
Diana Bowser
Associate Professor and Director, PhD Program
Expertise: Health economics, health systems, Latin America, quantitative and qualitative methods
Bowser is a health economist focused on health system issues and research related to health financing, poverty, catastrophic health payments, quality improvement, human resources for health, decentralization, and health and economic growth. She uses econometric methods and costing techniques to evaluate health system changes globally with projects in the United States and around the world.

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, 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.

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: Asset development, program implementation and evaluation; poverty and economic security; precarious work; stakeholder engagement; qualitative methods and analysis; case studies

Jon Chilingerian
Professor
Expertise: Research and teaching on organizational leadership, DEA, health services research, performance management, health care management, 360 leadership coaching, executive education, and organization theory

William Crown
Distinguished Scientist

Joel Cutcher-Gershenfeld
Professor; Associate Dean, Academics

Karen Donelan
Stuart H. Altman Chair in U.S. Health Policy

Stephen Fournier
Senior Lecturer in the Heller School and Adjunct Professor in the International Business School
Expertise: Statistics, econometrics, data analysis and applied causal modeling and data maintenance, special expertise in both Stata and SPSS

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

Anita Hill
University Professor of Social Policy, Law, and Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies

Dominic Hodgkin
Professor
Expertise: Health economics, managed care, economics of mental health and substance abuse, prescription drugs

Nina Kammerer
Senior Lecturer
Expertise: Anthropology and public health, Southeast Asia, US, 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.

Monika Mitra
Nancy Lurie Marks Associate 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

Jeffrey Prottas
Professor
Expertise: Organizational research, community-based research, health policy and implementation studies, case studies, surveys and qualitative analysis

Sharon Reif, PhD’02
Professor
Expertise: Health services research, with a focus on substance use disorders (substance abuse, addiction, alcohol, drugs) and other behavioral health

Grant Ritter
Associate Research 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

Len Saxe
Klutznick Professor of Contemporary Jewish Studies
Expertise: Social psychology, methodology, policy analysis; American Jewry

Thomas Shapiro
Pokross Professor of Law and Social Policy
Expertise: Racial inequality and public policy

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 R. 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

Maureen Stewart, PhD’09
Senior Scientist and Lecturer
Expertise: Health services research, with a focus on financing and organization of behavioral health care; use of technology to improve access to and quality of behavioral health care

Cindy 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 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

Graham Wright, MPP'15, PhD’16
Associate Research Scientist and Lecturer