Team directory
Team directory
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.
Jiawei Fu, Postdoctoral Associate
Jiawei Fu is a postdoctoral associate in the Institution for Social and Policy Studies, collaborating with Donald Green (Columbia University) and Alan Gerber on political methodology. He received his Ph.D. from New York University and will be entering the job market for the 2024-25 academic year.
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.
Richard George, ISPS Director's Fellow 2025
Richard (Richie) George is a sophomore at Yale University studying history. He is interested in building data-informed and community-based solutions for public safety and criminal justice, beyond the carceral state. Their interests extend more broadly to racial justice, democratic governance, and social welfare. Recently, they collaborated with researchers at Columbia University to create quantitative models examining the long-term effects of incarceration on formerly incarcerated people in the United States, considering race, education, and socioeconomic status.
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.
Emi Glass, ISPS Director's Fellow 2025
Emi is a junior in Pauli Murray majoring in the History of Science, Medicine, and Public Health & Political Science. She is interested in public health policy, with a focus on reproductive health as well as Medicare and Medicaid. Additionally, Emi is interested in democratic reform, including gerrymandering and voting accessibility. At Yale, Emi writes and edits for The Politic, works as a Communication and Consent Educator, and is involved with Dwight Hall, both as a FOCUS leader and within the Advocacy Committee.
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.
Pamela Greene, Senior Administrative Assistant
Office Location: 77 Prospect Street
Phone: 203-432-3052
Email: pamela.greene@yale.edu
Cary Gross, Professor of Medicine (General Medicine) and Epidemiology (Chronic Diseases)
Dr. Cary Gross is a Professor of Medicine and Public Health, and Director of the National Clinician Scholars Program at Yale. Dr. Gross completed his residency in Internal Medicine at New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center and served as chief medical resident at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center the following year. His research addresses comparative effectiveness, quality, and health equity, with a focus on cancer prevention and treatment.