former postdoctoral trainees
- ECONOMICS -
Marisa Domino (1997-99)
Associate Professor of Health Policy and of Administration, School of Public Health, University of North Carolina
Mireille Jacobson (2001-02)
Assistant Professor of Economics, University of California, Irvine
Glen Mays (1991-2000)
Associate Professor and Director of Research
Department of Health Policy and Management
College of Public Health, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, and Clinton School of Public Service, University of Arkansas
Dahlia Remler (1994-96)
Associate Professor, School of Public Affairs, Baruch College, The City University of New York
Rhema Vaithianathan (2007-08)
- MEDICINE -
John Ayanian, MD (1990-92)
Professor of Medicine and of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School; Practicing General Internist, Division of General Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Alisa Busch, MD (1998-2000)
Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School and McLean Hospital
Barbara Edwards, MD (1991-93)
Practicing Physician, General Internal Medicine, New England Medical Center
Alex D. Federman, MD (1999-2001)
Assistant Professor of Medicine, Mount Sinai University School of Medicine
Allen Fremont, MD (1998-2000)
Natural Scientist, RAND Health
Shunichi Fukuhara, MD (1991-92)
Professor, Department of Epidemiology and Health Care Research, Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine and Public Health
Jennifer Haas (1989-92)
Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Paul Hauptman, MD (1992-93)
Professor of Internal Medicine, Saint Louis School of Medicine; Medical Director, Heart Failure and Transplant Program, Saint Louis University Hospital
LeRoi S. Hicks, MD (1999-2001)
Instructor in Health Care Policy and Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School; Associate Physician, Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Nancy L. Keating, MD (1996-98)
Associate Professor of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women’s Hospital; Practicing General Internist and Supervisor of Resident Physicians, Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Rebecca Kornbluh, MD (2001-02)
Research Fellow, RAND
Bruce E. Landon, MD (1995-97)
Associate Professor in Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School; Associate Professor in Medicine and Practicing Internist, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Ateev Mehrotra, MD (2004-06)
Assistant Professor of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
Elizabeth Mort, MD (1989-91)
Instructor in Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School; Associate Chief Medical Officer, Massachusetts General Hospital
Stephen D. Persell, MD (2000-03)
Assistant Professor of Medicine, Northwestern University School of Medicine
Eric Schneider, MD (1994-96)
Associate Professor, Health Policy and Management, Harvard School of Public Health; Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Thomas D. Sequist, MD (2002-04)
Assistant Professor of Medicine and of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women's Hospital
Amal N. Trivedi, MD (2003-06)
Assistant Professor of Community Health, Brown University School of Medicine
I. Steven Udvarhelyi, MD (1989-91)
Senior Vice President and Chief Medical Officer for Independence Blue Cross and its affiliated companies, Keystone Health Plan East and AmeriHealth
- MENTAL HEALTH POLICY -
Sara Bergstresser (2004-06)
Postdoctoral Trainee, Psychiatric Epidemiology Training Program, Columbia University
Joshua Breslau (Psychiatric Epidemiology, 2000-06)
Assistant Professor, Department of Internal Medicine, School of Medicine; Director for Research, Center for Reducing Health Disparities, School of Medicine, University of California, Davis
Jodi Constantine (1999-2001)
Research Associate, University of California, San Diego
Catherine Fullerton (2006-2008)
Steve Gilman (1998-2001)
Research Fellow, Department of Society, Human Development, and Health, Harvard School of Public HealthÂ
Carla Gomes (2000-02)
Research Economist, Mount Sinai Medical School
Rachel Henke (2006-08)
Eileen E. Ming (1997-2000)
Manager, Outcomes Research and Management, US Human Health, Merck & Co., Inc.
Beth Molnar (1997-99)
Assistant Professor, Dept. of Society, Human Development and Health, Harvard School of Public Health
Victoria D. Ojeda (2003-06)
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Division of International Health and Cross-Cultural Medicine, University of California, San Diego
Ayelet Ruscio (Psychiatric Epidemiology, 2004-06)
Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Pennsylvania
- STATISTICS -
Cindy Christiansen (1992-94)
Associate Professor, Health Services Department of the Boston University School of Public Health; Section Head, Health Statistics Group of The Center for Health Quality, Outcomes, and Economic Research, Bedford, Mass.
Nandini Dendukuri (1999-2000)
Biostatistician, Deptartment of Clinical Epidemiology and Community Studies, St. Mary's Hospital Center, Montreal, Quebec; Assistant Professor, Dept. of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, McGill University
Mark Glickman (1993-95)
Associate Professor, Department of Health Policy & Management, Boston University School of Public Health
Yulei He (2005-07)
Assistant Professor, Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School
Hemant Ishwaran (1993-95)
Associate Staff, Deptartment of Biostatistics, The Cleveland Clinic Foundation
Jeff Jonkman (1998-2000) Associate Professor, Department of Biostatistics, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences
Mary Beth Landrum (1995-98)
Associate Professor, Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School
Chuanhai Liu (1994-95)
Researcher, Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, N.J.
Fan Li (2006-08)
Tapabrata Maiti (1998-99)
Assistant Professor, Department of Statistics, Iowa State University
Brian Neelon, PhD (2008-2009)
Sharon-Lise T. Normand (1990-92)
Professor, Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School
A. James O'Malley (1999-2001)
Assistant Professor, Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School
Carolyn Rutter (1992-94)
Assistant Scientific Investigator, Group Health Cooperative, Center for Health Studies, Seattle, WA
Rusty Tchernis (2002-04)
Assistant Professor, Applied Econometrics, Health and Labor Economics, Department of Economics, Indiana University
John Tsimikas (1994-96)
Assistant Professor, Deptartment of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Stephen Walsh (1989-91)
Associate Professor, University of Connecticut Health Center; Adjunct Faculty, Department of Statistics, University of Connecticut
Recai Yucel (2000-02),
Assistant Professor of Biostatistics, School of Public Health, State University of New York (SUNY) at AlbanyÂ
Hui Zheng (2003-04)
Instructor, Massachusetts General Hospital Biostatistics Center, Harvard Medical School; Instructor, Biostatistics Center, Massachusetts General Hospital
Xiao-Hua (Andrew) Zhou (1991-93)
Professor, Department of Biostatistics, School of Public Health and Community Medicine; Director and Investigator, Biostatistics Unit, HSR&D Center of Excellence, Veterans Affairs Puget Sound Health Care System, University of Washington
Kelly Zou (1997-99)
Director of Statistics, Outcomes Research and Evidence Based Strategies, Global Medical Research & Development, Pfizer Inc.
- FORMER CONGRESSIONAL FELLOW -
David C. Bowen (2000-02)
Staff Director for Health, Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor & Pensions
- FORMER HARKNESS FELLOWS -
Alan Cass (2002-03)
Director, Renal Division, The George Institute for International Health, University of Sydney, Australia
Rhys G. Jones (2005-06)
Senior Lecturer in Maori Health, University of Auckland, New Zealand
Karine Lamiraud, PhD (2005)
Research and Teaching Assistant, University of Lausanne, Switzerland
Franco Sassi (1999)
Lecturer in Social Policy and Administration, Department of Social Policy and LSE Health, The London School of Economics and Political Science, UK
Mary Seddon (1998-99)
Head of Quality Improvement, Division of Medicine, Middlemore Hospital, Auckland, New Zealand
Ruth Thorlby, MD (2008-2009)
King's Fund, London, England. Fellow in Health Policy.
FORMER GRADUATE STUDENTS
- DECISION SCIENCES -
Lisa Prosser (2000)Â
Assistant Professor of Ambulatory Care and Prevention, Harvard School of Public Health; Research Scientist, Henry Ford Health System
Jennifer Prah Ruger (1998)Â
Assistant Professor of Health Policy, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Yale University School of Medicine
- ECONOMICS -
Colin S. Baker (2005)
Principal Analyst, Health and Human Resources Division, Congressional Budget OfficeÂ
Amber Batata (1999)
Assistant Director in the Economic & Policy Research Group, Worldwide Public Affairs and Policy, Pfizer, Inc.Â
Nancy Beaulieu (1998)
Adam Block (2007)
Economist, The Joint Committee on Taxation
Melinda J. Beeuwkes Buntin (2000)
Health Economist, RAND Corporation; Co-Director, Center for Health Care Organization, Economics, and Finance, RAND Health
Susan Bronskill (2001)
Scientist, Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences; Assistant Professor, Department of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto
Susan H. Busch (2000)
Associate Professor of Health Policy and Administration, Yale School of Medicine
Yiing-Jenq Chou (1997)
Professor, Department of Social Medicine & Institute of Public Health, School of Medicine, National Yang Ming University, Taiwan
Rena Conti (2006)
Instructor, Department of Pediatrics, Institute for Molecular Pediatric Sciences, Department of General Internal Medicine, Committee on Clinical Pharmacology and Pharmacogenetics, The University of Chicago
Federico Girosi (2003)
Senior Policy Researcher, RAND Corporation
William Gnam (2004)
Scientist and Staff Psychiatrist, Center for Addiction and Mental Health, University of Toronto
David D. Howard (2000)
Associate Professor, Department of Health Policy & Management, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University
Haiden Huskamp (1997)
Associate Professor of Health Economics, Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School
Melitta Jakab (2007)
Health Financing Specialist, Central Eastern Europe and Central Asia, World Health Organization EURO
Srikanth Kadiyala (2006)
Assistant Professor, Pharmaceutical Outcomes Research and Policy Program, Health Science Department, University of Washington
Shoo Kim Lee (1996)
Scientific Director, Integrated Centre for Care Advancement through Research (iCARE); Canada Research Chair (Tier 1) in Knowledge Translation and Healthcare Improvement; Professor of Pediatrics, University of Alberta
Sharon Maccini (2005)
Lecturer, Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, University of Michigan
John McAlearney (2001)
Assistant Professor, Boonshoft School of Medicine and Raj Soin College of Business; Health Economist, Center for Global Health Systems, Management, and Policy, Wright State University
Mark B. McClellan (1993)
Director, Engelberg Center for Health Care Reform and Senior Fellow, Economic Studies, Brookings Institution
Norman Grantham Miller (2005)
Assistant Professor of Medicine, Stanford University
Meredith B. Rosenthal (1998)
Associate Professor of Health Economics and Policy, Department of Health Policy and Management, Harvard School of Public Health
Yu-Chu Shen (2001)
Assistant Professor, Graduate School of Business and Public Policy,
Naval Postgraduate School; Faculty Research Associate, National Bureau
of Economic Research
Erica Seiguer Shenoy (2007)
Resident in Internal Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital; Clinical Fellow, Harvard Medical School
Benjamin D. Sommers (2005)
Resident, Internal Medicine/Primary Care, Department of General Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital
Erin Strumpf (2007)
Assistant Professor, Department of Economics and Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health, McGill University
Elizabeth Richardson Vigdor (1999)
Research Scholar, Center for Health Policy, Sanford Institute of Public Policy, Duke University
Chapin White (2004)
Senior Program Officer, Future of Health Insurance Program, The Commonwealth Fund
Vivian Y. Wu (2005)
Attending Psychiatrist, National Taiwan University Hospital; Lecturer, Department of Social Medicine National Taiwan University, School of MedicineÂ
Yuting Zhang (2007)
Assistant Professor of Healthcare Management, Department of Health Economics and Management, Guanghua School of Management, Peking UniversityÂ
- ETHICS -
Janice Cooper (2004)
Director, Child Health and Mental Health; Assistant Clinical Professor of Health Policy and Management, National Center for Children in Poverty, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University
Jill R. Horowitz (2002)
Professor of Law, University of Michigan Law School
Jaime Staples King (2008)
Associate Professor of Law, University of California, Hastings College of the Law
David Stevenson (2004)
Assistant Professor of Health Policy, Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School
- MANAGEMENT -
Syeda Inamdar (2007)
Assistant Professor, Department of Organization and Management, San Jose State University, College of Business
Ingrid Nembhard (2007)
Assistant Professor of Public Health and Management, School of Medicine-Public Health, School of Management, Yale University
Darren Zinner (2006)
Senior Lecturer, Heller School of Social Policy and Management; Senior Research Associate, Health Industry Forum, Brandeis University
- MEDICAL SOCIOLOGY -
Weihua An (2008)
Peter Dewan (2008)
Rachel Mosher Henke (2006)
Research Leader, Thomson Reuters
Cara James (2006)
Senior Policy Analyst, Race/Ethnicity and Health Care, Kaiser Family Foundation; Director, Barbara Jordan Health Policy Scholars Program, Kaiser Family Foundation
Jessica N. Mittler (2008)
Assistant Professor, Graduate School of Business and Public Policy,
Naval Postgraduate School; Faculty Research Associate, National Bureau
of Economic Research
Rebecca Anhang Price (2009)
Hector P. Rodriguez (2007)
Assistant Professor, Department of Health Services, School of Public Health and Community Medicine, University of Washington
Emily Shortridge (2008)
Anne Steffenson (2008)
Carrie Farmer Teh (2006)
Associate Policy Researcher, RAND Corporation
Malcolm Williams (2007)
Associate Policy Researcher, RAND Corporation
Audiey Christopher Kao (1998)
Vice President, Ethics Standards, American Medical Association; Clinical Associate Professor, Department of Medicine, The University of Chicago
Stephanie Shimada (2005)
Post-doctoral Health Services Research Fellow, Center for Health Quality, Outcomes, and Economic Research, Department of Veterans Affairs; Research Instructor of Health Policy and Management, Boston University School of Public Health
Loel Scott Solomon (2001)
Director, Community Health Initiatives and Evaluation, Kaiser Permanente
Thomas V. Williams (1997)
Director, Health Program Analysis and Evaluation, Department of Defense, TRICARE Management Activity
- POLITICAL ANALYSIS -
Colleen Barry (2004)
Assistant Professor of Health Policy, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Yale University School of Medicine
Juliette Cubanski (2004)
Principal Policy Analyst, Medicare Policy Project, Kaiser Family Foundation
Julie Donohue (2004)
Assistant Professor, Department of Health Policy and Management, Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh
Rachel Garfield (2008)
Assistant Professor, Department of Health Policy and Management, Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh
Patricia Keenan (2004)
Assistant Professor of Health Policy, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Yale University School of Medicine
Minah Kim (2003)
Assistant Professor of Health Decision Science, Department of Health Policy and Management, Harvard School of Public Health
Kristina Hanson Lowell (2003)
Research Director, Engelberg Center for Health Care Reform, The Brookings Institution
Debra Joy Perez (2005)
Senior Program Officer, Research and Evaluation Unit, The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Gillian K. SteelFisher (2008)
Research Scientist and Assistant Director, Harvard Opinion Research Program
Kalahn Taylor-Clark (2006)
Senior Associate, Engelberg Center for Health Care Reform, The Brookings Institution
- STATISTICS AND EVALUATIVE SCIENCE -
Alyce Sophia Adams (1999)
Research Scientist, Division of Research, Kaiser Permanente
David Auerbach (2002)
Principal Analyst, Health and Human Resources Division, Congressional Budget Office
Deborah Azrael (2001)
Research Associate, Department of Health Policy and Management; Associate Director, Harvard Youth Violence Prevention Center; Co-Director, National Violent Injury Statistics System, Harvard School of Public Health
Niteesh Choudhry (2005)
Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School; Associate Physician, Division of Pharmacoepidemiology and Pharmacoeconomics and Hospitalist Program, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital
Benjamin Cook (2006)
Research Associate, Center for Multicultural Mental Health Research, Cambridge Health Alliance; Instructor, Harvard Medical SchoolÂ
Thomas W. Concannon (2006)
Assistant Professor of Medicine, Institute for Clinical Research and Health Policy Studies, Tufts University School of Medicine, Tufts Medical Center
Laura Eselius (2004)
Senior Manager, Life Sciences & Health Care Initiatives, Deloitte Research & Center for Health Solutions, Deloitte Services, LP
John Norman Lavis (1997)
Associate Professor, Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics; Associate Member, Department of Political Science; Member, Centre for Health Economics and Policy Analysis, McMaster Universtiy
Douglas Levy (2004)
Instructor, Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School; Assistant in Health Care Policy, Institute for Health Policy, Massachusetts General Hospital
Jeanne Madden (2002)
Instructor, Department of Ambulatory Care and Prevention, Harvard Medical School & Harvard Pilgrim Health Care
J. Michael McWilliams (2008)
Assistant Professor of Health Care Policy and of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Janet E. Rosenbaum (2008)
Postdoctural Fellow, Johns Hopkins Center for STD Research, Prevention, and Training, Department of Population, Family and Reproductive Health, Johns Hokins Bloomberg School of Public HealthÂ
Shanna R. Shulman (2003)
Health Researcher, Mathematica Policy Research, Inc.
Henry Thomas Stelfox (2004)
Critical Care Medicine Fellow, Department of Anethesia & Critical Care, Massachusetts General Hospital
Kate Stewart (2007)
Researcher, Mathematica Policy Research, Inc.
Justin Timbie (2007)
Post-doctoral Fellow, HSR&D Center for Clinical Management Research, VA Ann Arbor Healthcare System
Jack Ven Tu (1996)
Senior Scientist, Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences, Canada Research Chair in Health Services Research; Staff Physician, Division of General Internal Medicine, Sunnybrook and Women's College Health Sciences Center; Professor of Medicine, Public Health Sciences, Health Policy, Management, and Evaluation, University of Toronto, Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences
Eve Wittenberg (2000)
Senior Scientist, Schneider Institutes for Health Policy, MS035 Heller School for Social Policy and Management, Brandeis University
Wei (Wilson) Zhang (2005)
Assistant Professor of Healthcare Management, Department of Health Economics and Management, Guanghua School of Management, Peking University
- FORMER VISITING FELLOWS -
Joyce A. Adkins
Colonel (s), United States Air Force
Associate Director for Clinical Practices, DoD Deployment Health Clinical Center
Guilherme L.G. Borges
Departamento de Investigaciones Epidemiologicas
Direccion de Investigaciones Epidemiologicas y
Psicosociales- Instituto Nacional de Psiquiatria,
Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana-Xochimilco
Calzada Mexico Xochimilco No 101- Col. San Lorenzo Huipulco
Kristin D. Mickelson
Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, Kent State University


