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
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 and Co-director, Schneider Institutes for Health Policy and Research
Expertise: Healthcare economics and policy; healthcare industry reform, medicare
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
Janet Boguslaw
Senior Scientist and Senior Lecturer
Expertise: Poverty, assets and social policy, workforce and economic development, stakeholder engagement
boguslaw@brandeis.edu
781-736-3738
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 and Director, Executive MBA for Physicians
Expertise: Leadership and organizational behavior, management and healthcare organizations, organizational theory and behavior, health policy
Susan Curnan
Florence G. Heller Associate Professor of the Practice and Director, Center for Youth and Communities
Expertise: Social Policy and Management, emphasis on leadership and management innovations with mission driven organizations and businesses
Robert Dunigan, PhD'04
Senior Research Associate and Lecturer
Expertise: Behavioral health and social policy; substance use disorders and mental health prevention and treatment for minority populations; the impact of criminal justice involvement and behavioral health outcomes for marginalized adult and adolescent populations
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
Susanna Flug-Silva
Director, Segal Program Leadership Team; Senior Program Associate, Center for Youth and Communities, The Heller School
flugsilva@brandeis.edu
781-736-3933
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; Director, Institute for Behavioral Health; Co-director, Schneider Institutes for Health Policy and Research
Expertise: Organization and financing of behavioral health services
Della M. Hughes
Senior Fellow
Expertise: Hughes’s focus is the intersection of education, youth employability, and youth development to ensure youth are prepared for post-secondary education and training and work in the 21st century and as contributors to their communities.
Shirley Idelson
Leon A. Jick Director and Associate Professor, Hornstein Jewish Professional Leadership Program
Sakshi Jain
Lecturer
Expertise: Applied microeconomics; development economics; quantitative methods; economics of education; health; gender and racial inequality; policy and impact evaluation; public finance
sakshijain@brandeis.edu
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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
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
Alexandra Piñeros-Shields, PhD'07
Visiting Associate Professor of the Practice
Expertise: Community-based research; participatory action research; urban renewal and community building; immigrant political activism, immigration policy; cross-racial and cross-national organizing
Jeffrey Prottas
Professor
Expertise: Organizational research, community-based research, health policy and implementation studies, case studies, surveys and qualitative analysis
Sarah Soroui, PhD'19
Adjunct Lecturer
Expertise: Technology and globalization for social safety net policies; employment relations; workforce policy and practice; and community development
Sangeeta Tyagi, PhD'93
Adjunct Senior Lecturer
Expertise: Youth employment systems at scale; creating cross-systems workforce strategies for marginalized youth; post-secondary access and success for out-of-school youth; organizational development strategies for scale, sustainability, and impact
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