Scholars in Health Policy Research Program

The University of California at Berkeley (UCB) and San Francisco (UCSF) campuses are renowned for the quality of their teaching and research programs. Seven different units on the Berkeley and San Francisco campuses sponsor the Scholars Program: the UCB Departments of Economics, Political Science, and Sociology; the UCB Richard and Rhoda Goldman School of Public Policy; the UCB School of Public Health; the UCSF Institute for Health Policy Studies; and the UCSF Institute for Health and Aging. The UCB Departments of Economics, Political Science, and Sociology have been ranked among the five best in the nation. UCB’s School of Public Health and Goldman School of Public Policy are professional schools with nationally recognized academic programs. UCSF's Institute for Health Policy Studies and Institute for Health and Aging have national reputations for training and research in health policy. The UCSF institutes include more than 100 faculty and research staff dedicated to applying research findings to the solution of major health and social problems.

The Scholars Program is structured around three seminars and a dual mentor concept. The Health and Social Science Research Seminar focuses on the disciplines of economics, political science, and sociology with applications to health policy. The American Health Care System Seminar gives the Scholars an overview of the health services industry and current issues in health policy. The Health Policy Research Seminar allows Scholars an opportunity to invite guest speakers from their discipline, as well as provides a forum for Scholars to present their research to program participants and faculty. Scholars also have the opportunity to attend advanced graduate courses at UCB and UCSF. Each Scholar conducts health policy studies in conjunction with two Mentors, one from the Scholar's home discipline and another from a professional school at UCB or UCSF, with the Mentors possessing extensive experience in health policy research. The dual mentor concept stems from recognition that health policy study requires the application of social science methodology and an in-depth understanding of health care.

The Program offers flexibility in recognition of the unique background of each Scholar. Over 70 UCB and UCSF faculty have already served as Mentors for the Scholars. The Program has organized input from health policy leaders such as chief executive officers of hospitals and insurance companies, medical society leaders, state and local government officials, and policymakers from the public and private sectors. Scholars determine their own research agendas after consulting with their Mentors and Program Faculty. There are opportunities for interaction with scholars from other postdoctoral training programs, including the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health and Society Scholars. Resources available at UCB and UCSF include outstanding libraries, a statistical laboratory, and computing facilities.

Please direct inquiries concerning the Scholars Program at UCB/UCSF to:
Denise Mason
Program Coordinator
University of California, Berkeley
School of Public Health
50 University Hall, MC7360
Berkeley, CA 94720-7360
(510) 642-9987
rwjf_hpr@berkeley.edu
rwj.berkeley.edu

Michael L. Anderson, Assistant Professor of Agricultural and Resource Economics Environmental economics, health economics, and applied econometrics, especially relating to questions of causal inference

Robert M. Anderson, Professor of Economics
Mathematical economics; economics of AIDS

Alan Auerbach, Director of the Robert D. Burch Center for Tax Policy and Public Finance Domestic and international tax policy; fiscal policy and demographic change; inequality and tax policy

Raj Chetty, Professor of Economics
Tax salience; corporate taxation; social insurance; unemployment; risk preferences; liquidity constraints

Theodore E. Keeler, Professor of Economics
Economic aspects of the cigarette industry and determinants of smoking behavior; economics of regulation in the health care sector

Daniel L. McFadden, Professor of Economics
Economics of aging and measurement in biomedical economics

Edward Miguel, Professor of Economics
Impact of health status on education and productivity; AIDS orphans

Enrico Moretti, Associate Professor of Economics
Education, crime, health, political economy

John Quigley, Professor of Public Policy and Economics
AIDS issues and health care delivery in poor countries

Emmanuel Saez, Professor of Economics
Dynamics of income inequality; retirement plan decisions; capital income taxation; behavioral responses to taxation; optimal income taxation; social insurance

UCB Department of Political Science

Jack Citrin, Professor of Political Science and Director, Institute of Governmental Studies
Political sociology and nationalism

Robert A. Kagan, Professor of Political Science
Regulatory enforcement and tobacco regulation

Todd R. LaPorte, Professor Emeritus of Political Science
Institutional settings and technological change

Taeku Lee, Associate Professor of Political Science
Racial and ethnic politics; social movements and political behavior; health care and social welfare policies

Jonah Levy, Associate Professor of Political Science
European politics, comparative politics of welfare

Paul Pierson, Professor of Political Science
Comparative public policy; political economy; the welfare state

Eric Schickler, Professor of Political Science
American politics; the US Congress; rational choice theory; American political development; public opinion

Laura Stoker, Associate Professor of Political Science
Public opinion, reproductive rights and ethics

Robert Van Houweling, Assistant Professor of Political Science
Primary impediments to federal health care reforms

Harold Wilensky, Professor Emeritus of Political Science
Social welfare policy, health care policy, and comparative public policy

John Zysman, Professor of Political Science
Comparative politics; Western European politics; political economy

Irene Bloemraad, Assistant Professor of Sociology
Immigration, political sociology, race & ethnicity, social movements, nationalism, research methods, Canada

Neil Fligstein, Professor of Sociology
Organizations; economic sociology; methodology and statistics; political sociology

Michael Hout, Professor of Sociology
Demography; inequality; religion; social change; quantitative methods

John Levi Martin, Professor of Sociology
Belief systems; social structures; field theory; the rationalization of infantry war

Martín Sánchez-Jankowski, Professor of Sociology
Urban sociology; poverty; race and ethnicity; methodology

Neil Smelser, Professor Emeritus of Sociology
Sociological theory; economic sociology; collective behavior; sociology of education; social change; comparative methods

Ann Swidler, Professor of Sociology
Culture; religion; theory; institutionalization; African responses to HIV/AIDS

Charis Thompson, Associate Professor, Gender & Women’s Studies
Sociology of science, technology, environment and medicine, sociology of the body, feminist theory, gender, race, nation, nature, reproductive and genetic technologies, zoos and wildlife parks, surveillance and new media

Margaret Weir, Professor of Sociology
Political sociology; welfare state; urban politics

Eugene S. Bardach, Professor Emeritus of Public Policy
Policy implementation and public management, interorganizational collaboration in human services delivery

Henry E. Brady, Professor of Public Policy and Political Science
Welfare policy including health care and poverty

John W. Ellwood, Professor of Public Policy
Public sector budgeting; management of analytic staffs in a political environment; effects of recent changes in corporate laws and the market for corporate control on the relationship between corporations and their communities

Rucker Johnson, Assistant Professor of Public Policy
Labor and health economics, poverty & inequality, social welfare policy, urban economics

David L. Kirp, Professor of Public Policy
International health care and institutional reform; AIDS policy

Jane Mauldon, Associate Professor of Public Policy
Welfare policy; child and adolescent health, including disabled children and adolescent pregnancy

Michael O'Hare, Professor of Public Policy
Tax policy; facility siting; information and perceptions in public choice and work environments; policy design

Suzanne Scotchmer, Professor of Public Policy and Professor of Economics
Legal issues, including intellectual property protection and rules of evidence in criminal trials; evolutionary game theory

Eugene Smolensky, Professor of Public Policy
Poverty and the effects of governmental income transfers

David I. Levine, Chair in Business Administration
Causes and effects of high wages, workplace diversity, and employee involvement; causes and effects of investments in health and education, particularly in poor nations

Alexandre Mas, Assistant Professor of Haas School of Business and Department of Economics Labor unrest and the quality of production: evidence from the construction equipment resale market; welfare reform; time-limits; and infant health

Trond K. Petersen, Professor of Organizational Behavior and Industrial Relations, Associate Professor, Department of Sociology
Comparative gender inequality in the workplace; hiring; promotions; wages; quantitative methods

David J. Vogel, Distinguished Professorship in Business Ethics
Consumer and environmental regulation in Europe and the United States; corporate social responsibility in the global economy; environment and trade; food safety regulation in Europe

Lauren Edelman, Professor of Law and Professor of Sociology
Interplay between organizations and their legal environments; mobilization of their legal rights and the internal legal cultures of work organizations

Jonathan Simon, Assc. Dean, Jurisprudence and Social Policy Program, and Professor of Law
Governing through crime; issues in legal scholarship; the power of capital crime victim speech

Stephen Sugarman, Associate Dean, Professor of Law Torts
Sports law; educational policy and law

Joan R. Bloom, Professor of Public Health
Organizational effectiveness and efficiency; health promotion; psychosocial oncology

Ralph C. Catalano, Professor of Public Health
Economic antecedents of specialty mental health services utilization; economic antecedents of stress related illness

William Dow, Associate Professor of Health Economics
Health economics; international health; economic demography

Paul Gertler, Professor of Health Services and Finance
Role of regulation and finance in health care markets; internal organization of health care institutions; social health insurance in developing countries

Sylvia Guendelman, Professor of Community Health and Human Development
Reproductive health of immigrant women; women's health; access to health care for disadvantaged populations, including the working poor; health along the U.S.-Mexico border

Jodi Halpern, Assistant Professor of Bioethics
Empathy and healthcare ethics; ethical implications of managed care; patient autonomy; agency and human rights

Helen Ann Halpin, Professor of Health Policy
Increasing access to health insurance; consumer experiences in managed care; smoking cessation benefits; integration of health promotion and disease prevention services in the US Health Care System

Ann Keller, Assistant Professor in Health Policy and Management
The role of scientific expertise in environmental health policy, Regulation of complex and emerging technologies, Government-community interactions in pursuit of public health and safety

Teh-Wei Hu, Professor Emeritus of Health Economics
Economics of tobacco control; health care reform in Asia; costs and outcomes of mental health capitation experiments

James C. Robinson, Professor of Health Economics
Biotechnology policy and strategy; health insurance; physician payment methods; health care finance; nonprofit and for-profit organization

Thomas G. Rundall, Professor of Health Policy and Administration
Application of organizational theory to health care; physician practice organizations; hospital restructuring; program and policy evaluation; information technology in health care

Richard M. Scheffler, Distinguished Professor of Health Economics and Public Policy
Organization and financing of mental health services; incentives and mergers in managed care; reforming health systems in Eastern Europe; supply of physicians in the 21st Century

Stephen M. Shortell, Distinguished Professor of Health Policy and Management
Organizational correlates of quality and outcomes of care; evaluation of total quality management and community-based health improvement initiatives; strategic change in the health care sector; strategic alliances between physicians and other health care entities

S. Leonard Syme, Professor Emeritus of Epidemiology
Social determinants of disease; community interventions

May-Choo Wang, Assistant Adjunct Professor of Community Health & Human Development Neighborhood and family environmental influences on diet-related conditions, obesity, and osteoporosis risk; socioeconomic disparities in nutrition and health; diet assessment methods for ethnically diverse populations; diet and health in immigrant Asian and Latino populations

Lisa A. Bero, Professor of Clinical Pharmacy
Tobacco; dissemination of research; evidence-based medicine; pharmaceutical issues; ethics

Andrew B. Bindman, Associate Professor of Medicine, Epidemiology, and Biostatistics
Access issues; patient outcomes

Claire D. Brindis, Professor of Pediatrics and Health Policy
Reproductive health issues; child health; health care financing; women's health; prevention and health promotion

Daniel Dohan, Assistant Adjunct Professor, Health Policy Studies & Dept. of Anthropology, History, and Social Medicine
Socioeconomic status; cultural issues/diversity; access to care; substance abuse

Joseph Guydish, Associate Adjunct Professor of Medicine and Health Policy
Behavioral medicine; substance abuse treatment; HIV policy

Helene L. Lipton, Professor of Social Pharmacy
Pharmaceutical issues; managed care; aging, including long-term care; outcomes and quality of care; health care delivery systems

Paul W. Newacheck, Professor of Health Policy
Child health; access to care; health care financing

Drummond Rennie, Professor of Medicine
Ethics; peer review; authorship; dissemination of research; access to care; evidence-based medicine; pharmaceutical issues

Jonathan Showstack, Adjunct Professor of Health Policy
Costs of illness and cost-effectiveness; organizational change; infertility; evidence-based medicine; health care delivery systems

Arnold Eugene Washington, Professor of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences Reproductive epidemiology

Edward Yelin, Adjunct Professor of Medicine
Chronic disease/disability; work; access to care; managed care; socioeconomic status

Carroll L. Estes, Professor Emeritus of Sociology
Medical sociology; political sociology; complex organizations; sociology of aging issues relating to older women; health policy; evaluation research

Patrick J. Fox, Associate Professor in Residence
Alzheimer's disease; Medicare home health policy

Charlene A. Harrington, Professor of Sociology
Long-term care; financing; legislation; planning and regulation

Sharon Kaufman, Professor of Medical Anthropology
Aging; culture of medicine; anthropology of 'life itself;" intersections of biotechnologies, subjectification and the body

Wendy Max, Associate Adjunct Professor
Economics of tobacco use; disability; domestic violence

Robert H. Miller, Assistant Professor in Residence
Economics of long-term and managed care

Robert J. Newcomer, Professor of Sociology
Planning and administration of services for the aging; Alzheimer's disease; long-term care

Dorothy P. Rice, Professor in Residence
Health statistics; aging and long term care; disability; domestic violence; cost of illness methodology and estimation; chronic illness; economics of tobacco use