Team directory

Team directory

Joseph Ross

Joseph Ross, Professor of Medicine (General Medicine) and Public Health (Health Policy and Management)

Joseph S. Ross, MD, MHS, is a Professor of Medicine (General Medicine) and of Public Health (Health Policy and Management), a member of the Center for Outcomes Research and Evaluation (CORE) at the Yale-New Haven Hospital, and an Co-Director of the National Clinician Scholars program (NCSP) at Yale.

Laurie Santos

Laurie Santos, Professor of Psychology, Head of Silliman College

Laurie Santos is the director of the Comparative Cognition Laboratory and the Canine Cognition Center at Yale. She received her A.B. in Psychology and Biology from Harvard University in 1997 and her Ph.D. in Psychology from Harvard in 2003. 

Mark Schlesinger Professor of Public Health

Mark Schlesinger, Professor of Public Health

Dr. Schlesinger is a professor of health policy, a fellow of the Institution for Social and Policy Studies at Yale University and past editor of the Journal of Health Policy, Politics and Law. Dr. Schlesinger’s research explores the determinants of public opinion about health and social policy, the influence of bounded rationality on medical consumers, the role of nonprofit organizations in American medicine.

Jason Schwartz

Jason Schwartz, Associate Professor of Public Health (Health Policy); Associate Professor in the History of Medicine; Affiliated Faculty, Yale Institute for Global Health

Jason L. Schwartz is an Associate Professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management at the Yale School of Public Health. His research examines vaccines and vaccination policy, decision-making in medical regulation and public health policy, and the structure and function of scientific expert advice to government. The overall focus of his work is on the ways in which evidence is interpreted, evaluated, and translated into regulation and policy in medicine and public health.

Fiona M. Scott Morton, Theodore Nierenberg Professor of Economics

Fiona M. Scott Morton is the Theodore Nierenberg Professor of Economics at the Yale University School of Management where she has been on the faculty since 1999. Her area of academic research is empirical industrial organization, with a focus on empirical studies of competition in areas such as pricing, entry, and product differentiation. Her published articles range widely across industries, from magazines, to shipping, to pharmaceuticals, to internet retailing, and are published in leading economics journals.

Jasjeet Sekhon

Jasjeet Sekhon, External Faculty Fellow

Jasjeet Sekhon is chief scientist and head of AI/ML at Bridgewater Associates, and his research spans causal inference, machine learning, and experimental design, with applications in political science, economics, and epidemiology. Currently, his work focuses on developing and deploying AI systems in biomedical and social decision settings, addressing AI risk, and creating interpretable methods for finding and estimating causal relationships.
 
Emily Sellars

Emily Sellars, Assistant Professor of Political Science

Emily Sellars is an assistant professor in the Department of Political Science. Sellars’ research interests are at the intersection of comparative political economy, development economics, and economic history. Her dissertation, “Essays on Emigration and Politics,” received the 2017 Mancur Olson Award for the best dissertation in political economy defended in the previous two years. Currently, she is working on several papers to be published in The Journal of Politics and the Journal of Development Economics.

Ian Shapiro, Sterling Professor of Political Science and Global Affairs

Ian Shapiro is Sterling Professor of Political Science and Global Affairs at Yale University. He has written widely and influentially on democracy, justice, and the methods of social inquiry. A native of South Africa, he received his J.D. from the Yale Law School and his Ph.D. from the Yale Political Science Department where he has taught since 1984 and served as chair from 1999 to 2004. Shapiro also served as Henry R. Luce Director of the MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies from 2004-2019.

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Victoria Siebor, ISPS Director's Fellow 2025

Victoria Siebor is a junior in Jonathan Edwards College majoring in Environmental Studies. She is interested in environmental law and policy, with a specific focus on environmental justice and renewable energy. She enjoys conducting fieldwork, whether it’s researching urban heat islands in Brooklyn, NY, or mapping southern Spain’s geological features. At Yale, she works as a Peer Mentor at the Office of Educational Opportunity and has served on the boards of the Yale Daily News, Yale Polish Students Society, and Yale Ballroom Dance Team.