The Executive Committee and some of the broader group of faculty from whom the Scholars might draw for collaboration/advisorship are listed below:

Political Science
James Alt, Professor of Government - political institutions, fiscal policy
Sunshine Hillygus, Associate Professor of Government and director of the Harvard Program on Survey Research – American voting behavior, campaigns and elections, survey research, and information technology and society
Robert Blendon, Professor of Health Policy and Management - public opinion, institutional trust
*Dan Carpenter, Professor of Government - government regulation, media behavior, methodology
Claudine Gay, Professor of Government and Professor of Africa and African American Studies – American political behavior, public opinion, and race and ethnic politics
Peter Hall, Professor of Government - comparative health systems, institutional analysis, methodology
*Jennifer Hochschild, Professor of Government - political philosophy, race and ethnicity, public opinion
*Gary King, Professor of Government, recently named University Professor, Harvard’s highest professorial distinction -comparative health systems, war, methodology
Jane Mansbridge, Professor of Political Leadership - feminism, trust, collective action, social movements
Kevin Quinn, Associate Professor of Government – estimation, Supreme Court decision-making, party competition in multiparty democracies, and methods for ecological inference
Theda Skocpol, Professor of Government and Professor of Sociology – American politics; political sociology; social revolutions; modern welfare states; comparative historical sociology
Robert Putnam, Professor of Public Policy - comparative politics, social capital
Nancy Rosenblum, Professor of Government - political theory, pluralism, religion
Kenneth Shepsle, Professor of Government - pluralism, fiscal policy, political demography
Dennis Thompson, Professor of Government - political philosophy, ethics, political theory

Sociology
Jason Beckfield, Assistant Professor of Sociology – stratification, health, and social policy in the context of economic and political "globalization"
Lisa Berkman, Professor of Public Policy - social epidemiology, inequality, social support, race and ethnicity
Lawrence D. Bobo, Professor of the Social Sciences, Professor of Sociology and Professor of Africa and African American Studies – social inequality, politics, and race
Nicholas Christakis, Professor of Medical Sociology and Professor of Sociology - terminal and chronic illness, aging, networks, methodology
Kathryn Edin, Professor of Public Policy and Management, Harvard Kennedy School of Government – urban poverty and family life, social welfare, public housing, child support, and nonmarital childbearing
Mary Jo Good, Professor of Social Medicine - comparative health systems, bioethics, gender, globalization
Christopher Jencks, Professor of Public Policy - welfare reform, the distribution of material hardship, family structure, and the noneconomic effects of economic inequality
Ron Kessler, Professor of Health Care Policy - mental health, health transition, help seeking
Michele Lamont, Professor of Sociology, Professor of European Studies, and Professor of Africa and African American Studies – how culture contributes to ethno-racial and class inequality, racism and anti-racism (how discriminated people -including immigrants- respond to exclusion and understand the relationship between themselves and others), the sociology of the social sciences, and the impact of self-identity on health
*Peter Marsden, Professor of Sociology - social organizations, social networks, methodology
Mary Ruggie, Professor of Public Policy - comparative health systems, gender, alternative medicine
Robert J. Sampson, Professor of the Social Sciences and Professor of Sociology – crime, law, and deviance; neighborhood effects; community/urban; sociology of the city; the life course
*Mary Waters, Professor of Sociology - social demography, race and ethnic relations, social stratification
Bruce Western, Professor of Sociology – political and comparative sociology, stratification and inequality, and methodology
David R. Williams, Professor of Public Health (Harvard School of Public Health) and Professor of African and African American Studies – race/ethnicity; health and society
William Julius Wilson, University Professor – race/ethnic/minority relations; urban sociology; social policy
Chris Winship, Professor of Sociology - family demography, race and ethnicity, education, methodology

Economics
Katherine Baicker, Professor of Health Economics, Harvard School of Public Health – distribution, generosity, and effectiveness of public and private health insurance; health insurance finance, and the effect of reforms on the distribution and quality of care
Amitabh Chandra, Associate Professor of Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School of Government – productivity and expenditure growth in healthcare, the role of medical malpractice litigation on the delivery of health care, and the economics of neonatal health and cardiovascular care
* Michael E. Chernew, Professor of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School – impact of managed care on the health care marketplace, health care cost growth, and the use of medical technology; determinants of patient choice of hospital and the impact of health plan performance measures on employee and employer selection of health plans
David Cutler, Otto Eckstein Professor of Applied Economics - productivity of health sector, managed care, disability (on leave Spring 2009)
Erica Field, Assistant Professor of Economics and member of Cohort 10 – economic demography, microeconomic analysis of development, property rights, health and development
Richard Freeman, Professor of Economics – growth and decline of unions, effects of immigration and trade on inequality, restructuring European welfare states, Chinese labor markets, poverty and crime, self-organizing non-union in the labor market
Richard Frank, Professor of Health Economics - mental health, pharmaceutical industry, organizations
David C. Grabowski, Associate Professor of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School – the economics of aging and health care regulation, with a particular interest in the area of long-term care
Haiden Huskamp, Associate Professor of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School -- economics of the pharmaceutical industry, the economics of mental health and substance abuse (MH/SA) treatment, and the financing of end-of-life-care services
David Laibson, Harvard College Professor and Professor of Economics – psychology and economics, experimental economics, intertemporal choice
Lawrence Katz, Professor of Economics - labor economics, econometrics, contraception, inequality
Michael Kremer, Gates Professor of Developing Societies - incentives for R&D on drugs and vaccines and on the interactions between socio/epidemiological modeling of infectious disease
Brigitte Madrian, Professor of Public Policy and Corporate Management, Harvard Kennedy School of Government – household saving and investment behavior, the design of employer-sponsored savings plans, pension reform, and the impact of health insurance on the job choice and retirement decisions of employees
*Thomas McGuire, Professor of Health Economics - health care payment systems, mental health, risk adjustment
Ellen R. Meara, Associate Professor Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School – welfare reform and substance abuse, racial and educational disparities in mortality and health over time, and the nature and determinants of medical spending over time
*Joseph Newhouse, Professor of Health Care Policy and Management - risk adjustment, managed care
Ariel Pakes, Professor of Economics - industrial organization, econometrics
Meredith Rosenthal, Associate Professor of Health Economics and Policy, Harvard School of Public Health, the design and impact of market-based health policy reforms, including the use of provider financial incentives and mechanisms to alter consumer behavior and the competitive environment for health care providers
*Katherine Swartz, Professor of Health Policy and Economics - access to insurance, managed care
Richard Zeckhauser, Professor of Political Economy - resource allocation, information limits, health risks

Health Sciences and Other Disciplines
John Ayanian, MD, Professor of Health Care Policy - disparities, cancer, race, gender, physician behavior
Margarita Alegria, Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School and Cambridge Health Alliance -- disparities in mental health and substance abuse services, improving access, equality and quality of these services for disadvantaged and minority populations
Susan Dynarski, Assistant Professor of Public Policy - labor economics, econometrics, public finance, inequality
Arnold Epstein, Professor of Health Policy and Management - access to care, quality, race, gender
Steven Gortmaker, Professor of Society, Human Development, and Health - health of children and adolescents, particularly households living in poverty and minority populations
Robert Huckman, Associate Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School
Arthur Kleinman, Professor of Medical Anthropology - suffering, mental health, comparative health care
Barbara McNeil, MD, Professor of Health Care Policy - quality, financial incentives, guidelines
J. Michael McWilliams, MD, Assistant Professor of Health Care Policy and Medicine, Harvard Medical School – access to care, quality of care, health care costs, and health disparities among aging adults with chronic conditions
Ellen Meara, Assistant Professor of Health Economics - non-medical determinants of health care use and outcomes including: social programs, health behaviors, and socioeconomic status
David G. Stevenson, Assistant Professor of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School – aging, disability, and long-term care

*Members of the Executive Committee