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.
MPP Faculty
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.
Michael Doonan, PhD'02
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
Janet Boguslaw
Senior Scientist and Senior Lecturer; Associate Program Director, MPP Program
Expertise: Poverty, assets and social policy, workforce and economic development, stakeholder engagement
Dolores Acevedo-Garcia
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
Stuart Altman
Sol C. Chaikin Professor of National Health Policy
Expertise: Healthcare economics and policy; healthcare industry reform, medicare
Brenda Anderson
Senior Lecturer, the Heller School and the International Business School
Expertise: Financial and managerial accounting; auditing
Larry Bailis
Associate Professor
Expertise: Service programs, service-learning and experiential education; university-community partnerships; program evaluation, evaluation of advocacy programs
Christine Bishop
Atran Professor of Labor Economics
Expertise: Health economics, economics of long-term services and supports and post-acute care, economics of aging
Mary Brolin, PhD’05
Scientist and Senior Lecturer
Expertise: Health services research and community-based evaluation with a focus on behavioral health
Carole Carlson
Senior Lecturer and Director, MBA Program
Expertise: Social entrepreneurship, strategy, organizational effectiveness, consultative skills, impact optimization for mission-driven organizations
Jon Chilingerian
Professor
Expertise: Leadership and organizational behavior, management and healthcare organizations, organizational theory and behavior, health policy
Susan Curnan
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
Susan Eaton
Professor of the Practice and Director, Sillerman Center for the Advancement of Philanthropy
Expertise: racial and economic inequality in public education, demographic change and its implications for schools and municipalities, causes and remedies for racial and economic segregation and concentrated poverty in schools and neighborhoods, civil rights law and education, immigration policy and immigrant integration practice, social justice philanthropy
Stephen Fournier
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
Anita Hill
University Professor of Social Policy, Law, and Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies
Expertise: Anti-Discrimination Law and Policy (Gender and Race)
Dominic Hodgkin
Professor
Expertise: Health economics, managed care, economics of mental health and substance abuse, prescription drugs
Constance Horgan
Professor and Director, Institute for Behavioral Health
Expertise: Organization and financing of behavioral health services
Robert Kuttner
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
Tatjana Meschede
Senior Scientist and Senior Lecturer
Expertise: Poverty, economic security, homelessness and housing, research methods/statistics, working with large national data sets
Jeffrey Prottas
Professor; Director, PhD Program
Expertise: Organizational research, community-based research, health policy and implementation studies, case studies, surveys and qualitative analysis
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
Ellen Smith
Associate Professor of the Practice and Director, Hornstein Jewish Professional Leadership Program
Expertise: Israel and Contemporary Jewish Studies; the American Jewish Community; Modern Jewish Culture
Robert Tannenwald
Adjunct Lecturer
Expertise: Public economics, with emphasis on state and local public finance