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
Prakash Kashwan
Associate Professor of Environmental Studies; Heller Affiliated Faculty; Concentration Chair, Environmental Justice
Expertise: Environmental justice; international or global development; environmental planning or policy; environmental economics; climate justice; global climate governance; commons; environmental politics; ecological justice; decolonizing conservation
Sangeeta Tyagi, PhD'93
Senior Research Scientist and Lecturer; Concentration Chair, Women, Gender and Sexuality
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; Concentration Chair, Children, Youth and Families
Expertise: Children and youth with developmental disabilities and special healthcare needs; family adaptation; longitudinal studies; program evaluation
MPP Faculty
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
Carole Carlson
Senior Lecturer
Expertise: Social entrepreneurship, strategy, organizational effectiveness, consultative skills, impact optimization for mission-driven organizations
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
Segal Program Director; Segal Program Leadership Team; IERE
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
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
Heller-Brown 156
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
Sarah Soroui, PhD'19
Adjunct Lecturer
Expertise: Technology and globalization for social safety net policies; employment relations; workforce policy and practice; and community development