Faculty and Staff

Research Areas: Health Economics, Program Methodology, Labor Economics, Applied Microeconomics, Program Evaluation

Dr. Jeremy Bray is the Jefferson-Pilot Excellence Professor in Economics in the Bryan School of Business and Economics at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. His research focuses on the economics of health behaviors, with two primary areas of focus: the economics of risky health behaviors, such as alcohol or illicit drug use, and the economic evaluation of behavioral health interventions. In his work on the economics of risky health behaviors, he has led or contributed to multiple studies that explored both the economic causes and consequences of risky health behaviors. His results confirm that economic considerations such as prices and taxes influence health behaviors, thereby supporting a broad range of policy efforts to reduce the prevalence of risky health behaviors. In his work on the economic evaluation of behavioral health interventions, he has conducted economic evaluations of many behavioral interventions; including workplace substance abuse prevention programs, alcohol screening and brief interventions for at-risk drinking, and behavioral interventions combined with pharmacotherapy for the treatment of alcohol dependence. Dr. Bray has served as PI or co-investigator on numerous economic evaluations funded by federal agencies such as NIH, CDC, and SAMHSA. His publications in this area have been referenced hundreds of times by other researchers and have had a profound impact on public health by supporting the resource allocation decisions of federal, state, and local policymakers, as well as employers, both nationally and internationally.