MS/GHPM Faculty
MS GHPM faculty are active researchers and some of the leading minds in their disciplines. They bring deep knowledge of both health systems design and applied research into the classroom, which means our students receive a graduate education informed by emerging thought leadership — and backed by practical, on-the-ground experience.
A.K. Nandakumar
Professor of the Practice; Director, MS Program in Global Health Policy and Management; Director, Institute for Global Health and Development; Academic Director, Global Programs
Expertise: Health care financing, health policy, national health accounts, health resource tracking, cost and efficiency analysis of health care services, health sector reform design and analysis
Elad Daniels
Research Scientist; Doctoral Candidate in Health Policy
Areas of expertise: health economics, health policy, applied econometrics, health and disability research, health insurance.
Gary Gaumer
Senior Scientist and Adjunct Lecturer
Expertise: international health systems consulting and research
Ricardo Godoy
Professor
Expertise: Acculturation; inequality; social capital; econometrics; research design; Bolivia; indigenous peoples; native Amazonians; panel studies; randomized controlled trials
Dr. Godoy manages the Tsimane´ Amazonian Panel Study that conducts annual measures of socioeconomic, demographic, health, and psychological indicators.
Maria Madison
Interim Dean
Expertise: graduate school teaching experience includes courses on intersectionality and bioethics, anti-bias/anti-racism workshops and pro seminars, discrimination analytics, clinical trial design optimization and problem solving, and evidence-based research methods; research career includes clinical and public health research in Africa and Europe.
Lee Panas
Senior Programmer
Expertise: Statistical programming and analysis of large state and national databases
Moaven Razavi, MS GHPM'06, PhD'11
Scientist and Lecturer
Expertise: Health economics, provider payment reform, health financing reform, health insurance, health services research, modeling and simulation, public policy analysis, health policy, cost-effectiveness analysis, health data mining, behavioral economics of healthcare, evaluation research, quantitative research, applications of information technology in health policy and health services research
Donald Shepard
Professor
Expertise: Health economics, cost-effectiveness analysis, cost-benefit analysis, health financing in the United States and globally, and their application to drug and alcohol abuse, cardiovascular disease, dengue and malaria