Current H.S.O.P Student Profiles
Leah Abrams
Cognate: Sociology/Organizational Studies
Contact info: lrabrams@umich.edu
Emily Arntson
Cognate: Economics
Contact info: earntson@umich.edu
Anton Avancena
Maria Carabello
Huey-Fen Chen
Cognate: Operations Research/Decision Science
Research Interests: Cost-effectiveness analysis, Health technology assessment, Medical
decision making, Vaccination policy
Contact info: hfenchen@umich.edu
Betsy Querna Cliff
Cognate: Economics
Research Interests: Insurance benefit design, price transparency, consumer decision
making
Contact info: bqcliff@umich.edu
Dori Cross
Cognate: Organizational Studies
Research Interests: Provider use of health information technology, Health information
exchange, Care coordination and care transitions for complex patient populations, Team-based
care, Implementation science
Contact info: dacross@umich.edu
Tran Doan
Cognate: Operations Research/Decision Science
Research Interests: perform research and develop interventions that will make a wide
range of high-quality health care services accessible to underprivileged communities; effective
analysis of policies related to infectious diseases and women's health.
Contact info: trandoan@umich.edu
Heather Elliott
Cognate: Political Science
Contact info: hautumnk@umich.edu
Michelle Falkenbach
Cognate: Political Science
Contact info: michfalk@umich.edu
Jason Gibbons
Alana Guiney
Cognate: Operations Research
Research Interests: Discrete event simulation, agent based modeling, complex systems,
cost savings through simulation, network impacts on population behavior and outcomes.
Contact info: aguiney@umich.edu
Ellen Kim
Kasia Klasa
Emily Lawton
Zachary Max Levinson
Cognate: Economics
Research Interests: Financing and management of health services for vulnerable populations,
health insurance benefit design, managed care, health insurance markets.
Contact info: zmlevins@umich.edu
Jun Li
Cognate: Economics
Research Interests: Health economics, health insurance reimbursement design, value-based
purchasing, spillovers in health care markets.
Contact info: lijununi@umich.edu
Sunny Lin
Cognate: Interdisciplinary
Research Interests: Health information technology, health delivery systems, community
health, health IT policy.
Contact info: sunnylin@umich.edu
Adam Markovitz
Cognate: Economics
Research Interests: Physician payment reform, financial incentives, quality of care,
access to care, health disparities, population health.
Contact info: amarkov@umich.edu
Amanda Mauri
Morgen Miller
Cognate: Economics
Research Interests: Health insurance markets, health labor force markets, economics
of information.
Contact info: mmmill@umich.edu
Jeff Pearson
Cognate: Economics
Research Interests: Payment systems, delivery systems, health insurance, quality measurement,
public reporting, pay for performance, value-based purchasing, differential incentives
among multiple providers, Medicare, end-stage renal disease, federally qualified health
centers.
Contact info: jpears@umich.edu
Brady Post
Cognate: Economics
Research Interests: Health economics, payment reform, industrial organization, class
disparities
Contact info: postb@umich.edu
Minakshi Raj
Cognate: Sociology/Organizational Studies
Research Interests: Medical Communication, Health Information Technology and Learning
Health Sciences, Quality Improvement, Healthcare Organizational Behavior, Global Health
Contact info: miraj@umich.edu
John Richardson
Cognate: Operations Research and Decision Science
Research Interests: Cost effectiveness analysis, cost utility analysis, cost benefit
analysis, discrete choice experiments, mental health and substance abuse services,
Medicaid benefits.
Contact info: jsrich@umich.edu
Michael Rozier
Cognate: Interdisciplinary
Research Interests: Population health; Community Benefit; Ethics; Mixed methods.
Contact info: mrozier@umich.edu
Michael Rubyan
Cognate: Organizational Studies/Sociology
Research Interests: Healthcare Reform, Health Policy Communication, Health
Information Technology use, Health Policy education.
Contact info: mrubyan@umich.edu
Phillip M. Singer
Cognate: Political Science
Research Interests: Politics of healthcare, Medicaid, federalism, state politics,
health reform, federal and state political institutions.
Contact info: pmsinger@umich.edu
Phil Stadler
Cognate: Sociology/Organizational Studies
Contact info: stadleph@umich.edu
Ruoyan Sun
Cognate: Economics & Operations Research
Research Interests: agent based modeling, complex systems, health economics, social
networks, socially contagious behaviors.
Contact info: sunry@umich.edu
Jamie Tam
Cognate: Political Science/ Interdisciplinary
Research Interests: Tobacco use disparities; smoking and mental illness comorbidity;
effects of tobacco control policies; policy simulation; system dynamics and agent-based
modeling; tobacco product regulation; tobacco control in low and middle-income nations;
the impact of non-cigarette tobacco products on smoking-related outcomes.
Contact info: jamietam@umich.edu
Tarlise Townsend
Cognate: Operations Research/Decision Science
Research Interests: domestically, the dynamics that drive America's overuse of low-value
care; and globally, the design elements and approaches that yield effective health
efforts in developing countries.
Contact info: townsent@umich.edu
Charley Willison
Cognate: Political Science
Research Interests: Politics, Health Policy, Allocative Policy Decision-Making, Governance,
Mental Health Policy, Political Institutions, Federalism, State Politics.
Contact info: cwilliso@umich.edu
Qing Zheng
Cognate: Economics
Research Interests: Health economics, long-term care and aging, the role of ownership
of healthcare organizations, public reporting, health insurance, program evaluation,
global health policy
Contact info: zhengq@umich.edu
Sasha Zhou
Cognate: Sociology
Research Interests: Racial and ethnic disparities in mental health; structural interventions
surrounding mental health of adolescents and young adults, especially in China.
Contact info: sashaz@umich.edu
