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Dino Falaschetti co-authored an Op-Ed on Forbes

Dino D. Falaschetti (Cohort 8 — Berkeley/UCSF) 

has co-authored an editorial on Forbes' opinion page, "Does Climate Change Worry You? How About Insurance to Cover Its Consequences?", April 25, 2013.

Dr. Falaschetti is Executive Director in the at Property & Environment Research Center (PERC)
April 25, 2013

Christopher Bail on Huffington Post Live

Christopher A. Bail (Cohort 18 — Michigan) 

discussed immigration reform after the Boston Marathon Bombings on Huffington Post Live, April 24, 2013.

Dr. Bail is Scholar in the RWJF Scholars in Health Policy Research Program at University of Michigan
April 25, 2013

Michael Greenstone co-authored an Op-Ed in The New York Times

Michael B. Greenstone (Cohort 5 — Berkeley/UCSF) 

has co-authored an editorial in The New York Times Opinion Pages, "Better Living Standards", April 16, 2013.

Dr. Greenstone is 3M Professor of Economics in the Department of Economics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
April 17, 2013

Harold Pollack authored a blog post in The Washington Post

Harold A. Pollack (Cohort 1 — Yale) 

authored a blog post in The Washington Post's Wonkblog, "In the U.S., the HIV prevention fight has stalled", April 12, 2013.

Dr. Pollack is Helen Ross Professor in the Center for Health Administration Studies at University of Chicago
April 17, 2013

Colin Jerolmack has authored a new book, The Global Pigeon

Colin Jerolmack (Cohort 15 — Harvard) 

has authored a new book, The Global Pigeon, published March 2013 by University of Chicago Press.

Dr. Jerolmack is Assistant Professor of Sociology and Environmental Studies in the Department of Sociology at New York University
April 17, 2013

Mark Sawyer authored an Op-Ed in Huffington Post

Mark Q. Sawyer (Cohort 10 — Berkeley/UCSF) 

has authored an Op-Ed in Huffington Post's BlackVoices Blog titled "Beyonce and Jay Z Are Race Traitors for Going to Cuba !?!?", April 15, 2013. 

Dr. Sawyer is Associate Professor and Director of the Center for the Study of Race, Ethnicity and Politics in the Department of Political Science and Bunche Center for African American Studies at University of California Los Angeles
April 16, 2013

Brendan Nyhan mentioned in an Op-Ed on Bloomberg

Brendan Nyhan (Cohort 16 — Michigan) 

was mentioned in an Op-Ed titled "Why Well-Informed People Are Also Close-Minded" in Bloomberg's Opinion blog, April 15, 2013. 

Dr. Nyhan is Assistant Professor in the Department of Government at Dartmouth College
April 16, 2013

Craig Volden interviewed on MSNBC

Craig M. Volden (Cohort 8 — Michigan) 

was interviewed on MSNBC for his research published in the American Journal of Political Science, April 9, 2013. The interview can be viewed here. 

Dr. Volden is Professor of Public Policy and Politics in the Frank Batten School of Leadership & Public Policy at University of Virginia
April 16, 2013

John Cawley mentioned in CNN Money/Fortune

John H. Cawley (Cohort 6 — Michigan) 

was quoted in an article on CNN Money titled "Coming to a workplace near you: Fines for being fat?", April 15, 2013. 

Dr. Cawley is Professor in the Departments of Policy Analysis and Management and Economics at Cornell University
April 16, 2013

John Cawley mentioned in The Economist

John H. Cawley (Cohort 6 — Michigan) 

was mentioned in an article in The Economist titled "Weight Watchers: Bad News for Advocates of Higher Cigarette Taxes", April 13, 2013. 

Dr. Cawley is Professor in the Departments of Policy Analysis and Management and Economics at Cornell University
April 16, 2013

Harold Pollack published in The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science

Harold A. Pollack (Cohort 1 — Yale) 

has co-authored an article that was published in The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, titled "Can Drug Courts Help to Reduce Prison and Jail Populations?" (May 2013, vol. 647, no. 1, 190-212).

Dr. Pollack is Helen Ross Professor in the Center for Health Administration Studies at University of Chicago
April 16, 2013

Harold Pollack interviewed on Fox Business News

Harold A. Pollack (Cohort 1 — Yale) 

was interviewed on Fox Business News on "Explaining the Explosion in Disability Payments", April 9, 2013.

Dr. Pollack is Helen Ross Professor in the Center for Health Administration Studies at University of Chicago
April 16, 2013

Harold Pollack quoted in The Washington Post's Wonkblog

Harold A. Pollack (Cohort 1 — Yale) 

was quoted in an Op-Ed in The Washington Post's Wonkblog, titled "The three best ideas in Obama's budget," April 11, 2013. 

Dr. Pollack is Helen Ross Professor in the Center for Health Administration Studies at University of Chicago
April 12, 2013

Harold Pollack interviewed on WBEZ91.5

Harold A. Pollack (Cohort 1 — Yale) 

was interviewed on gun control laws on Chicago's WBEZ91.5 and mentioned in the article, "Emanuel pushes mandatory minimums for gun crimes, but research shows they are ineffective," April 11, 2013. 

Dr. Pollack is Helen Ross Professor in the Center for Health Administration Studies at University of Chicago
April 12, 2013

Harold Pollack profiled on Robert Wood Johnson Website, "Scholars in Health Policy Research Reboots a Career"

Harold A. Pollack (Cohort 1 — Yale) 

was profiled on the Robert Wood Johnson Website, "Scholars in Health Policy Research Reboots a Career" on April 9, 2013.

Dr. Pollack is Helen Ross Professor in the Center for Health Administration Studies at University of Chicago
April 10, 2013

Michael Geruso co-authored NBER working paper, "Fraud in the Workplace? Evidence from a Dependent Verification Program"

Michael Geruso (Cohort 19 — Harvard) 

has co-authored an NBER working paper, "Fraud in the Workplace? Evidence from a Dependent Verification Program," with Harvey S. Rosen (NBER Working Paper No. 18947, April 2013).

Dr. Geruso is Scholar in the RWJF Scholars in Health Policy Research Program at Harvard University
April 09, 2013

Kathy Swartz co-authored "Health Insurance Exchanges In Switzerland And The Netherlands Offer Five Key Lessons For The Operations Of US Exchanges" in Health Affairs

Katherine Swartz ( — Harvard) 

co-authored "Health Insurance Exchanges In Switzerland And The Netherlands Offer Five Key Lessons For The Operations Of US Exchanges" in Health Affairs (2013; 32[4]:744-752).

Dr. Swartz is Director, RWJF Scholars in Health Policy Research Program-Harvard in the Department of Health Policy and Management, Harvard School of Public Health at Harvard University
April 09, 2013

Dan Carpenter quoted in "Judge Strikes Down Age Limits on Morning-After Pill" in The New York Times

Daniel P. Carpenter (Cohort 5 — Michigan) 

was quoted in "Judge Strikes Down Age Limits on Morning-After Pill" in The New York Times, April 5, 2013.

Dr. Carpenter is Allie S. Freed Professor of Government in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Harvard University
April 08, 2013

Marco Gonzalez-Navarro co-authored NBER working paper, "Effectiveness and Spillovers of Online Sex Education: Evidence from a Randomized Evaluation in Colombian Public Schools"

Marco Gonzalez-Navarro (Cohort 16 — Berkeley/UCSF) 

has co-authored a NBER working paper, "Effectiveness and Spillovers of Online Sex Education: Evidence from a Randomized Evaluation in Colombian Public Schools" with Alberto Chong, Dean Karlan, and Martin Valdivia (NBER Working Paper #18776, February 2013).

Dr. Gonzalez-Navarro is Assistant Professor of Management in the Centre for Industrial Relations and Human Resources at University of Toronto Scarborough
April 05, 2013

Kathleen Mullen co-authored "Monetary Costs of Dementia in the United States" in the New England Journal of Medicine

Kathleen J. Mullen (Cohort 12 — Harvard) 

co-authored "Monetary Costs of Dementia in the United States" published in the New England Journal of Medicine (2013; 368:1326-1334).

Dr. Mullen is Economist in the at RAND Corporation
April 05, 2013

Alan Cohen Appointed to PCORI Advisory Panel

Alan B. Cohen ( — ) 

has been appointed to the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) advisory panel on Improving Healthcare Systems.

 
Created by the Affordable Care Act, each multi-stakeholder panel will "help us identify and prioritize the questions that are important to patients, caregivers, clinicians and others, and also help us evaluate all of our research programs,” according to Anne Beal, MD, PCORI’s deputy executive director on their website.
 
"Each panel has 21 members representing different sectors across healthcare. Thirty-eight (38%) of members represent patients, caregivers and patient advocates, 13 of whom serve on the Patient Engagement panel.  Nineteen researchers (23%) and 15 clinicians (18%) are represented across the four panels.  Other stakeholder groups represented are payers (6%), policymakers (4%), healthcare systems (4%), purchasers (2%), and pharmaceutical, medical device and diagnostic manufacturers (5%)."
Dr. Cohen is Program Director in the RWJF Scholars in Health Policy Research Program at Boston University
April 04, 2013

John Friedman quoted in "How to Make Americans Really Save" on CNBC Online

John N. Friedman (Cohort 14 — Berkeley/UCSF) 

was quoted in "How to Make Americans Really Save" on CNBC Online, April 2, 2013.

Dr. Friedman is Assistant Professor of Public Policy in the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University
April 03, 2013

Bhaven Sampat co-authored "New Evidence on the Allocation of NIH Funds across Diseases" in The Milbank Quarterly

Bhaven N. Sampat (Cohort 10 — Michigan) 

co-authored "New Evidence on the Allocation of NIH Funds across Diseases" published in The Milbank Quarterly (91(1): 163-185, March 2013).

Dr. Sampat is Associate Professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management, Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University
April 02, 2013

Hilary Levey Friedman's blog post "Leaning In to Single-Sex Education" featured on Huffington Post

Hilary Levey Friedman (Cohort 16 — Harvard) 

contributed a blog post "Leaning In to Single-Sex Education" to the Huff Post Book blog, March 27, 2013.

Dr. Levey Friedman is Associate, Malcolm Weiner Center for Social Policy in the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University at Harvard University
April 02, 2013

Harold Pollack interviewed in The Washington Post

Harold A. Pollack (Cohort 1 — Yale) 

was interviewed in The Washington Post Wonkblog, "Harold Pollack: What ‘This American Life’ missed on disability insurance," March 28, 2013. 

Dr. Pollack is Helen Ross Professor in the Center for Health Administration Studies at University of Chicago
March 28, 2013

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