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.

List of W&M faculty affiliated with the Schroeder Center for Health Policy along with selected published works
ECONOMICS
	Jane Fruehwirth, Ph.D. Director of W&M Public Policy Professor of Economics and Public Policy Chancellors Hall, Room 412 (757) 221-6067 [[jfruehwirth]]	Health Policy Interests: Mental Health, Socio-Emotional Skill Development Selected Publications: The effect of social media use on mental health of college students during the pandemic (with Weng and Perreira) (2024). Health Economics, 33(10), 2229–2252. The Covid-19 pandemic and mental health of first-year college students: Examining the effect of Covid-19 stressors using longitudinal data (with Biswas and Perreira) (2021). PLOS, 16(3): e0247999. Religion and Depression in Adolescence (with Iyer and Zhang) (2019). Journal of Political Economy, 127(3), 1178-1209.
	Peter McHenry, Ph.D. Professor Chancellors Hall, Room 256 (757) 221-1796 pmchenry@wm.edu	Health Policy Interests: Health Economics, Informal Caregiving, Medicare, Nursing Labor Markets Courses Taught: Exploring the World with Data Labor Market Analysis Poverty in America Principles of Microeconomics Selected Publications: The Impact of Recent State and Local Minimum Wage Increases on Nursing Facility Employment (with Mellor) (2022). Journal of Labor Research. 43(3): 345-368. 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. Michael Tang Professor of Economics Chancellors Hall (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 Health and Healthcare Health Policy Lab Selected Publications: Beneficiary Experience of Care by Level of Integration in Dual Eligible Special Needs Plans (with Cunningham, Britton, Behrens, Urmi, and Vega) (2024). JAMA Health Forum. 5(6): e241383 The Impact of Medicaid Expansion on Spending and Utilization by Older Low-Income Medicare Beneficiaries (with McInerney, Garrow, and Sabik) (2023). Health Services Research. 58(5):1024-1034. Use of Home and Community-Based Services After Implementation of Medicaid Managed Long Term Services and Supports in Virginia (with Cunningham, Britton, and Walker) (2023). Journal of Aging & Social Policy. 1-19.
	John Parman, Ph.D. 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 Economic Mobility Intermediate Microeconomic Theory Global Economic History Selected Publications: Segregation and the Initial Provision of Water in the United States (with Beach and Saavedra) (2022). AEA Papers and Proceedings. 112:193-198. 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; Adjunct Professor Raymond A. Mason School of Business (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 Selected Publications: Telenursing and Remote Patient Monitoring in Cardiovascular Health (with Abraham, Jensen, and Dittman Hale) (2024). Telemed J E Health. 30(3):771-779. 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)
	Ranjan Shrestha, Ph.D. Associate Teaching Professor Chancellors Hall, Room 461 rshrestha@wm.edu	Health Policy Interests: Health Economics, Development Economics, Economic Demography Courses Taught: Principles: Microeconomics Intermediate Macroeconomic Theory 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 The War on Poverty Future of US Social Policy Selected Publications: Who Cares: The Social Safety Net in America (Oxford University Press) (2023). 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 cmckinney@wm.edu	Health Policy Interests: Disability Studies; Reproductive Politics Courses Taught: Feminist Theory Feminist Disability Theory Politics of Reproduction Women’s Disease Activism Selected Publications: Denial of Care: Framing the Loss of Abortion Rights Post-Dobbs (2024). Journal of Women, Politics & Policy. 1-15. Biopluralism, Disability, and Democratic Politics (2021). Politics, Groups, and Identities. 9(2): 423-437. A Good Abortion is a Tragic Abortion: Fit Motherhood and Disability Stigma (2019). Hypatia 34(2):266-285.
HEALTH SCIENCES
	Carrie Dolan, Ph.D., M.P.H. Associate Professor Adair Hall, Room 112 (757) 221-2971 cbdolan@wm.edu	Health Policy Interests: Global Health, International Development, Health Aid Courses Taught: Epidemiology Research Methods Health Policy Kinesiology: Responsible for Health Writing Health Solutions Selected Publications: China's Hidden Role in Malaria Control and Elimination in Africa (with Odhiambo, Malik, and Tavel) (2023). BMJ Global Health. 8(12):e013349. Chinese Health Funding in Africa: The Untold Story (with Malik, Zhang, Mao, McDade, and Svoboda)(2023). PLOS Global Public Health. 3(6):e0001637. Cost-Effectiveness of Paediatric Surgery: An Economic Evaluation of World Paediatric Project Surgical Interventions in St. Vincent and the Grenadines (2002-2019) (with Agyemang, Clare, Coleman, Richter, and Robertson)(2021). BMJ Open. 11(12):e050286.
	Scott Ickes, Ph.D Assistant Professor Adair Hall, Room 400 sbickes@wm.edu	Health Policy Interests: Public Health; Nutritional Epidemiology Courses Taught: Public Health Environmental Public Health Maternal, Neonatal and Child Health Research in Health and Nutrition
	Sarah Menefee, M.P.H. Associate Chair and Associate Teaching Professor Adair Hall 114 (757) 221-1902 sarah.menefee@wm.edu	Health Policy Interests: Public Health Courses Taught: Foundations in Epidemiology Intro to Public Health Intro to Global Health Social & Behavioral Science in Health Health Policy Public Health and the Pandemic Public Health Mishaps Health in the Nation's Capital
	Julius Odhiambo, Ph.D Assistant Professor Adair Hall, Room 400A jnodhiambo@wm.edu	Health Policy Interests: Spatial and Spatio-temporal Epidemiology Courses Taught: Foundations of Epidemiology Introduction to Global Health Methods in Health Development Statistical & Data Analysis in Health Sciences Selected Publications: Spatial and spatio-temporal epidemiological approaches to inform COVID-19 surveillance and control: a systematic review of statistical and modelling methods in Africa (with Dolan, Troup and Rojas) (2023). BMJ Open;13(1):e067134. Contextual factors and spatial trends of childhood malnutrition in Zambia (with Phiri, Mulemena, and Kalinda) (2022). Plos one;17(11):e0277015.
NEUROSCIENCE
	Catherine Forestell, Ph.D Director of Neuroscience and Professor of Psychological Sciences Integrated Science Center, Room 1151 caforestell@wm.edu	Health Policy Interests: Developmental Psychology, Development and Maintenance of Food Preferences and Eating Habits Courses Taught: Critical Questions in Psychology: Interplay of Nature & Nurture Research in Neuroscience Writing in Neurosciences
PSYCHOLOGY
	Adrian Bravo, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Integrated Science Center, Room 1081 (757) 221-3881 ajbravo@wm.edu	Health Policy Interests: Protective/Risk Factors of Substance Use and Mental Health; Relationship Between Health Risk Factors and Health Outcomes Across Distinct Populations Courses Taught: Health Psychology Research in Personality Intro Psychology as a Social Science Selected Publications: Exploring Perceptions of Self-Stigma of Substance Use and Current Alcohol and Marijuana Use Patterns Among College Students (with Chentsova, Hetelekides, Gutierrez, Prince, and SNAP Study Team) (2024). PLOS One. 19(4):e0301535. Substance Use Motives as Mediators of the Associations Between Self-Control Constructs and Negative Substance Use Consequences: A Cross-Cultural Examination (with Montgomery, Michelini, Pilatti, Mezquita, and the Cross-Cultural Addictions Study Team)(2024). The Research Society on Marijuana. Childhood Bullying Victimization, Emotion Regulation, Rumination, Distress Tolerance, and Depressive Symptoms: A Cross-National Examination Among Young Adults in Seven Countries (with Labella, Klein, Yeboah, Bailey, Doane, Kaminer, and Cross-Cultural Addictions Study Team) (2023). Aggressive Behavior. 50:e22111.
	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: COVID-19 and Family Visits: A Systematic Jurisdiction Analysis of Family Visitation and Safety Policies in Juvenile Correctional Facilities in the United States (with Muniz, Corcoran, Camper, Gruber, and Eddy)(2024). Youth Justice. Incarcerated Mothers and Their Children: Implications for Policy and Practice (with Poehlmann)(2021). Children with Incarcerated Mothers: Separation, Loss, and Reunification. 121-150. Community-Based Service Requests and Utilization Among Pregnant Women Incarcerated in Jail (with Kelsey and Thompson)(2020). Psychological Services. 17(4):393.
SOCIOLOGY
	Elyas Bakhtiari, Ph.D. Director, Schroeder Center for Health Policy: Associate Professor Boswell Hall 216 Chancellors (by appointment) 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 Health and Society Social Inequality & Health Selected Publications: How Education Shapes Indigenous Health Inequalities in the USA and Mexico (with Leon-Perez)(2024). Journal of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities. 1-14. Diminished Returns in Europe: Socioeconomic Status and Ethno-Racial Health Disparities Across 30 Countries in the European Social Survey (2022). Journal of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities. 9(6):2412-2426. The Missing Mortality Advantage for European Immigrants to the United States in the Early Twentieth Century (2022). Demography. 59(4):1517-1539.
	Reya Farber, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Boswell Hall 224 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 Qualitative Sociology Selected Publications: Discrimination, Health and Resistance for Thai Transgender Women (2024). Journal of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities. 11(2):1124-1138. Global Health Diplomacy and Commodified Health Care: Health Tourism in Malaysia and Thailand (with Taylor)(2023). Studies in Comparative International Development. 1-27. 'Don't Think That We Die from AIDS': Invisibilised Uncertainty and Global Transgender Health (2023). Sociology of Health & Illness. 45(1):196-212.
	Brent Kaup, Ph.D Professor Boswell Hall 225 bzkaup@wm.edu	Health Policy Interests: Vector-Borne Diseases; Political Ecology; Environmental Health Courses Taught: Intro to Environment & Sustainability Intro to Environmental Research Environmental Sociology Political Ecology of Health Selected Publications: Individualized Environments, Individual Cures: An Examination of Lyme Disease Activism in Virginia (with Abel, Sikirica) (2021). Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space. 4(2):545-563. Pathogenic Metabolisms: A Rift and the Zika Virus in Mato Grosso, Brazil (2021). Antipode. (53(2) 567-586.