THE ROBERT WOOD JOHNSON HEALTH & SOCIETY SCHOLARS PROGRAM
AT THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN
The Robert Wood Johnson Health and Society Scholars Programs
THE ROBERT WOOD JOHNSON HEALTH & SOCIETY SCHOLARS PROGRAM AT THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN
STEERING COMMITTEE

Scott D. Campbell, Ph.D.

  • Associate Professor, Urban Planning
  • Coordinator of Doctoral Studies, College of Architecture and Urban Planning
  • Interests include: Conflict between economic development and environmental protection, environmental economics, regional and urban planning

Sheldon H. Danziger, Ph.D.

  • Henry J. Meyer Distinguished Professor of Public Policy
  • Co-Director, National Poverty Center
  • Director, Ford Foundation Program on Poverty and Public Policy
  • Interests include: Trends in poverty and inequality and the effects of economic and demographic changes and government social programs on disadvantaged groups

Sandro Galea, M.D., Dr.P.H.

  • Associate Professor of Epidemiology
  • Research Affiliate, Population Studies Center
  • Interests include: The effects of urban context on a variety of health outcomes (morbidity, mortality, and risk behaviors), and in the determinants of mental health

Jeffrey Halter, M.D.

  • Research Professor, Institute of Gerontology
  • Professor of Internal Medicine
  • Chief, Division of Geriatric Medicine
  • Director, Geriatrics Center and Institute of Gerontology Medical School
  • Interests include: Neuroendocrine regulation of metabolism in aging and in non-insulin dependent diabetes mellitus, and regulation of autonomic nervous system function

Joel D. Howell, M.D., Ph.D.

  • Director, Program in Society and Medicine
  • Professor of Internal Medicine
  • Professor of Health Management and Policy
  • Professor of History
  • Victor Vaughn Professor of the History of Medicine
  • Interests include: International comparisons of medical technology use, technology assessment, history of medical technology, history of health care, and medical ethics

Barbara Israel, M.P.H., Dr.P.H.

  • Professor of Health Behavior and Health Education
  • Director, Detroit Community-Academic Urban Research Center
  • Interests include: Community-based participatory research, stress, social support, control, and physical and mental health

Sharon Kardia, Ph.D.

  • Associate Professor, Epidemiology
  • Director, Public Health Genetics Program
  • Co-Director, Life Sciences, Values and Society Program
  • Interests include: Complex genetic architecture of common chronic diseases, norm-of-reaction and gene-environment interactions, use of high dimensional microarray and proteomic data

David A. Lam, Ph.D.

  • Research Professor, Population Studies Center, Institute for Social Research
  • Professor of Economics
  • Interests include: Interaction of economics and demography in developing countries links between education, labor markets, and income inequality

Paula Lantz, Ph.D.

  • Chair and Professor of Health Management and Policy
  • Co-Director, RWJ Scholars Program in Health Policy Research
  • Research Associate Professor, Institute for Social Research
  • Interests include: Policy issues in women's health and child health, clinical preventive services (such as cancer screening and prenatal care), and social inequalities in health

Jeffrey Morenoff, Ph.D.

  • Associate Professor of Sociology
  • Associate Chair, Department of Sociology
  • Research Associate Professor, Institute for Social Research
  • Interests include: Crime, health, urban neighborhoods, and the anlaysis of spatial data

Trivellore E. Raghunathan, Ph.D.

  • Professor of Biostatistics
  • Research Professor, Survey Research Center
  • Associate Director, Survey Methodology Program
  • Interests include: Design and analysis of sample surveys, analysis of missing data, masking public release data for confidentiality purposes, Bayesian and statistical methods for epidemiological research

Robert Schoeni, Ph.D.

  • Research Professor, Population Studies
  • Research Professor, Survey Research Center, Institute for Social Research
  • Associate Professor, Economics
  • Associate Director, PSID
  • Professor, Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy
  • Interests include: Family, labor economics, and demography including analyses of, intergenerational familial transfers, welfare reform, workers' compensation, immigration, and displaced workers

Robert J. Willis, Ph.D.

  • Professor, Economics
  • Research Professor, Survey Research Center
  • Research Professor, Population Studies
  • Interests include: Labor economics, economic demography, economic development and the economics of aging

Mark Wilson, Sc.M., Sc.D.

  • Professor of Epidemiology
  • Director, Global Health Program
  • Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
  • Interests include: Global environmental change and health, epidemiology and population ecology of zoonotic and vector-borne diseases, the analysis of transmission dynamics, the evolution of vector-host-parasite systems, and the determinants of human risk

Elizabeth A. Young, M.D.

  • Professor of Psychiatry
  • Research Professor, Molecular and Behavioral Neuroscience Institute
  • Research Professor, Reproductive Sciences Program
  • Interest include: The stress hormonal axis and its interaction with the gonadal axis, in depression, PTSD and other outcomes, neurosciences

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