Scott L. Greer, PhD

Scott L. Greer is a Professor of Health Management and Policy, Global Health and Political Science (by courtesy) at the University of Michigan, and a Senior Expert Advisor on Health Governance for the European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies. He researches the politics of health policies, with a special focus on the politics and policies of the European Union, the impact of federalism on health care, and the politics of disaster relief.

Neil Mehta, PhD

Neil Mehta is an Associate Professor within the School of Public and Population Health at the University of Texas Medical Branch. His research and teaching interests lie generally at the intersection of demography, epidemiology, and sociology. He has active areas of research in aging and disability, immigrant health, race/ethnic health disparities, mortality, obesity, cigarette smoking, and the chronic diseases of older age.

Karalyn Kiessling, MPH

Karalyn Kiessling is a health researcher and manager of the Smoke-Free Environments Law Project at the University of Michigan. She is currently pursuing a doctoral degree in health services research with a focus on political science. During her program, she has become deeply involved with tobacco control research at the national, state, and local level. Her specialties are health policy research, qualitative methods, and the regulation of emerging tobacco products.  

Phillip Singer, PhD

Phillip Singer is an Assistant Professor with the Department of Political Science and Adjunct Assistant Professor in Population Health Sciences at the University of Utah. He researches comparative health policy within the United States, the politics of health policy, health policies for vulnerable populations, and the politics of infectious diseases and public health disasters.

Melissa Creary, PhD, MPH

Melissa Creary is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Health Management and Policy, University of Michigan. Formerly, she served as a health scientist at the CDC, where she helped create the first national program and data collection system for sickle cell disease (SCD). Her research addresses how science, culture, and policy intersect. Through this lens, using historical and ethnographic methods, she investigates how national policy for SCD is influenced by race and other notions of belonging.

Elize Massard, PhD

Elize Massard da Fonseca is Associate Professor of Public Administration at the Sao Paulo School of Business Administration, Getulio Vargas Foundation, Brazil. She specializes in pharmaceutical regulation in Latin America, health industry policy, and the politics of infectious diseases (HIV/Aids, Hepatitis C). Since 2007 she has been a technical consultant for several United Nations agencies (PAHO, UNODC, UNFPA) on issues related to the monitoring and evaluation of public health and social protection projects.

Marianthi N Hatzigeorgiou, MHSA

Marianthi N Hatzigeorgiou is Director of Transformation and Special Projects at Vera Whole Health where she focuses on improving the patient journey. She holds a Doctorate in Public Health, Quality and Patient Safety from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and a Master of Health Services Administration degree from HMP.

Marie Montas

Marie Montas is a Fulbright Scholar and Master of Public Health student in Global Health Management and Policy at HMP. Originally from the Dominican Republic, she completed her B.S. in Economics at PUCMM of Santo Domingo and her Postgraduate degree in Pharmacoeconomics at Universität Pompeu Fabra of Barcelona. She wants to dedicate her life to applying evidence-based and cost-effective strategies to prevent inefficient and inequitable healthcare outcomes in emerging countries.

Elizabeth Vlachakis

Elizabeth Vlachakis is a Master of Public Health student within the Department of Health Management and Policy at the University of Michigan. As an HMP Governance Lab Fellow and Research Associate funded by the National Science Foundation, Elizabeth researches the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on international scientific collaborations in Europe and the US, the governance of pharmaceuticals, medical devices and food production in UK trade agreements, and state use of non-pharmaceutical interventions to prevent the spread of COVID-19, collaborating with partner organizations including the UK’s Nuffield Trust, the US Army Engineer Research and Development Center. Her ongoing research focuses on the regulatory politics of pandemic response and products affecting health.

Holly Jarman, PhD

Holly Jarman is an Associate Professor within the Department of Health Management and Policy at the University of Michigan School of Public Health. As a political scientist, she researches the effects of policy implementation and market regulation on health. She has a special interest in the political economy of products that affect health, such as tobacco, medical devices, vaccines and pharmaceuticals.

Sarah Rozenblum, MPA

Sarah Rozenblum is a PhD student within the Department of Health Management and Policy at the University of Michigan School of Public Health, a researcher for the European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies and a consultant to the WHO. Her research interests include the comparative politics of pain management, policy responses to the spread of communicable disease, and the political economy of medical device regulation.

Alex Liber, MSPH

Alex Liber is an Assistant Professor at the Georgetown University School of Medicine. Since 2008, he has been involved in a variety of research on health, business, policy, politics and economic issues related to tobacco control. His dissertation work at HMP compared the politics and policy of electronic cigarette regulation in Australia, Canada and New Zealand.

Amanda Mauri, MPH

Amanda Mauri is a joint PhD student in the Departments of Health Management and Policy & Political Science at the University of Michigan. Her research explores the political economy of illegal markets. Her dissertation work uses both quantitative and qualitative research techniques to examine the role of the state in the design and structure of co-existing legal and illegal firearm and drug markets.

Michelle Falkenbach

Michelle Falkenbach is a Postdoctoral Associate in the Department of Public and Ecosystem Health at Cornell University. Her research and professional interests address health policy and politics in Western Europe, particularly the impact of populist radical right parties on health policy, the contribution of policy coherence to health equity, and the role of social partnerships and civil society in healthcare.

Elizabeth King, PhD, MPH

Elizabeth King is an Associate Professor in Health Behavior and Health Education in the School of Public Health. As a global health scholar, Elizabeth King studies women's health, gender-equitable access to prevention and health care services, and disparities in engagement in HIV care and treatment. The majority of her research focuses on Russia, where she has more than 15 years of experience. She has also conducted research in Kazakhstan, Serbia, Ukraine, Ethiopia, and Uganda.

David K. Jones, PhD

David K. Jones was an Associate professor at the Boston University School of Public Health and a beloved graduate of our HMP PhD program. His innovative, high quality research and commitment to teaching and mentoring students exemplify the core values that the Lab seeks to uphold. He was the author of Exchange Politics: Opposing Obamacare in Battleground States (Oxford University Press, 2017), a book that we highly recommend to all budding scholars of health policy and governance. We miss him constantly.

Noah Williams

Noah Williams is an undergraduate student at the University of Michigan studying public health policy and a Researcher for the Health Management and Policy Governance Lab. His research interests include how public health policy differs in writing and in practice, institutional power dynamics, and environmental health.

Denise Lillvis PhD, MPA

Denise Lillvis is a Research Assistant Professor in the Department of Surgery and the Division of Health Services Policy and Practice at the University at Buffalo. She also serves as trauma research associate for the John R. Oishei Children’s Hospital. Her research focuses on topics within maternal and child health including the politics of childhood vaccination, quality of care in pediatric physical trauma, and health disparities in children and youth with special health care needs. Using a social-ecological approach, her research examines factors spanning from family and clinical decision-making to policy design and implementation that affect child health outcomes.

Kasia Klasa, MPH

Kasia Klasa is a PhD student in the Department of Health Management and Policy at the University of Michigan School of Public Health. She uses mixed methods to compare health policies and politics across high- and middle- income countries, with a focus on the political economy of under-regulated and emerging technologies. She draws from cross-disciplinary training in nursing , health management, public health, economics and political science.

Emma Willoughby, MSc

Emma Willoughby is a PhD student within the Department of Health Management and Policy at the University of Michigan School of Public Health. She has cross-disciplinary training in sociology, international health policy and political science. Her research interests focus on health and development in the global south. She has a special research interest in the political economy of food in the region of South East Asia.

Charley Willison, PhD, MPH, MA

Charley Willison is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Public and Ecosystem Health at Cornell University. She studies the effects of urban politics and intergovernmental relations on public health political decisionmaking and policy outcomes. Her work focuses on health policies that are designed and or delivered at the local level, including housing, homelessness, behavioral health policies, and disaster responses.

N’dea Moore-Petinak, MSc

N'dea Moore-Petinak is earned her dissertation from HMP at the University of Michigan School of Public Health. She has interdisciplinary training in global health and political science and uses mixed methods to study how policy flexibility impacts health in different contexts. Her research focuses on the intersection between federalism and health disparities in the United States. 

Benjamin D. Trump, PhD

Benjamin D. Trump is a Research Social Scientist for the US Army Engineer Research and Development Center and an Adjunct Professor at the Department of Health Management and Policy. His work focuses on decision making and governance of activities under significant uncertainty, such as emerging and enabling technologies (synthetic biology, nanotechnology) and developing organizational, infrastructural, social, and informational resilience against systemic threats to complex systems. 

Minakshi Raj, PhD, MPH

Mina Raj is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Kinesiology and Community Health at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign. Her current research examines the perspectives of older adults and their caregivers to understand health care decision making, and preferences and concerns related to engagement with health information technology.

Margitta Mätzke, PhD

Margitta Mätzke is Professor of Politics and Social Policy, Johannes Kepler University of Linz. She was a visiting researcher at the Max-Planck Institute for the Study of Societies, the Bremen International Graduate School of Social Sciences, and Jean Monnet Fellow at the European Union Center of Excellence, University of Michigan. Her research focuses on decisionmaking and institutional dynamics in the development of Western welfare states. Her articles appear in journals including the Journal of Policy History, the Journal of Public Policy, Social Policy & Administration and the Journal of European Social Policy.

Jessica Hsu

Jessica Hsu is an undergraduate student at the University of Michigan, planning to study public health. Her research interests lie in the intersection of health policy, sociology, and epidemiology and how descriptive statistics inform policy decision-making..

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Max Ryner

Max Ryner is a Master of Public Health candidate in HMP and a Managerial Fellow within the HMP Governance Lab. His work includes ensuring task management and project deliverables are met on time across projects, grants, and collaborating institutions. His research interests are in behavioral health care and health regulatory policy.