Chung-Ping (Albert) Loh is a Professor of Economics, the Associate Dean of Faculty, Administration, and Research, and the Director of the Local Economic Indicators Project (LEIP) at Coggin College of Business at UNF. Before his current administrative position, he led the Department of Economics and Geography as chairperson from 2016 to 2021. He holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. A native of Taipei, Taiwan, he now resides in Jacksonville with his wife and two sons.

 

His research primarily revolves around economic modeling of health behavior and outcomes, cost and benefit analysis, program evaluation, medical tourism, and other applied microeconomics and interdisciplinary topics. His research has been published in Social Science & Medicine, Journal of Health Economics, Review of Household Economics, European Journal of Health Economics, Applied Economics, Health Policy, Health Policy and Planning, and others. He is also the founder of the Jacksonville Economic Monitoring Survey (JEMS) and the lead researcher of Jacksonville’s Manufacturing PMI report, featured monthly in the Jacksonville Daily Record. He is also an IMPLAN Certified Economist with expertise in economic impact analysis.

 

He has taught Health Economics and Policy, Econometrics, Business and Economics Statistics, Managerial Economics, Intermediate Microeconomics, Principles of Microeconomics, Economics of Business Decision (graduate), and Making Decisions with Data (graduate). He is an active faculty member in the International Business Program and has led numerous Study Abroad trips over the years. He was recognized by the Coggin College of Business as an Exemplary Teacher every year between 2005-2014 and a recipient of UNF’s Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching Award in 2015.