National Advisory Committee

The National Advisory Committee is composed of 13 nationally recognized experts in social science and health policy. The Committee advises the National Program Office and the Foundation in the annual selection of Scholars and in monitoring the program’s ongoing progress. Vital to the success of the program, the Committee members review applications, participate in the annual meeting, visit program sites, and are available to Scholars for assistance in job placement. The Committee members are:

MARK A. PETERSON, PhD, Chair Professor of Public Policy and Political Science School of Public Affairs University of California - Los Angeles
LAWRENCE D. BOBO, PhD Martin Luther King, Jr. Centennial Professor of Sociology, and Director of the Center for Comparative Study in Race and Ethnicity Stanford University
CATHY J. COHEN, PhD Professor of Political Science University of Chicago
KAREN S. COOK, PhD Ray Lyman Wilbur Professor of Sociology Stanford University
DORA L. COSTA , PhD Professor of History, Demography, and Labor Economics Massachusetts Institute of Technology
WILLIAM N. EVANS, PhD Keough-Hesburgh Professor of Economics University of Notre Dame
ROBERT M. HAUSER, PhD Vilas Research Professor of Sociology Samuel A. Stouffer Professor of Sociology University of Wisconsin - Madison
DAVID MECHANIC, PhD Rene Dubos University Professor of Behavioral Sciences and Director, Institute for Health, Health Care Policy, and Aging Research Rutgers University
JAMES A. MORONE, PhD Professor of Political Science Brown University
MARK V. PAULY, PhD Bendheim Professor and Professor of Health Care Systems The Wharton School University of Pennsylvania
BARBARA SINCLAIR, PhD Marvin Hoffenberg Chair of American Politics Department of Political Science University of California - Los Angeles
BARBARA L. WOLFE, PhD Director, LaFollette School of Public Affairs Professor of Economics and Population Health Sciences University of Wisconsin - Madison
RASHI FEIN, PhD, Chair Emeritus Professor of the Economics of Medicine, Emeritus Harvard Medical School

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