Justin Cook is an associate professor of economics at the University of California-Merced. His work in the fields of economic growth and health economics has been published in the Review of Economics and Statistics, Journal of Economic Growth, American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, Journal of Health Economics, and Journal of Development Economics.

Before joining UC-Merced, Justin worked as a postdoctoral researcher for the Center for Demography and Ecology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and at the Yale School of Public Health. He received his Ph.D. from Louisiana State University.