received a Ph.D. in political science from the University of Washington in 2007, and will be on leave from the Department of Political Science at San Francisco State University, where he is an Assistant Professor of Public Policy and State Politics.  His research focuses on public policy innovation and political decision-making in America. His book Policy Diffusion Dynamics in America (Cambridge University Press, 2010), integrates research from agenda setting and epidemiology to model factors that shape the speed and scope of public policy diffusion. As a scholar, he will explore how American state governments respond to complex health policy threats, initially focusing on state vaccination programs.

received a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Maryland, College Park in 2010. His research primarily focuses on the functioning of markets with information asymmetries. His dissertation studied the effects of the diffusion of neonatal intensive care units on infant treatment and health outcomes, and in other work he has examined how consumers respond to product recalls and the effects of information asymmetries in online peer-to-peer lending markets. As a scholar, he is exploring the determinants of hospital technology adoption and the organization of hospital transfer networks. After the Program, he will assume his position as an assistant professor at Indiana University's School of Public and Environmental Affairs.

holds a Ph.D. in economics from Northwestern University. His research focuses on the economic foundations of consumer choice and market performance in health insurance. His dissertation work uses a large micro-level dataset to study consumer choice adequacy and how that interacts with adverse selection in health insurance markets. More generally, he is interested in the design and performance of regulated health markets, such as health insurance exchanges, and firm competition and regulatory policy in environments in which it is difficult for consumers to make decisions. After the Program, he will take a position as an assistant professor in the University of California, Berkeley’s Department of Economics.

received her Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Michigan in 2011. Her primary research interests include: comparative frameworks of race in the Americas, how immigrants from Latin America and the Caribbean adapt to the US racial system, the impact of immigration on the US racial system, and the experiences of faculty of color and women in academia. Dr. Joseph conducted her dissertation research in Governador Valadares, Brazil where she examined how US migration influenced Brazilian return migrants’ perceptions of race in the US and Brazil. Her current project integrates immigration and health policy by exploring how documentation status influences the health outcomes and healthcare access of Latino immigrants in the Boston metropolitan area. After program completion, she will begin an Assistant Professor of Sociology position at Stony Brook University.

received an M.Ed. in International Education Policy from Harvard University in 2001, an M.A. in Social Sciences and Education from Stanford University in 2004 and a Ph.D. in Sociology from Stanford in June, 2011. Her primary research interests are in the fields of immigration, inequality, social policy, and race and ethnic relations. Her current research includes a study of immigrant integration in regions undergoing rapid demographic change, an analysis of the processes and mechanisms that influence the transition from a two-group (i.e., black and white) to a three group (i.e., black-white-Latino) racial system, and an investigation of economic competition and race and gender dynamics before and after the Great Recession. After completing the Program, she will assume a position as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

received her Ph.D. in political science from the University of Chicago in 2011. She specializes in the field of American politics, with a particular focus on race and ethnic politics and the political consequences of poverty. Her current project uses health care as a lens through which to examine whether, how and when economically disadvantaged groups engage in the political process. Following the program, she will join the faculty at Cornell University as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Government.

received his Ph.D. from Princeton University in 2011. His dissertation draws on political psychology and formal modeling to explain how individuals' interests and the dynamics of group discussion bias the way groups use information in deliberation. More broadly, he is interested in political psychology, game theory, experimental methods and deliberative democracy. He is currently working on projects examining how people and institutions learn from the policy choices of others and how emotional arousal affects group discussion.

holds a Ph.D. in political science from the University of Virginia and is currently on leave from the University of Montana, where he is an assistant professor in the Political Science Department.  He is the author of War, the American State, and Politics since 1898 (Cambridge University Press, 2011), and his scholarly articles have appeared in venues such as the Journal of Politics, Journal of Policy History, and Political Research Quarterly.  As a RWJF Scholar, he is using an historical institutionalist approach to study long-term care’s policy history and its place in the American welfare regime.