Economics
Bound, John, Professor of Economics; Associate Research Scientist, Population Studies Center; Faculty
Associate, Survey Research Center. Demography, teen pregnancy, poverty and health.
Brown, Charles, Professor of Economics; Senior Research Scientist, Survey Research Center,
Institute for Social Research. Health and retirement.
Courant, Paul, Professor of Economics and Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy.
Benefit cost analysis, budget and tax policy.
Danziger, Sheldon, Professor, School of Social Work and Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy.
Mental health and poverty.
DiNardo, John, Professor of Economics and Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy.
Economics of labor unions, income inequality, applied econometrics, economics of health.
Eisenberg, Daniel, Assistant Professor of Health Management and Policy
    Health policy, behavioral health (mental health and substance use)
Hirth, Richard, Associate Professor of Health Management and Policy. Health care market behavior.
*Levy, Helen, Assistant Research Scientist of Health Management and Policy, and the Survey Research Center, Institute for Social Research Health insurance, health economics
McLaughlin, Catherine, Professor of Health Management and Policy.
Medically uninsured, market competition, consumer choice.
*Norton, Edward, Professor Health Management and Policy. Economics of long-term care and aging.
Schoeni, Robert, Professor, Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy: Research Professor, Survey Research Center, Institute for Social Research. Labor economics, the family, aging, and welfare policy.
Silverman, Dan, Assistant Professor, Department of Economics. Public and labor economics.
Simon, Carl, Professor of Mathematics, Economics, and Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy. Simulation models, AIDS.
Smith, Dean, Professor of Health Management and Policy. Health insurance, PPOs, pharmacoeconomics.
Warner, Kenneth, Dean, School of Public Health, Professor of Health Management and Policy. Economics of tobacco policy.
Weir, David, Professor and Associate Director Survey Research Center. Economics and Demography of Aging.
Wheeler, Jack, Professor of Health Management and Policy. Health care finance.
Willis, Robert, Professor of Economics; Senior Research Scientist, Institute for Social Research; Director, Health and Retirement Survey. Economic demography, health and retirement.

Political Science
Campbell, John, Professor of Political Science. Comparative health policy.
Corcoran, Mary, Professor of Political Science; Professor, School of Social Work; Professor,
Women's Studies Program. Domestic violence, mental health, welfare-to-work.
Gerber, Elizabeth, Professor Public Policy, Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy
   Policy consequences of electoral laws and other political institutions.
Greer, Scott, Assistant Professor Health Management and Policy
   Comparative health care systems: Federalism.
*Hall, Richard, Associate Professor of Political Science and Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy.
Politics of health care policy in Congress.
Herzog, Donald, Professor of Political Science; Professor of Law. Ethical issues in health care policy.
Hutchings, Vincent, Associate Professor, Research Associate, Center for Political Studies.
Race, ethnicity and politics.
Kollman, Kenneth, Associate Professor of Political Science.
American government and politics, formal political theory.
Lin, Ann, Associate Professor of Political Science and Public Policy. American government and politics,
qualitive research methods, race/ethnicity and politics, gender and politics.
Rabe, Barry, Professor, and Interim Dean, School of Natural Resources. Environmental policy.
Shipan, Charles, Professor Policital Science. American politics and institutions.

Sociology
Alexander, Jeffrey, Professor of Health Management and Policy; Faculty Associate, Survey Research Center,
Institute for Social Research. Organizational change in health care, multi-institutional systems.
Anderson, Barbara A., Professor of Sociology; Research Scientist, Population Studies Center.
Mortality and aging.
Anspach, Renee, Associate Professor of Sociology. Health organizations and professions, neonatal care.
Banaszak-Holl, Jane, Associate Professor of Health Management and Policy. Organizational change in
health care, interorganizational networks, institutions for chronic and long-term care.
Bruch, Elizabeth, Assistant Professor of Sociology. Relationship between education and health later in life, mate choice and marriage market dynamics
Burgard, Sarah, Assistant Professor Sociology. Health disparities; work and health; social demography.
House, James, Director, Survey Research Center, Institute for Social Research; Professor of Sociology.
Social epidemiology, aging, socioeconomic status and health.
*Lantz, Paula, Professor of Health Management and Policy.
Clinical preventive services, social epidemiology, women's health policy, program evaluation.
Liang, Jersey, Professor of Health Management and Policy; Senior Research Scientist, Institute of Gerontology.
Gerontology, comparative aging and health.
Mizruchi, Mark, Professor of Sociology and Business Administration; Research Associate,
Center for Research on Social Organization. Organization theory and social network analysis.
Morenoff, Jeffrey, Associate Professor of Sociology and a Faculty Associate Population Studies Center and the
Survey Research Center. Crime, health, urban neighborhoods, and the analysis of spatial data.
Schulz, Amy, Associate Research Scientist in Health Behavior/Health Education
   Community-based participatory research; ethnicity, culture and health
Smock, Pamela, Associate Professor of Sociology Family, gender and social inequality; economic consequences of divorce; cohabitation  
*Xie, Yu, Otis Dudley Duncan Professor of Sociology and Statistics, Research Professor of ISR. Statistical methods and demographic techniques      

Health Sciences

Fendrick, A. Mark, Associate Professor, Health Management and Policy and Internal Medicine.
Medical innovation, health care costs, access to new medical technology.
Freed, Gary, M.D., Professor and Chair of Division of General Pediatrics.
Child health services research; immunization policy.
*Hayward, Rodney, M.D., Professor of Internal Medicine and Health Management and Policy.
Medical outcomes, technology, physician practice patterns.
Howell, Joel, Professor of Internal Medicine and History: Director, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Clinical Scholars Program. History of medicine, medical technology.
Jacobson, Peter, Professor, Health Management and Policy
Health care law, role of courts in public health policy, tobacco control.
Kaplan, George, Chair, Department of Epidemiology; Director, Initiative on Social Inequalities in
Health Program Social epidemiology; income inequality and health.
Wyszewianski, Leon, Associate Professor of Health Management and Policy.
Quality of care, regulation of health care organizations.

*Members of the Scholars Program Steering Committee

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