Kanika Arora is an associate professor in the Department of Health Management and Policy at the University of Iowa. Her research focuses on gerontology with a special emphasis on informal caregiving, cannabis use among older adults, end-of-life outcomes, and Alzheimer’s Disease and dementia. She has examined the effect of several policies and programs, including paid family leave, legalization of medical marijuana, managed care, and consolidation of state area agencies on aging, on older adult and caregiver outcomes. Her recent work examines dementia prevalence and trajectories of cognitive functioning among agricultural workers, outcomes among senior and disabled individuals under Medicaid managed care, and the effect of a dementia onset on change in risky behaviors (such as smoking and alcohol use) among older adults. She completed her Ph.D. in public administration from the Maxwell School, Syracuse University.
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Stefan Pichler
Stefan Pichler is an associate professor of public health at the Department of Economics, Econometrics and Finance at the University of Groningen (Netherlands). Prior to that, he was a senior researcher at the KOF institute at ETH Zürich in Switzerland. His research is in the field of applied health and labor economics. His research on sick leave has been featured by several news outlets and cited as a reason for the Healthy Families Act and the FFCRA emergency sick leave provision. He completed his doctoral studies at the Graduate School of Finance Economics and Management and earned his Ph.D. in 2013 at the Technische Universität Darmstad in Germany.
Nicolas R. Ziebarth
Nicolas R. Ziebarth is an associate professor in the Department for Policy Analysis and Management at Cornell University. He studies the interaction of social insurance systems with labor markets and population health. In particular, he is an international expert on the economics of sick leave and has published numerous refereed journal articles on the topic. Another focus of his work is the driving forces and implications of risky health behavior such as smoking, drinking, or overeating. He holds a Ph.D. in economics from the Berlin Institute of Technology.
Julia Goodman
Julia Goodman is an assistant professor at the Oregon Health & Science University and Portland State University School of Public Health. She is a health policy researcher who studies how work and work-related policies affect maternal and infant health. She earned her Ph.D. in health policy and her M.P.H. in maternal and child health from the University of California, Berkeley. She also holds a B.Sc. in psychology from McGill University.
Janusz Wojtusiak
Janusz Wojtusiak is the Professor of Health Informatics and Director of the Machine Learning and Inference Laboratory at George Mason University. His research interests include the development and use of intelligent systems in healthcare. In particular, he focuses on creating artificial intelligence algorithms for clinical decision support and knowledge discovery in medical data, and supporting health services research. He obtained with honors his M.S. in computer science from Jagiellonian University in 2001 and Ph.D. in computational sciences and informatics, with a concentration in computational intelligence and knowledge mining, from George Mason University in 2007.
Kathryn Wagner
Kathryn Wagner is an assistant professor of economics at Marquette University in Milwaukee. She is an economist whose work focuses on health economics, public policy, and programs related to disability. She received her Ph.D. in economics from the University of Notre Dame in 2015 and her B.A. from Albion College in 2010.
Laura Dague
Laura Dague is an associate professor in the Bush School of Government and Public Service at Texas A&M University. She is a health economist who studies the programs and policies affecting the lives of low-income people and people with disabilities. Dague is a faculty affiliate at the University of Wisconsin’s Institute for Research on Poverty and a Faculty Research Fellow in the NBER's Health Economics program. She received her Ph.D. in economics from the University of Wisconsin.
Priyanka Anand
Priyanka Anand is an associate professor in the Department of Health Administration and Policy at George Mason University and a nonresident scholar at the Washington Center for Equitable Growth. She is a health economist whose research focuses on disability policy and social safety nets, with a particular interest in their relationships with the labor market. She received her Ph.D. in economics from Yale University in 2012 and her B.A. in economics and political science from the University of California, Berkeley.
Catherine Maclean
Catherine Maclean is an associate professor of economics at Temple University, a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, and a research affiliate at IZA. She primarily works in the areas of well-being, mental health, alcohol and drug use, and tobacco product use, and the role of public policies, such as health and social insurance, access to healthcare, and taxation, in influencing these outcomes. Her work has been supported by the National Institutes of Health, American Cancer Society, American Heart Association, and Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Maclean earned her Ph.D. in economics from Cornell University and her M.A. and B.Sc. in economics from Dalhousie University.
Leah Stokes
Leah Stokes is an assistant professor in the Department of Political Science and affiliated with the Bren School of Environmental Science & Management and the Environmental Studies Department at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Her research is focused on energy, climate and environmental politics. Stokes completed her Ph.D. in public policy in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning’s Environmental Policy & Planning group at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She received her M.A. from MIT’s Political Science Department and completed her M.PA. in Environmental Science & Policy at the School of International & Public Affairs and the Earth Institute at Columbia University. She also received a B.S. in psychology and East Asian studies from the University of Toronto. Prior to academia, she worked at the Parliament of Canada and Resources for the Future.