Center for Health and Wellbeing

Eugene Higgins Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Emeritus
e-mail: altj@princeton.edu
View: Jeanne's website.
Phone: (609) 258-3814
Office: 401 Guyot Hall

Jeanne Altmann is Eugene Higgins Professor Emeritus and Senior Scholar in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and a Faculty Associate of the Office of Population Research and the Princeton Environmental Institute. She is interested in the relationship between life histories—including survival and reproductive success, behavior—individual, family, and more broad social group, and the physical environment on the one hand and physiology on the other. Her empirical research on behavior, demography, and ecology has focused for 40 years on a population of wild nonhuman primates, baboons, in an arid and highly seasonal savannah environment in southern Kenya where data collection has been primarily observational for seven generations of individually identified animals. Starting in 2000, physiological samples have been extracted from field-collected fecal samples on these individuals to enable the Amboseli Baboon Research Project  to get ‘under the skin’ by evaluating metabolites of steroid hormones. A major focus of Jeanne’s recent and ongoing research is to evaluate the relationship between events early in life and early in adulthood and subsequent patterns of aging. Jeanne is a member of several national and international scientific advisory committees and is a member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences and the US National Academy of Science.

Associate Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs
e-mail: ema@princeton.edu
View Elizabeth Mitchell Armstrong's website.
Phone: (609) 258-6981
Office: 253 Wallace Hall

Elizabeth Mitchell Armstrong is an associate Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs and has research interests in public health, the history and sociology of medicine, social determinants of health, and medical ethics. Her upcoming book examines how the widespread use of fetal ultrasound images has changed the way that many people perceive fetuses. Armstrong argues that our ability to see a fetus in utero makes us more likely to view the fetus as an independent being. In addition to this new work, Armstrong has also written: Conceiving Risk, Bearing Responsibility: Fetal Alcohol Syndrome and the Diagnosis of Moral Disorder (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003) as well as many articles on family planning, medical mistakes, adolescent motherhood, and the sociology of pregnancy and birth. Her current research includes an examination of the different types of child delivery used in the US and a study of fetal personhood and obstetrical ethics. She holds a joint appointment in the Department of Sociology and the Woodrow Wilson School and is a faculty associate at the Office of Population Research. She is faculty director of the Health and Health Policy Certificate. She was a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Scholar in Health Policy Research at the University of Michigan from 1998-2000. M.P.A. Princeton University; Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania.

Susan Dod Brown Professor of Anthropology. Co-Director, Program in Global Health and Health Policy

e-mail: jbiehl@princeton.edu
View João Biehl's website.
Phone: (609) 258-6327
Office: 128 Aaron Burr Hall

João Biehl is Professor of Anthropology at Princeton University. He is the author of Vita: Life in a Zone of Social Abandonment (2005) and of Will to Live: AIDS Therapies and the Politics of Survival (2007). He is also co-edited the book Subjectivity: Ethnographic Investigations (2007). Vita garnered six book awards, including the 2007 Margaret Mead Award. Before joining the Princeton faculty in 2001, Biehl was a NIMH postdoctoral fellow at Harvard University. He earned a Ph.D. in anthropology from the University of California at Berkeley (1999) and a Ph.D. in religion from the Graduate Theological Union (1996). He earned undergraduate degrees in theology and journalism and a master’s degree in philosophy from academic institutions in Brazil. Biehl was a member of the School of Social Science and of the School of Historical Studies of the Institute for Advanced Study and a visiting professor at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales. He has recently been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship for his next book project—The Valley of Lamentation: Spirituality and War in a German Community in 19th Century Brazil. Biehl is also the recipient of a Global Health and Infectious Disease grant of Princeton’s Grand Challenges Initiative. He is leading a new research and teaching project on the aftermath of large-scale drug rollouts in resource-poor settings in Latin America and Africa (with a focus on drug resistance and access to second-line treatments and on judicial claims to high-cost medicines). Professor Biehl received Princeton’s Presidential Distinguished Teaching Award in 2005.

Alexander Stewart 1886 Professor of Economics and Public Affairs. Associate Chair, Department of Economics
e-mail: accase@princeton.edu
View Anne Case's website.
Phone: (609) 258-2177
Office: 367 Wallace Hall

Professor of Psychology
e-mail: jdc@princeton.edu
View Jonathan Cohen's website.
Phone: (609) 258-2696
Office: 3-N-4A Green Hall

 Jonathan Cohen is the Eugene Higgins Professor of Psychology. His current research focuses on the neurobiological mechanisms underlying cognitive control, and their disturbance in psychiatric disorders such as schizophrenia and depression. This research includes both theoretical work and empirical work done in Cohen’s lab at Princeton University. Cohen is the founding director of both the Princeton Neuroscience Institute and the Center for the Study of Mind, Brain and Behavior at Princeton University. He holds an M.D. from the University of Pennsylvania as well as a Ph.D. in cognitive psychology from Carnegie Mellon University. Before coming to Princeton in 1998 he held joint appointments at Carnegie Mellon and the University of Pittsburgh. He has retained his appointment at Pittsburgh and continues to do some clinical research there. M.D. University of Pennsylvania; Ph.D. Carnegie Mellon University.

Professor of History
e-mail: creager@princeton.edu
View Angela Creager's website.
Phone: (609) 258-1680
Office: 125 Dickinson Hall

Angela Creager is a Professor of History who specializes in the history of the modern life sciences.  Her work studies the history of 20th-century biomedical research, with special interests in the history of molecular biology and the role of materials and model organisms in science.  She is the author of several articles on the history of biochemistry and molecular biology and one book, The Life of a Virus: Tobacco Mosaic Virus as an Experimental Model, 1930-1965 (Chicago, 2002).  She is currently studying the effects of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission's radioisotope distribution program on biological and medical research after World War II.  Her other interests include the relationship of feminism to modern science and historical interactions between the physical and biological sciences.  Professor Creager is a faculty member of the Program in History of Science and is also affiliated with the Program in the Study of Women and Gender.  Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley, 1991.

Director, Center for Health and Wellbeing
email: jcurrie@princeton.edu
View Janet Currie's website.
Phone: (609) 258-7393
Office: 316 Wallace Hall

Janet Currie is the Henry Putnam Professor of Economics and Public Affairs at Princeton University and the Director of Princeton's Center for Health and Wellbeing.  She also directs the Program on Families and Children at the National Bureau of Economic Research.  She has served on several National Academy of Sciences panels including the Committee on Population, and was elected Vice President of the American Economic Association in 2010.  She has also served as a consultant for the National Health Interview Survey and the National Longitudinal Surveys, and on the advisory board of the National Children's Study.  She is a Fellow of the Society of Labor Economists, an affiliate of the University of Michigan's National Poverty Center, and an affiliate of IZA in Bonn.  She is the Editor of the Journal of Economic Literature and on the editorial board of the Quarterly Journal of Economics, and has also served several other journals in an editorial capacity including the Journal of Health Economics, the Journal of Labor Economics, and the Journal of Public Economics.

Her research focuses on the health and wellbeing of children.  She has written about early intervention programs, programs to expand health insurance and improve health care, public housing, and food and nutrition programs.  Much of this research is summarized in "The Invisible Safety Net: Protecting the Nation's Poor Children and Families." Princeton University Press.  Her current research focuses on socioeconomic differences in child health, and on environmental threats to children's health from sources such as toxic pollutants.

Professor of Economics and International Affairs
e-mail: deaton@princeton.edu
View Angus Deaton's website.
Phone: (609) 258-5967
Office: 328 Wallace Hall

Angus Deaton is the Dwight D. Eisenhower Professor of International Affairs and Professor of Economics and International Affairs at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs and the Economics Department at Princeton University.  His main areas of interest are in health, wellbeing and economic development.  His current research focuses on national and international patterns of wellbeing, on mortality and morbidity, and on poverty and inequality in the world as well as in India.  he has taught at Cambridge University and at the University of Bristol.  In 1978 he was the first recipient of the Econometric Society, of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, of the British Academy, and of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.  Deaton served as President of the American Economic Association in 2009.  He  holds honorary degrees from the Universities of Rome, London and St. Andrews.  Ph.D. Cambridge University

Assistant Professor of Economics
e-mail: fujiwara@princeton.edu
Phone: (609) 258-6993
Office: 357 Wallace Hall

Thomas Fujiwara is an Assistant Professor of Economics. His main research interest is the provision of health care and other public services in developing countries. His recent research examined how improved political participation by disadvantaged citizens affected access to health care services and infant health in Brazil. He also has interest in political economy and the economics of trust and social capital.  B.A. and M.A., Economics, University of São Paulo. Ph.D., Economics, University of British Columbia.

Professor of Demography and Public Affairs
e-mail: ngoldman@opr.princeton.edu
View Noreen Goldman's website.
Phone: (609) 258-5724
Office: 243 Wallace Hall

A specialist in demography and epidemiology, Goldman’s current research examines the role of social and economic factors on adult health and the physiological pathways through which these factors operate. She has designed several large-scale surveys, including the EGSF in Guatemala, focused on the determinants of illness and health care choices for women and children in rural areas, and an ongoing data collection effort SEBAS in Taiwan, focused on the linkages among the social environment, stress, physiological function, and health among older persons. She has also been conducting research on disparities in health by social and immigrant status among Hispanics. She has served as a member of the Board of Directors of the Alan Guttmacher Institute, a Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, a member of numerous committees of the IOM, NAS, and NIH, including the Board on Global Health, the Committee on National Statistics, and the NICHD Population Research Subcommittee. She has also served in various capacities of the Population Association of America and the International Union for the Scientific Study of Population, including a newly developed committee on the use of biomarkers in demographic research.

Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and Public Affairs
email: grenfell@princeton.edu
Phone: (609) 258-7085
Office: 314 Wallace Hall

Bryan Grenfell is a Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and Public Affairs, and Director of the Health Grand Challenge Initiative. He is interested in the interface between theoretical models and empirical data in population biology. Grenfell is a population biologist, focusing in particular on the dynamics and control of infectious diseases in space and time.  He combines the development of theory with analyses of empirical data sets from a range of diseases, including measles, rotavirus and influenza. Originally trained as a zoologist, Grenfell has worked on the dynamics of epidemics since 1980.  He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of London and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Charles and Marie Robertson
Visiting Professor in Economic Development
e-mail: jhammer@princeton.edu
Phone: (609) 258-6153
Office: 318 Wallace Hall

Jeff Hammer is the Charles and Marie Robertson Visiting Professor in Economic Development.  His current research projects include: measuring and improving the quality of medical care, primarily in India; absenteeism of teachers and health workers; policy-related determinants of health status; and improving service delivery through better accountability mechanisms. These include a formal evaluation of a project to help local governments in Karnataka, India make better decisions on public spending; the relationship between astrological "auspicious" days and Caesarian operations; and a book of health policy in India for the Program on Indian Economic Policies at Columbia University. Before coming to Princeton he spent 25 years at the World Bank where he held various positions related to public economics, the last three in the New Delhi Office where he worked on decentralization and community development projects in India, Nepal and Bangladesh.  Ph.D, Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Director, State Health Reform Assistance Network 
e-mail: heatherh@princeton.edu
Phone: (609) 258-9709
Office: 322 Wallace Hall

Heather Howard is a Lecturer in the Woodrow Wilson School and Director of the State Health Reform Assistance Network, which is providing technical assistance to states implementing the Affordable Care Act. She served as New Jersey’s Commissioner of Health and Senior Services from 2008-2010, overseeing a cabinet-level agency responsible for public health services, and health care policy and research. Previously, she served as Governor Jon Corzine’s Chief Policy Counsel. She also has significant federal experience, having worked as Senator Jon Corzine’s Chief of Staff, as Associate Director of the White House Domestic Policy Council and as Senior Policy Advisor for First Lady Hillary Clinton, as an Honors Attorney in the U.S. Department of Justice’s Antitrust Division Health Care Task Force, and for the U.S. House of Representatives. Howard received her J.D. from New York University School of Law, serving a judicial clerkship with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, and her B.A. from Duke University.

Eugene Higgins Professor of Psychology, Emeritus
Senior Scholar, Woodrow Wilson School
e-mail: kahneman@princeton.edu
View DanielKahneman's website.
Phone: (609) 258-2280
Office: 322 Wallace Hall

Daniel Kahneman is a Senior Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. He is also Professor of Psychology and Public Affairs Emeritus at the Woodrow Wilson School, the Eugene Higgins Professor of Psychology Emeritus at Princeton University, and a fellow of the Center for Rationality at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. Kahneman’s research focuses on the psychology of judgment and decision-making, behavioral economics and hedonic psychology. Formerly a professor of psychology at the University of California, Berkeley, a fellow at the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, a professor of psychology at the University of British Columbia, a fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, and a professor at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, Kahneman is a member of the National Academy of Science, the Philosophical Society, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a fellow of the American Psychological Association, the American Psychological Society, the Society of Experimental Psychologists, and the Econometric Society. He has been the recipient of many awards, among them the Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award of the American Psychological Association (1982) and the Grawemeyer Prize (2002), both jointly with Amos Tversky, the Warren Medal of the Society of Experimental Psychologists (1995), the Hilgard Award for Career Contributions to General Psychology (1995), and the 2002 Nobel Prize in economic sciences, and the Lifetime Contribution Award of the American Psychological Association (2007). He holds honorary degrees from numerous Universities.

Professor of Economics and Public Affairs
e-mail: akrueger@princeton.edu
View Alan Krueger's website.
Phone: (609) 258-4845
Office: 419 Robertson Hall

Alan Krueger is the Bendheim Professor of Economics and Public Affairs.  He has published widely on the economics of education, terrorism, labor demand, income distribution, social insurance, labor market regulation and environmental economics.  He is the founding Director of the Princeton University Survey Research Center and a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research and of the Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA).  Krueger is the author of numerous articles and has served as editor for many economic journals.  He is a member of the Board of Directors of the Russell Sage Foundation, MacArthur Foundation, and the American Institutes for Research.  In 1994-95 he served as Chief Economist at the U.S. Department of Labor.  He is currently a member of the Executive Committee of the International /Economic Association and serves as chief economist for the National Council on Economic Education.  Krueger has received numerous fellowships and awards including being awarded the Kershaw Prize by the Association for Public Policy and Management in 1997, the Mahalanobis Memorial Medal by the Indian Econometric Society in 2001 and the IZA Prize in Labor Economics with David Card in 2006.  From May 2009-present, he has served as Assistant Secretary for Economic Policy, U.S. Department of the Treasury.  B.S., Cornell: A.M., Harvard; Ph.D., Harvard.

Assistant Professor of Economics and Public Affairs
email: kuziemko@princeton.edu
View Ilyana Kuziemko's website.
Phone: 609-258-6917
Office: 361 Wallace Hall

Ilyana Kuziemko's research focuses mostly on social factors related to inequality and poverty in the U.S., especially factors related to crime, law enforcement and education. She has also done some work with a more international focus, including research on the determinents of U.S. foreign aid and child health in India. B.A., Mathematics, Oxford University; PhD, Harvard University.
 

Associate Professor of Politics
e-mail: esl@princeton.edu
View Evan Lieberman's website.
Phone: 609-258-6833
Office: 239 Corwin Hall

Evan Lieberman is Associate Professor in the Department of Politics at Princeton where he conducts research and teaches in the field of comparative politics.  His health-related research focuses on the politics of health policy; the relationship between health and ethnicity/race; and the governance of infectious disease, mainly in developing countries.  His 2009 book, Boundaries of Contagion: How Ethnic Politics Have Shaped Government Responses to AIDS won the 2010 Giovanni Sartori Book award of the American Political Science Association. He was a Fulbright Scholar in South Africa in 1997-8, and was a Robert Wood Johnson Health Policy Scholar from 2000-2.  Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley.

Associate Professor of Molecular Biology
e-mail: mllinas@princeton.edu
View Manuel Llinás' website.
Phone: (609) 258-9391
Office: 246 Carl C. Icahn Laboratory

Dr. Manuel Llinás is an associate professor of Molecular Biology and a member of the Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics. His laboratory studies the deadliest of the four human malaria parasites, Plasmodium falciparum and his research combines tools from functional genomics, molecular biology, computational biology, biochemistry, and metabolomics to understand the fundamental molecular mechanisms underlying the development of this parasite. In particular, his research focuses predominantly on the red blood cell stage of development, which is the stage in which all of the clinical manifestations of the malaria disease occur. His research encompasses two major areas: the role of transcriptional regulation in orchestrating parasite development, and an in-depth characterization of the malaria parasite’s unique metabolic network. On the transcription side, his lab is characterizing the first family of DNA binding proteins to be identified in the Plasmodium falciparum genome, the Apicomplexan AP2 (ApiAP2) proteins. The metabolomics work has begun to identify unique biochemical pathway architectures in the parasite including a novel branched TCA cycle. These two approaches explore relatively virgin areas in the malaria field with the goal of identifying novel strategies for therapeutic intervention. One of his major future goals is to incorporate field studies into his research, which would apply the current methodologies used in his laboratory to study clinical samples from malaria endemic regions. Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley.

Associate Professor of Sociology
e-mail: slynch@princeton.edu
View Scott Lynch's website.
Phone: (609) 258-7255s
Office: 114 Wallace Hall

Scott Lynch is an Associate Professor of Sociology.  Lynch studies how the interrelationship between race, socioeconomic status, and health unfold across age and birth cohorts.  His research interests include social epidemiology and quantitative methodology (statistics).  His published and ongoing research examines health outcomes ranging from depressive symptoms to self-rated health, to physical limitation, to mortality, and has considered predictors of health ranging from education and income to stress and social support.  Some of his current work focuses on the effect of education on life course trajectories of health, and the role of mortality selection in concealing the shape of these trajectories, as well as analyzing racial differences in healthy life expectancy since the 1980s.  Other current work includes developing Bayesian approaches to generating multistate life tables.  He completed his Ph.D. in Sociology at Duke University, where he also obtained an M.S. in statistics.

Senior Policy Analyst, Woodrow Wilson School and Molecular Biology. Lecturer with the rank of Professor in Molecular Biology
e-mail: amahmoud@princeton.edu
View Adel Mahmoud's website.
Phone: (609) 258-8557
Office: 228 Lewis Thomas Laboratory

Adel Mahmoud M.D., Ph.D., is a lecturer with the rank of Professor at the Woodrow Wilson School and the Department of Molecular Biology.  Mahmoud is the former President of Merck Vacines and an expert on disease control in the developing world.  Mahmoud's research and teaching at the School focuses on medical and policy issues related to global health.  Mahmoud's research focuses on two areas realted to global infection.  The first involves examination of causes of emergence and re-emergence of microorganisms and examination of strategies for controlling infectious disease at the national level including chemotherapy, vaccines and community containment.  The second major area of investigations involves discovery, development and global deployment and use of vaccines.  Mahmoud has been involved in the development of four new vaccines.  These include vaccines for infection with rotavirus, human papillomavirus, shingles and combination of measles, mumps, rubella and varicella.  M.D. University of Cairo, D.P.H. University of Ain Shams. Ph.D. University of London.

Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs
e-mail: mclanaha@princeton.edu
View Sara McLanahan's website.
Phone: (609) 258-4875
Office: 265 Wallace Hall

Sara McLanahan is the William S. Tod Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs at Princeton University. She is a faculty associate of the Office of Population Research and is the founder and director of the Bendheim-Thoman Center for Research on Child Wellbeing. Dr. McLanahan’s research interests include family demography, poverty and inequality, and social policy. Her research focuses is on the causes and consequences of non-traditional family structures. Dr. McLanahan currently directs the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study, a nationally-representative longitudinal birth cohort study of approximately 5,000 families, including 3,700 unmarried parents and their children. The study is designed to shed light on the health and development of low-income children, the impact of family relationships and dynamics on child wellbeing, and the impact of social policies on family relationships and child wellbeing. She currently serves as Editor-in-Chief of The Future of Children, a journal dedicated to providing research and analysis to promote effective policies and programs for children. McLanahan currently serves on the Board of Trustees for the Russell Sage Foundation and William T. Grant Foundation. She also serves on the National Advisory committee of the Robert Wood Johnson "Health and Society" Young Scholars Program and the National Poverty Center. Ph.D. University of Texas at Austin 1979.

Professor of Economics and Public Affairs
e-mail: cpaxson@princeton.edu
View Christina Paxson's website.
Phone: (609) 258-6474
Office: 316 Wallace Hall

Christina Paxson is the Dean of the Woodrow Wilson School of International and Public Affairs and the Hughes Rogers Professor of Economics and Public Affairs.  She is the founder of the Center for Health and Wellbeing, an interdisciplinary health research center in the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. She served as its Director from its inception to July, 2009 when she was appointed to serve as Dean of the Woodrow Wilson School. She is a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research, where she is a member of the programs on Aging, Health, and Children; a Senior Fellow of the Bureau for Research and Economic Analysis of Development; and a Research Associate of Princeton’s Office of Population Research.  Her research is on health, economic development and public policy, with a current focus on economic status and health outcomes over the life course in both developed and developing countries.  She has been the Principal Investigator of several NIH-funded studies, including "Economic Status, Public Policy, and Child Neglect," "Parental Resources After Hurricane Katrina," and was the founding director of an NIA Center for the Economics and Demography of Aging at Princeton.  She is a member of the Scientific Oversight Group for the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, a member of the advisory committee on early childhood development of the Inter-American Development Bank, and chair of the Board of Directors of the Center for Health Care Strategies. Ph.D. Columbia University, 1987.

Professor of Economics and Public Affairs
e-mail:reinhard@princeton.edu
View Uwe Reinhardt's website.
Phone: (609) 258-4781
Office: 351 Wallace Hall

Uwe Reinhardt is the James Madison Professor of Political Economy. He is recognized as one of the nation’s leading authorities on health care economics and has been a member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences since 1978. He is also a past president of the Association of Health Services Research. Reinhardt’s research interests include health policy and fiscal/monetary policy. From 1986 to 1995 he served as a commissioner on the Physician Payment Review Committee, established in 1986 by Congress to advise it on issues related to the payment of physicians. He is a senior associate of the Judge Institute for Management of Cambridge University, UK, and a trustee of Duke University, and the Duke University Health System. Reinhardt is or was a member of numerous editorial boards, among them the Journal of Health Economics, the Milbank Memorial Quarterly, Health Affairs, the New England Journal of Medicine, and the Journal of the American Medical Association. Ph.D. Yale University.

Assistant Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs
email: greniers@princeton.edu
View Georges Reniers' website.
Phone: (609) 258-5513
Office: 257 Wallace Hall

Georges Reniers is an Assistant Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs. Most of his work has been on the demography of African populations.  He has published on methodological issues in the measurement and estimation of HIV prevalence and AIDS mortality, and on the behavioral mechanisms that account for the unequal spread of HIV. He is particularly interested in the interplay between individual agency and marriage market constraints, and their implications for individual exposure to HIV and population-level HIV prevalence.  His current research focuses on Malawi, South Africa and Ethiopia. In South Africa Reniers is studying the impact that community-based interventions have on the uptake of health services. In Ethiopia his research tracks AIDS mortality following the rollout of an antiretroviral program. Highlights of recent publications include “Polygyny and the spread of HIV in sub-Saharan Africa: a case of benign concurrency” (2010) and “Refusal bias in HIV prevalence estimates from nationally representative seroprevalence surveys” (2009) in AIDS, and “Marital strategies for regulating exposure to HIV” in Demography (2008). Reniers received his Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania and worked for the United Nations in Ethiopia prior to entering graduate school.
 

Senior Molecular Biologist
Lecturer with the rank of Professor in Molecular Biology
e-mail: lrosenberg@molbio.princeton.edu
View Leon Rosenberg's website.
Phone: (609) 258-5368
Office: 253 Lewis Thomas Laboratory

Leon Rosenberg is Senior Molecular Biologist and Lecturer with the rank of Professor in Molecular Biology. His research is aimed at gaining a better understanding of the national enterprise that supports life sciences and medical research. He is currently studying the decline in “physician-scientists” and what has caused this change in the last several decade and how policy can be used to encourage more young physicians to become scientists. Before joining Princeton, Leon Rosenberg served Bristol-Myers Squibb as President of the Pharmaceutical Research Institute from 1991 to 1997, and as Senior Vice President of Scientific Affairs until February of 1998. Prior to joining Bristol-Myers Squibb, Dr. Rosenberg was Dean of the Yale University School of Medicine, a position he had held since 1984. Dr. Rosenberg currently serves on the Boards of Directors of the Lovelace Respiratory Research Institute, the Association for Patient-Oriented Research, Karo Bio AB, Medicines for Malaria Venture, and Hana Biosciences, Inc. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the Institute of Medicine.

Professor of Psychology and Public Affairs
e-mail: shafir@princeton.edu
View Eldar Shafir's website.
Phone: (609) 258-5624
Office: 3-S-14 Green Hall

Eldar Shafir is the William Stewart Todd Professor of Psychology and Public Affairs.  Trained as a cognitive scientist, his work focuses on descriptive analyses of judgment and decision making and on issues related to behavioral economics.  Most recently, his interests have focused on decision making in the context of poverty and the application of behavioral research to public policy.  Awarded the Hillel Einhorn New Investigator Award and the Case Memorial Award, Professor Shafir is a member of the Russell Sage Foundation Behavioral Economics Roundtable and of the Academic Advisory Board of the Behavioral Finance Forum, a Fellow of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research and of the Filene Research Institute, Faculty Associate of the Institute for Quantitative Social Science at Harvard University, Research Affiliate of Innovations for Poverty Action, and co-founder and director of Ideas42, a social science R&D lab.  He has been a member of numerous editorial boards, among them the Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, Cognition, and Psychological Science. Ph.D. Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Professor of Economics and Public Affairs; Past President of Princeton University
e-mail: hts@princeton.edu
View Harold Shapiro's website.
Phone: (609) 258-6184
Office: 359 Wallace Hall

Harold Shapiro is Professor of Economics and Public Affairs and is also a past President of Princeton University. His fields of special interest in economics include econometrics, science policy, and the evolution of post-secondary education. Recently he has been involved in the field of bioethics. He was a member of President Bush's Council of Advisers on Science and Technology, chaired the Institute of Medicine's Committee to Study Employer-Based Health Benefits, and served as chair of the National Bioethics Advisory Commission during the Clinton administration. The editor (with former Princeton President William G. Bowen) of Universities and Their Leadership, his published works include A Regional Econometric Forecasting System Major Economic Areas of Michigan (coauthor),  Tradition and Change, and A Larger Sense of Purpose based on the 2003 Clark Kerr lectures.  He is an elected member of the National Academy's Institute of Medicine, the American Philosophical Society, a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts, the College of Physicians of Philadelphia, and The American Association for the Advancement of Science.  He received the Council of Scientific Society Presidents 2000 Citation for Outstanding Leadership, the William D. Carey Lectureship Award for Leadership in Science Policy in 2006, and the Clark Kerr Award for Lifetime Achievement in Higher Education from the University of California Berkeley in 2009.  He has taught at the University of Michigan (in addition to serving as its president) and has been a research scientist at the Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations and at the Institute of Public Policy Studies.  Ph.D. Princeton University.

Professor of Molecular Biology
e-mail: tshenk@princeton.edu
View Tom Shenk's website.
Phone: (609) 258-5992
Office: 203 Lewis Thomas Lab

Thomas E. Shenk, PHD, is the James A. Elkins Professor of Life Sciences in the Department of Molecular Biology at Princeton University. He is a virologist, who has investigated gene functions and pathogenesis of adenovirus, a DNA tumor virus, and, more recently, human cytomegalovirus, a member of the herpes family of viruses. Cytomegalovirus is the leading known infectious cause of birth defects, it is responsible for significant morbidity in people who become immunosuppressed, and there is suggestive evidence that it contributes to certain cancers and immune senescence. His laboratory’s current areas of focus include the use of genetic and proteomic approaches for the dissection of cytomegalovirus gene functions and the cellular response to infection, as well as the development and analysis of models for study of viral latency. Professor Shenk is a fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences; and he is a member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences and the U.S. Institute of Medicine. He is a past president of the American Society for Virology and the American Society for Microbiology, and he served on the board of directors of Merck & Company for 11 years. He currently serves on the boards of directors of the Fox Chase Cancer Center, The Hepatitis B Foundation and Origen Therapeutics.

Professor of Molecular Biology and Public Affairs
e-mail: lsilver@princeton.edu
View Lee Silver's website.
Phone: (609) 258-5976
Office: 404 Robertson Hall

Lee Silver, PhD, is professor of Molecular Biology and Public Policy at Princeton University. He received a doctorate in biophysics from Harvard University (1973-1977), postdoctoral training in mammalian genetics at the Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center (1977-1980), and training in molecular biology at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (1980-1984). Lee was among the first scientists to integrate molecular technologies into formal genetic studies of complex developmental abnormalities in mice. He has published over 180 research articles in the fields of developmental genetics, molecular evolution, population genetics, behavioral genetics, and computer modeling.

Silver's 1995 book Mouse Genetics: Concepts and Applications, is still a primary resource for graduate students and post-docs. He is also coauthor, with Nobel Laureate Leland Hartwell and genomics pioneer Leroy Hood, of the advanced undergraduate textbook Genetics: From genes to genomes. Lee was elected to be a lifetime Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and was a recipient of an unsolicited National Institutes of Health MERIT award for outstanding research in genetics. He has also been elected to the governing boards of the Genetics Society of America and the International Mammalian Genome Society, and is currently on the Board of Trustees of the American Council on Science and Health, the Advisory Board of The Reason Project, and the Scientific Advisory Board of the Institute of Systems Biology in Seattle. 

Lee has authored two popular books – Challenging Nature (2006) and Remaking Eden (1997) – as well as essays in the New York Times, the Washington Post, Time, and Newsweek International. He has also appeared on numerous television and radio programs including the Charlie Rose Show, 20/20, 60 Minutes, PBS, NBC and ABC News, Nightline, the Steven Colbert Report, and NPR.

Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs, Woodrow Wilson School
e-mail:starr@princeton.edu
ViewPaul Starr's website.
Phone: (609) 258-4533
Office: 124 Wallace Hall

Paul Starr is professor of sociology and public affairs at Princeton University. At Princeton he holds the Stuart Chair in Communications and Public Affairs at the Woodrow Wilson School. He received the 1984 Pulitzer Prize for Nonfiction and Bancroft Prize in American History for The Social Transformation of American Medicine and the 2005 Goldsmith Book Prize for The Creation of the Media. His most recent book is Remedy and Reaction: The Peculiar American Struggle over Health Care Reform (2011).

Maurice P. During Professor in Demographic Studies. Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs, Woodrow Wilson School. Director, Program in Latino Studies
e-mail: tienda@princeton.edu
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Phone: (609) 258-1753
Office: 177 Wallace Hall

Formerly a professor of sociology and chair of the Sociology Department at the University of Chicago and recent past president of the Population Association of America, Tienda is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the American Academy for Political and Social Sciences. Her current research focuses on the welfare implications of elderly migration to the United States and the social and economic consequences of child migration in Europe, Australia, Canada and the United States. She is the author, coauthor, or editor of numerous books, and articles, including Hispanics and the Future of America (2006), Africa on the Move: African Migration and Urbanization in Comparative Perspective (2006), Ethnicity and Causal Mechanisms (2005), Youth in Cities (2003), The Color of Opportunity (2001), Divided Opportunities: Minorities, Poverty, and Social Policy (1988); and The Hispanic Population of the United States (1987). Ph.D. University of Texas, Austin.

Charles and Marie Robertson Porfessor of Public and International Affairs.  Professor of Economics and Public Affairs, Woodrow Wilson School.
e-mail: trussell@princeton.edu
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Phone: (609) 258-4946
Office: 202 Wallace Hall

James Trussell is the Charles and Marie Robertson Professor of Public and International Affairs.  He is the author or co-author of more than 250 scientific publications, primarily in the areas of reproductive health and demographic methodology.  His recent research has been focused in three areas: emergency contraception, contraceptive failure, and the cost-effectiveness of contraception.  He has actively promoted making emergency contraception more widely available as an important step in helping women reduce their risk of unintended pregnancy.  He is a senior fellow at the Guttmacher Institute, a member of the National Medical Committee of Planned Parenthood Federation of America, and a member of the Board of Directors of the NARAL Pro-Choice America Foundation and the Society of Family Planning.  He serves on the editorial advisory committees of Contraception and Contraceptive Technology Update.

Assistant Professor of Economics and International Affairs
e-mail: tvogl@princeton.edu
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Phone: (609) 258-7392
Office: 363 Wallace Hall

Tom Vogl is an Assistant Professor of Economics and International Affairs. His primary interests lie in the economics of health and population, particularly among the socially and economically disadvantaged. His recent research has examined the relationship between socioeconomic status and health over the lifecycle as well as the effects of childhood family structure on adult outcomes. In a separate line of work, he has studied racial politics in American cities. A.B. Princeton University; Ph.D. Harvard University.

Townsend Martin Professor of History and Public Affairs
email: kwailoo@princeton.edu
Phone: (609) 258-0969
Office: 206 Stanhope Hall

Professor Keith Wailoo, Ph.D., is an historian of medicine and the biomedical sciences.  In July 2001, he joined the faculty of Rutgers University as Professor of History jointly appointed to the Institute of Health, Health Care Policy and Aging Research.  Previously, he served nine years on the faculty at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and one year as a visiting professor of the History of Science and Afro-American Studies at Harvard University.  He received his Ph.D. in the History and Sociology of Science in 1992 from the University of Pennsylvania.

Professor Wailoo's first book, Drawing Blood: Technology and Disease Identity in Twentieth-Century American (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997) - exploring the benefits, pitfalls, and complexities associated with technology in 20th century hematology and medicine - received the 1997 Arthur Viseltear Award from the American Public Health Association.  His most recent book, Dying in the City of the Blues: Sickle Cell Anemia and the Politics of Race and Health (University of North Carolina Press, 2001) examines the disease's early 20th century invisibility, its gradual rise to clinical, scientific, and political prominence, and the changing socio-political significance into the era of managed care.

Professor Wailoo has taught courses on a wide range of topics, including: Pain, Medicine, and Society in America; Medicine, the Family, and the Politics of Child Health; Disease in Historical Perspective; 'Racial Health' and the American South; Genetics, Race, and Medicine; The Politics of Patienthood; and Medicine and Society in America.

In 1999 he received the prestigious James S. McDonnell Centennial Fellowship in the History of Science - a $1,000,000 award to examine the history of cancer, immunology, genetics, and pain in the biomedical sciences and in 20th century society.  He has also received awards and grants from the National Science Foundation, the National Center for Human Genome Research (Ethical, Legal, and Social Issues Program), and the Burroughs Wellcome Fund.

Assistant Professor of East Asian Studies
email: ezhang@princeton.edu
Phone: (609) 258-4775
Office: 211 Jones Hall

Everett Zhang is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology in the Department of East Asian Studies. He received his Ph.D. in social/cultural anthropology from University of California at Berkeley (2003) and did postdoctoral studies in medical anthropology at Harvard (2003-2005).  Born in China, he did his undergraduate studies at Sichuan University in Chengdu and graduate studies for his first MA at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences in Beijing.  He worked as a researcher and the executive editor of a journal in the Academy, before he came to the U.S. to pursue his Ph.D.  He worked on the transformation of the Chinese society over the past several decades seen through the changes in the body, medicine and sexuality.  He won the Stirling Prize from the Society for Psychological Anthropology of American Anthropological Association in 2007.  His book manuscript Impotence in China: An Illness of Chinese Modernity is under final revision.  He is co-editor of the edited volume Governance of Life in Chinese Moral Experience: The Quest for an Adequate Life (forthcoming), and the author of the introduction of this volume.  With the support of a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities awarded through the American Council of Learned Societies, he has been working on the second book project concerning the changing governance of life and the collective structure of feelings in China through the comparison between two major earthquakes over the past thirty some years and the mourning over the Graveyard for the Red Guards.