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Faculty
The SID faculty includes senior researchers
and development practitioners with extensive experience in developing nations.
As a graduate student, you will study with faculty who understand real
world problems of project planning and implementation, of social change
and impact. Many of your professors will come from careers in leading development
agencies including NGOs and the United Nations. You will study with professors
who mirror the diversity of our student body, including current faculty
members from Muslim, Christian, Jewish, Hindu and Buddhist traditions.
Most importantly, your professors
will be people devoted to your learning and to your future career.
Each year students and faculty form close
working relationships
around such issues as gender, conservation, civil society, poverty
eradication or to learn new skills such as GIS, statistics, or research
methods.
The SID Visiting Professor program brings in scholar-activists from developing nations to teach and mentor students. In recent years, SID hosted Prof. Mark Figueroa from the University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica and Prof. S.W. Kotagama from the University of Colombo, Sri Lanka.
You will work
most closely with the SID core faculty, while you may take elective
courses with other Heller School professors as well as
members
of the entire
Brandeis University faculty. As an SID graduate student, you are
also able to take courses at those neighboring colleges and universities
that are
part of
the Boston-area University Consortium.
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Stuart H. Altman (email: altman@brandeis.edu), Dean of The Heller School and Sol C. Chaikin Professor of National Health Policy, is an economist whose research interests are primarily in the area of federal and state health policy. In 1997, he was appointed by President Clinton to the National Bipartisan Commission on the Future of Medicare. Professor Altman was Dean of The Heller School from 1977 until July 1993 and interim President of Brandeis University from 1990-1991. He served as the first Chairman of the Congressionally legislated Prospective Payment Assessment Commission for twelve years. ProPAC was responsible for advising Congress and the Administration on the Medicare DRG Hospital Payment System and other system reforms. Professor Altman is a member of The Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences; a member of the Board of Overseers of the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, Massachusetts; and, Co-Chairman of the Advisory Board to the Schneider Institute for Health Policy.
Between 1971
and 1976, Professor Altman was Deputy Assistant Secretary for
Planning and Evaluation/Health at HEW. While serving in that position,
he was one of
the principal contributors to the development and advancement
of the Administration's
National Health Insurance proposal. From 1973 to 1974 he also served as the
Deputy Director for Health of the President's Cost-of-Living
Council where he was responsible
for developing the Council's program on health care cost containment.
Professor
Altman has an M.A. and Ph.D. degree in Economics from UCLA and taught at
Brown University and the Graduate School of Public Policy at University
of
California at Berkeley. In addition, Dr. Altman has served on the Board of
The Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program and on the Governing
Council of
The Institute of Medicine. He is the Chair of The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
sponsored Council on Health Care Economics and Policy.
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Brenda Anderson (email: banders@brandeis.edu), senior lecturer, taught at Boston University in the School of Management and in the College of Business Administration at Northeastern University. Professor Anderson has also been employed as a senior accountant with KPMG Peat Marwick. She holds a B.S. in accounting from the University of Connecticut and a Ph.D. in business administration from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. Her research focuses primarily on behavioral issues in accounting, with an emphasis on the human information processing aspects of professional auditor judgment. Professor Anderson has received research grants from the National Science Foundation and the Ernst & Young Foundation. She has published most recently in Auditing: A Journal of Practice and Theory, Behavioral Research in Accounting, and the Journal of the American Taxation Association.
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Jeffrey Ashe (email: jaashe@aol.com), adjunct associate professor, teaches in the Sustainable International Development Program at The Heller School. He also has an active consulting practice. Prior to coming to Brandeis, he founded Working Capital and served as its Executive Director. Working Capital was for several years the largest micro-enterprise program in the United States, and franchised its model in eight states and Russia. Before starting Working Capital, Professor Ashe was Director of the "PISCES Project," the first worldwide investigation of programs reaching the smallest economic activities of the poor. As Senior Associate Director at ACCION International, he assisted in the dissemination of peer group lending throughout Latin America. After he left ACCION, Professor Ashe designed, assisted and evaluated micro-enterprise programs in twenty five countries throughout Asia, Africa, Latin America and Eastern Europe for the World Bank, the Agency for International Development and many NGO clients. Professor Ashe has published extensively in the micro-enterprise field and is the author of several books and articles. He has given lectures and workshops and taught courses in micro-enterprise program design in Italy, Egypt, Kenya and the Dominican Republic, and at Harvard, MIT, Yale, Dartmouth, Tufts, John Hopkins, New Hampshire College and the Wharton School. Professor Ashe has a B.A. in Political Science from the University of California, Berkeley, and an M.A. in Sociology from Boston University.
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James Arena-DeRosa (email: arena-derosa@msn.com), adjunct lecturer, teaches the Master of Arts (M.A.) in Sustainable International Development (SID) core course Development Research and Advocacy. He was Director of Public Advocacy for Oxfam America and was a key participant in the development of Oxfam International. He recently served as New England Regional Manager for the United States Peace Corps, Boston, Massachusetts. Professor Arena-DeRosa received his B.A. from Harvard University.
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Lawrence Neil Bailis (email: bailis@brandeis.edu), a political scientist, is an associate professor and senior research associate at the Center for Youth and Communities, where he has specialized in the administration of welfare, child care, social service, employment and training, and education programs. His current and recently completed research includes an effort to work with community groups to assess the impact of welfare reform in Massachusetts and more than a dozen studies that address service learning, school-to-work, school-to-college, and efforts to prevent dropouts as strategies to reform elementary, secondary, and post-secondary education. He also has conducted numerous research projects that address the effectiveness of strategies to increase the utility of service delivery systems, to promote collaboration among related programs, and to ensure that so-called community-based programs truly reflect the interests of the community. In recent years, he has provided training and strategic planning and management assistance to a state social services department, several dozen not-for-profit youth-serving and child care organizations, two foundations and an urban Pennsylvania school district. For the past 13 years, Professor Bailis has served as the public (neutral) member of a tripartite labor-management panel that determines the workload for frontline workers in all Massachusetts welfare offices. His publications include an analysis of grass roots organizing techniques, Bread or Justice: Grassroots Organizing in the Welfare Rights Movements. Professor Bailis received his M.A. and Ph.D. from Harvard University.
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Sarita Bhalotra (email: bhalotra@brandeis.edu), assistant professor, is co-chair for the Concentration in Health Policy and Health Services and teaches management and policy classes. Her research projects have included working with large multispecialty groups and managed care organizations on the financing and delivery of health care. Current work includes a utilization, cost, and outcomes evaluation of patients with chronic disease in different delivery systems, a multi-state evaluation of a prospective survey of behavioral health clients in managed care, a study of nonprofit hospitals undergoing for-profit conversion and its impact on communities, an evaluation of a behavioral health initiative in managed care organizations, and an evaluation of the impact on cardiovascular disease of a lifestyle modification program. Professor Bhalotra received her medical degree from Lady Hardinge Medical College, Delhi University, New Delhi, India, and is certified by the United States Educational Council for Foreign Medical Graduates. She was a Pew Health Policy Fellow and received her doctorate in social policy from The Heller School.
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Christine E. Bishop (email: bishop@brandeis.edu), professor of economics, is a staff member of the Schneider Institute for Health Policy and director of the Ph.D. program in social policy. Her research applies microeconomics to policy-related problems in health services supply, demand, and financing. Professor Bishop has extensive research experience and publications in the economics of long-term and post-acute care. Her studies have concerned provider and recipient behavior, considering costs, production efficiency, reimbursement, and utilization of nursing homes and home health services. Current projects in this area concern Medicare payment policy for post-acute care, private long-term care insurance, and Medicaid payment for nursing facility care. Professor Bishop's research and policy analysis in other aspects of health services concern technology diffusion and expenditures, the health labor force, and global budgets. Her research requires econometric analysis of large databases, including claims, provider cost reports, and national surveys. Professor Bishop teaches Health Economics and received her Ph.D. in economics from Harvard University.
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Jon A. Chilingerian (email: chilingerian@brandeis.edu), associate professor of management, is the Director of Management and Organizational Sciences Research. He is a co-director of the AHRQ Fellowship Program in Health Services Research and the M.D./M.B.A. Program with Tufts and Northeastern Universities. Professor Chilingerian's current work focuses on analyzing the productive efficiency of health care organizations and providers, and the study of executive leadership. He has been principal investigator for several grants from the Pew Foundation, and is conducting research on cardio surgeries in Germany, Switzerland, and the United States. Currently, Professor Chilingerian is working on case studies examining hospital management in Belgium. He has published scholarly papers and review essays in Medical Care, European Journal of Operations Research, Health Services Research, Health Care Management Review, Medical Care Review, Inquiry, Health Services Management Research, and The Journal of Health Politics, Policy, and Law. From 1978 to 1982, he was assistant commissioner, director of accounting at Boston City Hospital. Professor Chilingerian received his Ph.D. in management in 1987 from the Sloan School of Management at the Massachusetts Institute for Technology.
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Susan P. Curnan (email: curnan@brandeis.edu), associate professor, is the Director of the Center for Youth and Communities, co-chair of the concentration in policies and services for children, youth and families, and co-founder of the Institute on Sustainable Development. Professor Curnan's scholarship and practice is focused on the promotion of social justice and well-being for all children, youth and families - especially those who face greater odds as a result of economic insecurity, family conflict and disconnection, gender, community prejudice, homophobia, and other life challenges. As Director of one of the nation's leading youth research, policy and professional development organizations, she oversees more than a dozen initiatives operating in the USA and abroad and travels extensively, consulting with community leaders on system and program design to help youth make the transition from adolescence to adulthood. Professor Curnan is co-publisher of the CYD Journal on community youth development and a principal in the CYD Publishing Group responsible for producing the annual anthology on community youth development for the field. Prior to joining the Brandeis faculty in 1983, she was a program director for a private foundation in New York City dedicated to civil rights, education, and environmental quality. Professor Curnan is a graduate of Yale University with advanced degrees in management and environmental science and science education.
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Michael Doonan (email: doonan@brandeis.edu), a political scientist and assistant professor, focuses his studies on federal/state relations and the development and implementation of health policy. His interest is in access to health care for vulnerable populations. He teaches classes in policy analysis, policy and program implementation and case study methods. Previously, he worked for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), as a staff member on former-President Clinton's Health Care Task Force, and as a legislative aide in the United States Senate.
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M. Cristina Espinosa (email: espinosa@brandeis.edu), Assistant Professor and Associate Director, Academics, of the Master of Arts Program in Sustainable International Development. Cristina received her B.A. in Social Sciences from the Universidad Catolica in Lima, Peru in 1984 with a major in Rural Sociology and a minor in Family and Socialization. She moved to Chiclayo where she spent 10 years as a researcher working for different organizations like the Instituto de Estudios Peruanos, the premier research institute in Peru, on a project funded by UNESCO and the Batelle Foundation. The project focused on migration, class, gender and family changes and their impact on reproductive behavior and perceptions on sexuality, among sugar cutters that were migrants from the highlands. Back to Lima since 1983 she became a researcher for different projects engaged in rural and sustainable development and social change, and a consultant for national and international organizations. In that period she published several articles and a book (Migracion, Familia y Socializacion: Los cortadores de cana de Patapo, Pucala. Lima: CONCYTEC/CE&DAP, 1987). As a Ford Foundation fellow and with the support of the Inter American Foundation she started in 1993 her doctoral degree in Anthropology at the University of FLorida in Gainesville with a strong focus on tropical ecology, gender and sustainable development. Her dissertation explored the role of socio-economic and cultural differences on wildlife use and management in the Peruvian Amazon. She was hired by IUCN in 1998 to head its Social Policy Global Program at IUCN headquarters in Gland, Switzerland. She worked with regional offices in Africa, Asia and Latin America to integrate social equity issues in conservation projects and programs, with a focus on gender, indigenous peoples' rights, community participation and poverty alleviation. She supported the development and dissemination of gender tools and built capacity to address indigenous peoples issues in conservation. She developed indicators to assess the integration of social issues and a handbook aimed at facilitating the integration of gender, ethnicity, seniority and poverty issues into project design (Unveiling Differences, Finding a Balance. IUCN, 2003 and Desenredando el Laberinto, IUCN 2002). In 2002 Cristina moved back to the US and became the Associate Director for the Center for LAtin AMerican Studies at the University of FLorida and then the Interim Associate Director for ISLAC, the Institute for the Study of LAtin America and the Caribbean, at the University of South Florida in Tampa. She combined academic management and advising with teaching and research. She has several manuscripts under review for publication.
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Kade Ruth Finnoff (email: finnoff@brandeis.edu), adjunct lecturer.
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Mari Fitzduff (email: mfitzd@brandeis.edu), currently Professor and Director of the international MA program in Coexistence and Conflict at Brandeis University , in Boston, USA, specifically designed for mid-career professionals.
From 1997-2003, she held a Chair of Conflict Studies at the University of Ulster where she was Director of UNU/INCORE which addresses the management of ethnic, political and religious conflict through an integrated approach using research, training, policy, program and practice development. From 1990-1997 she was Chief Executive of the Northern Ireland Community Relations Council which works with government, statutory bodies, trade unions, churches, community groups, security groups, ex-prisoners, businesses and politicians, developing programs and training to address issues of conflict resolution in Northern Ireland. She has also worked on programs addressing conflict and diversity issues in many countries including the Basque Country, Sri Lanka, Middle East, and Indonesia, and is utilized as an international expert by many governments and international organizations on issues of conflict and coexistence including the United Nations, the World Bank, the Commonwealth, the European Union, the British Council, etc. Her publications include 'Beyond Violence' - Conflict Resolution Processes in Northern Ireland (2002) published by the United Nations University Press/Brookings which was winner of an American Library Notable Publications Award, Community Conflict Skills which was first published in 1988 and is now in its 4th edition, and NGO' s at the Table published by Rowan and Littlefield, in 2004, which she co-edited with Cheyanne Church. Her most recent publication is The Psychology of War, Conflict Resolution and Peace, a three-volume series which she co-edited with Chris Stout, published by Praegar Press in Spring 2006.
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Stephen Fournier (email: fournier@brandeis.edu), assistant professor, works as a computer consultant and data analyst for a number of research projects located in the Schneider Institute for Health Policy. Professor Fournier retains close connections to the Department of Infrastructure and Planning at the Royal Institute of Technology (Kungl Tekniska Högskolan, KTH) in Stockholm where he worked for over six years. He received his Ph.D. in Regional Economics from the Department of Urban Studies and Planning at the Massachusetts Institute for Technology.
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Barry L. Friedman (email: bfriedman@brandeis.edu), professor and economist, has worked extensively in the areas of social security and income maintenance. Professor Friedman has evaluated service programs and has conducted many studies relating to welfare and work. His most recent work has been in the area of social security, particularly in China. He has been a consultant to the World Bank and various agencies of the Chinese government. Professor Friedman has studied pension programs as well as unemployment insurance and health insurance. He has conducted actuarial analyses of the Chinese pension system and has investigated the distributional consequences of pension reform. Professor Friedman also has studied management issues in social security programs. He received his Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M.I.T.).
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Deborah Garnick (email: garnick@brandeis.edu), is a professor with the Schneider Institute for Health Policy. Professor Garnick currently focuses her research on managed health care organizations' approach to providing behavioral (mental health, alcohol and other drug) services. She also directs a technical effort to develop performance measures related to substance abuse services. Previously, she was co-principal investigator on an evaluation of the impact of state insurance reform in New Jersey. Professor Garnick has published in the areas of hospital market, managed care, quality of care, and the relationship between hospital volume and patient outcomes. In addition, she publishes, consults, and speaks often on the use of secondary data on health services utilization for conducting research, evaluating quality of care, implementing managed care techniques, and research on substance abuse services. Professor Garnick received her Sc.D. from the School of Hygiene and Public Health at Johns Hopkins University.
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Gary Gaumer (email: gaumer@simmons.edu), visiting associate professor, currently teaches International Health Systems, National Health Accounts Applications to Law and Middle Income Countries, and International Health Economics. Professor Gaumer is a health economist with broad experience using research methods to improve government programs. As a consultant for USAID and the World Bank, in the last three years, Professor Gaumer has developed performance improvement and measurement systems for healthcare systems in Canada, Iraq, Lebanon, Jordan, Egypt, Armenia, Uganda, the UAE, and Kosovo.
Professor Gaumer also has more then twenty years of policy research experience in both domestic and international health, health care financing policy, and technology impact as Vice President of Cambridge, MA-based Abt Associates. Professor Gaumer received his B.S. in Economics from Bradley University and his Ph.D. in Economics from Northern Illinois University.
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David G. Gil (email: gil@brandeis.edu), professor, was born in Vienna, Austria in 1924. His commitment to social equality, human rights and non-violence evolved out of experiencing the Nazi/German occupation of Austria in 1938, separation from his family, and life as a refugee in Sweden and Palestine. Before coming to The Heller School in 1964 to direct the Child Welfare training program, Professor Gil was involved in social welfare practice, research, and administration in the United States and Palestine/Israel, and had worked on farms and in industry in Sweden and Palestine. His teaching, research, and writings are concerned with theories of social policy, humanization of work, prevention of violence, and with transforming development-inhibiting social institutions into development-conducive alternatives. Professor Gil's books include Violence Against Children, Unravelling Social Policy, The Challenge of Social Equality, Beyond the Jungle, and Confronting Injustice and Oppression. Professor Gil has served as president of the Association of Humanist Sociology, on the Delegate Assembly of the National Association of Social Workers, on the Board of Directors of the American Orthopsychiatric Association and on the editorial boards of professional journals. He was Chair of the Brandeis Faculty Senate and faculty representative to the Brandeis Board of Trustees. Professor Gil is engaged in social movements working for social and economic justice, serving on the Executive Committee of the National Jobs For All Coalition and having served as co-chair of the Socialist Party, USA. In 2000, he was named Social Worker of the Year by the Massachusetts NASW. In 2007, he was appointed to the Board of Advisors of the "Berkshire Encyclopedia of Social Development".
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Jody Hoffer Gittell (email: jgittell@brandeis.edu), assistant professor and director of the M.B.A. program, explores how coordination contributes to quality and efficiency outcomes in service settings. She has developed a theory of relational coordination, demonstrating its performance effects and how organizations can foster it. Her findings have appeared in journals such as Management Science, Organization Science, Medical Care, International Journal of Human Resource Management, California Management Review, Harvard Business Review, Journal of Service Research, Journal of Management Studies (forthcoming) and as chapters in Best Practices in Customer Service, Healthcare Management: Organization Design and Behavior, Business Performance Measurement, Positive Organizational Scholarship (forthcoming) and Consumer-Driven Healthcare (forthcoming). She has written numerous teaching cases on service delivery in airline and healthcare settings, and a book called The Southwest Airlines Way: Using the Power of Relationships to Achieve High Performance. Gittell is currently exploring the challenge of coordinating across organizational boundaries, in the form of virtual teams and organizational partnerships. She is leading a 3-year study called "Improving Post-Discharge Care for Surgical Patients: The Challenge of Cross-Organizational Coordination" in partnership with Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, funded by the Commonwealth Fund. Gittell is co-chair of the Human Resource Network of the Industrial Relations Research Association, and vice chair of the board of directors for Families First Health and Support Center. She received her Ph.D. in 1995 from MIT Sloan School of Management.
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Ricardo Godoy (email: rgodoy@brandeis.edu), professor and co-chair of the Concentration in Social and Economic Inequalities, worked for 16 years at the Harvard Institute for International Development at Harvard University, and was a faculty member at the department of anthropology at the University of Florida. Professor Godoy's current research focuses on the economic valuation of rain forests and private time preference, the effects of economic development and modernization on the quality of life of Indians in the rain forests of Latin America, the effects of assimilation and proficiency in English on the quality of life among Puerto Ricans, and experimental design. Experiments are currently under way or in preparation to assess the impact of prices and cultural preferences on the choice of game meat in Gabon, the effect of income transfers on health among the Tsimane' Indians of Bolivia, and the effect of cultural empowerment on income and consumption among lowland Amerindians in Bolivia. Professor Godoy has done fieldwork in Bolivia, Nicaragua, Honduras, and Indonesia. The National Science Foundation has financed the bulk of his research over the years. His most recent book is Indians, Rain Forest, and Markets: Theory, Methods, Analysis (Columbia University Press, 2001).
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Maria Green (email: mgreen@brandeis.edu), assistant professor, teaches courses on human rights and development in the M.A./SID core program. Her work focuses on the intersection of human rights standards with economic and social policy at both national and international levels, including especially the practical implications of adopting and implementing a "rights-based" approach to development and anti-poverty work. An attorney and a legal scholar, Professor Green has held positions at the International Anti-Poverty Law Center, which she co-founded, and at the Center for Economic and Social Rights, and she has been a consultant for various UN projects dealing with human rights and development, including at UNDP (Human Development Report 2000) and the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights. She has a J.D. from Harvard Law School and an M.A. in Sanskrit and Indian Studies from Harvard University.
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Andrew B. Hahn, Ph.D. (email: ahahn@brandeis.edu), professor, conducts policy analysis, evaluation, training, and demonstration projects for government agencies, corporations, and major foundations on employment, education, youth, and community development. His books, What Works in Youth Employment and Dropouts in America: Enough Is Known for Action, as well as dozens of published articles and reports, are syntheses of practical lessons for program managers and policymakers about effective strategies for assisting America's most vulnerable youth. Two ongoing projects include a review of American youth development policies and a project aimed at assisting community-builders to play a more prominent role in policy change. Professor Hahn launched with his colleagues the Institute for Sustainable Development (ISD) in 2001. Comprised of two centers, one aim of the new Institute is to retrieve lessons that cross international boundaries in the youth, community and sustainable development fields. Professor Hahn received his master's degree in education and social policy from Harvard University in 1972 and his Ph.D. from The Heller School in 1978.
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Anita F. Hill (email: ahill@brandeis.edu), professor of social policy, law, and women's studies, was admitted to the District of Columbia Bar in 1980, and began her law career as an associate with the Washington, D.C., firm of Wald, Harkrader & Ross. In 1981 Professor Hill became special counsel to the assistant secretary of the Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights. From 1982 to 1983, she served as advisor to the chairman of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. Professor Hill began her teaching career as an assistant professor at Oral Roberts University, where she taught from 1983 to 1986. In 1986, she joined the faculty at the University of Oklahoma College of Law. Before coming to The Heller School, she visited at The University of California's Institute for the Study of Social Change and Brandeis University's Women's Studies Program. Professor Hill is the author of numerous articles on international commercial law, bankruptcy, and civil rights-all areas in which she has taught. She has given numerous presentations on commercial law as well as race and gender equality. In addition, Professor Hill has appeared on several television programs, such as Face the Nation and Meet the Press, and, her commentary has been published by Newsweek, The New York Times, and The Boston Globe. She has served on numerous boards of directors for nonprofit organizations and is the author of Speaking Truth to Power, which chronicles her experience as a witness in the confirmation hearing for Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas.
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Dominic Hodgkin (email: hodgkin@brandeis.edu), assistant professor, worked as a journalist in Peru and as an analyst at the Health Data Institute prior to his graduate studies. Since 1994, Professor Hodgkin has been working at the Schneider Institute for Health Policy as a health economist. His primary research areas include managed care; financing of mental health and substance abuse services; and prescription drug utilization. Professor Hodgkin teaches an Economics course for the M.B.A. program, as well as Methods in Behavioral Health Services Research and Economics of Mental Health for the Ph.D. program. He has published in the Journal of Health Economics, Journal of Behavioral Health Services and Research, and elsewhere. Professor Hodgkin received his Ph.D. in economics from Boston University in 1995, and completed a postdoctoral fellowship in Mental Health Services Research at The Heller School in 1996.
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Susan H. Holcombe (email: shholc@brandeis.edu), professor of the practice, teaches Framework for Development, Managing Policy and Practice in Health Services, Demographics of Development and is faculty coordinator of the MA SID Capstone. She came to the Heller School upon stepping down as director of Global Programs for Oxfam America. While at Oxfam she played a pivotal role in strategic planning, in aligning program with policy advocacy activities, and in regionalizing program activities. She also played a leadership role among all Oxfams globally in developing an Oxfam International rights-based strategy. Dr. Holcombe has served as Senior Advisor for both the United Nations Population Fund and the United Nations Development Fund for Women. A specialist in development management and evaluation with UNFPA, Dr. Holcombe worked in China on the implementation of a $25 million project to improve the quality care in maternal/child health and family planning in 305 poor counties through the country. She has conducted qualitative research on management style and practices at the Grameen Bank in Bangladesh and implemented an evaluation of women’s programs at the University of the South Pacific in Fiji. She has published “Managing to Empower” as well as articles related to NGO management and gender in development. In January 2003, Dr. Holcombe led a Ford Foundation supported assessment of pilot interventions to improve the quality of care in family planning work in China. Dr. Holcombe has a B.A. from Mount Holyoke College, an MPIA in International Administration from the University of Pittsburgh, and PhD in Public Administration from New York for Women. A specialist in development management and evaluation with UNFPA, Dr. Holcombe worked in China on the implementation of a $25 million project to improve the quality care in maternal/child health and family planning in 305 poor
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Constance M. Horgan (email: horgan@brandeis.edu), professor and director of the Institute for Behavioral Health in the Schneider Institute for Health Policy, is co-chair of the Concentration in Health Policy and Health Services. She focuses her attention on studying how substance abuse and mental health services are financed, organized, and delivered in the public and private sectors. In 1990, Professor Horgan founded the Substance Abuse Group at the Schneider Institute and co-directed its first National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) funded center on health services research. She directs a National Institute for Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) doctoral training program and teaches courses in child health policy and substance abuse policy. Professor Horgan is currently the principal investigator for the Alcohol and Drug Services Study (ADSS), a nationally representative multi-component study of substance abuse treatment facilities and the clients they serve, funded by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA). Professor Horgan is the lead author of Substance Abuse: the Nation's Number One Health Problem. She has directed studies for Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), Health Care Financing Administration (HCFA), National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), NIDA, NIAAA, and foundations, including Robert Wood Johnson. Professor Horgan has written numerous articles and served on expert panels and advisory committees for federal agencies, professional associations, and academic and community task forces. As part of the Center for Substance Abuse Treatment's National Treatment Plan, she chairs the panel on connecting services and research. Professor Horgan received her Sc.D. in Health Policy and Management at Johns Hopkins University.
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Marion Howard (email: mwhoward@brandeis.edu), is a lecturer in Sustainable International Development, teaching Planning and Implementation and Integrated Conservation and Development. Professor Howard lived in the San Andres Islands, Colombia, for more than 20 years, where she worked with the regional agency of the government’s National Environment System, CORALINA, and with grassroots NGOs. She is presently an advisor to the Colombian government on sustainable development issues. Her expertise is in environmental planning, tropical coastal and marine resource management, protected areas, small island development, and community participation. She coordinated the development of a community-based marine protected area (Seaflower, the largest marine protected area in the Latin American and Caribbean region) and a UNESCO biosphere reserve and has been lead planner for integrated conservation and development projects funded by multi-lateral, bi-lateral, and UN agencies; international NGOs; governments; and universities. She has authored and co-authored a number of educational materials on conservation for adults and children as well as articles on small island sustainable development and participatory protected area planning/management in UN publications and peer-reviewed journals. Professor Howard serves on the Steering Committee of the Mangrove Action Project and was a founding member of the Caribbean chapter of the National Marine Educators Association. She received a bachelor’s degree from Duke University and an MA in Sustainable International Development from the Heller School.
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Sajed Kamal (email: skamal@brandeis.edu), teaches Sustainable Energy, Technology and Economics. He has served as an international speaker and consultant on solar energy and implementation of pilot projects in the US, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, India and Armenia. His work has provided the basis for projects in countries in Latin America, Europe and Africa. Professor Kamal is the president of International Consortium for Energy Development, a Boston-based nonprofit corporation; a member of the Board of Directors of the Boston Area Solar Energy Association; a member of the Steering Committee of Solar Boston (a partner of the US Department of Energy's Million Solar Roofs Initiative); and holds membership in the Union of Concerned Scientists, the American Solar Energy Society, and the International Solar Energy Society. .
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Joan Kaufman (email: kaufmanj@brandeis.edu), Sc.D., is a senior scientist in the Schneider Institutes for Health Policy, Lecturer in the SID program, and Associate Director (interim) of the MS program in International Health Policy and Management. Her research focuses on international health policy, especially HIV/AIDS, emerging infectious diseases, reproductive health and gender and health, particularly in China and Asia. She has lived and worked in China for over 10 years and speaks Chinese. Many of her current research projects are in China. Dr. Kaufman's current programs and projects include training programs for government offiicials on multi sectoral responses to HIV/AIDS and public administration for effective AIDS responses, AIDS and NGOs, mental health programs for AIDS orphans, gender and governance as it relates to health planning, and reproductive health and rights. Professor Kaufman serves as the China team leader for the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative, based in NY. She previously worked as a program officer for UNFPA in China (1980-84) and most recently she was the Ford Foundation's Gender and Reproductive Health Program Officer for China, based in Beijing from 1996-2001. She is a non resident fellow at the John F. Kennedy School of Government and Lecturer in Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School.
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Attila O. Klein (email: aklein@brandeis.edu), adjunct lecturer, spent most of his investigative career in the study of environmental influences on the molecular biology of plant development. He then retrained as an aquatic ecologist and is currently engaged in research and teaching on the impact of human activity on natural ecosystems. He was a founding faculty member of the Sustainable International Development (SID) program and has guided the second year project of many students working on environment-related issues. These ranged from forestry practices in Nigeria and Nepal, the valuation of ecological services by a coastal region of Nicaragua, biodiversity protection by indigenous groups in Belize, marine resource management in Western Samoa, kitul palm harvesting in Sri Lanka, to the role of the UNHCR in promoting sustainable environmental management in conflict areas. Professor Klein led three field study tours to Costa Rica and currently teaches a module on Applied Ecology in the SID program. Students interested in the connection between environmental conditions and inter group conflict might be interested in taking his graduate course, Natural Resource Management and Coexistence.
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Lorraine Klerman (email: klerman@brandeis.edu), Dr.P.H., professor, conducts health services research and policy analyses in the field of maternal and child health. She is particularly concerned with the problems faced by children from low-income families and with the reproductive health needs of low-income women. She has conducted extensive research on teenage pregnancy and childbearing and is currently an investigator on three federally funded research projects in this area. She is Associate Director of the National Program Office of Smoke-Free Families, a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation-funded program to reduce smoking among pregnant women and new mothers. She is an Adjunct Professor in the School of Public Health, University of Alabama at Birmingham, and a Research Professor at both the Dartmouth School of Medicine, and the School of Nursing and Health Studies at Georgetown University. At Heller, she teaches a course in child health policy and serves as director of the Family and Child Policy Center and as co-chair of the Concentration on Children, Youth, and Families. She is a graduate of Cornell University and the Harvard School of Public Health. In 1996, she received the Martha May Eliot Award of the American Public Health Association "honoring exceptional health services to mothers and children."
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Marty Wyngaarden Krauss (email: krauss@brandeis.edu), Provost and Senior Vice-President for Academic Affairs, is the John Stein Professor of Disability Research and director of the Nathan and Toby Starr Center for Mental Retardation. Her current research includes two longitudinal studies examining the impacts on families of having a member with a disability. One project focuses on children with disabilities and their families, the other on aging families caring for an adult with mental retardation at home. Professor Krauss also co-directs a national study on health care experiences of families of children with special health care needs. She serves as chair of the Governor's Commission on Mental Retardation, as well as consultant to federal agencies and private foundations. In 1990, she was awarded the Joseph P. Kennedy Jr. Foundation Future Leaders Award. Professor Krauss is coauthor of Aging and Mental Retardation: Extending the Continuum; and Life Course Perspectives on Adulthood and Old Age. Professor Krauss received her Ph.D. from The Heller School in 1981.
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Ravi Lakshmikanthan (email: kanthan@brandeis.edu), lecturer, teaches the course "Introduction to Geographic Information Systems" in the Sustainable International Development program and coordinates the M.A./SID Tibet Development Studies Program. Professor Lakshmikanthan also serves as M.A./SID academic advisor. He has worked at United Nations headquarters and with the World Bank in India. Professor Lakshmikanthan received his M.A. from The Heller School and is a doctoral student at the University of Massachusetts, Boston.
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Walter Leutz (email: leutz@brandeis.edu), associate professor and chair of the Concentration in Aging and Disabilities, is the director of the Social HMO Consortium in the Schneider Institute for Health Policy. Professor Leutz is also the research director of a system-wide Kaiser Permanente demonstration of how to add community LTC services to the Kaiser Permanente clinical continuum. Recent articles include "A community care entitlement in the Social HMO: how members use services." Journal of Aging and Social Policy, 2001, "Five laws for integrating medical and social care: lessons from the US and UK," Milbank Quarterly, 1999 and "Policy Choices for Medicare and Medicaid Waivers," The Gerontologist,1999. Professor Leutz is also primary author of two books on the practical development of primary health care systems: Changing Health Care for An Aging Society (1985) and Care for the Frail Aged (1992). Professor Leutz received his M.S.W. from Columbia University and his Ph.D. from The Heller School.
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Richard Lockwood (email: lockwood@brandeis.edu), adjunct lecturer, is President and Technical Director of Lockwood Nurtition and Food Sciences, which markets specialty food, feed, and pharmaceutical ingredients. Prior to this Lockwood spent two years in Vietman working with and agricultural extension serve and eight years in Brazil assisting the State Department in planning the use of surplus grain for food aid. He has worked on projects with the World Bank, UNICEF, Harvard Institute for International Development and other development organizations. he was also visiting professor at the Federal University of Bahia in Brazil. Lockwood has published a number of papers and articles on international perspectives on nutrition and he is the co-author of a book, Methods
for the Evaluation of the Evaluation of the Impact of Food and Nutrition Programmes
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Thomas McLaughlin (email: tmclaugh@brandeis.edu), adjunct lecturer, is a consultant with Grant Thornton LLP, assisting non-profit clients with strategy, operations, and financial projects. He is a contributing editor for the Nonprofit Times, for which he writes a monthly column. Professor McLaughlin is the author of five management books, including Nonprofit Strategic Positioning: Decide Where to Be, Plan What to Do, the first non-profit-oriented book to describe strategic positioning as an alternative to traditional strategic planning.
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Brenda Gael McSweeney (email: bgm@brandeis.edu), served with the United Nations for thirty years in a range of executive positions. In Burkina Faso she oversaw UN Development Programme (UNDP) activities and carried out action research on women and development. Later Dr. McSweeney headed the United Nations in Jamaica and The Bahamas, and UNDP cooperation with the Turks and Caicos Islands, Cayman and Bermuda. She led the United Nations Volunteers (UNV) program as Executive Coordinator with oversight of 4,000 UNV specialists from over 130 countries engaged in grassroots development, humanitarian activities and peace-building worldwide. She served as UN Resident Coordinator and UNDP Resident Representative until mid-2003 in India, where the Government designated gender equality as the UN focal theme.
Presently Dr. McSweeney, a Resident Scholar at Brandeis University's Women's Studies Research Center (WSRC), is leading an assessment of the legacy of UNESCO's "Project for Equal Access of Women and Girls to Education," set in three rural zones in Burkina Faso. She brings the findings into publications (see papers at www.gaels.net), and into her classes for analysis, debate and interface with the Project's National Coordinator. Her earlier WSRC research initiative, a collaborative gender case study on Srihaswani or Creative Manual Skills for Self Reliant Development based in West Bengal, India, showcases women's priorities and empowerment. Students equally bring their research interests and experience into her seminars on gender and development.
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Ellen Messer (email: emesse@aol.com), adjunct lecturer, is an anthropologist and specialist in human rights, food security, and religion. Trained in ecological anthropology and anthropological approaches to religion at the University of Michigan, she previously taught anthropology at Yale, Wheaton College, Rhode Island College, and Brown University.
Dr. Messer has been a junior fellow at the University of Michigan, a fellow in
the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (Stanford CA) and at
the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars (Washington D.C.). Her special
interests are in religion and development. She teaches "Religion and Development" and,
in a cross-cultural approach, "Nutrition and Food Security" at The
Heller School. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Michigan.
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A.K. Nandakumar (e-mail: aknkumar@brandeis.edu), associate professor, is Associate Director of the M.Sc. Program on International Health Policy and Management. His research focuses on international health policy issues, including financing, national health accounts, household demand and expenditures on health, aging populations and their economic impact on health systems. He is particularly involved in strengthening health systems in developing countries, including Egypt, Gaza, Jordan, Kenya, Lebanon, Yemen, Rwanda, and Western Samoa. His work has been supported by the USAID, the World Bank, and the World Health Organization. He is currently working with senior members of the Schneider Institute for Health Policy in the development of a research program in international health.
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Huong Nguyen (email: huong@brandeis.edu) is an assistant professor in the Family and Child Policy Center. She earned her Ph.D. in clinical psychology, with a specialization in ethnic minority children and families. Her research interests center on the processes of "growing up American" – i.e., of how immigrants become ethnics over time, and of their social, psychological, and academic adjustment as a result of that process. She studies the cultural mechanisms that influence the adjustment of minority children and families, particularly mechanisms that relate to acculturation, identity, and minority status (e.g., racism, oppression, etc.). Her research is connected to language policies and the politics of identity in the U.S.. It is also connected to policies in education, mental health, and immigrant resettlement. Her articles have appeared in Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, International Journal of Behavior Development, Journal of Emotional Abuse, and Journal of Interpersonal Violence. She also authored a book as part of a series on The New Americans: Immigrants and American Society. The book itself is entitled Culture in Context: The Acculturation and Adjustment of Mexican and Vietnamese Youth.
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Milton Obote-Joshua, adjunct lecturer, teaches Gender Analysis and Masculinities. He is currently researching literary theory and gender studies at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, subjects he once taught at Egerton University in Kenya. Mr. Obote has devoted his career efforts to the study of gender issues, as a researcher, a trainer and an advocate for gender equality in Africa and internationally. He has planned workshops and developed gender mainstreaming modules for governments and non-governmental organizations worldwide.
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Eric Olson (email: eolson@brandeis.edu), professor, teaches courses on ecology. His research focuses on the effect of ecological factors, especially food quality and seasonal changes in tropical forests. His research has taken him to the northwestern tropical dry forest, to the Guanacaste Conservation area of Costa Rica and to the Tiputini Biodiversity Station in the Ecuadorian Amazon.
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Pierette Quintiliani (email: pquint@brandeis.edu), professor, is experienced in analysis, planning and response to complex humanitarian emergencies. Her work includes large scale field emergency and relief operations performed by international organizations and support for community disaster response and preparedness including program and advocacy aspects. She has also focused on the problems of conflict in various regions of sub-Saharan Africa and the various approaches to conflict prevention, mitigations and management at the local level. Application of international humanitarian law is an additional strong area of professional interest.
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Vinod Parmeshwar (email: vsparmeshwar@rediffmail.com), adjunct lecturer, teaches in the Sustainable International Development Program at The Heller School. Professor Parmeshwar provides theoretical and practical leadership for Oxfam America's Saving for Change program active in Mali, Senegal, and Cambodia. Previously, he developed, trained, and managed microfinance, education, HIV/AIDS, and emergency response programs in India while working with Catholic Relief Services. While working for Sewa Bank in India, Professor Parmeshwar developed the business plan for their Microfinance Training and Research Institute. He has previously taught courses on microcredit at the Microenterprise Development Certificate in South Africa and has been a guest speaker at the School for International and Public Affairs at Columbia University, The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University, and Brandeis University. Professor Parmeshwar received his B.A. in Commerce from Mumbai University and M.B.A. from the Indian Institute of Management in Calcutta.
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Jeffrey Prottas (email: prottas@brandeis.edu), professor, is a member of the senior staff of the Schneider Institute for Health Policy. Professor Prottas has specialized in research on organizational behavior and change, especially service delivery programs. His work has often focused on how organizations adapt to changes in their political and technical environments. This research has been concentrated in the health care field and has been concerned with program and policy evaluation and the impact of organizational factors in the implementation of public policy. Professor Prottas is presently directing a multi-year study dealing with the sale of nonprofit hospitals to for-profit chains and the impact of those sales on community stakeholders- from local government to community based providers to patients. Professor Prottas is also the Director of Evaluations for the Robert Wood Johnson ACCESS Project. This project works with, and learns from, community organizations attempting to develop broad based coalitions to improve the accessibility of health care. His role involves both evaluating the project's activities in communities and drawing lessons about community mobilization and empowerment from the experience of community leaders. Professor Prottas received his Ph.D. in political science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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Jehan Raheem (email: raheem@brandeis.edu), adjunct professor, teaches the courses Planning and Implementation, Monitoring and Evaluation, and Rights-Based Approach to Development in the Sustainable International Development program. Professor Raheem comes to M.A./SID after a distinguished career with the United Nations Development Programme. He was the founder and director of UNDP's office of evaluation and has served as UNDP Resident Representative in Burma. Professor Raheem is a specialist in the United Nations system and in technical assistance. Currently he is developing a theory of a rights-based approach to development. Professor Raheem received his M.B.A. at Bernard M. Baruch College, City University of New York.
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Kelley Ready (email: kready@brandeis.edu), Ph.D., is a lecturer on gender and development and culture, power, and development.. Professor Ready is an anthropologist and human rights activist who has worked on issues of gender, human rights, sexuality and Latin America. She has taught at a variety of universities including Hunter College, the University of El Salvador and Holy Cross College. She has a Master's from Northeastern University and a Ph.D. from the Graduate School and University Center of the City University of New York (CUNY). Her essay, "Child Support as a Strategic Interest: La Asociación de Madres Demandantes of El Salvador," is in the forthcoming issue of Gender and Development.
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Laura Roper (email: leroper@brandeis.edu), Ph.D., is a widely published scholar, whose breadth of experience with NGO's includes many years of work with Oxfam America where she currently serves as the Director of Planning and Learning. She has also served as a university lecturer in political science and Latin American politics. Additionally, she was a United States Peace Corps volunteer in coastal Ecuador where she provided technical training in horticulture, and taught first aid and nutrition in rural communities.
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Leonard Saxe (email: saxe@brandeis.edu), professor, is a member of the faculty of the Family and Child Policy Center. He also serves as Director of Brandeis University's Cohen Center for Modern Jewish Studies. Professor Saxe is a social psychologist whose work focuses on human behavior and social policy. He is particularly concerned with children and young adults. His research broadly concerns how social environments influence our behavior and the role of communities and religious institutions to affect behavior. Professor Saxe's work includes studies of children's mental health, alcoholism and drug abuse and studies of honesty testing and research on the development of Jewish identity. His work on Jewish identity focuses on young adults and has involved studies of Jewish camping, Israel experience, and formal education. Professor Saxe is an author and/or editor of nearly 200 publications. He has been a Science Fellow for the United States Congress and was a Fulbright Professor at Haifa University, Israel. In 1989, Professor Saxe was awarded the American Psychological Association's prize for Distinguised Contributions to Psychology in the Public Interest, Early Career.
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Ann Seidman (email: aseidman@bu.edu), adjunct professor, is an institutionalist economist, teaching part-time in the Sustainable International Development Program. Professor Seidman has conducted research and taught in universities for 40 years, 12 of them in third world countries. She served as Chair of the Economics Departments of the Universities of Zambia (1972-74) and Zimbabwe (1980-83). For several years, she served on the Board of Directors and, in 1990, became President of the African Studies Association (U.S.). In recent years, she has worked closely with her husband, Professor Robert B. Seidman, to explore the use of law to facilitate sustainable development. In 1988-9, they both became Fulbright Professors in China's Peking University. Starting in 1992, they became Co-Chief Technical Consultants for a UNDP-financed, five year project of the Bureau of Legislative Affairs (the legislative arm of China's State Council, equivalent to Cabinet) to draft 22 priority bills to implement China's Reforms, and strengthen Chinese drafting capacity. Together, they codirected the Boston University School of Law Program on Legislative Drafting for Democratic Social Change (see website www.bu.edu/law/lawdrafting) and remained co-directors when that morphed into the International Consortium for Law and Development ICLAD). They have served as consultants to legislative drafting projects in Indonesia, Lao PDR, Mozambique, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Kazakhstan, Bhutan, Nepal, Vietnam, Guyana, Afghanistan, and elsewhere. For several years, as part of the BU and then ICLAD's Program, they have conducted a four month legislative drafting distance course for participants from Asia, Africa, and Eastern Europe, a program which continued under the direction of Dr. Lorna Seitz. Professor Ann Seidman has authored, co-authored, and edited some 20 books, and over 80 articles. She and her husband have five children and 10 grandchildren.
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Robert Seidman (email: RSeidman@bu.edu), adjunct professor, is Professor of Law and Political Science, Boston University, Emeritus. After education at Fieldston School, Harvard University and Columbia Law School he practiced law for fourteen years in New York City and then in Norwalk, Connecticut. In 1962 he became Senior Lecturer in Law, (later Presidential Professor of Law), University of Ghana. In 1966 he became Professor of Law, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin. He has served as Visiting Senior Lecturer in Law, University of Lagos; and Visiting Professor of Law at the Universities of Dar es Salaam, Zambia, and Zimbabwe, and Visitingn Distinguished Professor of Law, University of Witswatersrand (South Africa), for a total of eleven years teaching and research in Africa. In 1988-89, he was Fulbright Professor at the University of Peking, China. Since 1974 he has been Professor of Law and Political Science at Boston University School of Law, becoming Emeritus in 1993. He has taught legislation and legislative drafting for twenty-five years, including, while in Zimbabwe in 1981 and 1982, teaching two six-month certificate courses for SADCC drafters. In 1991-1997, with Professor Ann Seidman he served as co-Chief Technical Advisor to a UNDP project to see to the drafting of 22 priority bills for the government of the People's Republic of China, and for increasing the capacity of China's drafting services. Since 1994, with Ann Seidman, he has also served as CTA for analogous projects in the Lao People's Democratic Republic, Bhutan, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Mozambique, Indonesia, Vietnam and elsewhere. With Ann Seidman, he directs a distance course in legislative drafting.
Professor Seidman is the author of over 100 articles in scholarly
journals, mostly concerning law and development, criminal law,
legislative theory and legislative drafting. He is the author or
co-author of seven books, including (with William B. Chambliss),
Law, Order and Power (Addison-Wesley, 1970); State, Law and Development
(Croom-Helm, 1978); (with Ann Seidman) State and Law in the Development
Process: Problem Solving and Institutional Change in the Third
World (MacMillan, 1994), and (with Ann Seidman) Legislative Drafting
for Democratic Social Change: A Manual for Drafters (Kluwer International,
London: 200; translated into Indonesian, Russian, Vietnamese, Singhalese,
Chinese and Macedonian).
Professor Seidman served four years in the United States Navy
during World War II. He is married to Professor Ann Seidman, with
five children and ten grandchildren.
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Thomas Shapiro (email: tshapiro@brandeis.edu), Pokross Professor of Law and Social Policy and Director of the Institute on Assets and Social Policy, focuses on inequality and race in the United States. Black Wealth/White Wealth, co-authored with Melvin Oliver won the American Sociological Association's Distinguished Scholarly Award and the C. Wright Mills Award from the Society for the Study of Social Problems. He has been active in the emerging area of asset policy. His work on assets and the transmission of racial inequality, The Hidden Costs of Being African American: How Wealth Perpetuates Inequality, was published in early 2004.
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Donald S. Shepard (email: shepard@brandeis.edu), professor, is a health economist concerned with health problems of both the United States and developing countries. Professor Shepard's major concentrations are cost and cost-effectiveness analysis in health, and health financing. In domestic applications of cost-effectiveness analysis, he is principal investigator on an evaluation of the impact of managed care programs for substance abuse for Medicaid recipients in Massachusetts and Michigan and led a 7-year NIDA-funded study on cost-effectiveness of drug treatment. Professor Shepard also directed the cost and cost-effectiveness analyses in the Alcohol and Drug Services Study (ADSS, a national study of the country's substance treatment system), in a study of substance abuse treatment in Connecticut prisons, and in studies of AIDS treatment and aftercare as part of randomized trials supported by the National Institutes of Health. In international studies on health economics, Professor Shepard is currently advising the Ministries of Health in Jamaica, Zimbabwe, Samoa, and the Ivory Coast on financing and cost analysis, and is the principal author of Analysis of Hospital Costs: A Manual for Managers published by the World Health Organization. He holds adjunct or visiting faculty appointments at the Boston University School of Public Health and the Brown University Center for Alcohol and Addiction Studies. Professor Shepard received his M.A. and Ph.D. in public policy from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.
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Joe N. Short (email: jshort@brandeis.edu) is an adjunct professor in The Heller School's Sustainable International Development Program where he teaches courses on civil society, international NGOs, and leadership and management of NGOs. Professor Short has had a diverse career in international relations and higher education, in which he has served as Executive Director of Oxfam America, President of Bradford College, and as a management and educational consultant to many NGOs, UN agencies, and universities, including InterAction (the association of US international aid organizations), United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the US YMCA, International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), and universities in the US, Croatia and Russia. Professor Short has served on numerous boards of trustees, including the Association of Independent Colleges and Universities in Massachusetts (AICUM-elected chairman), Massachusetts Campus Compact, Management Education Institute of Arthur D. Little, Inc., International Development Conference, and the Council of Independent Colleges. His books, articles and media appearances include: books American Business and Foreign Policy: Cases in Coffee and Cocoa Trade Regulation and Diversity in Development: US Voluntary Assistance to Africa; interviews on McNeill-Lehrer TV and Studs Terkel radio; and articles and op-eds on international and higher education issues. Short has resided or worked in many countries of Africa, Asia and Latin America. He holds M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in international relations and comparative government from Columbia University.
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Laurence Roger Simon (email: simon@brandeis.edu), professor of International Development, directs the Master of Arts Program in Sustainable International Development and the Center for International Development. Professor Simon is a specialist on poverty and vulnerability in developing nations and on development program management. Throughout his career, he worked on famine relief in southern and eastern Africa and on disaster reconstruction in Latin America, and has long advocated reforms that would link reconstruction to development. In his early career, Professor Simon led Oxfam America's work in Central America and the Caribbean, and, as director of policy analysis, developed participatory evaluation programs for Oxfam's development strategies in Africa. He founded and served as president of the American Jewish World Service. During the siege of Sarajevo, he served on a Soros Foundation team providing water and heat. Professor Simon served in Asia for the United Nations Development Programme and the World Bank on poverty alleviation and food security. He is the chairman of Grain Protection International that has introduced pesticide-free methods of post-harvest storage to developing nations. Recently, Professor Simon has served as a research advisor to the World Bank on land reform studies. Currently he is a strategic planner for Sri Lanka's first integrated conservation and development program. He has taught at the City University of New York and at Fordham University. Professor Simon studied philosophy and political theory at the New School for Social Research and received his Ph.D. in geography from Clark University.
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Carmen Sirianni (email: sirianni@brandeis.edu), associate professor of Sociology and Public Policy at Brandeis University, is co-author of Civic Innovation in America: Community Empowerment, Public Policy, and the Movement for Civic Renewal (University of California Press 2001). Professor Sirianni is currently directing a national action research project for the Pew Charitable Trusts on building a youth civic engagement movement, which involves five hundred leading practitioners in youth organizations. He served as research director of the Reinventing Citizenship Project, funded by the Ford Foundation and working in collaboration with the White House Domestic Policy Council in 1994, and is director of the Civic Practices Network. Professor Sirianni also served as senior advisor to the National Commission on Civic Renewal, and to two yearlong PBS Democracy Project series, Citizens '96 and Citizens' State of the Union. He edits the 45-volume series, Labor and Social Change, for Temple University Press. Professor Sirianni's other books include Workers' Control and Socialist Democracy: the Soviet Experience (1982), Work, Community and Power: the Experience of Labor in Europe and America, 1900-25 (1983), Critical Studies in Organization and Bureaucracy (1984, revised edition 1994), Worker Participation and the Politics of Reform (1987), Working Time In Transition: the Political Economy of Working Time in Industrial Nations (1991), and Working in the Service Society (1996).
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Bridget Leigh Snell (email: bnsell@brandeis.edu), adjunct lecturer.
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Christopher Tompkins (email: tompkins1@brandeis.edu), associate professor, is the director of program evaluation at the Schneider Institute for Health Policy. Professor Tompkins specializes in health care financing and strategic approaches to managing health care utilization patterns. He has developed conceptual and empirical models for financing health care services in ways that promote accountability and efficiency and has evaluated programs ranging from managed care and disease management to prescription drug diversion control. Professor Tompkins teaches courses on health care financing, program evaluation, and data analysis techniques. He received his Ph.D. from The Heller School.
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Stanley S. Wallack (email: wallack@brandeis.edu), professor and executive director of the Schneider Institute for Health Policy, established the Schneider Institute in 1978. From 1987 to 1998, he was Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of LifePlans, Inc., a Boston-based long-term care risk management company. He was Chairman of the Coalition for Long-Term Care Reform from 1993-1997. Professor Wallack taught at the University of Illinois in Champaign-Urbana, Illinois. He was a Policy Fellow at the Brookings Institution in 1969-1970. In the 1970's, he served as Deputy Assistant Director for Health, Income Assistance, and Veterans Affairs, at the Congressional Budget Office, and in the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, Department of Health, Education and Welfare. Much of Professor Wallack's extensive research and publications have focused on effective reimbursement systems and organizational arrangements for acute and chronic health care. He developed the concept of the Social Health Maintenance Organization, which integrates the financing and delivery of acute and long-term care services. Currently his research is focused on the cost, use, and value of prescription drugs. Professor Wallack received his Ph.D. in economics in 1969 from Washington University.
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David Whalen (email: dwhalen@ucsusa.org), adjunct lecturer, teaches "Strategic Fundraising and Development" in the M.B.A. and M.A. (in Sustainable International Development) programs. He has twenty years of experience in not-for-profit organizations, including executive positions at Project Bread/The Walk for Hunger and Catholic Charities. He is currently the Director of Development for The Union of Concerned Scientists, a national advocacy organization that works in the areas of the environmental and national nuclear security policy. Mr. Whalen holds a B.A. from Georgetown University, an M.S. in Human Services from the University of Massachusetts/Boston, and an M.B.A. from The Heller School at Brandeis University.
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