MPP Faculty
Concentration Chairs
Alexandra Piñeros-Shields, PhD'07
Associate Professor of the Practice; Director, MPP Program; Concentration Chair, Economic and Racial Equity
Expertise: Community-based research; participatory action research; urban renewal and community building; immigrant political activism, immigration policy; cross-racial and cross-national organizing
Mary Brolin, PhD’05
Senior Research Scientist and Senior Lecturer; Concentration Chair, Behavioral Health Policy and General Social Policy
Expertise: Health services research and community-based evaluation with a focus on behavioral health
Michael Doonan, PhD'02
Professor; Concentration Chair, Health Policy
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
Sarah Soroui, PhD'19
Adjunct Lecturer; Concentration Chair, Women, Gender and Sexuality
Expertise: Technology and globalization for social safety net policies; employment relations; workforce policy and practice; and community development
MPP Faculty
Stuart Altman
Sol C. Chaikin Professor of National Health Policy and Co-director, Schneider Institutes for Health Policy and Research
Expertise: Healthcare economics and policy; healthcare industry reform, medicare
Christine Bishop
Atran Professor of Labor Economics
Expertise: Health economics, economics of long-term services and supports and post-acute care, economics of aging
Carole Carlson
Senior Lecturer
Expertise: Social entrepreneurship, strategy, organizational effectiveness, consultative skills, impact optimization for mission-driven organizations
Susanna Flug-Silva
Segal Program Director; Segal Program Leadership Team; IERE
flugsilva@brandeis.edu
781-736-3933
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; Director, Institute for Behavioral Health; Co-director, Schneider Institutes for Health Policy and Research
Expertise: Organization and financing of behavioral health services
Robert Kuttner
Meyer and Ida Kirstein Professor in Social Planning and Administration
Expertise: Inequality, politics of the welfare state, international political economy and globalization, politics and history of managed capitalism
Lisa M. Lynch
Maurice B. Hexter Professor of Social and Economic Policy; Director, Institute for Economic and Racial Equity; Director, PhD Program
Expertise: Labor markets, unemployment, organizational innovation
Tatjana Meschede
Senior Scientist and Senior Lecturer
Expertise: Poverty, economic security, homelessness and housing, research methods/statistics, working with large national data sets
Marji Erickson Warfield, PhD’91
Senior Scientist and Lecturer
Expertise: Children and youth with developmental disabilities and special healthcare needs; family adaptation; longitudinal studies; program evaluation