Manson, Dedra Buchwald. Barriers to COVID-19 Testing among American Indian and
Alaska Native People: Comparisons between Patient and Provider Perspectives. Under
review at Public Health Reports.
Selected Working Papers
· Austin
Henderson, Azhar Uddin, Richard
MacLehose, Spero M. Manson, Dedra Buchwald. COVID-19 Infection and Job Loss in American Indian and
Alaska Native Patients in Five Urban Indian Health Care Facilities.
· Amanda Boyd, Azhar Uddin, Austin
Henderson, Richard MacLehose, Spero M. Manson, Dedra Buchwald. Communication
about COVID-19 with Urban American Indian or Alaska Native People: The Role of
Health Literacy, Trust, and Information Source
· Amanda Boyd, Austin
Henderson, Azhar Uddin, Richard MacLehose, Spero M. Manson, Dedra Buchwald.
Protecting Culture, Community, and Elders: Perceptions
about COVID-19 with Urban American Indian and Alaska Native People.
Reviewer
Journal of Racial and
Ethnic Health Disparities, European Economic Review, Nature Human Behavior
Recent Presentations
2022 Norwegian Tax
Authority Symposium on Behavioral Economics
2022 IREACH Junior faculty
seminar
2022 Indigenous Food
Sovereignty and Health Symposium, Washington State University 25th
Anniversary of Memorandum
of Understanding with Regional Tribes Faculty Showcase
2023 Washington State
University School of Economic Sciences Invited Seminar
Experience
Teaching
2020 Instructor, Global Business Strategy
2015-2020 Teaching Assistant, Courses include: Global Business Strategy, Managerial Economics, Experiments in Firms, Strategy, and Negotiation
Ph.D. Coursework
Fields
Behavioral Economics,
Development Economics
Highlighted Courses
Behavioral Economics,
Experimental Economics, Designing Field Experiments, Microeconomics PhD Sequence,
Econometrics PhD Sequence, Macroeconomics of Development, Microeconomics of
Development, Labor Economics
Professional Organizations
2022-Current Association for Economic Research of
Indigenous Peoples
2020-Current Institute for Research and Education to
Advance Community Health Methods Core
2020-Current Indigenous Collaborative for Health,
Agriculture, Nutrition, Growers, and Environmental Sovereignty
2020-Current Partnerships for Native Health
2020-Current Health Economics Working Group
2022-Current Association for Economic Research of
Indigenous Peoples
2015-2021 Economic Science Association
2017-2020 Academic Editor of Rady Business
Journal
2017-2019 President of UCSD Rady School of Management PhD Association
Skills
Programming: Stata, Python, R, LaTeX, Qualtrics, Z-Tree, Python, SQL
Research: Study design, experimental methods, laboratory
experiments, online experiments, incentives, randomized controlled trials,
electronic health records
Analysis: Linear and non-linear regression, mediation
analysis, machine learning (Lasso, clustering, random forest), non-parametric
tests
Certifications: NIH Human Subjects Protection, UCSD Introduction
to College Teaching,
Alaska Indigenous Research Program, SQL, Python
Personal Interests
Tennis: Played
competitively and for leisure
Weight lifting
