Team directory

Team directory

Mary Tinetti

Mary Tinetti, Gladys Phillips Crofoot Professor of Medicine (Geriatrics)

Dr. Tinetti is the Gladys Philips Crofoot Professor of Medicine and Public Health at Yale School of Medicine. Her current research and clinical focus is on clinical decision-making for older adults in the face of multiple health conditions, measuring the net benefit and harms of commonly used medications, and the importance of cross-disease universal health outcomes.

Tom Tyler

Tom Tyler, Macklin Fleming Professor of Law and Professor of Psychology and Founding Director of The Justice Collaboratory

Tom R. Tyler is the Macklin Fleming Professor of Law and Professor of Psychology at Yale Law School, as well as a Founding Director of The Justice Collaboratory. He is also a professor (by courtesy) at the Yale School of Management. He joined the Yale Law faculty in January 2012 as a professor of law and psychology. He was previously a University Professor at New York University, where he taught in both the psychology department and the law school.

ISPS Faculty Fellow

Nisheeth Vishnoi, A. Bartlett Giamatti Professor of Computer Science

Professor Nisheeth Vishnoi’s research spans several areas of theoretical computer science: from approximability of NP-hard problems, to combinatorial, convex and non-convex optimization, to tackling algorithmic questions involving dynamical systems, stochastic processes, and polynomials.

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Milan Vivanco, ISPS Graduate Policy Fellow, 2026

Milan Vivanco is a J.D. candidate at Yale Law School. His research focuses on economic statecraft and the private sector. From 2022-2025, Milan served in the White House and U.S. Department of State. He was previously Assistant Editor at Foreign Affairs magazine. Milan has a master’s degree from Tsinghua University where he was a Schwarzman Scholar and a bachelor’s degree from Yale College.

Jacob Wallace

Jacob Wallace, Assistant Professor of Public Health (Health Policy)

Jacob Wallace is an Assistant Professor of Public Health (Health Policy) at the Yale School of Public Health whose primary research interest is Medicaid. He is a health economist by training and received his Ph.D. from Harvard University. Prior to that he worked as a policy analyst for the New York State Department of Health in the Office of Health Insurance Programs for three years. His research is focused on the economics of the Medicaid program, with a particular focus on the impact of managed care.

Klaudia Wegschaider

Klaudia Wegschaider, External Postdoctoral Associate (University of Vienna)

Klaudia Wegschaider is an external fellow at the Institution for Social and Policy Studies at Yale University as well as a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Government at the University of Vienna. Her work focuses on the causes and consequences of electoral reforms, especially enfranchisement. Methodologically, she is primarily a qualitative researcher, combining case studies with quantitative and experimental methods. Her work has been published in Comparative Political Studies, the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, and other outlets.

Keith Whittington, David Boies Professor of Law

Keith E. Whittington is the David Boies Professor of Law at Yale Law School. Whittington’s teaching and scholarship span American constitutional theory, American political and constitutional history, judicial politics, the presidency, and free speech and the law. He is the author of You Can’t Teach That!

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Te Maia Wiki, ISPS Director's Fellow, 2026

Te Maia Wiki is a junior studying Environmental Studies and Political Science. She is interested in climate policy at the intersection of public health and Indigenous governance. She recently led an electrification campaign in Ashland, Oregon, helping pass legislation that reduces greenhouse gas emissions in new construction.