Editorial Advisory Board Members

Heidi Allen, MSW, PhD is a Professor at Columbia University in the School of Social Work and Mailman School of Public Health, Department of Health Policy and Management. Dr. Allen studies the impact of social insurance, such as Medicaid, America’s health insurance for the poor, as well as the therapeutic approval of psychedelic medicines on access, […] More

Joel C. Cantor, ScD is a distinguished professor of public policy and the founding director of the Center for State Health Policy at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey. Cantor is a widely published scholar on effects of health insurance regulatory policy and innovative health service delivery and policy strategies for the Medicaid program. […] More

Magdalena Cerdá, DrPH, MPH, is the Susan Dwight Bliss professor and department chair of chronic disease epidemiology at the Yale School of Public Health. Her research focuses on the effects that local, state and national drug and health policies have on substance use trends, and on the ways the urban context shapes firearm violence. Current […] More

Dave A. Chokshi — a practicing physician and public health leader — is currently the Sternberg Family Professor of Leadership at the City College of New York. He is also Chair of the Common Health Coalition and Co-Chair of the Health and Political Economy Project. Dr. Chokshi previously served as the 43rd Health Commissioner of New […] More

Paul D. Cleary is the Anna M.R. Lauder Professor of Public Health and former dean of the Yale School of Public Health, a member of the National Academy of Medicine, and a Distinguished Fellow of AcademyHealth. Dr. Cleary is a former editorial director of the Milbank Memorial Fund and past editor of The Milbank Quarterly […] More

Dalton Conley is the Henry Putnam University Professor in Sociology at Princeton University and a faculty affiliate at the Office of Population Research and the Center for Health and Wellbeing. He is also a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), and in a pro bono capacity he serves as dean of […] More

Mary Dixon-Woods is director of The Healthcare Improvement Studies (THIS) Institute and is The Health Foundation Professor of Healthcare Improvement Studies in the Department of Public Health and Primary Care at the University of Cambridge. She is a fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences and the Academy of Medical Sciences, an honorary fellow of […] More

Ezekiel J. Emanuel is the vice provost for global initiatives, the Diane v.S. Levy and Robert M. Levy University Professor, and codirector of the Healthcare Transformation Institute at the University of Pennsylvania. From January 2009 to January 2011, Emanuel served as a special advisor on health policy to the director of the Office of Management […] More

Erika Franklin Fowler, PhD, is professor of government at Wesleyan University where she directs the Wesleyan Media Project (WMP), which tracks and analyzes political advertising in real-time during elections. Fowler specializes in large-scale analyses of political and health-related communication—from local media and campaign advertising in particular—in electoral and health policy settings, and her interdisciplinary work […] More

Bianca K. Frogner, PhD is Professor in the Department of Family Medicine in the School of Medicine at University of Washington (UW). She is also the Director of the UW Center for Health Workforce Studies (CHWS) and Director of the Primary Care Innovation Lab (PCI-Lab), both housed in the Department of Family Medicine. She is […] More

Elena Fuentes-Afflick, MD, MPH, is the chief scientific officer at the Association of American Medical Colleges. Fuentes-Afflick was formerly a professor and vice chair of pediatrics, chief of pediatrics at the Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital, and vice dean for academic affairs in the School of Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco. Fuentes-Afflick obtained […] More

Milbank Quarterly Advisory Board Member Sherry A. Glied is dean of New York University’s Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service. More

Lawrence O. Gostin is University Professor in Global Health Law at Georgetown University, faculty director of the O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law, and director of the World Health Organization (WHO) Collaborating Center on Public Health Law and Human Rights. He has chaired numerous National Academy of Sciences committees, proposed a Framework Convention […] More

Laura Gottlieb, MD, MPH, is a professor of family and community medicine at the University of California, San Francisco. Her research explores health care sector programs and policies related to identifying and addressing social risk factors in the context of care delivery. She is the founding director of the Social Interventions Research and Evaluation Network, […] More

Mark Hall, JD, is the Fred D. and Elizabeth L. Turnage Professor of Law and director of the Health Law and Policy Program at Wake Forest Law. He is one of the nation’s leading scholars in the areas of health care law, public policy, and bioethics. The author or editor of twenty books, including Making […] More

Hahrie Han is the inaugural director of the SNF Agora Institute, a professor of political science, and faculty director of the P3 Research Lab at Johns Hopkins University. She specializes in the study of organizing, movements, civic engagement, and democracy. Her newest book will be published by the University of Chicago Press in the fall […] More

Mark D. Hayward, Ph.D. is a professor of sociology and Centennial Commission Professor in the Liberal Arts at the University of Texas at Austin. Dr. Hayward is a health demographer. Building on a long-standing interest in the developmental origins of adult health, his current work incorporates biosocial lenses (e.g., pathophysiological pathways and genetic risk) to […] More

Paula Lantz, PhD, MS, MA, is the James B. Hudak professor of health policy and a professor of public policy at the Ford School of Public Policy at the University of Michigan. She also holds an appointment as professor of health management and policy in the School of Public Health. Lantz teaches and conducts research […] More

Alana M.W. LeBrón, PhD, MS, is an associate professor of Public Health and Chicano/Latino Studies at the University of California, Irvine. She received her PhD from the University of Michigan School of Public Health, her MS in Public Health from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, and her AB in Gender and Women’s […] More

Taeku Lee, MPP, PhD, is the Bae Family Professor of Government and  faculty dean of Dunster House at Harvard University. His research interests are in racial and ethnic politics, public opinion and survey research, identity and inequality, and deliberative and participatory democracy. Lee’s current projects examine: racial diversity and political inequality in the United States […] More

John Lowe, RN, PhD, FAAN, is the Joseph Blades Centennial Memorial Professor at the University of Texas at Austin School of Nursing. He is a Cherokee Native American tribal member and also has Creek and Lenape Native American tribal heritage. Dr. Lowe currently serves as a member of the Advisory Council to the National Institutes […] More

John E. McDonough, DrPH, MPA, is a professor of public health practice at the Harvard University TH Chan School of Public Health in the Department of Health Policy and Management. Between 2008 and 2010, he served as a senior adviser on national health reform to the US Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions, […] More

Beth McGinty, PhD, MS is the Livingston Farrand Professor of Public Health and Chief of the Division of Health Policy and Economics at Weill Cornell Medical College. She conducts research focused on how health policies affect populations with complex health and social needs, including people experiencing mental illness, substance use disorder, chronic pain, and others. […] More

Michelle Mello is professor of law at Stanford Law School and professor of medicine in the Center for Health Policy/Primary Care and Outcomes Research in the Department of Medicine at Stanford University School of Medicine. She conducts empirical research into issues at the intersection of law, ethics, and health policy. She is the author of […] More

Jamila Michener is an associate professor in the Department of Government at Cornell. She studies American politics and policy, with a particular focus on the political causes and consequences of poverty and racial inequality. She is author of Fragmented Democracy: Medicaid, Federalism and Unequal Politics (Cambridge University Press). She is codirector of the Cornell Center […] More

Jennifer Karas Montez is a professor of sociology, the Gerald B. Cramer Faculty Scholar in Aging Studies, director of the NIA-funded Center for Aging and Policy Studies, and codirector of the Policy, Place, and Population Health Lab at Syracuse University. Her research investigates trends and disparities in population health since the 1980s and the growing […] More

Christopher Sebastian Parker is a professor of Political Science at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Parker was formerly the Stuart and Lee Scheingold Professor of Political Science and Social Justice at the University of Washington. A graduate of UCLA (BA) and the University of Chicago (AM, PhD), he is the author of Change They Can’t Believe In: The Tea Party and […] More

Mark V. Pauly, PhD, is Bendheim Professor in the Department of Health Care Management, professor of health care management, and business and public policy at The Wharton School and professor of economics in the School of Arts and Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania. A former commissioner on the Physician Payment Review Commission, Pauly has […] More

Francisco I. Pedraza is an associate professor in the School of Politics & Global Studies and associate director of the Center for Latina/os and American Politics Research at Arizona State University. Pedraza was formerly a professor in the Department of Political Science and the School of Public Policy at the University of California, Riverside. In 2021 he was a visiting scholar at […] More

David N. Pellow is the Dehlsen Chair and Professor of Environmental Studies and director of the Global Environmental Justice Project at the University of California, Santa Barbara where he teaches courses on social change movements, environmental justice, human-animal conflicts, sustainability, and social inequality. His teaching and research focus on ecological justice issues in the United […] More

Harold A. Pollack, PhD, is the Helen Ross Distinguished Service Professor of Social Service Administration at the University of Chicago. He is faculty codirector of the University of Chicago Health Lab. He researches services for severely disadvantaged populations for individuals at the interface between Medicaid and the criminal justice system. More

Ninez A. Ponce, MPP, PhD, is professor in the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, director of the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research, and principal investigator for the California Health Interview Survey. At UCLA she has taught courses in health economics, health policy analysis, global health, and advanced research methods. Her research contributes to […] More

Keshia M. Pollack Porter, PhD, MPH is a Bloomberg Centennial Professor and Dean at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, where she also serves as director of the School’s Institute for Health and Social Policy. Dr. Pollack Porter is an internationally recognized health equity scholar whose research advances policies that create safe and […] More

Thomas Rice holds the position of Distinguished Professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health.  A health economist, his areas of interest include international health care systems, competition and regulation, behavioral economics, and health insurance.  His upcoming book, Health Insurance Systems in High-Income Countries, will be […] More

Sara Rosenbaum J.D. is Emerita Professor of Health Law and Policy at George Washington University’s Milken Institute School of Public Health. Previously she served as the Harold and Jane Hirsh Professor of Health Law and Policy and as founding Chair of the Department of Health Policy. Professor Rosenbaum has devoted her career to health justice […] More

Bhaven Sampat is a Research Professor at Johns Hopkins University, with faculty appointments at the new School of Government and Policy and the Carey Business School, and Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER). His research focuses on the economics and political economy of innovation and innovation policy. Among other topics, he […] More

Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach, PhD, is the McCourt Chair in the McCourt School of Public Policy at Georgetown University. She is an economist who studies policies aimed at improving the lives of children in poverty, including education, health, and income support policies. Her work traces the impact of major public policies such as the Food Stamp Program, […] More

Richard M. Scheffler is a Distinguished Professor of Health Economics and Public Policy at the Graduate School of Public Health and the Goldman School of Public Policy at the University of California, Berkeley. Scheffler is the director of The Nicholas C. Petris Center on Health Care Markets and Consumer Welfare as well as the director […] More

Joshua Sharfstein is Distinguished Professor of the Practice in Health Policy and Management at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. He served as secretary of the Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene from 2011 to 2014, as principal deputy commissioner of the US Food and Drug Administration from 2009 to 2011, and […] More

Courtney Harold Van Houtven, PhD, MSc, is professor of population health sciences at Duke University and core faculty in the Duke-Margolis Center for Health Policy and a core investigator at the Center of Innovation to Accelerate Discovery and Practice Transformation at the Durham VA. She conducts comparative effectiveness and economics research and designs and tests […] More

Keith Wailoo, PhD, is Henry Putnam University Professor of History and Public Affairs at Princeton University where he teaches in the Department of History and in the School of Public and International Affairs. He is former chair of History (2017-20), former vice dean in the School of Public and International Affairs (2013-15), and current president […] More

Leana Wen, MD, MsC, is an emergency physician, professor of health policy and management at George Washington University, and a nonresident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. She is also a CNN medical analyst and contributing columnist for The Washington Post, where she writes a weekly column and anchors the new Post newsletter, “The Checkup […] More

Susan Webb Yackee is director of the La Follette School of Public Affairs and Collins-Bascom Professor of Public Affairs and Political Science at UW-Madison. Her research and teaching interests include the US public policymaking process, public management, regulation, administrative law, and interest group politics. Yackee has published articles in a number of journals, including the American […] More