Donald H. Taylor, Assistant Professor of Public Policy, Center for Health Policy and Assistant Professor of Community and Family Medicine and Nursing, Duke Medical Center  

Office Location: 112 Rubenstein Hall
Office Phone: (919) 613-9357
Email Address: detaylor@duke.edu
Web Page:http://donaldhtaylorjr.blogspot.com/

Areas of Expertise

  • Health Policy
    • Aging
    • Economics
    • Smoking/Tobacco

Education:
PhD, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 1995
M.P.A., University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, N.C., 1992
B.S.P.H. with honors, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, N.C., 1990

Research Categories: Aging, Long Term Care, Health Policy and Comparative Health Systems

Research Description: Research: Aging and long-term care; health policy

Teaching (Fall 2009):

  • Pubpol 55d.001, Intro to policy analysis
    Sanford 04, TuTh 10:05 AM-11:20 AM

Representative Publications   (More Publications)

  1. Frank A. Sloan, Jan Ostermann, Gabriel Picone, Christopher J. Conover, and Donald H. Taylor, Jr.. The Price of Smoking. MIT Press, 2004.
  2. D.H. Taylor, Helen Hoenig. "The Effect of Equipment Usage and Residual Task Difficulty on Use of Personal Assistance, Days in Bed and Nursing Home Placement.." The Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 52.1 (2004): 72-79.
  3. D.H. Taylor, John Rattliff, P. Murali Doraiswamy, Frank A. Sloan. "Marked Increase in the Diagnosed Prevalence of Alzheimer's Disease between 1991 and 1999 in the United States.." Journal of Gerontology: Medical Sciences 59 (2004): M762-M766..
  4. Truls Østbye, D.H. Taylor. "The Effect of Smoking on Years of Healthy Life (YHL) Lost Among Middle Aged and Older Americans." Health Services Research 39.3 (2004): 499-519.

Donald H. Taylor