Team directory: Y
Team directory: Y
Reza Yaesoubi, Associate Professor of Public Health (Health Policy)
Dr. Yaesoubi’s research focuses on medial decision making and model-based evaluation of health policies. His work incorporates mathematical and computer simulation models, machine learning methods, and optimization techniques to guide resource allocation and decision making in public health and health delivery systems.
Itamar Yakir, Postdoctoral Associate
Itamar Yakir is a postdoctoral sssociate with the Democratic Innovations program at Yale’s Institution for Social and Policy Studies and with Yale’s Identity and Conflict Lab. He received his Ph.D. in Public Policy from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 2023.
Milly Yang, ISPS Graduate Policy Fellow 2025
Milly Yang is a PhD Candidate in the department of Sociology. Her research interests are in immigration, family, and social inequality. As an ISPS fellow, Milly will be examining high-skilled immigration in the U.S., particularly how immigration policies shape labor market experiences, legal membership, and the retention of high-skilled immigrants (e.g., H-1B visa holders) in the United States.
Jiwon Yun, ISPS Graduate Policy Fellow 2025
Jiwon Yun is a PhD candidate in Sociology. His research interests are in race, ethnicity, migration, and organizational diversity. His dissertation explores the question of how we can bring marginalized populations to sectors that have historically been inaccessible to them, using the field of classical music as an example. To answer this question, he is currently conducting an ethnography of a nonprofit that provides a free music program to students from low-income, racial minority families in New England.