USC Price researchers routinely put their knowledge into action, engaging with decision makers at the international, national, state, and local levels.
USC Price School of Public Policy faculty are distinguished scholars and professionals who share a deep and abiding commitment to research and teaching. Their diverse academic backgrounds include economics, international relations, urban planning, organizational behavior, philosophy, political science, psychology, public administration, public policy, sociology, and social ethics.
“At the Price School, we believe that faculty should strive to conduct high-impact research that advances knowledge and contributes to discourse on critical challenges facing society,”
“I had access to world-renowned faculty members in health policy and economics. I had a lot of people to go to with my questions and ideas, and I got to see the [beginning-to-end] process of research in academia in a hands-on way, with a group of people who were really supportive.”
| Name | Position | Expertise | Related Tags | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 | Ali E. Abbas | Professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering and Public Policy Director, Neely Center for Ethical Leadership and Decision Making (DECIDE) | Decision analysis, risk analysis, multi-attribute utility theory, information theory, Bayesian analysis, and data-based decision making | |
 | Emma Aguila | Assistant Professor | Economics of aging, health economics, and applied econometrics | |
 | Tridib Banerjee | Professor James Irvine Chair in Urban and Regional Planning | Urban design, comparative urbanism, urban sprawl, developing world urbanization, planning theory | |
 | Christine M. Beckman | The Price Family Chair in Social Innovation and Professor of Public Policy | Social innovation and inequality, organizational learning and interorganizational networks, entrepreneurship and social entrepreneurship, technology and work, organizational control | |
 | Antonio M. Bento | Professor Director, USC Center for Sustainability Solutions | Environmental and energy economics, urban economics, public economics, transportation policy, climate policy, environmental regulation | |
 | Tara Blanc | Associate Professor (Teaching) | Civic engagement, leadership, public service ethics, political behavior | |
 | Marlon Boarnet | Professor Chair, Department of Urban Planning and Spatial Analysis | Transportation, travel behavior, urban growth patterns, regional science, urban economics | |
 | Geoff Boeing | Assistant Professor of Urban Planning and Spatial Analysis | transportation networks, urban form, data science, urban informatics | |
 | Mary Lynne Boorn | Associate Professor (Teaching) | Principles of real estate, real estate finance, real estate development | |
 | Alice Chen | Assistant Professor | Health economics, labor economics, applied microeconomics | |
 | Terry L. Cooper | Professor Emeritus The Maria B. Crutcher Professor in Citizenship and Democratic Values | Administrative ethics, administrative theory, citizen participation, neighborhood organizations, role of citizens | |
 | Spencer Couts | Alternative investments, commercial real estate finance, and institutional investment | ||
 | Elizabeth Currid-Halkett | Professor James Irvine Chair in Urban and Regional Planning | Economic development, cultural economy, social networks, urban growth, economic geography | |
 | Phil Dalton | Professor of Practice of Health Policy and Management | Health policy and management, community health needs, national health care delivery, strategic planning, mergers and acquisitions | |
 | Jorge De la Roca | Assistant Professor | Urban economics, labor economics, economic geography, urban migration | |
 | Janet Denhardt | Chester A. Newland Professor of Public Administration | Organizational behavior, leadership, citizen engagement, governance | |
 | Jason Doctor | Associate Professor Chair, Department of Health Policy and Management Director of Health Informatics, USC Schaeffer Center | Physician behavior and psychology, behavioral economics and health, patient choice and decision making, health policy and implementation, treatment preferences, prescriptions, health informatics | |
 | Kathleen M. Doherty | Assistant Professor | American political institutions, bureaucratic delegation, administrative expertise, political and judicial oversight of the bureaucracy, public policy, pharmaceutical drug policy | |
 | Nicolas Duquette | Assistant Professor | Nonprofit economics, public finance, economic history | |
 | Nicole E. Esparza | Associate Professor | Nonprofit organizations, networks, philanthropy, and urban inequality | |
 | Jonathan Eyer | Research Assistant Professor | Environmental economics, energy economics, natural disasters, applied econometrics | |
 | Liz Falletta | Associate Professor (Teaching) | Architecture, urban design, design criticism | |
 | James M. Ferris | Professor Emery Evans Olson Chair in Non-Profit Entrepreneurship and Public Policy Director, Center on Philanthropy and Public Policy | Philanthropy, nonprofit economics, public finance, public policy, institutional analysis | |
 | Carol J. Geffner | Professor of the Practice of Governance, Management and Policy Director, Executive Master of Leadership | Strategy, executive leadership, transformation and change | |
 | Paul B. Ginsburg | Professor of the Practice of Health Policy and Management Director of Public Policy, USC Schaeffer Center Director, USC-Brookings Schaeffer Initiative for Health Policy | Health policy, health care financing and delivery, health care markets | |
 | Dana Gioia | Judge Widney Professor of Poetry and Public Culture | ||
 | Genevieve Giuliano | Professor Margaret and John Ferraro Chair in Effective Local Government Director, METRANS Transportation Center | Transportation policy, metropolitan spatial structure, travel demand, urban transportation | |
 | Dana Goldman | Professor Leonard D. Schaeffer Director’s Chair, Schaeffer Center for Health Policy & Economics Distinguished Professor, University of Southern California | Health economics and finance, health policy, the role of prevention in healthcare, healthcare reform, pharmaceutical regulation and innovation, precision medicine, value of delayed ageing | |
 | Elizabeth Graddy | Professor Jeffrey J. Miller Chair in Government, Business, and the Economy USC Vice Provost for Academic and Faculty Affairs | Institutional economics, governance, nonprofit organizations,industry structure | |
 | Alexandra Graddy-Reed | Assistant Professor of Public Policy | Public economics, philanthropy and nonprofits, social innovation, science and innovation policy, research and development | |
 | Richard K. Green | Professor Director and Chair of the USC Lusk Center for Real Estate Chair, Department of Policy Analysis and Real Estate | Economics, housing markets, housing policy, tax policy, transportation, mortgage finance, urban growth | |
 | Howard Greenwald | Professor | Health service delivery, organizational behavior, survey design | |
 | Michael E. Harris | Professor of the Practice of Health Services Administration and Policy | Health care contracting, health care policy and reform, emerging health care delivery business models, health care innovation and its impact on health care delivery systems, health care prevention, wellness, patient access | |
 | Eric Heikkila | Professor Director, Office of Global Engagement | Urban development, economic development, East Asian cities, urban economics, urban information systems | |
 | Jakub P. Hlávka | Research Assistant Professor | Health economics and finance, health policy and healthcare reform, pharmaceutical regulation and innovation, precision medicine, Alzheimer's disease, oncology, cardiovascular disease, global health, health insurance markets, medical innovation and regulatory policy, data privacy and security | |
 | Jeffery A. Jenkins | Provost Professor of Public Policy, Political Science, and Law Judith & John Bedrosian Chair of Governance and the Public Enterprise Director, Bedrosian Center Director, PIPE Collaborative | American political institutions and development, Congress, political parties, lawmaking, separation-of-powers, political economy | |
 | Rym Kaki | Associate Professor (Teaching) | Public and non-profit organizations management; Public policy analysis; Urban poverty policy; Social entrepreneurship; Institutional design; Program evaluation and social impact assessment; International executive education | |
 | Annette M. Kim | Associate Professor Director, Spatial Analysis Lab (SLAB) | Housing and land use; international development planning; East Asian urbanization; race, arts, and placemaking; critical mapping and urban analytics | |
 | Janna King | Assistant Professor | U.S. political institutions and the policy process, the presidency, Congress, executive branch agencies | |
 | Dora Kingsley Vertenten | Professor (Teaching) | Public policy, intergovernmental management, non-profit management, strategic planning, social media and information technologies useful in collaborative and participatory democracy | |
 | Geraldine Knatz | Professor of the Practice of Policy and Engineering | Seaport policy and management, maritime transportation, international trade, seaport sustainability, environmental impact analysis | |
 | Jack H. Knott | Dean C. Erwin and Ione L. Piper Chair and Professor | Political institutions and public policy, health policy, and public management | |
 | Martin H. Krieger | Professor | Defense policy; uncertainty and ambiguity; mathematical modeling of urban phenomena and their foundations in mathematics and physics; aural and photographic documentation of cities, especially Southern California; planning theory and design theory; urban spatial processes; mathematical modeling; environmental policy | |
 | Darius Lakdawalla | Professor Quintiles Chair in Pharmaceutical Development and Regulatory Innovation Director of Research, USC Schaeffer Center | ||
 | William Leach | Associate Professor (Teaching) | Collaborative governance, economics, planning, social policy, environmental policy, health policy | |
 | LaVonna B. Lewis | Teaching Professor of Public Policy Associate Dean of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion | American politics, public policy (most notably health policy), interest groups, and federal programs | |
 | John Loper | Associate Professor (Teaching) | Real estate development, real estate finance, urban and suburban development, master planned communities, urban design | |
 | Daniel A. Mazmanian | Professor of Public Policy | Environmental policy, policy implementation, sustainable communities, political science | |
 | Pamela McCann | Associate Professor | American political institutions, bureaucratic delegation, intergovernmental politics, legislative behavior, public policy, and policy diffusion | |
 | T.J. McCarthy | Associate Professor (Teaching) | Labor economics, health economics, economics of education, public economics, program evaluation | |
 | Daniel McFadden | Presidential Professor of Health Economics | ||
 | Glenn Melnick | Professor Blue Cross of California Chair in Health Care Finance | Health economics, health finance, health care systems, managed care | |
 | Jennifer Miller | Assistant Professor (Teaching) | Economic development, science and technology policy, workforce policy | |
 | Leonard Mitchell | Professor of the Practice of Economic Development Executive Director, Center for Economic Development | Real estate development finance and law, regional and local economic development, economic development finance and law, international trade finance and law | |
 | James Elliott Moore, II | Professor | Economic impact analysis, engineering economics, transportation engineering, urban transportation, infrastructure performance | |
 | Karen Mulligan | Research Assistant Professor | Health economics, applied microeconometrics, labor economics | |
 | Juliet Ann Musso | Associate Professor Vice Dean for Academic Affairs Vice Chair, Department of Governance, Management and the Policy Process | Federalism, urban political economy, fiscal policy, community governance, neighborhood organizations | |
 | Dowell Myers | Professor Director, Population Dynamics Research Group | Demographic change, future of California, housing impacts, workforce and education, immigration and assimilation, communication for consensus about change | |
 | Deborah J. Natoli | Professor (Teaching) Governance, Management, Policy Process Director, Professional Doctorate Program | Adult development and learning, leadership, human behavior and organizations, depth psychology and psychoanalysis | |
 | Michael B. Nichol | Professor | Health policy, health care cost and resource utilization, health state preference assessment, cost-effectiveness | |
 | Lisa Ozaeta | Assistant Professor (Teaching) | Health care finance, law, strategy | |
 | Gary Dean Painter | Professor Director, USC Sol Price Center for Social Innovation Director, Homelessness Policy Research Institute | Social Innovation, Housing economics, Urban economics, education policy, program evaluation | |
 | David Petraeus | Judge Widney Professor | ||
 | Mark Phillips | Associate Professor (Teaching) | Public finance, tax compliance, policy salience, applied microeconomics | |
 | Jane Pisano | Professor | International relations, public administration, civic engagement | |
 | Mark Pisano | Professor of the Practice of Public Administration | Regional planning, transportation, housing, development, environmental policy, enterprise financing, institutional design | |
 | Kelly Rawlings | Associate Professor (Teaching) | Civic engagement and public participation, organizational behavior, nonprofit leadership and management, transformational leadership and change | |
 | Christian L. Redfearn | Associate Professor Borstein Family Endowed Professor of Real Estate | Public policy, urban economics, housing markets, real estate finance | |
 | William G. Resh | Associate Professor | Public Management, US presidency and executive politics, policy implementation, organization theory, personnel policy, organizational behavior | |
 | Peter J. Robertson | Associate Professor | Organizational theory and behavior, organizational change, ecological governance, collaborative organizing, interorganizational networks | |
 | Mindy Romero | Research Assistant Professor | Political sociology, voting rights and electoral participation, latino political behavior, collective political behavior, youth civic engagement, identity and political movements, social stratification, new technologies and civic engagement | |
 | John A. Romley | Associate Professor Economist, Leonard D. Schaeffer Center for Health Policy and Economics | Hospital industry, Health-care productivity / efficiency, Environmental health disparities | |
 | Adam Rose | Research Professor | Energy and environmental economics, public policy, natural hazards and terrorism, regional science, applied general equilibrium modeling | |
 | Jovanna Rosen | Research Assistant Professor | Community and economic development, community investment, urban sustainability | |
 | Leonard D. Schaeffer | Judge Robert Maclay Widney Chair | ||
 | Arnold Schwarzenegger | Governor Downey Professor of State and Global Policy Chairman, USC Schwarzenegger Institute for State and Global Policy | ||
 | Lisa Schweitzer | Professor | Environmental justice, Sustainable transportation, Hazardous materials in urban environments, Community environmental quality | |
 | David Sloane | Professor | Urban history, community health planning, health disparaties, cultural landscapes | |
 | Neeraj Sood | Professor Vice Dean for Faculty Affairs Vice Dean for Research | Health care costs, global health, health insurance markets and benefits design, medical innovation and regulatory policy, Medicare and aging | |
 | Erroll G. Southers | Professor of the Practice in National and Homeland Security Director, Safe Communities Institute Director of Homegrown Violent Extremism Studies Director of International Programs, USC CREATE | Counterterrorism, homegrown violent extremism, school violence prevention | |
 | Roberto Suro | Professor Director, Tomas Rivera Policy Institute Associate Director, USC Sol Price Center for Social Innovation | Immigration, Hispanic immigration, immigration policy | |
 | Lois M. Takahashi | Professor (Teaching) Houston I. Flournoy Professor of State Government Director, USC Price School in Sacramento | Public and social service delivery to vulnerable populations in the U.S. and in Southeast/South Asian cities | |
 | Jeffrey W. Talley | Professor of the Practice of Public Policy & Engineering | Intersection of engineering, business and public policy, including public-private partnerships, and technology’s impact on society, business, and government | |
 | Shui Yan Tang | Professor Frances R. and John J. Duggan Professor in Public Administration Chair, Department of Governance, Management and the Policy Process | Environmental policy, organizational commitment, institutional analysis, microcredit, common-pool resources | |
 | Michael Thom | Associate Professor (Teaching) | Taxation; public finance; regulatory policy; public policy analysis; political philosophy | |
 | Karen Van Nuys | Research Assistant Professor | Life sciences innovation, health policy, pharmaceutical pricing and distribution, organizational economics | |
 | Detlof von Winterfeldt | Professor Director, Center for Risk and Economic Analysis of Terrorism Events (CREATE) | Decision analysis, risk analysis, environmental policy, behavioral decision research, homeland security | |
 | Dan Wei | Research Associate Professor | Energy and Climate Policy, Energy and Environmental Economics, Economics of Natural and Man-made Disasters | |
 | Frank V. Zerunyan | Professor of the Practice of Governance Director, Executive Education | Local Governments, Administrative Law, Public Private Partnerships, Leadership, Negotiation, and Executive Education | |
 | Julie M. Zissimopoulos | Associate Professor Associate Director, USC Schaeffer Center for Health Policy and Economics | Economics of aging, economics of the family, labor economics, health economics |
