FACULTY

Amy E. Abruzzi, Associate Teaching Professor; Undergraduate Public Health Program Coordinator
B.A., M.L.S., Rutgers; M.A., M.A., New York; Ph.D., M.P.H., UMDNJ-School of Public Health
Teaching and research interests include the prevention of chronic illness and comorbidities; the geography of health, especially urban/rural issues in the United States as well as globally; and environmental and occupational contributions to disease disparities.

Hooshang Amirahmadi, Distinguished Service Professor
B.A. Tabriz (Iran); M.S., Dallas; Ph.D., Cornell
Teaching and research interests include national economic development policies and planning; globalization and international relations; foreign investment and trade; regional economic development; and industrial and technology policy.

Clinton J. Andrews, Professor and Associate Dean for Research
Sc.B., Brown; Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Teaching and research interests include the use of technical knowledge in environmental decision making; environmental management; energy policy; and social science aspects of industrial ecology.

Juan Ayala, Associate Professor of Practice
B.S., Rutgers; M.Arch., NJIT
Teaching and research interests include urban design; community participation and visioning; expansion of the semipublic realm; 3-D visualization and image sequencing; critical thinking, decision making and design; and parametric design development in planning.

Bernadette V. Baird-Zars, Assistant Professor
B.A., Swarthmore; M.C.P., MIT; Ph.D., Columbia
Teaching and research interests include land use; local government; implementation and enforcement; transition and uncertainty; environmental justice; institutional analysis; action/project-based learning; longitudinal data; and planning ethics and theory.

Francis Barchi, Associate Professor
B.A., Smith; Ph.D., M.B.E., M.Sc., Pennsylvania
Teaching and research interests include global health ethics; gender-based violence and women's health in sub-Saharan Africa; ethical issues in international research; capacity-building in research ethics in low- and middle-income countries; and ethics education.

Marci Berger, Associate Teaching Professor
B.A., Cornell; M.A., Rutgers; M.P.H., UMDNJ/RWJ Medical School; Ph.D., Rutgers
Teaching and research interests include health policy; public policy; reproductive rights; and poverty in the United States.

Soumitra Bhuyan, Associate Professor and Executive Director, Master of Health Administration Program
M.P.H., Western Kentucky; Ph.D., University of Nebraska Medical Center College of Public Health
Teaching and research interests include chronic disease management; health information systems; and population health.

Debra Borie-Holtz, Associate Teaching Professor
B.A., M.P.A.P., Ph.D., Rutgers
Teaching and research interests include policy formation and implementation; legislative leadership and governing; federal and state regulatory process; women in government; and survey research design, delivery, and data analysis.

Joel Cantor, Distinguished Professor; Director, Center for State Health Policy
B.A., Wisconsin; Sc.D., Johns Hopkins
Teaching and research interests include healthcare financing and delivery; healthcare policy; and access to health services by low-income populations.

Raphael J. Caprio, University Professor
B.A., Rutgers; M.A., Cincinnati; Ph.D., Rutgers
Teaching and research interests include government management; state and local tax policy; interest arbitration and public sector labor issues; and regional economic development.

Yen-Tyng Chen, Assistant Professor
B.S., M.S., National Taiwan; Ph.D. Emory
Teaching and research interests include HIV status-neutral care; substance use; mental health; social determinants of health; place-based epidemiology; and network epidemiology.

Céu Cirne-Neves, FACHE, Assistant Teaching Professor
B.A., Rutgers; M.P.A., Fairleigh Dickinson; Lean Six Sigma Green Belt, Villanova
Teaching and research interests include leadership development and mentorship; strategic planning & performance excellence; population health (alignment of public health, healthcare, and social services); community needs assessment, health equity and systems alignment; operations management and patient safety; employee engagement and patient experience; diversity and inclusion.

Jocelyn Elise Crowley, Professor
B.A., Cornell; M.P.P., Georgetown; Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Teaching and research interests include American social policy; family policy; and women and politics.

William Cundiff, Assistant Teaching Professor
B.S., MBA, Wagner; J.D., Touro College Law Center
Teaching and research interests include marketing, artificial intelligence, finance, health administration, health policy, and U.S. health systems.

Thomas P. Davis, Assistant Teaching Professor
B.A., Villanova; M.C.R.P., Rutgers; M.P.A., Columbia
Teaching and research interests include comparative health policy; gun safety; social theory; and ethics.

James DeFilippis, Professor
B.A., Vermont; M.A., Ph.D., Rutgers
Teaching and research interests include urban political economy and political philosophy; community development theory and practice; unregulated work and the informal economy; and immigration.

Derek DeLia, Associate Professor
B.A., Rutgers-Camden; M.A., Ph.D., Cornell
Teaching and research interests include healthcare payment and delivery reform; federal and state health policy; performance measurement for accountable care organizations (ACOs); shared savings arrangements; coordination of care for complex patients; emergency medical care; healthcare access; and health insurance coverage.

Aakanksha Deoli, Instructor of Teaching and Undergraduate Internship Coordinator
M.H.A., Rutgers
Teaching interests include maternal health; population health; healthcare disparities; healthcare management; and process improvement.

Barbara Faga, Professor of Professional Practice in Urban Design
B.S., Michigan State; Ph.D., Georgia Institute of Technology
Teaching and research interests include participatory planning; landscape architecture; planning practice and theory; zoning; and urban design.

Anita Franzione, Associate Teaching Professor
B.A., M.P.A., NYU; Dr.P.H., Columbia
Teaching and research interests include U.S. health care systems; aging; long-term care; quality improvement in patient care in various settings; and public health initiatives.

Irina Grafova, Associate Professor
B.S., Moscow State; M.A., New Economic School (Moscow, Russia); Ph.D., University of Michigan
Teaching and research interests include socio-economic inequalities in health; financial strain; financial toxicity of cancer; health policy; healthcare spending; and neighborhoods.

Alexander J. Hatala, FACHE, Executive in Residence, Master of Health Administration Program
B.A., Rutgers; M.B.A./H.A., Florida
Research interests include health care management and operations; population health; and global health.

Andrea Hetling, Professor; Associate Director, Heldrich Center for Workforce Development
B.A., Columbia; Ph.D., Maryland
Teaching and research interests include anti-poverty and human services policy; Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) and the safety net; equity analysis of public policies; social policy implementation; and intimate partner violence.

James W. Hughes, University Professor and Dean Emeritus, Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy
B.S., M.C.R.P., Ph.D., Rutgers
Teaching and research interests include demographics and housing; regional and New Jersey economics; development patterns and transportation.

Will Irving, Associate Professor of Practice
B.A., University of California Santa Cruz; M.P.P., Rutgers, Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy
Teaching and research interests include economic policy; historical and current tax trends; economic forecasting; economic impact analysis; and quantitative economics.

Radha Jagannathan, Professor
B.A., School of Economics, Delhi (India); M.A., Rutgers; Ph.D., Princeton
Teaching and research interests include school-to-work transition; social capital and community development; culture and human capital development; international comparative studies on youth; poverty, public welfare, and child welfare; and evaluation of social programs.

Jane Kaye, Associate Professor of Teaching
B.A., Pennsylvania; M.B.A., Boston
Teaching and research interests include budget and finance; health economics; health policy; strategic planning; business development; and healthcare management and operations.

Susan Krum, Associate Professor of Teaching
B.S., East Stroudsburg; M.A., Temple; Au.D., Salus
Teaching and research interests include strategic planning; business development; healthcare management; healthcare operations; budget and finance; organizational strategy; and population health.

Ellen Kurtzman, Professor
B.S.N., Pennsylvania School of Nursing; M.P.H., Johns Hopkins; Ph.D., George Washington
Teaching and research interests include the impact of federal, state, and institutional policies on health care delivery; cannabis use and cannabis policy; the role of the health care workforce in achieving higher value care; team-based care; quality of care and the services delivered by nurse practitioners and physician assistants; the influence of performance-based payment programs on practitioner behavior.

Zoe Lindenfeld, Assistant Professor
B.S., Cornell; Ph.D., NYU School of Global Public Health
Teaching and research interests include health policy and services; mitigating factors that perpetuate health inequities for individuals with substance use disorders; mixed-methods research designs; operationalizing harm reduction as an approach to care within clinical settings; racial disparities in the availability of hospital-based substance use treatment; and disparities in the distribution of services for substance use disorders.

David Listokin, Distinguished Professor; Director, Center for Urban Policy Research
B.A., CUNY (Brooklyn); M.C.R.P., Ph.D., Rutgers
Teaching and research interests include housing and land development; development impact assessment; and historic preservation.

Alexandra Lopez, Associate Teaching Professor
B.A., Rutgers; M.A., Kean
Teaching and research interests include clinical supervision in addictions counseling and cultural competency; and clinical service provision within the Latino community.

Jane Miller, Professor and Faculty Mentoring Director
B.A., Williams; M.A., Ph.D., Pennsylvania
Teaching and research interests include quantitative reasoning; research communication; health services research; statistical literacy; poverty and child health; and access to health care.

Kathe Newman, Professor and Director, Ralph W. Voorhees Center for Civic Engagement
B.A., Manhattan; Ph.D., CUNY
Teaching and research interests include urban change, revitalization, and community development; community food planning; housing policy and finance; and economic development.

Fereydoun Nikpour, Professor of Teaching
B.A., M.A., National University of Iran (NUI); M.C.R.P., Ph.D., Rutgers
Teaching and research interests include statistical research methods; national spatial development planning; development of metropolitan areas in developing countries; and methods of regional analysis.

Robert B. Noland, Distinguished Professor; Associate Dean of Faculty; Director, Alan M. Voorhees Transportation Center
B.A., California; M.Sc., Ph.D., Pennsylvania
Teaching and research interests include the impacts of transport planning and policy on environmental outcomes; micro-simulation of pedestrian-vehicle interactions; non-motorized transportation; and safety analysis.

Patricia O'Brien-Richardson, Associate Teaching Professor and Chief Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Officer
B.A., SUNY Old Westbury; M.S.Ed., CUNY Brooklyn; Ph.D. Rutgers
Teaching and research interests include urban public health disparities; education policy; social justice; race, class, and gender policies.

Emily Parker, Assistant Professor
B.A., American; M.A., Ph.D., Cornell
Teaching and research interests include health and social policy; poverty and inequality; gender and family; and spatial demography.

Mark Paul, Assistant Professor
B.A., Ph.D., UMass Amherst
Teaching and research interests include political economy; environmental policy; and inequality of race, gender, and class.

Will B. Payne, Assistant Professor
A.B., Harvard; Ph.D., California (Berkeley)
Teaching and research interests include urban geography, geographic information science (GIS), urban informatics, spatial data science, critical and feminist GIS, food studies, and gentrification studies.

Katie Pincura, Associate Teaching Professor
B.A., Georgia; M.A., Adler-Vacouver, B.C.; M.P.H., Armstrong State; D.P.H. Leadership, Georgia Southern
Teaching and research interests include community health and social services management; health policy; healthcare workforce issues in underserved communities such as the uninsured, people with intellectual and developmental disabilities, people living with HIV, and those impacted by the opioid epidemic.

Ronald Quincy, Professor of Professional Practice
B.A., M.A., University of Detroit; Ph.D., Michigan State
Teaching and research interests include nonprofit sector leadership and governance; fundraising, institutional branding, and grantsmanship; organizational strategy; human capital, performance, and executive coaching; international civil society organizations; and international affairs.

Kelcie Ralph, Associate Professor
B.S., Alaska (Anchorage); M.E.P., Cambridge; M.C.D.S.S., London School of Economics; Ph.D., California (Los Angeles)
Teaching and research interests include travel behaviors of special populations; and causes and consequences of the decline in driving among young adults.

Andrea Restrepo-Mieth, Assistant Professor
B.A. SUNY New Paltz; M.P.P., National University of Singapore; Ph.D., Cornell
Teaching and research interests include planning institutions; politics of planning for water and sanitation; grassroots involvement in urban governance; cities and metropolitan areas in the Global South; progressive planning; and climate change adaptation.

Julia Sass Rubin, Associate Professor, Associate Dean for Academic Administration, and Director, Program in Public Policy
A.B., Harvard (Radcliffe); M.B.A., A.M., Ph.D., Harvard
Teaching and research interests include education policy; social justice; nonprofit advocacy; grassroots mobilization; and community economic development.

Melinda Rushing, Assistant Professor
B.A., M.S. Social Work, Houston; Ph.D., Texas Health Sciences Center at Houston, School of Public Health
Teaching and research interests include data science amd social work; inequities in health services delivery among individuals living with chronic illnesses; trends in health behavior; health disparities and their effect on health outcomes.

Hal Salzman, Professor and Senior Faculty Fellow, John J. Heldrich Center for Workforce Development
B.A., California (Santa Cruz); M.A., Ph.D., Brandeis
Research interests include workforce development and labor markets; science and engineering workforce policy; socioeconomic analysis of Arctic communities and employment; effects of technological change; and low-wage workers, internal labor markets, and corporate restructuring.

Jim Samuel, Associate Professor of Practice and Executive Director, Master of Public Informatics
M.Arch, Sir J.J. College of Architecture, an affiliate of the Royal Institute of British Architects; M.B.A., Arizona State; Ph.D., Baruch
Teaching and research interests include artificial intelligence; data science; social media analytics; AI bias and ethics; and computer simulation modeling.

Eric Seymour, Assistant Professor
B.A., Florida Atlantic; M.U.R.P., Florida; Ph.D., Michigan
Teaching and research interests include community development; housing; informatics; statistical research methods; and GIS.

Stuart Shapiro, Professor and Dean, Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy
B.S., Case Western Reserve; M.P.P., Ph.D., Harvard
Teaching and research interests include the regulatory process; cost-benefit analysis; federal bureaucracy; regulatory reform; and policy analysis.

Mi Shih, Associate Professor and Director, Program in Urban Planning and Policy Development;
B.S., M.S., National Taiwan; Ph.D., Rutgers
Teaching and research interests include international urbanization; land development, land politics and and property rights; displacement; social protests and community participation; ethnographic methods.

Michael Smart, Associate Professor and Director, Ph.D. Program in Planning and Public Policy
B.A., Yale; M.C.R.P., Pennsylvania; Ph.D., California (Los Angeles)
Teaching and research interests include transportation; immigrant neighborhoods; LGBT neighborhoods; urban modeling; and GIS.

Piyushimita "Vonu" Thakuriah, Distinguished Professor and Dean Emeritus, Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy; Director, Rutgers Urban and Civic Informatics Laboratory (RUCI Lab)
B.A., M.A., Dehli (India); M.U.P.P., Ph.D., Illinois (Chicago)
Teaching and research interests include transportation planning and operations; big data, urban informatics, smart cities, and urban mobility analytics; social and economic cyberinfrastructure; data justice, equity, and ethical aspects of information technology, AI, and automation.

Jermaine Toney, Assistant Professor
B.A., St. Thomas; M.S., Ph.D., Milano - The New School
Teaching and research interests include applied microeconomics; socioeconomic and racial inequality; wealth and health disparities; and demography and family connections.

Carl E. Van Horn, Distinguished Professor; Director, John J. Heldrich Center for Workforce Development
B.A., Pittsburgh; M.A., Ph.D., Ohio State
Teaching and research interests include employment policy; economic development; education policy; state government and federalism; and policy analysis and evaluation.

Sharifa Z. Williams, Assistant Professor
B.A., Rutgers; M.P.H., Dr.PH., Columbia
Teaching and research interests include identifying health disparities; describing longitudinal trends in psychosocial exposures across the life-course; development of Bayesian modeling approaches for improving inference about psychiatric conditions using survey data; analyzes trends in overdose and suicide attempts in large statewide datasets

Ruth Winecoff, Assistant Professor
B.A., UNC Chapel Hill; M.P.A., Ph.D., Indiana-Bloomington
Teaching and research interests include budget and finance; economics; health disparities; health policy; environmental planning and policy

Nancy Wolff, Distinguished Professor; Director, Bloustein Center for Survey Research
B.A., Ph.D., Iowa State
Teaching and research interests include health economics; public finance; and criminal justice.

Wenwen Zhang, Associate Professor
B.E., Zhejiang (China); M.S., M.S., Ph.D., M.C.R.P., Georgia Institute of Technology
Teaching and research interests include urban land use and transportation interaction; innovative/disruptive transportation technology; urban modeling/simulation; sustainable development; data analytics and visualization in planning.

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