Faculty Research

The Schroeder Center collaborates with a multidisciplinary group of William & Mary faculty who have health and health policy research interests. Collaborative efforts include, but are not limited to, faculty co-authoring journal articles, providing financial support for research assistantships on faculty-led projects, organizing speaker events and health policy panels, identifying grant funding opportunities, and bringing together faculty for potential projects. Below we list several William & Mary faculty who have health and health policy research interests along with examples of their research. For a more complete review of their work, please visit each faculty member’s individual webpages by clicking on his/her name.

ECONOMICS

	Peter McHenry, Ph.D. Tang Associate Professor Chancellors Hall, Room 256 (757) 221-1796 pmchenry@wm.edu	Health Policy Interests: Health economics, informal caregiving, Medicare, nursing labor markets Courses Taught: Labor Market Analysis Poverty in America Principles of Microeconomics Selected Publications: Do Financial Incentives Matter? Effects of Medicare Price Shocks on Skilled Nursing Facility Care (with He and Mellor) (2020). Health Economics. 29(6):655-670. The Effects of Medicare Payment Changes on Nursing Home Staffing (with He and Mellor) (2020). American Journal of Health Economics. 6(4):411-443.


	Jennifer Mellor, Ph.D. Professor Director, Schroeder Center for Health Policy Chancellors Hall, Room 433 (757) 221-1913 jmmell@wm.edu	Health Policy Interests: Health economics, health policy, Medicare and Medicaid Courses Taught: Health Care Economics Economics of U.S. Health Policy Economics of Bad Behavior Health Policy Research Lab Selected Publications: Welcome Mats and On-Ramps for Older Adults: The Impact of the Affordable Care Act’s Medicaid Expansions on Dual Enrollment in Medicare and Medicaid (with McInerney and Sabik) (2020). Journal of Policy Analysis and Management. https://doi.org/10.1002/pam.22259 Racial and Ethnic Differences in Medicaid Acceptance by Primary Care Physicians: A Geospatial Analysis (with Daly) (2020). Medical Care Research and Review. 77(1):85-95.


	John Parman, Ph.D. Paul R. Verkuil Distinguished Associate Professor Chancellors Hall, Room 254 (757) 221-2852 jmparman@wm.edu	Health Policy Interests: Economic history, effect of health shocks on families, health and socioeconomic status Courses Taught: American Economic History American Mobility Regulation of Markets Selected Publications: Disease, Downturns, and Wellbeing: Economic History and the Long-Run Impacts of COVID-19 (with Arthi) (2021). Explorations in Economic History. 79:101381. Segregation and Mortality Over Time and Space (with Logan) (2018). Social Science & Medicine. 199:77-86.



	Louis F. Rossiter, Ph.D. Research Professor of Public Policy Former Virginia Secretary of Health and Human Resources Former Deputy for Policy at the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Miller Hall, Room 3050 (757) 221-1602 lfross@wm.edu	Health Policy Interests: Health economics, financing and delivery of health care, reimbursement economics, managed care organizations, health information analytics Courses Taught: Public Policy for Science and Professions Selected Publications: Healthcare Resource Use and Cost: The Impact of Adopting an Abuse-Deterrent Formulation of Extended Release Morphine (with Kwong and Marrett) (2020). ClinicoEconomics and Outcomes Research. 12:35-44. New Approaches and Technologies for Improving Cost Performance in Health Care (with Masiulis, Schaich, and Thomas) (2018). Healthcare Financial Management Association magazine (2018-2019 Helen Yerger/L. Vann Seawell Best Article Award)


	Peter Savelyev, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Chancellors Hall, Room 232 (757) 221-2371 pasavelyev@wm.edu	Health Policy Interests: Health economics, economics of human development Courses Taught: Economics of Health Care Econometrics Selected Publications: Conscientiousness, Extraversion, College Education, and Longevity of High-Ability Individuals (2020). The Journal of Human Resources. DOI: 10.3368/jhr.58.1.0918-9720R2 Understanding the Mechanisms Linking College Education with Longevity (with Hong and Tan) (2020). Journal of Human Capital, 14(3):371-400.


	Ranjan Shrestha, Ph.D. Visiting Assistant Professor Chancellors Hall, Room 461 rshrestha@wm.edu	Health Policy Interests: Health economics, development economics, economic demography Courses Taught: Principles: Microeconomics Intermediate Microeconomic Theory Principles: Macroeconomics Intermediate Macroeconomic Theory Principles/Methods Statistics Selected Publications: Health Insurance for the Poor, Health Care Utilisation and Health Outcomes in Indonesia (2020). Bulletin of Indonesian Economic Studies. https://doi.org/10.1080/00074918.2020.1753655 The Village Midwife Program and Infant Mortality in Indonesia (2010). Bulletin of Indonesian Economic Studies. 46(2):193-211.

GOVERNMENT

	Chris Howard, Ph.D. Harriman Professor of Government and Public Policy Chancellors Hall, Room 363 (757) 221-3026 cdhowa@wm.edu	Health Policy Interests: Health policy, Medicaid, Medicare Courses Taught: American Welfare State War on Poverty Policy History Selected Publications: Who Cares: The Social Safety Net in America (Oxford University Press). The Oxford Handbook of U.S. Social Policy (co-edited with Beland and Morgan) (2015). DOI: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199838509.001.0001


	Claire McKinney, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Chancellors Hall, Room 320 (757) 221-2041 cmckinney@wm.edu	Health Policy Interests: Disability studies, reproductive politics, medicalized citizenship Courses Taught: Medicalized Citizenship Politics of Reproduction Women’s Disease Activism as Political Theory Selected Publications: A Good Abortion is a Tragic Abortion: Fit Motherhood and Disability Stigma (2019). Hypatia 34(2):266-285. Selective Abortion as Moral Failure? Revaluation of the Feminist Case for Reproductive Rights in a Disability Context (2016). Disability Studies Quarterly 36(1).

PSYCHOLOGY

	Adrian Bravo, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Integrated Science Center, Room 1081 (757) 221-3881 ajbravo@wm.edu	Health Policy Interests: Protective/risk factors (motives, protective behavioral strategies, impulsivity-like traits, rumination, and mindfulness) of substance use and mental health Courses Taught: Health Psychology Research in Personality Intro Psychology as a Social Science Drugs and Behavior Selected Publications: College Alcohol Beliefs and Negative Alcohol-related Consequences: A Moderated Mediation Model of Enhancement Drinking Motives and Restricted Eating (with Herchenroeder & Protective Strategies Study Team) (2020). Addictive Behaviors. 110: 106541. Microaggressions and Psychological Health among College Students: A Moderated Mediation Model of Rumination and Social Structure Beliefs (with Farber, Wedell, Herchenroeder, Dickter, and Pearson) (2021). Journal of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities. 8(1):245-255. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40615-020-00778-8



	Danielle Dallaire, Ph.D. Professor Integrated Science Center, Room 1143 (757) 221-3884 dhdall@wm.edu	Health Policy Interests: Children’s social and emotional development in the context of risk Courses Taught: Developmental Psychology Families, Law, and Psychology Selected Publications: Parental Incarceration During Middle Childhood and Adolescence (with Shlafer and Davis) (2019). In: Eddy J., Poehlmann-Tynan J. (eds) Handbook on Children with Incarcerated Parents. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-16707-3_8 Parenting Programs for Incarcerated Fathers and Mothers: Current Research and New Directions (with Loper and Clarke) (2019). In: Eddy J., Poehlmann-Tynan J. (eds) Handbook on Children with Incarcerated Parents. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-16707-3_13

PUBLIC HEALTH

	Carrie Dolan, Ph.D., M.P.H. Assistant Professor Adair Hall, Room 112 (757) 221-2971 cbdolan@wm.edu	Health Policy Interests: Global health investments, global health, spatial epidemiology Courses Taught: Epidemiology Research Methods Health Ethics Selected Publications: Childhood Health and the Changing Distribution of Foreign Aid: Evidence from Nigeria’s Transition to Lower-Middle-Income Status (with Saunders and BenYishay) (2020). PLoS ONE. 15(11): e0241866. An Effectiveness, Efficiency, and Equity Approach to Examining Subnational Health Aid (2019). In: Dutta N., Williamson C. (eds). Lessons on Foreign Aid and Economic Development. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-22121-8_4


	Sarah Menefee, M.P.H. Lecturer Adair Hall, Room 400A (757) 221-1902 sarah.menefee@wm.edu	Health Policy Interests: College health issues (substance use/abuse and suicide prevention), health promotion, domestic and global public health Courses Taught: Foundations in Epidemiology Intro to Public Health Intro to Global Health Social & Behavioral Science in Health Health Policy


	Iyabo Obasanjo, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Adair Hall, Room 303A (757) 221-5452 iobasanjo@wm.edu	Health Policy Interests: Global health, health policy, social determinants of health Courses Taught: Foundations of Public Health Introduction to Global Health Health Policy Community Health and Research Universal Basic Healthcare Global Health Management Environmental Issues in Public Health Selected Publications: How are Women in African Parliaments Influencing Health Outcomes? (2019). Journal of Leadership, Accountability and Ethics. 16(1):61-72. https://doi.org/10.33423/jlae.v16i1.1364 Interventions to Combat HIV/AIDS in Conflict-Affected Youth in Cote d’Ivoire (with Chams-Eddine) (2019). Vulnerable Children and Youth Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal for Research, Policy and Care. 14(1):91-94.


	Alison Scott, Ph.D. Associate Professor Adair Hall, Room 400 (757) 221-2760 ascott01@wm.edu	Health Policy Interests: Public health, international health Courses Taught: Introduction to Global Health Social & Behavioral Science in Health Issues in Health Public Health: Health Equity Public Health Research Issues Selected Publications: Grandparent Caregiving Among Rural African Americans in a Community in the American South: Challenges to Health and Wellbeing (with Clottey and Alfonso) (2015). Rural Remote Health. 15(3): 3313. Social Determinants of Health Among African Americans in a Rural Community in the Deep South: An Ecological Exploration (with Wilson) (2011). Rural Remote Health. 11(1):1634.

SOCIOLOGY

	Elyas Bakhtiari, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Morton Hall, Room 216 (757) 221-3488 ebakhtiari@wm.edu	Health Policy Interests: Health disparities, cross-national comparison of health outcomes, medical sociology, racial/ethnic inequality, immigrant incorporation Courses Taught: Medical Sociology Social Inequality and Health Selected Publications: Health Effects of Muslim Racialization: Evidence from Birth Outcomes in California Before and After September 11, 2011. (2020). SSM-Population Health. 12:100703. Institutions, Incorporation, and Inequality: The Case of Minority Health Inequalities in Europe (with Olafsdottir and Beckfield) (2018). Journal of Health and Social Behavior. 59(2):248-267.


	Reya Farber, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Morton Hall, Room 233 rdfarber@wm.edu	Health Policy Interests: Medical sociology; global health; gender studies; globalization; science, technology, and medicine studies; qualitative methods Courses Taught: Politics of Global Health Medical Sociology Global Social Problems Selected Publications: Microaggressions and Psychological Health Among College Students: A Moderated Mediation Model of Rumination and Social Structure Beliefs (with Wedell, Herchenroeder, Dickter, Pearson, and Bravo) (2021). Journal of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities. 8(1):245-255. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40615-020-00778-8 LGBTIQ Rights and Intersectional Justice During COVID-19 (2020). Diplomatic Courier.