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STEERING COMMITTEE
Scott D. Campbell, PhD
- 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, PhD
- Henry J. Meyer Distinguished Professor of Public Policy
- 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
Stephen B. Gruber, M.D., Ph.D., M.P.H.
- H. Marvin Pollard Professor of Internal Medicine
- Professor of Internal Medicine, Epidemiology, and Human Genetics - Division of Molecular Medicine & Genetics
Jeffrey Halter, MD
- 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
Mary Ellen M. Heisler, MD, MPH
- Associate Professor, Department of Internal Medicine
- Co-Director, Robert Wood Johnson Clincial Scholars Program
- Interests include: Chronic illnesses, diabetes and patient self-management of chronic illnesses; patient-doctor relations; disparities in processes and outcomes in chronic illnesses
Joel D. Howell, MD, PhD
- 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, MPH, DrPH
- 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, PhD
- Professor, Epidemiology
- Chair, 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, PhD
- 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
Kenneth Langa, MD, PhD
- General Internist & Associate Professor, Department of Internal Medicine
- Investigator, VA Center for Practice Management and Outcomes Research
- Faculty Associate in the Institute for Social Research
- Co-Investigator, Health and Retirement Study, funded by NIA
- Interests include: Focuses on estimating the societal costs of chronic disease for both working-age and older adults, with a special emphasis on Alzheimer’s Disease
Paula Lantz, PhD
- Chair and S. J. Axerod Collegiate 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
Trivellore E. Raghunathan, PhD
- Professor of Biostatistics
- Research Professor, Survey Research Center
- Director, Biostatistics Collaborative and Methodology Research Core (BCMRC)
- Affiliate, University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute (UMRTI)
- 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, PhD
- Research Professor, Population Studies
- Research Professor, Survey Research Center, Institute for Social Research
- Professor, Economics
- 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, PhD
- Professor, Economics
- Research Professor, Survey Research Center
- Research Professor, Population Studies
- Interests include: Labor economics, economic demography, economic development and the economics of aging
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