At the University of Michigan School of Public Health, more than 200 professors and research scientists teach tomorrow’s public health leaders and perform cutting-edge research that helps advance the field of public health. Many faculty members are leading experts in their fields who consult with governments, communities, and nongovernmental organizations.
Meet Our Faculty
Faculty who have expertise in Health Policy
![Denise Anthony](/faculty-profiles/images/deniseum.jpg)
- Rubin Chair of Health Management and Policy
- Professor, Health Management and Policy
- Professor, Sociology
- Professor, School of Information
Areas of Expertise
Health Care, Health Informatics, Health Policy
![Fan Bu](/faculty-profiles/images/fbu.jpg)
- Assistant Professor, Biostatistics
Areas of Expertise
Biostatistics, COVID-19, Diabetes, Global Public Health, Health Care, Health Informatics, Health Policy, Infectious Disease, Modeling, Social Epidemiology, Vaccines
![James Buszkiewicz](/faculty-profiles/images/buszkiew.jpg)
- Research Investigator, Epidemiology
Areas of Expertise
Chronic Disease, COVID-19, Health Equity, Health Policy, Mental Health, Nutrition, Social Epidemiology, Substance Use, Tobacco
![Melissa Creary](/faculty-profiles/images/mcreary.jpg)
- Assistant Professor, Health Management and Policy
- Assistant Professor of Global Public Health
Areas of Expertise
Chronic Disease, Global Public Health, Health Equity, Health Policy, Racism
![Marisa Eisenberg](/faculty-profiles/images/marisae.jpg)
- Associate Professor, Epidemiology
- Co-Director, Michigan Public Health Integrated Center for Outbreak Analytics and Modeling (MICOM)
- Associate Professor, Complex Systems
- Director, Center for the Study of Complex Systems
- Associate Professor, Mathematics
Areas of Expertise
Cancer, COVID-19, Global Public Health, Health Equity, Health Informatics, Health Policy, Infectious Disease, Modeling, Public Health Practice, Vaccines, Water Quality
![Michael Elliott](/faculty-profiles/images/mrelliot.jpg)
- Professor, Biostatistics
- Research Professor, Survey Methodology
Areas of Expertise
Aging, Biostatistics, Child Health, Clinical Trials, COVID-19, Health Policy, Maternal Health, Substance Use, Women’s Health
![Paul Fleming](/faculty-profiles/images/pauljf.jpg)
- Associate Professor, Health Behavior and Health Education
- Faculty Lead, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
Areas of Expertise
Health Equity, Health Policy, Public Health Practice, Racism
![Kyle Grazier](/faculty-profiles/images/kgrazier.jpg)
- Richard Carl Jelinek Professor of Health Services Management and Policy
- Professor, Health Management and Policy
- Professor, Psychiatry
Areas of Expertise
Health Care, Health Equity, Health Policy, Mental Health
![Scott Greer](/faculty-profiles/images/slgreer.jpg)
- Professor Health Management and Policy
- Professor, Global Public Health
- Professor (by courtesy), Political Science
Areas of Expertise
Aging, COVID-19, Global Public Health, Health Policy
![David Hutton](/faculty-profiles/images/dwhutton.jpg)
- Professor, Health Management and Policy, School of Public Health
- Professor, Global Public Health, School of Public Health
- Professor, Industrial and Operations Engineering, College of Engineering
Areas of Expertise
Health Policy, Modeling
![Holly Jarman](/faculty-profiles/images/hjarman.jpg)
- Associate Professor, Health Management and Policy
- Associate Professor of Global Public Health
Areas of Expertise
Health Policy
![Elizabeth King](/faculty-profiles/images/eking.jpg)
- Associate Professor, Health Behavior and Health Education
- Associate Professor of Global Public Health
- Director of the Center for Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies
Areas of Expertise
COVID-19, Global Public Health, Health Equity, Health Policy, Reproductive Health, Substance Use, Women’s Health
![Thuy Le](/images/thuyttle.jpeg)
- Assistant Research Scientist, Health Management and Policy
Areas of Expertise
Cancer, Health Policy, Tobacco
![Yi Li](/faculty-profiles/images/yili.jpg)
- M. Anthony Schork Collegiate Professor of Biostatistics
- Professor, Global Public Health
Areas of Expertise
Biostatistics, Cancer, Chronic Disease, COVID-19, Firearm Injury Prevention, Genetics, Global Public Health, Health Care, Health Equity, Health Policy, Infectious Disease, Substance Use
![Thuy Nguyen](/faculty-profiles/images/thuydn.jpg)
- Assistant Professor, Health Management and Policy
Areas of Expertise
COVID-19, Health Equity, Health Policy, Opioids, Substance Use
![Lisa Prosser](/faculty-profiles/images/lisapros.jpg)
- Marilyn Fisher Blanch Research Professor, Pediatrics
- Associate Vice President, Research - Health Sciences, University of Michigan Office of Research
Areas of Expertise
Child Health, Health Policy
![Simone Rauscher Singh](/faculty-profiles/images/singhsim.jpg)
- Associate Professor, Health Management and Policy
Areas of Expertise
Health Care, Health Policy
![Michael Rubyan](/faculty-profiles/images/mrubyan.jpg)
- Clinical Assistant Professor, Health Management and Policy
Areas of Expertise
Chronic Disease, Health Communication, Health Equity, Health Informatics, Health Policy, Urban Health
![April Zeoli](/faculty-profiles/images/azeoli.jpg)
- Associate Professor, Health Management and Policy
- Policy Core Director, Institute for Firearm Injury Prevention
Areas of Expertise
Firearm Injury Prevention, Health Policy
![John Ayanian](/faculty-profiles/images/ayanian.jpg)
- Alice Hamilton Distinguished University Professor of Medicine and Healthcare Policy
Areas of Expertise
Aging, Cancer, Chronic Disease, Health Care, Health Equity, Health Insurance, Health Policy
![Mark Bicket](/faculty-profiles/images/mbicket.jpg)
- Associate Professor, Anesthesiology
- Associate Professor, Health Management and Policy
Areas of Expertise
Aging, Chronic Disease, COVID-19, Health Care, Health Policy, Opioids, Substance Use, Women’s Health
![Tom Buchmueller](/faculty-profiles/images/tbuch.jpg)
- Waldo O. Hildebrand Professor of Risk Management and Insurance
- Professor of Business Economics and Public Policy
Areas of Expertise
Child Health, Health Care, Health Equity, Health Insurance, Health Policy, LGBT Health, Mental Health, Substance Use
![HwaJung Choi](/faculty-profiles/images/hwajungc.jpg)
- Research Associate Professor, Internal Medicine
- Research Associate Professor, Health Management and Policy
- Faculty Associate, Survey Research Center, Institute for Social Research
Areas of Expertise
Aging, Brain Disorders, COVID-19, Global Public Health, Health Care, Health Policy
![Kao-Ping Chua](/faculty-profiles/images/chuak.jpg)
- Assistant Professor, Pediatrics
- Assistant Professor, Health Management and Policy
Areas of Expertise
Health Policy
![Gary Freed](/faculty-profiles/images/gfreed.jpg)
- Percy and Mary Murphy Professor of PediatricsProfessor, Health Management and Policy
- Director of Faculty Programs, Office of Health Equity and Inclusion
- Associate Chair for Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Government Relations
Areas of Expertise
Child Health, Global Public Health, Health Care, Health Equity, Health Policy, Public Health Practice
![Christopher Friese](/faculty-profiles/images/cfriese.jpg)
- Elizabeth Tone Hosmer Professor of Nursing
- Professor, Nursing
- Professor, Health Management and Policy
Areas of Expertise
Cancer, Health Care, Health Policy
![Susan Goold](/faculty-profiles/images/sgoold.jpg)
- Professor, Internal Medicine
- Professor, Health Management and Policy
Areas of Expertise
Health Equity, Health Policy
![Sarah Hawley](/faculty-profiles/images/sarahawl.jpg)
- Professor, Department of Internal Medicine, Division of General Medicine
- Professor, Health Management and Policy
- Professor, Health Behavior and Health Education
Areas of Expertise
Health Care, Health Policy
![Joel Howell](/faculty-profiles/images/jhowell.jpg)
- Professor, Internal Medicine
- Professor, History
- Professor, Health Management and Policy
Areas of Expertise
Health Policy
![Sarah Miller Headshot](/faculty-profiles/images/mille.jpg)
- Assistant Professor, Health Management and Policy
- Assistant Professor, Business Economics and Public Policy, Stephen M. Ross School of Business
Areas of Expertise
Health Economics, Health Policy
![Jodyn Platt](/faculty-profiles/images/jeplatt.jpg)
- Associate Professor, Learning Health Sciences
- Associate Professor, Health Management and Policy
Areas of Expertise
Health Informatics, Health Policy, Precision Health
![Sarah Reeves](/faculty-profiles/images/sleasure.jpg)
- Assistant Professor, Epidemiology
- Assistant Professor, Pediatrics
- Director, Child Health Evaluation and Research Fellowship
Areas of Expertise
Chronic Disease, Child Health, Health Care, Health Informatics, Health Policy
![Howard Stein](/faculty-profiles/images/howstein.jpg)
- Professor, Epidemiology
- Professor, Dept. of Afroamerican and African Studies
Areas of Expertise
COVID-19, Global Public Health, Health Policy
![Michael Thompson](/faculty-profiles/images/mthompsnew.jpg)
- Assistant Professor, Health Management and Policy
- Assistant Professor, Epidemiology
- Assistant Professor, Cardiac Surgery
- Director of Analytic Strategy, Center for Healthcare Outcomes and Policy
- Co-Director, Michigan Value Collaborative
Areas of Expertise
Aging, Chronic Disease, Health Care, Health Informatics, Health Policy
![Olga Yakusheva](/faculty-profiles/images/yakush.jpg)
- Professor, Health Management and Policy
- Professor, Systems Populations and Leadership, School of Nursing
Areas of Expertise
Health Care, Health Policy, Precision Health
![Kara Zivin](/faculty-profiles/images/kzivin.jpg)
- Marcia A. Valenstein, MD Collegiate Professor, Psychiatry
- Professor, Health Management and Policy
- Research Career Scientist, Center for Clinical Management
- Research, VA Ann Arbor Healthcare System
Areas of Expertise
Health Policy, Maternal Health, Mental Health, Reproductive Health, Substance Use, Women’s Health
![Victoria Convertino](/faculty-profiles/images/vlconv.jpg)
- Lecturer, Public Health Law
Areas of Expertise
Chronic Disease, COVID-19, Environmental Health, Health Equity, Health Policy, Infectious Disease, Maternal Health, Public Health Practice, Reproductive Health, Substance Use, Women’s Health
![Michelle Falkenbach headshot](/faculty-profiles/images/michfalk.jpg)
- Adjunct Clinical Assistant Professor, Health Management and Policy
Areas of Expertise
Health Policy, Public Health Practice
![Khaldun](/faculty-profiles/images/jkhaldun.jpg)
- Adjunct Professor, Health Management and Policy
- Vice President and Chief Health Equity Officer, CVS Health
- Appointee, Biden-Harris Administration COVID-19 Health Equity Task Force
Areas of Expertise
Aging, Child Health, COVID-19, Health Equity, Health Policy
![Natalie Sampson](/faculty-profiles/images/nsampson.jpg)
- Associate Professor, College of Education, Health and Human Services, University of Michigan Dearborn
- Adjunct Associate Professor, Health Behavior and Health Education
Areas of Expertise
Environmental Health, Health Communication, Health Equity, Health Policy, Public Health Practice
![Christine Stead](/faculty-profiles/images/scheible.jpg)
- CEO, Extracorporeal Life Support Organization
- Adjunct Faculty, Health Management and Policy
Areas of Expertise
COVID-19, Global Public Health, Health Care, Health Equity, Health Policy, Nutrition, Public Health Practice, Women’s Health
![Marianne Udow-Phillips](/faculty-profiles/images/mudow.jpg)
- Lecturer, Health Policy and Management
- Senior Advisor, Center for Health and Research Transformation
Areas of Expertise
Aging, Health Care, Health Policy, Substance Use
![Julia Wolfson](/faculty-profiles/images/jwolfson.jpg)
- Adjunct Assistant Professor, Health Management and Policy
- Assistant Professor, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Areas of Expertise
Health Policy
![Rashid Bashshur](/faculty-profiles/images/bashshur.jpg)
- Professor Emeritus, Health Management and Policy
- Executive Director, UMHS eHealth Center
Areas of Expertise
Health Policy
![Brant Fries](/faculty-profiles/images/bfries.jpg)
- Professor Emeritus, Health Management and Policy
- Research Professor Emeritus, Institute of Gerontology
Areas of Expertise
Aging, Child Health, COVID-19, Global Public Health, Health Care, Health Policy, Mental Health
![John Griffith](/faculty-profiles/images/jrg.jpg)
- Andrew Pattullo Collegiate Professor, Health Management and Policy (Emeritus)
Areas of Expertise
Health Care, Health Policy
![Richard Lichtenstein](/faculty-profiles/images/lichto.jpg)
- Associate Professor Emeritus, Health Management and Policy
Areas of Expertise
Health Care, Health Equity, Health Policy, Urban Health
![Friedrich Port](/faculty-profiles/images/portb.jpg)
- Professor Emeritus, Epidemiology and Internal Medicine
Areas of Expertise
Global Public Health, Health Policy, Public Health Practice
![Kenneth Warner](/faculty-profiles/images/kwarner.jpg)
- Avedis Donabedian Distinguished University Professor Emeritus of Public Health
- Dean Emeritus, School of Public Health
- Professor Emeritus, Health Management and Policy
Areas of Expertise
Global Public Health, Health Policy, Substance Use, Tobacco
![William Weissert](/faculty-profiles/images/weissert.jpg)
- Professor Emeritus, Health Management and Policy
Areas of Expertise
Health Policy