Brian Quay
Economist
Fort Collins,CO
Summary
Economist with strong analytic skills and a unique ability to interpret data and communicate findings to a wide array of audiences. Proven to be successful in new environments and known for building fruitful working relationships in multi-disciplinary settings. Hardworking, committed, and passionate.
Overview
12
12
years of professional experience
Work History
Economist (GS-14)
National Institutes of Health
09.2022 - Current
- Provided economic insights to NIH leadership, assisting in establishing efficient ways to address complex economic problems.
- Team lead on 3 full-scale program evaluations; analyst for two others.
- Conducted economic evaluations of 3 NIH programs and presented findings to leadership.
- Analyzed data from numerous NIH databases, often merging with external data sources.
- Authored 5 SOPs on data analysis products, from querying to estimation to presentation.
- Worked in multidisciplinary groups to collect and analyze data and report the findings to explain the effectiveness of various NIH programs.
Economist (GS-13)
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
01.2017 - 09.2022
- Provided unique and essential information for improving the safety and health of workers by applying economic concepts and econometric methods which advanced the understanding of the impact and effectiveness of numerous public health programs, policies, and approaches
- Co-authored journal manuscripts, agency technical reports, and CDC blog posts reflecting the results of projects and studies
- Analyzed and published findings from various national health surveys, medical claims data, and medical expenditure survey data
- Assisted in designing and conducting economic analyses of three CDC programs to evaluate their economic impact and make measurable improvements in the health and well-being of individuals
- Led a working group of industry partners and academic researchers (external to CDC) in implementing the CDC's national research agenda, specifically pertaining to identifying and examining the impact of work on individuals' health-related quality of life
- Consulted with CDC management on evaluation studies and recommended improvements to assist in the agency's strategic planning
- 2019 Novel Coronavirus Response: Scientific Response Unit for CDC Worker Safety and Health Team
- Reviewed numerous proposed rules from multiple federal regulatory agencies
- Initiated a new training for new hires, to educate them on the economics of public health as well as increase collaboration and partnership opportunities.
Economist (GS-11)
United States Geological Survey
01.2016 - 01.2017
- Worked on an interdisciplinary team whose project aimed to provide robust scientific tools to help public land and water decision-makers determine valuation and production of ecosystem services
- Managed the efforts of outside researchers for two separate projects through cooperative agreements and contracts
- Used multiple economic evaluation techniques for analysis of basin-wide water quality improvement policies, including benefit-cost analysis and cost-based analysis
- Managed and analyzed large secondary datasets to assess households' willingness to pay for certain environmental goods and public amenities
- Conducted a 'research and data' gap analysis to inform the Department of Interior's research agenda for ecosystem services
- Managed a pilot project and collaborated with natural scientists to use the hedonic property method to estimate individuals' value of water quality
- Designed and implemented a household survey to estimate individuals' value for specific environmental goods and public amenities for use in policy analysis
- Co-authored several technical reports reflecting the results of projects and studies, and assisted in the arrangement for publication after the documents had been approved by necessary and appropriate reviewing officials
- Projects have ranged in scale from single counties to nationwide
Economist (Contractor)
United States Geological Survey
09.2012 - 01.2016
- Conducted an ongoing literature review on the benefits of water quality and coded a Benefit Transfer database for the economic value of water quality
- Developed Benefit Transfer models to econometrically estimate the net economic benefits of outdoor recreation activities in the United States for multiple federal land management agencies
- Wrote a qualitative analysis on the economic value of ecosystem services within the Yellowstone River Corridor, collaborating with natural scientists and relying heavily on the regional data they provided
- Gathered and synthesized regional economic data and demographic statistics for use in the regional economic impact statements of various land management agencies' Comprehensive Conservation Plans
Graduate Research Assistant
Colorado State University
08.2012 - 08.2015
- Designed a General Equilibrium model to estimate the distributional impacts of water transfers from one region of Colorado to another across income groups and labor classes
- Developed an econometric model to observe how community wellbeing was impacted by varying degrees of ecosystem services resulting from different land-management decision styles for adjacent Forest Service lands
- Designed a theoretical model in a natural experiment context to estimate how different public land management decision styles would impact the economic benefits generated from flows of ecosystem services across time and space
- Developed multiple indices and ran correlation analysis to observe the variation in the use of irrigated water in rural Colorado alongside community economic development
- Collaborated with farmers from multiple regions of Colorado and officials from the Colorado Department of Agriculture to ensure the project was incorporating all relevant factors
- Designed household contingent valuation surveys used to gather primary data to estimate the total economic value of the National Park Service, distributed nationwide
- Used a discrete choice experiment to elicit household willingness to pay to implement the policy, where two attributes varied across respondents: policy cost and policy scale
- Used multiple econometric models (two Maximum Likelihood Estimators - one parametric and the other non-parametric) to estimate household willingness to pay for different ecosystem services provided by the National Park Service
Education
Master of Science - Natural Resource Economics
Colorado State University
Fort Collins, CO05-2014
Bachelor of Arts - Organizational Communication
Miami University
Oxford, OH05-2008
Skills
Econometric analysis
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- Stata
- Tableau
- IMPLAN
- R
- GAMS
- EViews
- ESRI ArcGIS
- Microsoft Excel Visual Basics
Publications
- Tim Bushnell, Rene Pana-Cryan, John Howard, Brian Quay, Tapas Ray, Measuring the benefits of occupational safety and health research with economic metrics: Insights from the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, American Journal of Industrial Medicine, 2022, 1-20
- Sharon Silver, Jia Li, Brian Quay, Employment status, unemployment duration, and health-related metrics among US adults of prime working age: Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System, 2018-2019, Am J Ind Med, 2021, 65, 59-71
- Imelda Wong, Brian Quay, Emma Irvin, Michael Belzer, Describing economic benefits and costs of nonstandard work hours: A scoping review, Am J Ind Med, 2021, 1-14
- Abay Asfaw, Brian Quay, Chia-Chia Chang, Injured Workers Receive Opioid Prescriptions Outside the Workers' Compensation System?, Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, 2020, 62, 9, e515-e522
- Abay Asfaw, Rene Pana-Cryan, Brian Quay, Association between longest-held occupation and Social Security Disability Insurance benefits receipt, Am J Ind Med, 2020, 63, 676-684
- Abay Asfaw, Toni Alterman, Brian Quay, Prevalence and Expenses of Outpatient Opioid Prescriptions, With Associated Sociodemographic, Economic, and Work Characteristics, International Journal of Health Services, 2020, 50, 1, 82-94
- C. Huber, J.R. Meldrum, R.M. Schuster, Z.H. Ancona, K.J. Bagstad, S.M. Beck, D.M. Carlisle, P.R. Claggett, F. Franco, H.S. Galbraith, M. Haefele, K.R. Hoelting, D.M. Hogan, K.G. Hopkins, T. Kern, C.B. Lawrence, S. Lischka, J.B. Loomis, J.M. Mueller, G.B. Noe, E.J. Pindilli, B. Quay, D.J. Semmens, W. Sinclair, D.E. Spooner, B. Voigt, B. St. John White, Sustaining Environmental Capital Initiative summary report, U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report, 2020, 2019-1117
- Brian Quay, Ryan Roberts, Socioeconomic Context of Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge, US Geological Survey Cooperator Report, 2016
- Brian Quay, Larisa Serbina, Yellowstone River Cumulative Effects Analysis: Socioeconomic Analysis of Ecosystem Services in the Yellowstone River Corridor and Economic Impacts of Tourism and Yellowtail Dam, US Army Corps of Engineers Open-File Report, 2015
- Brian Quay, James Pritchett, Chris Goemans, Developing a Composite Index for Colorado's Irrigated Agriculture and Wellbeing, Colorado Water, 2014, 31, 3, 6-7
- Brian Quay, Draft Comprehensive Conservation Plan and Environmental Impact Statement for San Luis Valley National Wildlife Refuge Complex: Regional Socioeconomic Setting, US Fish and Wildlife Service Report, 2014, 226-229
- Lynne Koontz, Brian Quay, Proposed California Foothills Legacy Area Draft Environmental Assessment: Socioeconomic Environment, US Fish and Wildlife Service Report, 2013, 24-37
- Michelle Haefele, John Loomis, Linda Bilmes, Brian Quay, Economic Valuation of the National Park Service, National Park Service Report, 2013
- Lynne Koontz, Brian Quay, Elizabeth Myrick, Regional economic impacts of current and proposed management alternatives for Quivira National Wildlife Refuge, USGS Open-File Report, 2012
Training
- 2021, Health Economics Training Series, Exploring the complexities of measuring health disparities.
- 2021, NIOSH Science Orientation for New NIOSH Researchers (internal to NIOSH), The Economics of Worker Safety and Health.
- 2020, Economics of COVID-19 (internal to NIOSH), Unemployment insurance pre- and post-COVID-19.
- 2019, Work Arrangements and the Future of Work (internal to NIOSH), Work Arrangements: Prevalence and Trends. (Updated and conducted)
- 2018, Total Worker Health Symposium, Work Arrangements: Prevalence and Trends.
- 2017, Economics of Worker Safety and Health (internal to NIOSH), Assessing the value of prevention: Methods.
Presentations
- 2022, Social Determinants of Health: Conversations with CDC Authors, Employment status, unemployment duration, and health.
- 2021, Society for Benefit Cost Analysis 2021 Annual Meeting, Economic Assessment of the Benefits of Occupational Safety and Health Research: A Case Study on Ambulance Re-Design.
- 2021, Work, Stress and Health Conference, Identifying and examining the impact of worker demographics on worker safety, health, and well-being: Advancing the NORA for Healthy Work Design and Well-Being.
- 2021, XXII World Safety Congress on Safety and Health at Work, The prevalence of gig work in the U.S.: A review of recent published estimates and discussion of ongoing efforts.
- 2020, Labor and Employment Relations Association 72nd Annual Meeting, Association between Longest-Held Occupation and Social Security Disability Insurance Benefits Receipt.
- 2020, NIOSH Surveillance Coordination Group, June Meeting, Work Arrangements: Prevalence and Trends.
- 2019, Work, Stress and Health Conference, The Impact of Occupational Injuries on the Incidence and Costs of Opioids.
- 2019, Modelling the Healthy Work Design and Well-being Domain: An Interactive Forum, panel member
- 2019, Twenty-Fourth International Symposium on Shiftwork and Working Time, Anasua Bhattacharya, Brian Quay, Shift Work in the Wholesale and Retail Trade Sector.
- 2019, Labor and Employment Relations Association 71st Annual Meeting, The Impact of Occupational Injuries on the Incidence and Costs of Opioids.
- 2018, Total Worker Health Symposium, Work arrangement and schedule by industry: A descriptive analysis using the American Community Survey.
- 2018, National Occupational Injury Research Symposium, Optimal Investment in Engineering Controls and Personal Protective Equipment.
- 2016, A Community on Ecosystem Services Conference, Improvements and Additions to the Benefit Transfer Toolkit.
- 2016, The Value of Stream Health in the Pacific Northwest: A Hedonic Analysis using Robust Water Quality Indices.
- 2016, Sustaining Environmental Capital Workshop, Using Regional NAWQA Data to Value Ecosystem Services.
- 2016, Ecosystem Service Benefits of water in the Delaware River Basin.
- 2015, Sustaining Environmental Capital Workshop, Economic Valuation of Ecosystem Services.
- 2015, US Forest Service Region 1 Webinar, Using Geographic Information Systems to Map Flows of Economic Benefits from Multiple Ecosystem Services in USFS Region 1.
Awards
- 2024 NIH Director's Award
- 2023 CDC Alice Hamilton Award
Timeline
Economist (GS-14)
National Institutes of Health
09.2022 - Current
Economist (GS-13)
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
01.2017 - 09.2022
Economist (GS-11)
United States Geological Survey
01.2016 - 01.2017
Economist (Contractor)
United States Geological Survey
09.2012 - 01.2016
Graduate Research Assistant
Colorado State University
08.2012 - 08.2015
Master of Science - Natural Resource Economics
Colorado State University
Bachelor of Arts - Organizational Communication
Miami University
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