Center for Health and Wellbeing

Postdoctoral Research Associate
email: bbrada@princeton.edu
Phone: 609-258-2395
Office: 354 Wallace Hall

Betsey Brada is a postdoctoral research associate in the Center for Health and Wellbeing.  She comes to Princeton from the University of Chicago, where she completed her M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in sociocultural anthropology.  Her research and teaching interests include: the anthropology of global health, science studies and the anthropology of expertise, political anthropology and anthropology of the state, the anthropology of development and humanitarian interventions, semiotic approaches to anthropology, and social and cultural theory.  Between 2004 and 2008, Betsey conducted ethnographic research in southeastern Botswana, investigating the institutions, practices, and imaginaries glossed as "global health."  Her dissertation "Botswana as a Living Experiment" demonstrates how bodily interventions serve as sites for the refashioning of subjects and the reordering of semiotic modalities, forming the grounds for new forms of expertise and value and new ways of producing futures.  Her research and writing have been funded by the U.S. Department of Education Fulbright-Hays program, the Wenner-Gren Foundation, and the University of Chicago Social Sciences Collegiate Division.  Her current research examines the impact of Botswana's national HIV/AIDS treatment program on the country's medical education system.  At CHW, she engages students working toward the Global Health and Health Policy certificate.

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Postdoctoral Research Associate
email: echiarel@princeton.edu
Phone: 609-258-5402
Office: 259 Wallace Hall

Elizabeth Chiarello is a postdoctoral research associate in the Center for Health and Wellbeing.  She comes to Princeton from the University of California, Irvine, where she completed her Ph.D. in sociology.  She also holds a master's degree in counseling psychology from the University of Oregon.  Her research and teaching interests include law and society, medical sociology, professions/organizations, social movements, and reproductive health.  For her dissertation titled "Pharmacists of Conscience: Ethical Decision-Making and the Consistency of Care" she conducted qualitative interviews with over 100 pharmacists in four states with different "pharmacists' responsibility laws" designed to constrain or expand moral grounds of decision-making in pharmacy practice.  The study examines how healthcare professionals envision and enact gatekeeping roles in daily practice and how those roles articulate with legal requirements and perceptions of patients' deservingness of care, issues that bring together medical, legal, fiscal, and moral dimensions of healthcare.  Her research has been supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the American Council of Learned Societies, and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.  Her current research extends findings from her dissertation research on reproductive health and addiction, two critical ethical issues in contemporary pharmacy practice.

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Visiting Research Scholar, Center for Health and Wellbeing
Visiting Lecturer, Woodrow Wilson School
email: ile@princeton.edu
Phone: 609-258-8266
Office: 339 Wallace Hall

Ingrid le Roux is a Swedish physician who has spent most of her professional life working in Africa.  She is the medical director of a non governmental maternal and child health organization operating in the informal settlements on the outskirts of Cape Town and in the deeply rural Eastern Cape.  Her work focuses on maternal health, the medical care and nutrition rehabilitation of malnourished children as well as the treatment and care of HIV positive women and children.  She was part of a team formulating child health and nutrition policies for the new democratic South African government.  Ingrid, in cooperation with researchers from the Center for Health and Wellbeing at Princeton University and the University of Chicago, in a South African study, has been assessing the impact of poverty on health and evaluating an outreach child health and nutrition intervention program.  She has for several years been teaching a health policy task force at the Woodrow Wilson School.

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Postdoctoral Research Associate
email: plocke@princeton.edu
Phone: (609) 258-8599
Office: 356 Wallace Hall

Peter Locke comes to the Center for Health and Wellbeing from Princeton's Department of Anthropology, where he completed his Ph.D. in September 2009.  Peter received his BA in anthropology in 2001 from the University of Virginia, and came to Princeton in 2003 with a Mellon Fellowship in the Humanities.  His research and teaching interests are in cultural and medical anthropology, ethnographic research methods, mental health and humanitarian interventions, and global health initiatives.  He carried out ethnographic research in Bosnia-Herzegovina, where he investigated the social and medical impact of post-war mental health services.  His research and writing have been funded by the International Research and Exchanges Board and the American Council of Learned Societies.  His dissertation, "City of Survivors," charts everyday forms of resilience in Sarajevo in order to ground debates about social responsibility, humanitarian aid, and health care needs in the aftermath of war.  His new research explores changing patterns and institutions of mental health care in the context of new political economies in post-socialist Eastern Europe.  At CHW, he contributes to the Grand Challenges Initiative in Global Health and Infectious Disease and engages students working toward the Global Health and Health Policy certificate.

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Visiting Research Scholar, Center for Health and Wellbeing
Visiting Lecturer, Woodrow Wilson School
email: dlmiller@princeton.edu
Phone: 609-258-7386
Office: 353 Wallace Hall

Doug Miller is visiting the CHW from the University of California, Davis, where he is an Associate Professor in the Economics Department.  He received his Ph.D. in 2000 in Economics from Princeton University.  His research examines the impact of economic forces, social policy, and the environment on health.  Dr. Miller has measured the effects of business cycles, inheritances, Head Start, the Earned Income Tax Credit, and air pollution on infant, child, and adult health.  He also works in the area of applied econometrics, using and building tools for measuring casual effects and for conducting accurate statistical inference.  He also has research interests in development economics. 

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Sendhil Mullainathan is a Professor of Economics at Harvard University and Founder of ideas42, a non-profit organization devoted to using behavioral economics to create novel policies. His research focuses on behavioral economics, consumer finance and poverty. He has published extensively in top economics journals and has received numerous grants and fellowships including a MacArthur Foundation 'genius grant'. He is also a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, a Founding Member of the Poverty Action Lab, and a Board Member of the Bureau of Research in the Economic Analysis of Development. He has recently been appointed Assistant Director of Research at the U.S. Treasury’s newly minted Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.

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Visiting Research Scholar, Center for Health and Wellbeing

Jonathan Oberlander is Professor of Social Medicine and Health Policy & Management at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, where he teaches in the School of Medicine and Gillings School of Global Public Health.  His research focuses on health care politics and policy, health reform, and Medicare.  Currently, he is studying and writing about health care cost containment and the Affordable Care Act, the battle over Medicare, and the political history of U.S. health care reform.

Dr. Oberlander is author of The Political Life of Medicare (University of Chicago Press, 2001) and is co-editor of a 3-volume book series (The Social Medicine Reader, 2nd ed.) published by Duke University Press in 2005.  His articles have appeared in journals such as the New England Journal of Medicine, Health Affairs, Annals of Internal Medicine, Social Science and Medicine, Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law, and Journal of Policy Analysis and Management.  Dr. Oberlander has commented on health reform for a number of media outlets, including the New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, and the New York Review of Books, National Public Radio, the BBC, CBS News and PBS.

Oberlander holds a Ph.D. and M.A. in political science from Yale University, and a B.A. in political science from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill.  He has been a visiting scholar at Princeton and the Russell Sage Foundation, and held fellowships at the Brookings Institution and University of California-Berkeley.
 

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Visiting Research Scholar
email: esimeono@princeton.edu
Phone: 609-258-8272
Office: 355 Wallace Hall

Emilia Simeonova is an Assistant Professor at the Economics Department in Tufts University.  Until recently, she also had an appointment as a junior researcher at the Institute for International Economic Studies at Stockholm University.  She completed her doctoral studies at Columbia University, graduating with a PhD in Economics in 2008.  Simeonova is a health economist with research interests in the economics of health care delivery, patient adherence to therapy and the interaction between physicians and patients, racial disparities in health outcomes, the long-term effects of shocks to children's health and the intergenerational transmission of health.  Her research has been funded by the National Institutes of Health, the Swedish Research Council and the Danish Academy of Sciences.  She is currently working on several projects that use registry-based nation-wide data from Scandinavian countries.  In addition to health economics, Simeonova is interested in behavioral and development economics.

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