PhD Faculty
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
Expertise: Labor markets, unemployment, organizational innovation
PhD Faculty
Dolores Acevedo-Garcia
Adjunct Professor
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.
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
William Crown
Distinguished Scientist
Expertise: Health economics, pharmaceutical economics, real world analysis, comparative effectiveness research, causal inference, machine learning
Joel Cutcher-Gershenfeld
Professor and Director, Social Impact MBA Program
Expertise: Theory and method in industrial relations, negotiations, institutional analysis, organizational behavior, information systems, employment law, cross-cultural studies
Karen Donelan
Stuart H. Altman Chair in U.S. Health Policy
Expertise: Health survey research; health workforce research; health system innovation and evaluation; health systems and services diversity, equity, inclusion research; health teams for older adults, including adults with dementia and disability
Deborah Garnick
Professor
Expertise: Managed care, health care quality, substance abuse treatment services, insurance reform, performance measurement, healthcare datasets, survey data
Jody Hoffer Gittell
Professor
Expertise: Organizational change, organizational effectiveness, organizational resilience, organizational theory, human resource management, relational coordination
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; Co-Director, Schneider Institutes for Health Policy and Research; Concentration Co-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.
Nina Kammerer
Senior Lecturer
Expertise: Anthropology and public health, Southeast Asia, U.S., and Catalunya, Spain, qualitative research methods, mixed methods, program evaluation, health services research, behavioral health, HIV/AIDS, trauma, ethnicities and nations, gender, kinship and social organization, ritual and religion
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.
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.
Monika Mitra
Nancy Lurie Marks Professor of Disability Policy and Director of the Lurie Institute for Disability Policy
Expertise: Health and disability research; public health approach to disability; disability-related disparities in health and health care access; violence against persons with disabilities; perinatal health of women with disabilities; reproductive health care access; unmet needs and barriers to care for people with disabilities
Lee Panas
Senior Programmer and Lecturer
Expertise: Statistical programming and analysis of large state and national databases
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.
Sharon Reif, PhD'02
Professor and Director, Institute for Behavioral Health; Concentration Co-Chair, Behavioral Health
Expertise: Health services research, with a focus on substance use disorders (substance abuse, addiction, alcohol, drugs) and other behavioral health
Grant Ritter
Associate Professor
Expertise: Statistics, quantitative methods, health services research
Rajesh Sampath
Associate Professor of the Philosophy of Justice, Rights, and Social Change
Expertise: General topics in applied moral and political philosophy; philosophy of development; comparative religions; theories of justice; development ethics; philosophy of law, comparative constitutional law, critical race theory, gender and sexuality, human rights and theories of democracy
Leonard Saxe
Klutznick Professor of Contemporary Jewish Studies
Expertise: Social psychology, methodology, policy analysis; American Jewry
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
Laurence Simon
Professor of International Development and Director, Center for Global Development and Sustainability
Expertise: Philosophy of development, political geography, poverty alleviation, agrarian reform, project planning and implementation, evaluation, organizational management
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
Expertise: Health services research, health economics, national and state health policy, research methods
Marji Erickson Warfield, PhD’91
Senior Scientist and Lecturer
Expertise: Children and youth with developmental disabilities and special health care needs, family adaptation, longitudinal studies, program evaluation
David Weil
Professor
Graham Wright, MPP'15, PhD’16
Associate Research Scientist and Lecturer
Graham Wright is an Associate Research Scientist and Lecturer at the Steinhardt Social Research Institute and the Cohen Center for Modern Jewish Studies.