Team directory

Team directory

Eli Fenichel

Eli Fenichel, Knobloch Family Professor of Natural Resource Economics

Eli Fenichel’s research approaches natural resource management and sustainability as a portfolio management problem by considering natural resources as a form of capital. He is interested in how people can and do allocate natural resources and natural resource risks through time.  This leads to a strong interest in feedbacks among humans, ecosystems, and the management of coupled ecological-economic processes. His research is applied in a wide variety of systems including: natural capital valuation, fisheries, infectious disease, groundwater, tropical forests, and grasslands.

Howard Forman

Howard Forman, Professor of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging; Professor of Economics, Management, and Public Health (Health Policy)

Howie Forman is a Professor of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, Public Health (Health Policy), Management, and Economics at Yale University. He came to Yale as a practicing diagnostic radiologist and remains an active clinician in the YNHH Emergency Room, where he also functions as the deputy operational chief for Radiology. Since 1998, he has taught undergraduate and graduate courses on healthcare policy, economics, finance, and leadership.

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Tylir Fowler, ISPS Graduate Policy Fellow 2024

Tylir Fowler is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Political Science. His research interests are in political economy, history, and formal political theory with a focus on democratic backsliding, populism, backlash against globalisation and migration, and the politics of financial crises.

Abigail Friedman

Abigail Friedman, Associate Professor of Public Health (Health Policy)

Abigail S. Friedman is an Associate Professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management at the Yale School of Public Health. Her research focuses on the policy determinants of tobacco use and disparities therein, with the overarching goal of informing and facilitating evidence-based policymaking to improve population health and reduce inequality. A health economist by training, she conducts work in three areas.

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Kim Gannon, ISPS Graduate Policy Fellow 2024

Kim Gannon (she/her) is a PhD Candidate in the Yale School of Public Health, Department of Health Policy and Management. Her research explores drug policy, particularly punitive policies passed as a reaction to the fentanyl-driven overdose crisis. Specifically, she studies the influence of public opinion on formation and implementation of these policies, as well as their unintended consequences on the health and well-being of people who use drugs, particularly in communities of color, once implemented.

Tamar Szabo Gendler

Tamar Szabó Gendler, Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences; Vincent J. Scully Professor of Philosophy; Professor of Psychology and Cognitive Science.

Tamar Szabó Gendler is Yale’s Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, the Vincent J. Scully Professor of Philosophy, and Professor of Psychology and Cognitive Science. She holds a BA summa cum laude with Distinction in Humanities and in Mathematics-&-Philosophy from Yale University (1987) and a PhD in Philosophy from Harvard University (1996). After teaching at Syracuse and Cornell Universities for nearly a decade, she returned to Yale in 2006 as Professor of Philosophy and Chair of the Cognitive Science Program.

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Alan Gerber, Sterling Professor of Political Science

Alan Gerber is Sterling Professor of Political Science, director of the Institution for Social and Policy Studies, and professor of economics and of and statistics and data science at Yale University. He also has affiliations in the Yale School of Public Health and the Jackson School of Global Affairs. Previously he was appointed the Faculty of Arts and Sciences divisional director for the social sciences and became the inaugural FAS dean of social science, serving in this role from 2014 to 2021.

Heather Gerken, Dean and Sol & Lillian Goldman Professor of Law

Heather Gerken is the dean and Sol & Lillian Goldman Professor of Law at Yale Law School and one of the country’s leading experts on constitutional law and election law. A founder of the “nationalist school” of federalism, her work focuses on federalism, diversity, and dissent.

Abbe Gluck

Abbe Gluck, Alfred M. Rankin Professor of Law and Faculty Director of the Solomon Center for Health Law and Policy; Professor of Internal Medicine (General Medicine)

Abbe R. Gluck is the Alfred M. Rankin Professor of Law and the founding Faculty Director of the Solomon Center for Health Law and Policy at Yale Law School. She is also Professor of Internal Medicine (General Medicine) at Yale School of Medicine and a Professor in the Institution for Social and Policy Studies at Yale.

Cameron Greene

Cameron Greene, Dahl Scholar, 2022 - 2023

As a Dahl Scholar, Cameron works with Arnold Wolfers Professor of Political Science Isabela Mares to uncover the political determinants of economic inequality via legislative debates on the inheritance tax. His individual research focuses on causes of economic inequality in the United States, especially opposition to the estate tax since the 1960s.