Team directory
Team directory
Philip Moniz, Postdoctoral Associate
Philip Moniz is a postdoctoral associate in the Institution for Social and Policy Studies and the Center for the Study of American Politics at Yale. He received a Ph.D. in government from the University of Texas at Austin in 2024. His research ranges across political behavior and political psychology, with a keen interest in the causes and consequences of voters’ policy attitudes.
Genesis N. Luigi Bravo, ISPS Graduate Policy Fellow 2025
Génesis is a Ph.D. student in Sociology and Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. Her work focuses on understanding how social movements, technology, and expertise influence people’s experiences with healthcare. Her academic and professional practice nurtures from her work as an advocate with a decade of experience in grassroots feminist organizing. Her last research project “Becoming abortion experts: making and transforming the professional boundaries of abortion care in Mexico” explores how the use of abortion medication reshapes notions of expertise in Obstetrics & Gynecology.
Chima Ndumele, Associate Professor of Public Health (Health Policy)
Chima Ndumele is an Associate Professor of Public Health (Health Policy) at the Yale School of Public Health. His research is focused on better understanding factors which influence the way vulnerable populations connect with and access health care resources. Specifically, he conducts work in three areas. The first examines how changes in local policy environment impact the care received by Medicaid enrollees. The second area explores how safety-net organizations can improve health care services delivery.
Rourke O'Brien, Associate Professor of Sociology
Rourke O’Brien is an associate professor of sociology. His research focuses on the causes and consequences of social and economic inequalities with substantive interests in household and public finance, economic mobility, and population health.
Cormac O'Dea, Assistant Professor of Economics
Cormac O’Dea is an Assistant Professor of Economics at Yale University. He is also a Research Fellow at the Institute for Fiscal Studies and a Faculty Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research. His research interests are in household saving, retirement and intergenerational links in economic outcomes.
A. David Paltiel, Professor of Public Health (Health Policy); Professor of Management; Co-Director, Public Health Modeling Concentration; Affiliated Faculty, Yale Institute for Global Health
The objective that guides Dr. Paltiel’s scholarly activities is to promote a reasoned approach to decision making and resource allocation in public health and medicine. Trained in the field of Operations Research, Dr. Paltiel designs and implements policy models and cost-effectiveness analyses. He has a special interest and expertise in HIV/AIDS and has published broadly on the cost-effectiveness of testing, prevention, treatment, and care, both in the United States and around the world.
Alessandra Pappalardi, Dahl Scholar, 2025-2026
Alessandra Pappalardi is a junior studying Political Science and the History of Science, Medicine and Public Health. Passionate about community-building, Alessandra’s time as a Dahl Scholar will be spent alongside her research partner Sabbi Gale-Donnelly studying discussion as a means to achieve social cohesion. The pair will investigate the efficacy of two kinds of dialogue structures – the mock citizen assembly and the pluralist lab – in shaping ideological trust and openness.
Limor Peer, Associate Director for Research & Strategic Initiatives
Office Location: 24 Hillhouse Avenue
Phone: 203-432-0054
Email: limor.peer@yale.edu
Theophile Penigaud, External Postdoctoral Associate (Sciences Po, Paris)
Théophile Pénigaud is an external postdoctoral fellow at the Institution for Social and Policy Studies (ISPS) at Yale University. Before joining Yale University in July 2023, Dr. Pénigaud earned his Ph.D. in Philosophy from the École Normale Supérieure de Lyon (France). His research focuses on democratic theory, with a particular interest in deliberative democracy, democratic innovations, political epistemology, and the political philosophy of AI.
Area of study: governance and democratic process