Affiliated Faculty

Farasat Bokhari, PhD
Assistant Professor, Florida State University

Prof. Bokhari is an Assistant Professor of Economics at the Florida State University where he teaches courses in Health Economics and Econometrics. He got his PhD from Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh in 2001 and did his postdoctoral work at University of California, Berkeley. His current research is in the area of health economics and health policy analysis from an IO perspective. To date, his research has been in the areas of managed care, health care technologies, and more recently in mental health issues, specifically, the economic and policy analysis of Attention Deficit/Hyper Activity Disorder (ADHD) and market for psychostimulant drugs. His other research interests are in the evolution of industrial structures, and the innovation, adoption and diffusion of technologies.

Daniel Eisenberg, PhD
Assistant Professor, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Prof. Eisenberg spent 2002-2004 as a NIMH postdoctoral trainee at UC Berkeley after receiving his PhD in Economics from Stanford University in 2002. His research focuses on mental health and substance use. His current projects include an analysis of ADHD in elementary schools and an analysis of the relationship between smoking status and body weight. He teaches in the Department of Health Management and Policy at the School of Public Health, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

Stephen P. Hinshaw, PhD
Professor and Chair, Department of Psychology,
University of California, Berkeley

Stephen Hinshaw is Professor and Chair of the Department of Psychology at the University of California, Berkeley. He received his AB from Harvard in 1974, summa cum laude, and then directed day school and residential programs for children with developmental disabilities for three years. He received his PhD in Clinical Psychology from UCLA in 1983, receiving the campus-wide Distinguished Scholar Award. He was an intern at UCLA's Neuropsychiatric Institute from 1981-2 and a postdoctoral fellow at the Langley Porter Psychiatric Institute of the University of California, San Francisco, from 1983-5, where he received the R. Harris Award. He taught in the Psychology Department at UCLA from 1986-90 and joined the Berkeley faculty in 1990. His work focuses on developmental psychopathology, with particular emphasis on peer and family relationships, neuropsychological and neural risk factors, assessment and evaluation, pharmacologic and psychological interventions, conceptual and definitional issues, and stigma of mental disorders. He has directed summer research camps for boys (and, recently, for girls) with ADHD and associated disorders for 20 years. Prof. Hinshaw has authored over 150 articles, chapters, and reviews on child psychopathology. His book, Attention Deficit and Hyperactivity in Children, was published by Sage Publications in 1994; The Years of Silence Are Past: y Father's Life with Bipolar Disorder, was published by Cambridge University Press in 2002; The Mark of Shame: Stigma of Mental Illness and an Agenda for Change will be published in 2006 by Oxford University Press. The recipient of numerous research grants from the National Institute of Mental Health, he is Associate Editor of the journal Development and Psychopathology and is on the editorial board of seven other journals. He is past president of the International Society for Research in Child and Adolescent Psychopathology and Division 53 of the American Psychological Association (Society for Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology). He is a Fellow of the American Psychological Society and the American Psychological Association. Prof. Hinshaw received the Distinguished Teaching Award in the College of Letters and Sciences at Berkeley in 2001.

Teh-Wei Hu, PhD
Professor of Health Economics, University of California, Berkeley

Prof. Hu is a Professor Emeritus of Health Economics in the School of Public Health at the University of California, Berkeley. His current research interests are the economics of tobacco control, health care reform in China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong, and the costs and outcomes of mental health capitation experiments.

Carlos Iribarren MD, MPH, PhD
Research Scientist, Kaiser Permanente

Carlos Iribarren is a research scientist at the Kaiser Permanente's Northern California Division of Research (DOR) since 1997 and an Adjunct Assistant Professor at the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of California, San Francisco since 1998. He was a Fulbright Fellow at the University of Southern California from 1989 through 1994.

Ichiro Kawachi, MD, PhD
Professor of Health and Social Behavior, Harvard University

Ichiro Kawachi is Professor of Health and Social Behavior, and the Director of the Harvard Center for Society and Health, both at the Harvard School of Public Health. Dr. Kawachi received his MD and PhD from the University of Otago, New Zealand.

Rick Mayes, PhD
Assistant Professor of Public Policy, University of Richmond

Rick holds a PhD in Political Science from the University of Virginia. He is the author of Universal Coverage: The Elusive Quest for National Health Insurance (University of Michigan Press, 2005) and co-author of Medicare Prospective Payment and the Shaping of U.S. Health Care (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006) with Robert Berenson, MD, Senior Fellow at the Urban Institute. His articles have appeared in Health Affairs, Applied Health Economics & Health Policy, Pharmacoepidemiology & Drug Safety, the Journal of Health Economics, Policy & Law, and the Journal of Health Care Law & Policy. His current research interests include Medicare payment policy, pediatric mental health, and ADHD and stimulants.

Doug Oman, PhD
Assistant Adjunct Professor, School of Public Health,
University of California, Berkeley

Doug Oman is Assistant Adjunct Professor in the School of Public Health at the University of California, Berkeley. His research and professional publications include studies of healthcare access and utilization among working poor populations, as well as theoretical, observational and experimental studies of spirituality, religion and health. His investigations of spirituality and health have ranged from the application of self-efficacy theory to spirituality to epidemiologic studies of religious involvement and mortality to randomized trials of effects on health professionals from receiving training in meditation-based nonsectarian toolkits for enhancing self-management skills. He has is currently serving as principal investigator on health research studies funded by the National Institutes of Health, Fetzer Institute, and the John Templeton Foundation and Metanexus Institute. His publications have appeared in journals such as American Journal of Public Health, Health Services Research, Medical Care, American Journal of Epidemiology, and Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology (forthcoming 2006). In 1998 Prof. Oman received the Templeton Prize for Exemplary Paper in Religion and the Medical Sciences.

John E. Schneider, PhD
University of Iowa (affiliate)

Prof. Schneider's current research areas of interest and expertise include managed care, health insurance organization and management, provider contracting, market structure, statistical analyses of cost models, managed care regulation and political economy, payment mechanisms, and clinical practice guidelines. He has co-authored numerous technical reports for the Health Care Financing Administration, the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and others. Some of his research has been published in Health Affairs and Health Care Financing Review. He has served as an expert witness on the economics of hospital competition and market structure. He was recently awarded the University of Iowa College of Public Health / College of Medicine New Investigator Research Award for a study of the costs of managed care regulation in California.

Douglas Schwalm, PhD
Assistant Professor of Economics, Illinois State University

Prof. Schwalm received his BS in Germanic Studies, Mathematics, and Economics at hte University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and his Doctorate in Economics at Berkeley in 2002. He is now an Assistant Professor of Economics at Illinois State University. His current research includes labor supply and income determination both in mental health care and in nursing. He is also active in researching Medicaid reporting bias, the welfare effects of direct to consumer advertising, and the migration patterns of US physicians.

Richard Smith, PhD
Assistant Professor of Economics,
University of South Florida, St. Petersburg

Prof. Smith holds a PhD in Economics from the University of Connecticut. His research has examined the role of consumer knowledge in health care markets, specifically its impact on utilization and quality. He is currently examining how realignment, the California legislation that devolved control of uninsured health and social services from the state to the counties, has affected spending on health services for the uninsured in the state.

Joanne Spetz, PhD
Associate Director, Center for California Health Workforce Studies;
Assistant Professor, Department of Community Health Systems,
University of California, San Francisco

Prof. Spetz is the Associate Director of the Center for California Health Workforce Studies, and an Associate Professor at the UCSF School of Nursing. Her areas of expertise include nursing labor markets, hospital industry structure and finance, quality of patient care, information technologies, maternal-child health, cost-effectiveness analysis, and econometrics. She currently is evaluating the California Nurse Workforce Initiative, studying the supply and demand of RNs, researching the effects of hospital information technologies on patients and staff, tracking the effects of minimum nurse-to-patient ratios on the delivery of hospital care, and examining the effects of unions on health care. Prof. Spetz was a member of the National Commission on VA Nursing, and is a member of the California Board of Registered Nursing Workforce Advisory Committee. She teaches financial management and health economics for nursing administration students. Prof. Spetz received her PhD in economics from Stanford University after studying economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Susan Stone, PhD
Assistant Professor, School of Social Welfare,
University of California, Berkeley

Susan Stone attended the University of Chicago and received her BA in Behavioral Science in 1989 and her MA (1992) and PhD (2000) from the School of Social Service Administration. Her research interests include family and school influences on child and adolescent school performance - especially for urban and at-risk children and youth, parenting under stress, family treatment, linking families, schools, and communities, school-based social work practice, mixing quantitative and qualitative methods, and multi-level statistical modeling.

S. Leonard Syme, PhD
Professor of Epidemiology and Community Health (Emeritus),
University of California, Berkeley

S. Leonard Syme is Professor Emeritus of Epidemiology and Community Health. He has studied the social determinants of disease in a variety of population groups around the world and is now attempting to develop effective community interventions based on findings from this research.