At the University of Michigan School of Public Health, more than 200 professors and research scientists teach tomorrow’s public health leaders and perform cutting-edge research that helps advance the field of public health. Many faculty members are leading experts in their fields who consult with governments, communities, and nongovernmental organizations.
Meet Our Faculty
Faculty who have expertise in Health Policy

- Professor and Department Chair, Health Management and Policy
- Professor, Sociology
- Professor, School of Information
Areas of Expertise
Health Care, Health Informatics, Health Policy

- Research Investigator, Epidemiology
Areas of Expertise
Chronic Disease, COVID-19, Health Equity, Health Policy, Mental Health, Nutrition

- Assistant Professor, Health Management and Policy
- Assistant Professor of Global Public Health
Areas of Expertise
Chronic Disease, Global Public Health, Health Equity, Health Policy, Racism

- Associate Professor, Epidemiology
- Associate Professor, Complex Systems
- Director, Center for the Study of Complex Systems
- Associate Professor, Mathematics
Areas of Expertise
Cancer, COVID-19, Global Public Health, Health Informatics, Health Policy, Infectious Disease, Public Health Practice

- Professor, Biostatistics
- Research Professor, Survey Methodology
Areas of Expertise
Aging, Biostatistics, Child Health, COVID-19, Health Policy, Maternal Health, Substance Use, Women’s Health

- Assistant Professor, Health Behavior and Health Education
Areas of Expertise
Health Equity, Health Policy, Public Health Practice, Racism

- Richard Carl Jelinek Professor of Health Services Management and Policy
- Professor, Health Management and Policy
- Professor, Psychiatry
Areas of Expertise
Health Care, Health Equity, Health Policy, Mental Health

- Professor Health Management and Policy
- Professor, Global Public Health
- Professor (by courtesy), Political Science
Areas of Expertise
Aging, COVID-19, Global Public Health, Health Policy

- Associate Professor, Health Management and Policy, School of Public Health
- Associate Professor, Global Public Health, School of Public Health
- Associate Professor, Industrial and Operations Engineering, College of Engineering
Areas of Expertise
Health Policy

- Associate Professor, Health Behavior and Health Education
- Faculty Associate, Center for Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies
Areas of Expertise
COVID-19, Global Public Health, Health Equity, Health Policy, Reproductive Health, Substance Use, Women’s Health

- Assistant Research Scientist, Health Management and Policy
Areas of Expertise
Cancer, Health Policy

- M. Anthony Schork Collegiate Professor of Biostatistics
- Professor, Global Public Health
Areas of Expertise
Biostatistics, Cancer, Chronic Disease, COVID-19, Firearm Injury Prevention, Genetics, Global Public Health, Health Care, Health Equity, Health Policy, Infectious Disease, Substance Use

- Research Assistant Professor, Health Management and Policy
Areas of Expertise
COVID-19, Health Equity, Health Policy, Substance Use

- Marilyn Fisher Blanch Research Professor, Pediatrics
- Director, Susan B. Meister Child Health Evaluation and Research Center
- Associate Vice President, Research - Health Sciences, University of Michigan Office of Research
Areas of Expertise
Child Health, Health Policy

- Associate Professor, Health Management and Policy
Areas of Expertise
Health Care, Health Policy

- Clinical Assistant Professor, Health Management and Policy
Areas of Expertise
Chronic Disease, Health Communication, Health Equity, Health Informatics, Health Policy, Urban Health

- Associate Professor, Health Management and Policy
- Policy Core Director, Institute for Firearm Injury Prevention
Areas of Expertise
Firearm Injury Prevention, Health Policy

- Alice Hamilton Distinguished University Professor of Medicine and Healthcare Policy
Areas of Expertise
Aging, Cancer, Chronic Disease, Health Care, Health Equity, Health Policy

- Assistant Professor, Anesthesiology
- Assistant Professor, Health Management and Policy
Areas of Expertise
Aging, Chronic Disease, COVID-19, Health Care, Health Policy, Substance Use, Women’s Health

- Waldo O. Hildebrand Professor of Risk Management and Insurance
- Professor of Business Economics and Public Policy
Areas of Expertise
Child Health, Health Care, Health Equity, Health Policy, LGBT Health, Mental Health, Substance Use

- Research Assistant Professor, Internal Medicine
- Research Assistant Professor, Health Management and Policy
- Faculty Associate, Survey Research Center, Institute for Social Research
Areas of Expertise
Aging, COVID-19, Global Public Health, Health Care, Health Policy

- Assistant Professor, Pediatrics
- Assistant Professor, Health Management and Policy
Areas of Expertise
Health Policy

- Percy and Mary Murphy Professor of PediatricsProfessor, Health Management and Policy
- Director of Faculty Programs, Office of Health Equity and Inclusion
- Associate Chair for Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Government Relations
Areas of Expertise
Child Health, Global Public Health, Health Care, Health Equity, Health Policy, Public Health Practice

- Elizabeth Tone Hosmer Professor of Nursing
- Professor, Nursing
- Professor, Health Management and Policy
Areas of Expertise
Cancer, Health Care, Health Policy

- Professor, Internal Medicine
- Professor, Health Management and Policy
Areas of Expertise
Health Equity, Health Policy

- Professor, Department of Internal Medicine, Division of General Medicine
- Professor, Health Management and Policy
- Professor, Health Behavior and Health Education
Areas of Expertise
Health Care, Health Policy

- Professor, Internal Medicine
- Professor, Health Behavior and Health Education
- Research Scientist, Center for Clinical Management Research
Areas of Expertise
Aging, Chronic Disease, Global Public Health, Health Care, Health Policy

- Professor, Internal Medicine
- Professor, History
- Professor, Health Management and Policy
Areas of Expertise
Health Policy

- Associate Professor, Learning Health Sciences
- Associate Professor, Health Management and Policy
Areas of Expertise
Health Informatics, Health Policy, Precision Health

- Assistant Professor, Pediatrics
- Assistant Professor, Epidemiology
- Director, Child Health Evaluation and Research Fellowship
Areas of Expertise
Chronic Disease, Child Health, Health Care, Health Informatics, Health Policy

- Professor, Epidemiology
- Professor, Dept. of Afroamerican and African Studies
Areas of Expertise
COVID-19, Global Public Health, Health Policy

- Professor, Health Management and Policy
- Professor, Systems Populations and Leadership, School of Nursing
Areas of Expertise
Health Care, Health Policy, Precision Health

- Marcia A. Valenstein, MD Collegiate Professor, Psychiatry
- Professor, Health Management and Policy
- Research Career Scientist, Center for Clinical Management
- Research, VA Ann Arbor Healthcare System
Areas of Expertise
Health Policy, Maternal Health, Mental Health, Reproductive Health, Substance Use, Women’s Health

- United Healthcare Professor of Healthcare Management
- Professor, Health Management and Policy
Areas of Expertise
Health Policy

- Associate Professor, College of Education, Health and Human Services, University of Michigan Dearborn
- Adjunct Associate Professor, Health Behavior and Health Education
Areas of Expertise
Environmental Health, Health Communication, Health Equity, Health Policy, Public Health Practice

- Professor Emeritus, Health Management and Policy
- Executive Director, UMHS eHealth Center
Areas of Expertise
Health Policy

- Assistant Research Scientist Emeritus
Areas of Expertise
Health Policy, Women’s Health

- Professor Emeritus, Health Management and Policy
- Research Professor Emeritus, Institute of Gerontology
Areas of Expertise
Aging, Child Health, COVID-19, Global Public Health, Health Care, Health Policy, Mental Health

- Andrew Pattullo Collegiate Professor, Health Management and Policy (Emeritus)
Areas of Expertise
Health Care, Health Policy

- Associate Professor Emeritus, Health Management and Policy
Areas of Expertise
Health Care, Health Equity, Health Policy, Urban Health

- Emeritus Professor, Epidemiology and Internal Medicine
Areas of Expertise
Global Public Health, Health Policy, Public Health Practice

- Avedis Donabedian Distinguished University Professor Emeritus of Public Health
- Dean Emeritus, School of Public Health
- Professor Emeritus, Health Management and Policy
Areas of Expertise
Global Public Health, Health Policy, Substance Use

- Professor Emeritus, Health Management and Policy
Areas of Expertise
Health Policy

- Lecturer, Public Health Law
Areas of Expertise
Chronic Disease, COVID-19, Environmental Health, Health Equity, Health Policy, Infectious Disease, Maternal Health, Public Health Practice, Reproductive Health, Substance Use, Women’s Health

- Executive Director, Center for Health and Research Transformation
- Lecturer, Health Management and Policy
Areas of Expertise
Aging, Chronic Disease, Health Care, Health Equity, Health Informatics, Health Policy, Public Health Practice

- Adjunct Professor, Health Management and Policy
- Vice President and Chief Health Equity Officer, CVS Health
- Appointee, Biden-Harris Administration COVID-19 Health Equity Task Force
Areas of Expertise
Aging, Child Health, COVID-19, Health Equity, Health Policy

- CEO, Extracorporeal Life Support Organization
- Adjunct Faculty, Health Management and Policy
Areas of Expertise
COVID-19, Global Public Health, Health Care, Health Equity, Health Policy, Nutrition, Public Health Practice, Women’s Health

- Lecturer, Health Policy and Management
- Senior Advisor, Center for Health and Research Transformation
- Head of Public Health, Rewind
Areas of Expertise
Aging, Health Care, Health Policy, Substance Use

- Adjunct Assistant Professor, Health Management and Policy
- Assistant Professor, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Areas of Expertise
Health Policy