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.
Expert Type: Grantee
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.
Taryn Morrissey
Taryn Morrissey is a professor of public policy in the School of Public Affairs, Department of Public Administration and Policy at American University. Her work focuses on examining and improving public policies for vulnerable children, including early care and education, nutrition assistance, and public health policies. Morrissey has served in senior policy positions at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and on the staff of the U.S. Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee. She began her career in policy as a Society for Research in Child Development/American Association for the Advancement of Science Congressional Fellow. She received her Ph.D. in developmental psychology at Cornell University, her M.A. in human development and family studies at Cornell University, and her B.S. in psychology and child development at Tufts University.
Adam Reich
Adam Reich is an associate professor of sociology at Columbia University and a faculty affiliate at Columbia’s Interdisciplinary Center for Innovative Theory and Empirics. His research focuses on three institutions that jointly structure the life chances and permeate the lives of millions of Americans today: the healthcare system, the criminal justice system, and the low-wage labor market. Reich is the author of four books, the most recent of which is Working for Respect: Community and Conflict at Walmart (Columbia University Press, 2018), co-authored with Peter Bearman. He is also the author of several peer-reviewed articles, which have appeared in journals such as the American Journal of Sociology, Social Science & Medicine, Socio-Economic Review, and Industrial and Labor Relations Review. Reich received his Ph.D. in sociology from the University of California, Berkeley and was a Robert Wood Johnson Health & Society scholar at Columbia University from 2012 to 2014.
Elena Patel
Elena Patel is a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and co-director of the Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center. Her research examines how tax systems, health programs, social programs, and governance structures shape economic behavior and well-being. She has studied the design of optimal tax systems and their effects on investment and capital accumulation, how workers respond to changing incentives and risks, how leadership and governance affect firms, and how health policies spill over into labor markets. Before joining Brookings, she was an assistant professor at the University of Utah’s David Eccles School of Business, a senior public finance economist at the Council of Economic Advisers, and also held positions at the U.S. Treasury Department, the Postal Regulatory Commission, the Congressional Budget Office, and the U.S. Department of Justice. She earned her Ph.D. in economics from the University of Michigan.