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POTENTIAL COLLABORATORS AND ADVISORS

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
Robert Bates, Professor of Government - governmental reform, economic policy reform, and political economy
Robert Blendon, Professor of Health Policy and Management - public opinion, institutional trust
*Dan Carpenter, Professor of Government - government regulation, media behavior, methodology
Jorge Dominguez, Professor of International Affairs - international 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 - comparative health systems, war, methodology
Jane Mansbridge, Professor of Political Leadership - feminism, trust, collective action, social movements
Rachel McCleary, Lecturer, Government Department - political philosophy, comparative study of religion, comparative politics, and international relations
J. Russell Muirhead, Associate Professor of Government - moral philosophy, ethics and politics, American political thought, modern ideologies, parties and partisanship
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
Lisa Berkman, Professor of Public Policy - social epidemiology, inequality, social support, race and ethnicity
*Nicholas Christakis, Professor of Medical Sociology and Professor of Sociology - terminal and chronic illness, aging, networks, methodology
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
Jason Kaufman, Associate Professor of the Social Sciences - public health, political sociology
Ron Kessler, Professor of Health Care Policy - mental health, health transition, help seeking
Peter Marsden, Professor of Sociology - social organizations, social networks, methodology
Mary Ruggie, Professor of Public Policy - comparative health systems, gender, alternative medicine
*Mary Waters, Professor of Sociology - social demography, race and ethnic relations, social stratification
Chris Winship, Professor of Sociology - family demography, race and ethnicity, education, methodology

Economics
David Bloom, Professor of Economics and Demography - heath and economic growth, discrimination, AIDS
David Cutler, Professor of Economics - productivity of health sector, managed care, disability
Richard Frank, Professor of Health Economics - mental health, pharmaceutical industry, organizations
William Hsiao, Professor of Economics - payment systems, comparative health systems, development and health
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
*Thomas McGuire, Professor of Health Economics - health care payment systems, mental health, risk adjustment
*Joseph Newhouse, Professor of Health Care Policy and Management - risk adjustment, managed care
Ariel Pakes, Professor of Economics - industrial organization, econometrics
*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, Associate Professor of Health Care Policy - disparities, cancer, race, gender, physician behavior
Nancy Beaulieu, Assistant Professor of Business Administration - health care, incentives for quality, and provider contracting
Susan Dynarski, Assistant Professor of Public Policy - labor economics, econometrics, public finance, inequality *On leave in Academic Year 2003 - 2004
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
Evelynn Hammonds, Professor of the History of Science and of African and African American Studies - the history of race in U.S. science and medicine; gender and health; history of public health
Robert Huckman, Assistant Professor of Business Administration - medical productivity; economics of health care organizations
Haiden Huskamp, Assistant Professor of Health Economics - the economics of mental health and substance abuse (MHSA) treatment, the economics of the pharmaceutical industry; and the financing of end-of-life care services
Arthur Kleinman, Professor of Medical Anthropology - suffering, mental health, comparative health care
Barbara McNeil, Professor of Health Care Policy - quality, financial incentives, guidelines
Ellen Meara, Assistant Professor of Health Economics - non-medical determinants of health care use and outcomes including: social programs, health behaviors, and socioeconomic status
Christopher Murray, Richard Saltonstall Professor of Population Policy; Director, Global Health Initiative, Harvard University Department of Population and International Health - population health, cost-effectiveness analysis and the conceptualization, measurement and national application of health systems performance assessment
Meredith Rosenthal, Associate Professor of Health Economics and Policy - physician payment incentives, managed care and alternative health insurance models, pharmaceutical advertising
Chi-Man (Winnie) Yip, Associate Professor of International Health Policy and Economics - economic development and health/well being in developing countries; international health system assessment and designs performance-based provider payment

*Members of the Executive Committee