Health Management & Policy 
Ph.D. Student Profiles
Omar Alshanqueety
Cognate: Economics
Research Interests:
Industrial organization of healthcare markets.
Contact info:oalshanq@umich.edu
Nancy Baum
Cognate: Interdisciplinary/ Ethics
Research Interests:
Public health ethics, resource allocation, mental health, public health systems research.
Contact info: nmbaum@umich.edu
Julie Berson-Grand
Cognate: Sociology
Research Interests:
Contact info: jbgrand@umich.edu
Anda Botoseneanu
Cognate: Sociology
Research Interests:
Heterogeneity in aging: patterns/trajectories, predictors and policies.
Obesity and influence on aging patterns/successful aging.
Inter-generational transmission of obesity.
Methodological issues in longitudinal research.
Structural equation modeling: M-plus.
Contact info: andabm@umich.edu
Katharine VandenBroek Bradley
Cognate: Political Science
Research Interests: Health insurance policy and regulation, American political process and political determinants of coverage, lobbying, federal and state political institutions.
Contact info: kvdbroek@umich.edu
Nate Carroll
Cognate: Finance
Research Interests:
Contact info: natcar@umich.edu
Ginger Smith Carls
Cognate: Economics
Research Interests:
Health and the environment, evaluation of disease management programs, medical care costs, managed care markets, econometrics.
Contact info: smithga@umich.edu
Michelle Debbink
Cognate: Sociology
Research Interests:
Contact info: mdebbink@umich.edu
Mary Harrington
Cognate: Interdisciplinary
Research Interests: Medicaid, SCHIP, and the uninsured; low income and other vulnerable populations.
Contact info:
mehn@umich.edu
Jennifer Hefner
Cognate: Sociology
Research Interests: The sociology of access to mental health services.
Contact info:
jhefner@umich.edu
Sean Huang
Cognate: Economics
Research Interests: Behavioral economics, health economics, and health behavior; health econometrics; socio-economics status and health disparities.
Contact info:
shenghsi@umich.edu
Rehka Johns
Cognate: Sociology
Research Interests: Health disparities, immigrant health, social determinants of health, aging.
Contact info:
rjohns@umich.edu
David Jones
Cognate: Political Science
Research Interests: Impact of political processes/institutions on policy and health, particularly in the US, Canada, and western Europe; issues and policies affecting obesity such as physical activity, injury, and nutrition.
Contact info: davidkj@umich.edu
Akiko Kamimura
Cognate: Organizational Behavior
Research Interests: Health disparities, immigrant health, social determinants of health, aging.
Contact info: kamimura@umich.edu
Rosalind Keith
Cognate: Organizational Behavior
Research Interests:
Contact info: rekeith@umich.edu
BoRin Kim
Cognate: Sociology
Research Interests: Comparative health policy and long-term care policy, international health, and population aging.
Contact info: poya@umich.edu
Sejica Kim
Cognate: Economics
Research Interests: Disease management, technology adoption, medical costs, consumer behavior.
Contact info:
sejica@umich.edu
Eric Lammers
Cognate: Economics
Research Interests: The economics of health care, provider adoption of health information technology and participation in health information exchange, and the impact of information about quality on consumer, provider, and insurer behavior.
Contact info: lammerse@umich.edu
Hsien-Chang Lin
Cognate:Economics/ Pharmaceutical Administration
Research Interests: Mental health policy, medication prescribing and utilization in patients with mental disorders, labor market of pharmacist, health outcomes research, pharmacoeconomics.
Contact info: hsclin@umich.edu
Pam McCann
Cognate:Interdisciplinary/ Political Science
Research Interests:Health policy diffusion and innovation, bureaucracy, political institutions, federalism, complex systems, learning and uncertainty in policymaking.
Contact info: pclouser@umich.edu
Leslee McKnight
Cognate: Political Science
Research Interests:
Contact info: lesleemc@umich.edu
Cheryl Moyer
Cognate: Interdisciplinary / Social-Psychology
Research Interests: Global health, maternal and child health in developing countries, psychosocial correlates of health, human resources for health in Africa
Contact info:
camoyer
Morgen Miller
Cognate: Economics
Research Interests: Health insurance markets, health labor force markets, economics of information.
Contact info: mmmill@umich.edu
Khady Ndao-Brumblay
Cognate: Sociology
Research Interests: Health and healthcare disparities (women, racial minorities, and recent immigrants), maternal and infant health and healthcare, global health policy.
Contact info: kndaobr@umich.edu
Kamilah Neighbors
Cognate: Sociology
Research Interests: Racial/ethnic disparities in health, child health policy, mental health policy, international comparison of health systems.
Contact info: kamilahn@umich.edu
Manya Newton
Cognate: Interdisciplinary
Research Interests: Access to care for the un- and under insured health and healthcare disparities (urban vs. rural), emergency medicine.
Contact info: manyan@umich.edu
Emily Nicklett
Cognate: Sociology
Research Interests: Social determinants of health and disparities among Latino and American Indian populations, mental health, chronic illness and disease trajectories, aging, social work, social mobility
Contact info: enicklet@umich.edu
Sayeh Nikpay
Cognate: Economics
Research Interests:
Contact info: snikpay@umich.edu
Edward Okeke
Cognate: Economics
Research Interests: Systems of health care financing, health insurance and health sector reform in developing countries.
Contact info: blkwrt@umich.edu
Sean Orzol
Cognate: Economics
Research Interests: Economics of health insurance; health disparities; child and family health; policy evaluation.
Contact info: orzol@umich.edu
Ana Quinones
Cognate: Interdisciplinary
Research Interests: International and population health, particularly in the areas of comparative aging, health disparities and immigrant health.
Contact info: anaq@umich.edu
Hemalatha Rao
Cognate: Sociology
Research Interests: Chronic Illness - specifically diabetes among women, minorities, and immigrant's, program evaluation of diabetes management programs, continuity of care, population health.
Contact info: latharao@umich.edu
Simone Rauscher
Cognate: Finance
Research Interests: Health care accounting and finance, health insurance and payment systems, and international health systems.
Contact info: srausche@umich.edu
Daniel Rubin
Cognate: Interdisciplinary/ Ethics
Research Interests:
Contact info: rubind@umich.edu
Joel Segel
Cognate: Economics
Research Interests: Economics of chronic disease and preventive care, behavioral economics.
Contact info: jesegel@umich.edu
Cameron Shultz
Cognate: Sociology
Research Interests: Racially-linked health disparities, health system processes of care, and the relationships between the social construction of race, subsequent “racialized” identities, and how these racialized identities affect health-related policies.
Contact info: cshultz@umich.edu
Soheil Soliman
Cognate: Economics
Research Interests:
Contact info: solimans@umich.edu
Will Story
Cognate: Sociology
Research Interests: Health systems strengthening in low-income countries; maternal, newborn and child health; health disparities.
Contact info: wstory@umich.edu
Jason Turner
Cognate: Finance
Research Interests: Healthcare finance and organization; managed care; healthcare cost analysis; healthcare business strategy.
Contact info: jsturner@umich.edu
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