Team directory
Team directory
Jennifer Rosas, Dahl Scholar, 2025-2026
Jennifer (she/her) is a third-year student originally from Houston, Texas, pursuing a B.S. in Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology with a language certificate in Spanish. Her broader academic interests span biological studies, including mutated-protein analysis and chemical properties of molecular compounds. Furthermore, she began her research experience as a Herb-Scarf scholar the summer of 2025, where she first collaborated with Dr. Xi Chen. As a Dahl Scholar working under the mentorship of Dr.
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.
Nicolas Rudas, ISPS Graduate Policy Fellow, 2026
Nicolás earned his B.A. and M.A. in Sociology from the Universidad Nacional de Colombia. His research examines the intersections of culture, violence, and democracy.
Taran Samarth, ISPS Graduate Policy Fellow, 2026
Taran is a third-year Ph.D. student in the Department of Political Science and a 2023-2024 RITM graduate fellow. Their research examines how federalism shapes American social movements, especially in local politics and the carceral state. As a policy fellow, they will study public attitudes towards, and movement discourses around, the expansion of surveillance technologies and local-federal data-sharing in law enforcement. They graduated from Penn State with degrees in sociology, philosophy, mathematics, and political science in 2023.
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
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, 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.