PhD Faculty
Dolores Acevedo-Garcia
Samuel F. and Rose B. Gingold Professor of Human Development and Social Policy and Director, Institute for Child, Youth and Family Policy; Concentration Chair, Child, Youth and Families
Expertise: Public health, racial/ethnic disparities in health and social determinants of health, social policy and health
Acevedo-Garcia’s research focuses on the social determinants of racial/ethnic inequities in health, such as in residential segregation, neighborhood inequality and immigrant adaptation; the role of social policies in reducing those inequities, such as housing and immigration policies; and the health and wellbeing of children with disabilities and their families.
Constance Horgan
Professor and Director, Institute for Behavioral Health; Co-Director, Schneider Institutes for Health Policy and Research; Concentration Chair, Behavioral Health
Expertise: Organization and financing of alcohol, drug and mental health service; quality and effectiveness of behavioral health treatment
Horgan’s research focuses on the organization, financing and quality of behavioral healthcare. She examines how alcohol, drug and mental health services are financed, organized, and delivered in the public and private sectors, and what approaches can be used to improve the quality and effectiveness of the delivery system.
Lisa M. Lynch
Maurice B. Hexter Professor of Social and Economic Policy; Director, PhD Program; Director, Institute for Economic and Racial Equity; Concentration Co-Chair, Economic and Racial Equity
Tatjana Meschede
Senior Scientist and Senior Lecturer; Concentration Co-Chair, Economic and Racial Equity
Expertise: Poverty, economic security, homelessness and housing, research methods/statistics, working with large national data sets
Meschede’s research centers on economic inequities and social and economic mobility with a specific focus on racial wealth disparities, housing and homelessness. A skilled qualitative and quantitative researcher, her work ranges from community centered evaluations collaborating with local non-profits and state departments to national data projects.
Jennifer Perloff, PhD’06
Senior Scientist and Director, Institute on Healthcare Systems; Concentration Chair, Health
Expertise: Evaluation research, study design, survey tool design and validation, data analysis, including claims data, manuscript preparation
Perloff is an expert in health services research and evaluation, with a strong emphasis on value-based payment. She has been involved in numerous studies on the cost, quality and efficiency of nurse practitioner-delivered primary care, as well as research and policy analysis to support population health models and other value-based models, such as episode-based payment.
PhD Faculty
Stuart Altman
Sol C. Chaikin Professor of National Health Policy and Co-Director, Schneider Institutes for Health Policy and Research
Larry Bailis
Associate Professor
Christine Bishop
Atran Professor of Labor Economics
Janet Boguslaw
Senior Scientist and Senior Lecturer
William Crown
Distinguished Scientist
Joel Cutcher-Gershenfeld
Professor and Director, Social Impact MBA Program
Karen Donelan
Stuart H. Altman Chair in U.S. Health Policy
Deborah Garnick
Professor
Jody Hoffer Gittell
Professor
Anita Hill
University Professor of Social Policy, Law, and Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies
Dominic Hodgkin
Professor
Nina Kammerer
Senior Lecturer
Maria Madison
Interim Dean
Expertise: 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; clinical and public health research in Africa and Europe
Madison is a public health researcher with extensive experience in clinical trials and population health disparities research. In addition to implementing evidence-based diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives at Heller, her research builds on multidisciplinary thinking to address systematized racism and close equity gaps through policy. She has received awards in pharmacovigilance and public history. She teaches racial determinants of health and inequality, and bioethics.
Monika Mitra
Nancy Lurie Marks Professor of Disability Policy and Director of the Lurie Institute for Disability Policy
Lee Panas
Senior Programmer and Lecturer
Sharon Reif, PhD'02
Professor
Grant Ritter
Associate Professor
Rajesh Sampath
Associate Professor of the Philosophy of Justice, Rights, and Social Change
Leonard Saxe
Klutznick Professor of Contemporary Jewish Studies
Donald Shepard
Professor
Laurence Simon
Professor of International Development and Director, Center for Global Development and Sustainability
Cindy Parks Thomas, PhD'00
Professor and Associate Dean for Research
Expertise: Health policy, health technology transfer, state health reform, prescription drug policy, addiction treatment, Medicare and Medicaid coverage
Thomas researches and evaluates state and national health reform, pharmacy policy, insurance benefit design, and prescription drug abuse. Her work includes analyses of prescription drug utilization and spending trends, technology transfer, and impact evaluations of state coverage programs. Her work in behavioral health includes adoption and impact of new substance use disorder treatments, quality of treatment, and monitoring the prescribing and use of controlled substances.
Christopher Tompkins, MMHS’82, PhD’91
Associate Research Professor
Marji Erickson Warfield, PhD’91
Senior Scientist and Lecturer
David Weil
Professor
Graham Wright, MPP'15, PhD’16
Associate Research Scientist and Lecturer