Roger Lee Mendoza, economist and economics scholar, has contributed to the study of health economics

Health economics

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, and the development and implementation of privatization

Privatization

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 policies and strategies in the United States.

He obtained his Ph.D. on a Reginald Gayle fellowship from McGill University in 1993, where he trained under Nobel Laureate in Economic Science Robert Mundell

Robert Mundell

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 and Charles Taylor

Charles Taylor (philosopher)

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, and did his postdoctorate in Public Policy at the University of Pennsylvania. He was also a summer exchange student at the University of London in 1991. His doctoral dissertation, on economic policy and the privatization of government corporations, was completed as several industrialized and developing countries were downsizing and restructuring their public sector. Like his dissertation, many of his earlier works formulated stochastic models of divestiture and corporate restructuring that influenced or were employed in privatization initiatives in the 1990s. In 1995, then Pennsylvania Governor Tom Ridge

Tom Ridge

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, later the first Secretary of Homeland Security, appointed him a member of the Base Realignment and Closure Commission (BRACC) in recognition of his scholarly contributions to public enterprise reform. As BRACC member, he helped determine appropriate privatization methods for military bases and installations which were slated by the US Secretary of Defense for closure through divestiture, merger with other military bases and facilities, base conversion and realignment.

Dr. Mendoza has contributed to scholarship in health economics through internationally, peer-reviewed publications in economics, business administration, and public health that examine the provision, production, distribution, and regulation of health care and medical services. These include studies on nephrectomy, traditional, alternative, and complementary medicine, tropical/subtropical leptospirosis, infant health promotion, oral health and water fluoridation, medical missions in developing countries, autism and its cost consequences, organ price deflation, the role of the informal health sector, merit goods in public health, underground organ trading, biological economics, population control, breastmilk and breastfeeding, and aspirin use for vascular disease prevention.

Dr. Mendoza has done actuarial work on Social Security privatization and pension administration with corporate, government and non-profit organizations, including Towers Perrin, Hay Huggins, and Bancroft NeuroHealth. He specializes in defined contribution benefits and pension plans in his professional work with pension actuarial and investment firms. He has taught at the University of the Philippines, McGill University, Drexel University, and University of Pennsylvania, and published in the areas of pension economics and public sector reform. He was elected to life membership in the international honor societies of Phi Kappa Phi (scholarship in all fields), which conferred on him a Love of Learning Award in 2009 and 2010, Pi Gamma Mu

Pi Gamma Mu

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 (social sciences), from which he received a 2008 Chapter Heritage Award, Phi Beta Kappa (arts and sciences), and Omicron Delta Epsilon

Omicron Delta Epsilon

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 (economic science). He is a member of the American Economics Association, the International Economic History Association, and the American Society of Pension Actuaries. He is also active in local and national historical societies.

Dr. Mendoza is listed in Who's Who in America, and received the Royer Prize in business economics, for his professional and scholarly contributions. Fluent in Spanish

Spanish language

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, French

French language

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, and Tagalog

Filipino language

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, he has travelled and lectured extensively within and outside of the United States.