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
Health Management and Policy Faculty
Department Chair
![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
Department Associate Chair
![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
![Edward Norton](/faculty-profiles/images/ecnorton.jpg)
- UnitedHealthcare Professor of Health Care Management
- Professor, Health Management and Policy
- Professor, Economics
Areas of Expertise
Aging, Health Care, Health Economics
Core Faculty
![Micah Aaron](/faculty-profiles/images/micaaron.jpg)
- Assistant Professor, Health Management and Policy
Areas of Expertise
Health Care
![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
![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
![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
![Richard Hirth](/faculty-profiles/images/rhirth.jpg)
- S.J. Axelrod Collegiate Professor of Health Management and Policy
- Professor, Department of Internal Medicine
- Associate Director, Kidney Epidemiology and Cost Center
Areas of Expertise
Health Economics, Health Insurance
![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
![Rahul Ladhania](/faculty-profiles/images/ladhania.jpg)
- Assistant Professor, Health Informatics
- Assistant Professor, Health Management and Policy
- Assistant Professor, Biostatistics
Areas of Expertise
Clinical Trials
![Thuy Le](/images/thuyttle.jpeg)
- Assistant Research Scientist, Health Management and Policy
Areas of Expertise
Cancer, Health Policy, Tobacco
![Elisa Maffioli](/faculty-profiles/images/elisamaf.jpg)
- Assistant Professor, Health Management and Policy
- Assistant Professor of Global Public Health
Areas of Expertise
Health Economics
![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
![Edward Norton](/faculty-profiles/images/ecnorton.jpg)
- UnitedHealthcare Professor of Health Care Management
- Professor, Health Management and Policy
- Professor, Economics
Areas of Expertise
Aging, Health Care, Health Economics
![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
Faculty with Joint Appointments
![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
![John Billi](/faculty-profiles/images/jbilli.jpg)
- Medical Director, Collaborative Quality Initiatives
- Professor, Internal Medicine and Learning Health Sciences, Medical School
- Professor of Health Management and Policy
![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
![Amy Cohn](/faculty-profiles/images/amycohn.jpg)
- Professor, Health Management and Policy
- Arthur F Thurnau Professor, Professor of Industrial and Operations Engineering
- Associate Director, Center for Healthcare Engineering and Patient Safety
![Justin Dimick](/faculty-profiles/images/jdimick.jpg)
- Professor, Health Management and Policy
- Frederick A. Coller Distinguished Professor of Surgery
- Chair of the Department of Surgery at the University of Michigan
![Kim Eagle](/faculty-profiles/images/keagle.jpg)
- Professor, Health Management and Policy
- Albion Walter Hewlett Professor of Internal Medicine
![Mark Fendrick](/faculty-profiles/images/amfen.jpg)
- Professor, Division of General Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine
- Professor, Health Management and Policy
- Director, University of Michigan Center for Value-Based Insurance Design
Areas of Expertise
Health Insurance
![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
![Charles Friedman](/faculty-profiles/images/cpfried.jpg)
- Josiah Macy Jr. Professor of Medical EducationChair, Department of Learning Health Sciences, Medical School
- Professor, Health Management and Policy
Areas of Expertise
Health Informatics
![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
![Carmen Green](/faculty-profiles/images/carmeng.jpg)
- Professor, Anesthesiology
- Professor, Obstetrics and Gynecology
- Professor, Health Management and Policy
![Jennifer Griggs](/faculty-profiles/images/jengrigg.jpg)
- Professor, Health Management and Policy
- Professor, Department of Internal Medicine, Hematology and Oncology Division
- Affiliate, National Center for Poverty, Ford School of Public 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
![Rodney Hayward](/faculty-profiles/images/rhayward.jpg)
- Professor, Internal Medicine
- Professor, Health Management and Policy
- Director, National Clinician Scholars Program
Areas of Expertise
Health Care
![John Hollingsworth](/faculty-profiles/images/kinks.jpg)
- Professor of Urology, Medical School
- Professor, Health Management and Policy
- Medical Director of Clinical Quality, Quality Department of the University of Michigan Health System
![Joel Howell](/faculty-profiles/images/jhowell.jpg)
- Professor, Internal Medicine
- Professor, History
- Professor, Health Management and Policy
Areas of Expertise
Health Policy
![Steven Katz](/faculty-profiles/images/skatz.jpg)
- Professor, Health Management and Policy
- Professor, Department of Internal Medicine, Division of General Medicine
![Anna Kirkland](/faculty-profiles/images/akirklan.jpg)
- Arthur F. Thurnau Professor of Women's Studies
- Director, Institute for Research on Women and Gender (IRWG)
- Professor, Health Management and Policy
![Joseph Kolars](/faculty-profiles/images/jckolars.jpg)
- Director, University of Michigan Center for Global Health Equity
- Senior Associate Dean and Professor of Medicine
- Josiah Macy, Jr., Professor of Health Professions Education
Areas of Expertise
Health Care, Health Equity
![Jeffrey Kullgren](/faculty-profiles/images/jkullgre.jpg)
- Research Scientist, VA Center for Clinical
- Management Research, VA Ann Arbor Healthcare System
- Associate Professor, Internal Medicine
- Associate Professor, Health Management and Policy
![Kenneth Langa](/faculty-profiles/images/klanga.jpg)
- Cyrus Sturgis Professor of Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine
- Research Scientist, VA Center for Clinical Management Research
- Professor, Health Management and Policy
![Paula Lantz](/faculty-profiles/images/plantz.jpg)
- Associate Dean for Academic Affairs
- James B. Hudak Professor of Health Policy
- Professor, Public Policy
![Helen Levy](/faculty-profiles/images/hlevy.jpg)
- Research Professor, Health Management and Policy
- Research Professor, Institute for Social Research
- Research Professor, Ford School of Public Policy
![Howard Markel](/faculty-profiles/images/howard.jpg)
- George E. Wantz, M.D. Distinguished Professor of the History of Medicine
- Director, Center for the History of Medicine
- Professor, Health Management and Policy
![Laurence McMahon Jr.](/faculty-profiles/images/lmcmahon.jpg)
- Professor, Internal Medicine
- Professor, Health Management and Policy
- Chief, Division of General Medicine
![Joseph Messana](/faculty-profiles/images/jmessana.jpg)
- Professor, Nephrology, Internal Medicine
- Research Professor, Health Management and Policy, School of Public Health
![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
![Cheryl Moyer headshot](/faculty-profiles/images/camoyer.jpg)
- Associate Professor, Health Management and Policy
- Associate Chair for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
- Associate Professor of Learning Health Sciences
- Associate Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology
![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
![Christopher Sonnenday](/faculty-profiles/images/csonnend.jpg)
- Assistant Professor, Surgery
- Assistant Professor, Health Management and 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
![Megan Threats headshot](/faculty-profiles/images/threats.jpg)
- Assistant Professor, Health Management and Policy
- Assistant Professor of Information, School of Information
![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
Lecturers
![Matthew Comstock](/faculty-profiles/images/comstock.jpg)
- Lecturer, Health Management and Policy
- Executive Director for Administration and Chief
- Operating Officer, University of Michigan Medical School
![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
![Theodore Hanss](/faculty-profiles/images/ted.jpg)
- Lecturer, Health Management and Policy, School of Public Health
Areas of Expertise
Global Public Health
![Michael Joseph](/faculty-profiles/images/mjoseph.jpg)
- Adjunct Associate Professor, Health Management and Policy, School of Public Health, University of Michigan
- Vice Dean, School of Public Health, SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University
![Christine La Jeunesse](/faculty-profiles/images/cmlaj.jpg)
- Lecturer, Health Management and Policy
- Administrative Director, Congenital Heart Center, C.S. Mott Children's Hospital
![Diane Marriott](/faculty-profiles/images/dbechel.jpg)
- Adjunct Faculty, Health Management and Policy, School of Public Health
- Director, Multipayer Initiatives, University of Michigan
![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
![Seth Wolk](/faculty-profiles/images/swwolk.jpg)
- Adjunct Professor, Health Management and Policy
Areas of Expertise
Health Care
Adjunct Faculty
![Matthew Comstock](/faculty-profiles/images/comstock.jpg)
- Lecturer, Health Management and Policy
- Executive Director for Administration and Chief
- Operating Officer, University of Michigan Medical School
![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
![Theodore Hanss](/faculty-profiles/images/ted.jpg)
- Lecturer, Health Management and Policy, School of Public Health
Areas of Expertise
Global Public Health
![Michael Joseph](/faculty-profiles/images/mjoseph.jpg)
- Adjunct Associate Professor, Health Management and Policy, School of Public Health, University of Michigan
- Vice Dean, School of Public Health, SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University
![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
![Diane Marriott](/faculty-profiles/images/dbechel.jpg)
- Adjunct Faculty, Health Management and Policy, School of Public Health
- Director, Multipayer Initiatives, University of Michigan
![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
![Brad Stulberg](/faculty-profiles/images/bradstul.jpeg)
- Adjunct Clinical Assistant Professor, Health Management and Policy
- Author
Areas of Expertise
Mental 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
![Seth Wolk](/faculty-profiles/images/swwolk.jpg)
- Adjunct Professor, Health Management and Policy
Areas of Expertise
Health Care
Emeritus Faculty
![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
![Peter Jacobson](/faculty-profiles/images/pdj.jpg)
- Professor Emeritus, Health Law and Policy
- Co-Director, Mid-States Region, Network for Public Health Law
![Jersey Liang](/faculty-profiles/images/jliang.jpg)
- Professor, Health Management and Policy
- Professor, Global Public Health
- Research Professor, Institute of Gerontology
![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
![Catherine McLaughlin](/faculty-profiles/images/cmcl.jpg)
- Professor, Health Management and Policy
- Senior Fellow and Director - Ann Arbor Office, Mathematica Policy Research
Areas of Expertise
Health Insurance
![Dean Smith](/faculty-profiles/images/deans.jpg)
- Professor Emeritus, Health Management and Policy
- Dean and Richard A. Culbertson Professor of Health Policy and Systems Management at the LSU Health Sciences Center School of Public Health
Areas of Expertise
Health Care, 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
![Jack Wheeler](/faculty-profiles/images/jackwhee.jpg)
- Professor Emeritus, Health Management and Policy
- Professor Emeritus, Pediatrics and Communicable Diseases
- Faculty Associate, Institute for Social Research