Field Description
The graduate field of public policy trains the next generation of scholars and professionals to address pressing U.S. and global public policy issues. We focus on substantive policy areas–ranging from education and health to environmental and social policy–with advanced training in social science disciplines, empirical methods, and multi-disciplinary approaches to the study and practice of public policy.
Doctoral Program
Building upon the academic strengths of the Brooks School of Public Policy, the core areas of focus in the Ph.D. program include data science and technology policy; education policy; environmental and sustainability policy; demography and family policy; human security; health policy; inequality and social policy; the politics and economics of development; race, racism, and public policy; and regulatory policy. Our program combines a focus on substantive policy areas with advanced training in a social science discipline, empirical methods, and expertise on substantive policy topics. Across these specializations, Public Policy Ph.D. students graduate with the skills to shape and evaluate policy in a range of careers, from faculty positions in academic institutions to leadership roles in the public and private sectors.
Professional Master's Degree Program
The Master of Health Administration program (Sloan Program) is a prescribed two-year program designed to prepare individuals for administrative careers in health care settings such as hospitals, management consulting firms, private industry, government agencies, health care delivery systems, long-term care, and mental health and social welfare agencies. Students complete requirements in health services administration and selected electives in functional areas such as finance, marketing, information systems, and human resource management.
M.H.A./M.B.A. Dual Degree Program
The Master in Health Administration/Master in Business Administration program is offered in conjunction with the Sloan Program in Health Administration and the Johnson Graduate School of Management. This dual degree provides students interested in health management and desiring in-depth training in the general field of business administration an opportunity to pursue both an M.H.A. and an M.B.A. simultaneously.
For further information, check the Sloan Program in Health Administration website.
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Faculty
Amanda Y Agan
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Public Policy: public policy
- Research Interests: intersections of economics, law, and public policy with a focus on the economics of crime and labor market discrimination
Sule Alan
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Public Policy: public policy
- Research Interests: education, education and social policy evaluations, human and social capital formation and gender
Rosemary Jane Avery
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Public Policy: public policy
- Research Interests: family policy and decision making
Christopher Brendan Barrett
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Public Policy: public policy
- Research Interests: Applied Economics International and Development Economics and Policy Food and Agricultural Economics Environmental, Energy and Resource Economics and Policy Emerging Markets
Colleen L. Barry
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Public Policy: public policy
- Research Interests: health and social policies related to mental illness and substance abuse; health care spending and mortality
David Alexander Bateman
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Public Policy: public policy
- Research Interests: black American civil rights movement during the last decades of the 19th century and first three decades of the 20th century, the development of industrial democracy as an intellectual and institutional program in the United States, as well as ongoing data collection projects on American state constitutions and 19th century state legislative behavior.
Michele Belot
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Public Policy: public policy
- Research Interests: Applied Microeconomics, Labor, Health and Education Economics
Kendra Bischoff
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Public Policy: public policy
Nicolas L. Bottan
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Public Policy: public policy
- Research Interests: Public Economics, Behavioral Economics, Development Economics
Colleen Marie Carey
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Health Administration: health administration; Executive Health Administration: Health Administration; Public Policy: public policy
- Research Interests: economics; industrial organization of health care; federal regulation of health insurance markets
John H Cawley
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Health Administration: health administration; Public Policy: public policy
- Research Interests: health management and policy
Benjamin T. Cornwell
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Public Policy: public policy
Erin York Cornwell
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Public Policy: public policy
Moon Duchin
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Public Policy: public policy
- Research Interests: Geometric group theory. Geometric topology. Dynamics
Rachel E Dunifon
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Health Administration: health administration; Public Policy: public policy
- Research Interests: family and social welfare policy and management; health policy and management
Parfait M Eloundou-Enyegue
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Public Policy: public policy
- Research Interests: population and social change, sustainable development
Peter K. Enns
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Public Policy: public policy
- Research Interests: public opinion and political representation, mass incarceration and the legal system, and data analytics
Maria Fitzpatrick
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Public Policy: public policy
- Research Interests: economics of education; early childhood; retirement; public sector compensation; female labor supply
Gustavo A. Flores-Macias
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Public Policy: public policy
- Research Interests: the politics of economic reforms; taxation and state capacity, and 3) the consequences of the militarization of law enforcement
Raymond Richard Geddes
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Public Policy: public policy
- Research Interests: regulation and corporate governance; women's property rights; postal services; antitrust policy
Shannon Marie Gleeson
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Public Policy: public policy
- Research Interests: Labor Relations, Law, & History
Matthew Hall
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Public Policy: public policy
David R Just
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Public Policy: public policy
Max Kapustin
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Public Policy: public policy
- Research Interests: crime, education, health, labor economics; applied economics
Donald S Kenkel
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Health Administration: health administration; Public Policy: public policy
- Research Interests: health economics and policy; cost-benefit analysis
Philipp Kircher
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Public Policy: public policy
- Research Interests: labor and health economics
Catherine Louise Kling
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Public Policy: public policy
- Research Interests: environmental policy design and the valuation of environmental goods
Sarah Kreps
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Public Policy: public policy
- Research Interests: the intersection of international politics, technology, and national security
Douglas L. Kriner
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Public Policy: public policy
- Research Interests: presidential and congressional politics, separation of powers dynamics, and military policymaking.
Pauline Leung
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Public Policy: public policy
- Research Interests: public economics, labor economics
Sade L. Lindsay
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Public Policy: public policy
- Research Interests: a sociologist by training whose research interests lie at the intersection of criminal justice, punishment, racial inequality, and public policy; racism and the criminalization of deviance, incarceration, prison reentry, collateral consequences of criminal justice contact, and drug policy and use.
William Lodge
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Public Policy: public policy
- Research Interests: HIV primary and secondary prevention with a focus on gender and sexual minority health both domestically and internationally.
Michael F. Lovenheim
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Public Policy: public policy
- Research Interests: public finance; labor economics; economics of education
Ellen Marie Lust
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Public Policy: public policy
- Research Interests: the role of social institutions and local authorities in governance
Vida Maralani
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Public Policy: public policy
- Research Interests: social inequality, demography, social stratification
Alan D. Mathios
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Public Policy: public policy
- Research Interests: consumer protection; antitrust law and economics; public utility regulation; federal and state regulation
Jamila Michener
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Public Policy: public policy
- Research Interests: American politics; poverty and inequality; public policy; political participation; race and ethnic politics; urban politics
Douglas L. Miller
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Health Administration: health administration; Public Policy: public policy
- Research Interests: applied econometrics, labor economics, health economics, public economics
Kelly A. Musick
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Public Policy: public policy
- Research Interests: policy analysis and management
Sean M. Nicholson
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Health Administration: health administration; Public Policy: public policy
- Research Interests: health economics
Jeff D. Niederdeppe
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Public Policy: public policy
Sheila Marie Olmstead
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Public Policy: public policy
- Research Interests: the economic dimensions of environmental policies, especially those related to water quantity and quality
Ariel Ortiz-Bobea
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Public Policy: public policy
- Research Interests: Climate change impacts and adaptation, agricultural economics, environmental and resource economics, applied econometrics
Eleonora Patacchini
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Public Policy: public policy
- Research Interests: urban economics, labor economics, law and economics, political economy, policy evaluation, public policy
Zhuan Pei
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Public Policy: public policy
- Research Interests: effect and design of social and employment programs and applied micro-econometric methods in causal inference
Thomas B. Pepinsky
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Public Policy: public policy
- Research Interests: the interaction of political and economic systems, mostly in emerging market economies
Karl Andrew Pillemer
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Public Policy: public policy
- Research Interests: gerontology, life course studies, sociology of the family, long-term care, public policy, translational research
Adriana Marie Reyes
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Health Administration: health administration; Public Policy: public policy
- Research Interests: family demography, health
Peter M. Rich
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Public Policy: public policy
- Research Interests: sociology; inequality; housing segregation, and education policy
Michael Ryan Richards
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Public Policy: public policy
- Research Interests: health care provider responses to public policies and evolving market environments, the structure and delivery of public insurance programs (i.e., Medicare and Medicaid) as well as health care workforce issues.
Rachel Beatty Riedl
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Public Policy: public policy
- Research Interests: Institutional development in new democracies, local governance and decentralization policy, authoritarian regime legacies, and religion and politics
Evan Riehl
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Public Policy: public policy
- Research Interests: labor economics, development economics, education
David Ezra Sahn
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Public Policy: public policy
- Research Interests: health economics, nutrition and poverty
Nicholas James Sanders
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Public Policy: public policy
- Research Interests: environmental economics, environmental policy and health, labor economics, health economics
Seth Sanders
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Public Policy: public policy
- Research Interests: labor economics, econometrics, population research
Sharon L. Sassler
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Public Policy: public policy
- Research Interests: social demography; union formation (marriage, cohabitation); immigrant adaptation; racial and ethnic differentiation; young adult transitions
Bryan L. Sykes
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Public Policy: public policy
- Research Interests: demography and criminology, population processes (e.g., fertility, mortality, enumeration), mass incarceration, global population health, social inequality, law & society, and research methodology.
Laura Tach
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Public Policy: public policy
- Research Interests: Poverty & public policy; family demography; neighborhood inequality.
Sharon Tennyson
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Health Administration: health administration; Public Policy: public policy
- Research Interests: economics of insurance; regulation; consumer policy
Chantal Thomas
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Public Policy: public policy
- Research Interests: Employment/Labor Law, International and Comparative Law
Maureen Waller
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Public Policy: public policy
- Research Interests: cultural sociology; low income families; qualitative and mixed methods; unmarried fathers; welfare and child support policy
Kim A Weeden
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Public Policy: public policy
Eleanor Wilking
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Public Policy: public policy
- Research Interests: the intersection of tax policy and employment law through the lends of law and economics
Cristobal Young
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Public Policy: public policy
- Research Interests: economic sociology, inequality, quantitative methods