Health Management & Policy Faculty Profiles
Along with providing education and training, Health Management and Policy faculty and researchers have achieved national and international reputations for excellence in their respective fields of research and expertise. Short summaries of faculty are detailed below.
Department Chairs
Associate Chair
Shoou-Yih Daniel Lee, Ph.D.
Core Faculty
Denise Anthony, Ph.D.
Organizations and institutions in health care delivery; health information technology;
sociology of privacy; sociology of trust.
Melissa S. Creary, Ph.D., M.P.H.
Global health (Brazil), social movements, race, culture, and citizenship, sickle cell
disease.
Ebbin Dotson, Ph.D., M.H.S.A.
Organizational theory and behavior, health equity, leadership competencies, health
professions pipelines, workforce diversity, predictive assessment, health literacy
Daniel Eisenberg, Ph.D.
Mental health services and policy; education and human capital; health behaviors;
economic and policy evaluation.
Kyle L. Grazier, Dr.P.H.
Financing and delivery of mental health and addiction services; insurance and payment
systems, benefits design; health care management, evaluation sciences.
Scott L. Greer, Ph.D.
Politics of health policymaking in developed countries.
Rebecca Haffajee, J.D., Ph.D., M.P.H.
Influence of law on public health and health care delivery.
Richard A. Hirth, Ph.D.
Not-for-profit ownership, health insurance, healthcare spending, payment system design,
long-term care, end-stage renal disease.
David W. Hutton, Ph.D.
Cost-effectiveness, global health, patient decision-making, patient education, mathematical
modeling, pandemic planning, hepatitis B, influenza.
Holly Jarman, Ph.D.
Market regulation, tobacco control, health information exchange, global health.
Sheela Kennedy, Ph.D.
Poverty, inequality and economic well-being over the life course; demography; the family;
the transition to adulthood
Jersey Liang, Ph.D.
Comparative aging, health, and health care.
Elisa Maffioli, Ph.D.
Development Economics, Health Economics, Political Economy.
Jeffrey McCullough, Ph.D.
Economics of information technology and health care; Health technology markets; Industrial
organization
Neil K. Mehta, Ph.D., M.A., M.Sc.
Demography, epidemiology, and sociology
David Mendez, Ph.D.
Smoking control, product and service quality on demand, policies regarding residential
radon, operations research, distance learning, executive education.
Edward C. Norton, Ph.D.
Health economics, long-term care and aging, and econometrics.
Lisa Prosser, Ph.D.
Cost-effectiveness analysis, decision analysis, health utility measurement, conjoint
analysis/discrete choice experiments, child health, vaccination programs, newborn
screening.
Simone Rauscher Singh, Ph.D.
Financial accounting, managerial accounting, public health finance, hospital community
benefit, healthcare price transparency.
Andrew Ryan, Ph.D.
Pay-for-performance, public quality reporting, disparities, measuring quality and
cost, and health care policy analysis.
Shu-Fang Shih, Ph.D., M.Sc., M.B.A.
Social determinants of health, maternal and child health, health literacy, program
evaluation, digital health solutions.
Julia A. Wolfson, Ph.D., M.P.P.
Food policy; obesity and diet-related disease prevention; school and community food
environments.
Faculty with Joint Appointments
Matthew L. Boulton, M.D., M.P.H.
Global health in China and India, vaccine preventable diseases, assessing immunization
coverage and barriers to vaccine uptake, immunization information systems, infectious
disease epidemiology, ebola, public health workforce and capacity building
Thomas Buchmueller, Ph.D.
Economics of health insurance and related policy issues.
A. Mark Fendrick, M.D.
Value-based insurance design, outcomes research, medical innovation, technology assessment,
economic evaluation, cost effectiveness analysis, health care costs, prescription
drug benefit design.
Gary L. Freed, M.D., M.P.H.
Immunization policy, health policy and health economics for children, children's health
services research.
Christopher Friese, Ph.D., RN, AOCN®, FAAN
Quality of care, Health policy, Oncology nursing, Nursing workforce.
Charles P. Friedman, Ph.D.
Development of health information and knowledge infrastructures at national scale,
knowledge-based applications to support decisions by care providers and consumers,
methods for studying the effectiveness of technologically based interventions.
Susan Dorr Goold, M.D., M.H.S.A., M.A.
Public perspectives on health and health care spending priorities, public health ethics,
deliberative procedures in bioethics and health policy, physicians and stewardship,
conflicts of interest in medicine and biomedical research.
Carmen R. Green, M.D.
Acute, chronic, and cancer pain; pain management outcomes; clinician variability in
decision-making; age, race, gender, and class disparities in health and pain care
access; assessment and treatment; health policy.
Jennifer J. Griggs, M.D., M.P.H.
Health and health care disparities, quality of cancer care, patient-provider communication.
Sarah T. Hawley, Ph.D., M.P.H.
Decision aids, Cancer - colon, Cancer screening
Rodney A. Hayward, M.D.
Health care quality measurement and improvement, chronic disease management, determinants
of provider practice patterns.
John Hollingsworth, M.S., M.D.
Joel D. Howell, M.D., Ph.D.
Medical technology, health policy, history of medicine.
Steven J. Katz, M.D., M.P.H.
Health and health care disparities, quality of cancer care, patient-provider communication.
Anna Kirkland, Ph.D., J.D.
Law and society; law and politics of health; antidiscrimination law; gender and sexuality
in contemporary U.S. law; politics of rights claiming; law and identity
Kenneth M. Langa, M.D., Ph.D.
Epidemiology and costs of chronic disease in older adults, particularly Alzheimer's
and other dementias.
Paula Lantz, Ph.D.
Public health in health care reform, clinical preventive services (such as cancer
screening and prenatal care), and social inequalities in health.
Helen Levy, Ph.D.
Health economics, health insurance coverage, health literacy.
Howard Markel, M.D., Ph.D.
History of U.S. medicine and public health, U.S. immigration and immigrant health,
and the application of historic lessons to current and future health preparedness
policy
Laurence F. McMahon, Jr., M.D., M.P.H.
Evaluation of clinical practice variation, evaluation of outcomes of care, population-based
clinical practice profiling, care for gastrointestinal conditions.
Christopher J. Sonnenday, M.D., M.H.S.
Patterns of utilization and outcomes of hepatobiliary surgery and liver transplantation,
geographic and racial disparities in the utilization of and access to solid organ
transplantation, variation in the care of GI cancers, multidisciplinary treatment
of hepatobiliary malignancies.
Kara Zivin, Ph.D.
Dr. Zivin’s research applies quantitative methods to mental health services and policy
with a focus on predictors and consequences of depression in older adults and among
Veterans.
Lecturers and Adjunct Faculty
Toby Citrin, J.D.
Community-based partnerships, genetics/genomics and public health, civic engagement,
public health practice.
Matthew C. Comstock, M.B.A, M.H.S.A.
Clifford E. Douglas, J.D.
Tobacco, policy, law, public health policy, public health law, media, communications,
advocacy, regulation.
Theodore A. Hanss, M.A., M.B.A.
Mark Herzog, M.H.S.A., F.A.C.H.E.
Leadership, Organizational Culture, Governance, Improving the Value of Healthcare.
Joseph R. Horton, M.H.A., F.A.C.H.E.
Maulik S. Joshi, Dr.P.H.
Leadership, Governance, Quality, Patient Safety, Performance Improvement, Data
Upali Nanda, Ph.D.
Human Health & Wellbeing, Sensory Design, Power of Place.
Steve H. Nelson, M.B.A., M.H.S.A.
Anand Parekh, M.D., M.P.H. F.A.C.P.
Mark Rosenblum, M.D.
Developing clinical care "through the patient's eyes"; the care continuum; outcomes
research; the value of multi-specialty integration; health services innovation; development
of clinical centers and institutes; physician leadership.
Christine M. Stead, M.H.S.A.
Douglas (Doug) L. Strong, M.B.A.
Director and Chief Executive Officer of Michigan Medicine
Marianne Udow-Phillips, M.H.S.A.
Seth W. Wolk, M.D., M.H.S.A.
Retired System Chief Medical Officer Spectrum Health
Emeritus Faculty
Jeffrey A. Alexander, Ph.D.
Physician-system alignment, governance of public-private community health partnerships,
organization and staffing practices, and the effects of managed care.
Rashid L. Bashshur, Ph.D.
Telemedicine system development, implementation, and evaluation.
Eugenia S. Carpenter, M.P.P.
Health workforce, supply distribution and credentialing, planning, organization, and
evaluation of delivery of health and human services.
Brant Fries, Ph.D.
Long-term care policy & regulation, including nusing homes, home care, well-elderly
in the community, palliative care, & psychiatric care.
John Griffith, M.B.A., F.A.C.H.E.
Managing acute care organizations.
Peter D. Jacobson, J.D., M.P.H.
Role of the courts in shaping health policy; public health ethics; influence of law
on public health and health care delivery; ebola.
Richard L. Lichtenstein, Ph.D.
Health services management and policy, racial and ethnic disparities in health, community-based
participatory research, health insurance for children, effects of discrimination in
access to health care.
Catherine G. McLaughlin, Ph.D.
The uninsured, managed care, market competition, and employer and employee benefit
choice.
Dean G. Smith, Ph.D.
Health care financial management, health insurance, managed care, managerial accounting,
pharmacoecomomics, outcomes research.
J. William (Bill) Thomas, Ph.D., M.B.A.
Risk adjustment; provider performance measurement, including quality of care, costs,
and efficiency.
Gail Warden, M.H.A.
Practical legislative, regulatory and economic health care policy.
Kenneth E. Warner, Ph.D.
Tobacco, economics, policy, public health policy.
Jack Wheeler, Ph.D.
Health care finance, health economics, health care managerial accounting, health care
financing systems, children's health economics, economics of end-stage renal disease.
