Brandeis University
Heller counts more than one hundred faculty and researchers engaged in advancing social and public policy and educating the next generation of leaders. Their public engagement reaches the highest levels of government, nonprofit, and international organizations. Many have designed, implemented, or evaluated large-scale policies and programs that affect the lives of millions, domestically and globally. Like you, they are believers in the power of knowledge to promote positive social change. Faculty share your passion for social policy and are committed to helping you to make a difference.
Associate Professor and Director, MPP Program
Expertise: State health policy, the uninsured, federalism, Medicaid, access to health care for vulnerable populations, health care system change, federal state relations, governance, public health
doonan@brandeis.edu 781-736-4831Schneider 207
Scientist and Senior Lecturer; Associate Program Director, MPP Program
Expertise: Poverty, assets and social policy, workforce and economic development, stakeholder engagement
boguslaw@brandeis.edu 781-736-3738Heller-Brown 361
Samuel F. and Rose B. Gingold Professor of Human Development and Social Policy; Director, Institute for Child Youth and Family Policy
Expertise: Public health, racial ethnic disparities in health and social determinants of health and social policy
dacevedo@brandeis.edu781-736-3715Heller-Brown 364
Sol C. Chaikin Professor of National Health Policy
Expertise: Healthcare economics and policy; healthcare industry reform, medicare
altman@brandeis.edu 781-736-3803Schneider 214
Senior Lecturer, the Heller School and the International Business School
Expertise: Financial and managerial accounting; auditing
banders@brandeis.edu781-736-8423 Schneider 203
Associate Professor
Expertise: Service programs, service-learning and experiential education; university-community partnerships; program evaluation, evaluation of advocacy programs
bailis@brandeis.edu 617 868-2468 Heller-Brown 369
Atran Professor of Labor Economics
bishop@brandeis.edu781-736-3942Schneider 212
Scientist and Senior Lecturer
Expertise: Health services research and community-based evaluation with a focus on behavioral health
brolin@brandeis.edu781-736-5737Heller-Brown 254
Senior Lecturer and Director, MBA Program
ccarlson@brandeis.edu781-736-3861Schneider 226
Associate Professor of Human Services Management
Expertise: Leadership and organizational behavior, management and healthcare organizations, organizational theory and behavior, health policy
chilinge@brandeis.edu781-736-3828Schneider 204
Associate Professor and Director, Center for Youth and Communities
Expertise: Social Policy and Management, emphasis on leadership and management innovations with mission driven organizations and businesses
curnan@brandeis.edu781-736-3771 Heller-Brown 341
Director, Sillerman Center for the Advancement of Philanthropy
seaton@brandeis.edu781-736-3918Heller-Brown 375
Senior Lecturer at the Heller School and Adjunct Professor at the International Business School
Expertise: Statistics, econometrics, IT, data analysis and applied casual modeling and data maintenance
fournier@brandeis.edu781-736-3898Heller-Brown 368
University Professor of Social Policy, Law, and Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies
Expertise: Anti-Discrimination Law and Policy (Gender and Race)
ahill@brandeis.edu781-736-3896Heller-Brown 374
Professor
Expertise: Health economics, managed care, economics of mental health and substance abuse, prescription drugs
hodgkin@brandeis.edu781-736-8551Heller-Brown 264
Professor and Director, Institute for Behavioral Health
Expertise: Organization and financing of behavioral health services
horgan@brandeis.edu 781-736-3916 Heller-Brown 257
Meyer and Ida Kirstein Visiting Professor in Social Planning and Administration
Expertise: Inequality, politics of the welfare state, international political economy and globalization, politics and history of managed capitalism
bkuttner@brandeis.edu 781-736-5311Heller-Brown 367
Scientist and Senior Lecturer
Expertise: Poverty, economic security, homelessness and housing, research methods/statistics, working with large national data sets
meschede@brandeis.edu 781-736-8678Heller-Brown 359
Laurie Nsiah-Jefferson ’80, PhD’06
Senior Scientist and Senior Lecturer
Expertise: Social justice, management and policy; race, ethnicity and gender in health, healthcare and human services
ljeffers@brandeis.edu 781-736-3757Heller-Brown 349
Professor; Director, PhD Program
Expertise: Organizational research, community-based research, health policy and implementation studies, case studies, surveys and qualitative analysis
prottas@brandeis.edu781-736-3955Schneider 209
Marji Erickson Warfield, PhD’91
Senior Scientist and Lecturer; Director, Nathan and Toby Starr Center on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities
Expertise: Children and youth with developmental disabilities and special healthcare needs; family adaptation; longitudinal studies; program evaluation
mew@brandeis.edu 781-736-3833Heller-Brown 350
Associate Professor of the Practice in the Hornstein Program in Jewish Professional Leadership
Expertise: Israel and Contemporary Jewish Studies; the American Jewish Community; Modern Jewish Culture
esmith2@brandeis.edu781-736-2998 Lown 204
Adjunct Lecturer
Expertise: Public economics, with emphasis on state and local public finance
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