Friday, May 16, 2008
8:00 A.M. ? 4:30 P.M.
University Club of Chicago
76 East Monroe Street | Chicago, IL 60603
P. Lindsay Chase-Lansdale is Professor of Human Development and Social Policy, School of Education and Social Policy and is the founding director of Cells to Society (C2S): The Center on Social Disparities and Health at the Institute for Institute for Policy Research at Northwestern University. She is an expert on the interface between research and social policy for children and families, a former Congressional Science Fellow, and the first developmental psychologist to be tenured in a public policy school in the United States.
Chase-Lansdale specializes in multidisciplinary research on social issues and how they affect family functioning and the development of children, youth, and adults. Her studies address positive developmental outcomes in the context of economic hardship, self-regulation, parent-child relationships across multiple generations as well as changes in family structure and developmental trajectories over the lifespan. Policy topics include social disparities, poverty, welfare reform, marriage and cohabitation, adolescent parenthood, and maternal employment. Chase-Lansdale is an expert in large-scale data sets as well as intensive behavioral measurement. Her edited books include Human Development Across Lives and Generations: The Potential for Change (2004) with Kathleen Kiernan and Ruth J. Friedman and For Better and For Worse: Welfare Reform and the Well-Being of Children and Families (2001) with Greg Duncan.
Dr. Andrea Danese is a psychiatrist and Wellcome Trust Research Fellow based at the Social, Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry (SGDP) Centre, Institute of Psychiatry, King?s College London, UK. He trained in medicine and psychiatry at the University of Pavia School of Medicine, Italy. He then moved to UK where he trained in
psychiatric research methods at the Institute of Psychiatry and in epidemiology at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. Dr. Danese?s multidisciplinary research focuses on the origins of mind-body interplay. He is testing developmental hypotheses of health and disease in the Dunedin Health and Development Study, an ongoing longitudinal prospective study that followed up a representative birth cohort of 1,000 individuals from Dunedin, New Zealand, from birth to age 32 years. He is also testing genetic hypothesis of vulnerability and resilience to stress in the Vulnerability to Stress (V2S) Study, an experimental project on human stress physiology. Dr. Danese is registered as Specialist in General Psychiatry in UK and Italy.
Greg Duncan is the Edwina S. Tarry Professor, School of Education and Social Policy and a Faculty Fellow at the Institute for Policy Research at Northwestern University. He earned his PhD in Economics at the University of Michigan in 1974. Duncan has published extensively on issues of income distribution, child poverty and welfare
dependence. He is co-author with Aletha Huston and Tom Weisner of Higher Ground: New Hope for the Working Poor and Their Children (2007). With Jeanne Brooks-Gunn, he co-edited Consequences of Growing up Poor (Russell Sage, 1997). Prior to joining the Northwestern faculty in 1995, he was principal investigator of the Panel Study of Income Dynamics project at Michigan's Survey Research Center. Duncan was elected president of the Population Association of America for 2008. He was elected president of the Society for Research in Child Development for 2009-2011.
Margot Jackson is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Princeton University Office of Population Research and Center for Health and Well-Being. Jackson is sociologist and demographer with interests in social stratification, health and child well-being. A fundamental question motivates her research: how does the relationship between social
status and health evolve over the life course and across generations? Her work examines the social causes and consequences of health inequalities among children and young adults, and the broader role that health disparities play in generating social inequality intragenerationally and maintaining it intergenerationally. Using several U.S. and British data sources, she has studied children's neighborhood environment, and how changes in it over time may influence healthy behaviors and outcomes; the role of educational performance and tracking in explaining links between early-life health and adult social status; and how the influence of poor childhood health on socioeconomic success varies by race/ethnicity and social background. Margot received her PhD in sociology from UCLA in 2007. After completing her post-doctoral fellowship, Jackson will begin as an assistant professor in the sociology department at Brown University.
Rucker C. Johnson is an Assistant Professor in the Goldman School of Public Policy at the University of California, Berkeley. His graduate and postdoctoral training is in labor and health economics. He received his Ph.D. in economics in 2002 from the University of Michigan and was the recipient of three national dissertation awards. Johnson was
a Robert Wood Johnson Scholar in Health Policy from 2002 to 2004. His work considers the role of poverty and inequality in affecting life chances. He has focused on such topics as low-wage labor markets, spatial mismatch, the societal consequences of incarceration, the socioeconomic determinants of health disparities over the life course, and the effects of growing up poor and poor infant health on childhood cognition, child health, educational attainment, and later-life health and socioeconomic success.
Alicia Menendez is a Research Associate (Assistant Professor) in the Harris School of Public Policy Studies and a lecturer in the Department of Economics at the University of Chicago. Her research interests include development economics, poverty and inequality, labor economics, and household behavior. She is particularly
interested in Latin America and sub-Saharan Africa. She is currently engaged in a project that collects and analyzes data on individuals' health and economic status, the costs associated with illness and death, and the impact of adult deaths on households and children's well being in a series of household surveys in South Africa.
Alberto Palloni is the Board of Trustees Professor in Sociology and a Faculty Fellow at the Institute for Policy Research at Northwestern University. Palloni is a demographer and sociologist who works on health and mortality, socioeconomic inequality, aging, criminology and statistical and mathematical models for the spread of illnesses.
His current research interests investigate the relationship between early health status and social stratification and inequality and poverty in the United States, determinants of health and mortality disparities among ethnic groups in the United States, families and households in Africa and Latin America, aging and mortality in Latin America and the Caribbean, and the application of mathematical and statistical models to the study of health and mortality determinants, fertility, social stratification, and the spread of disease, in particular for HIV/AIDS.
Bryan Samuels is Chief of Staff of Chicago Public Schools. Since his appointment in 2006, Samuels has focused on timely implementation the district?s ambitious reform agenda. The Chicago native began his public career in 1990 as an assistant with the Human Services Department under former Illinois Governor James Thompson. After
working with former Governor Thompson, Samuels spent more than 10 years working in state and local governments within seven states across the nation. Prior to becoming Chief of Staff of Chicago Public Schools, Samuels served as the Director of the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services.
Mark Stabile is Associate Professor of Economics and Public Policy at the Rotman School of Management and the Director of School of Public Policy and Governance at the University of Toronto. He is also a Faculty Research Fellow at National Bureau of Economic Research, Cambridge Massachusetts and a fellow at the Rimini Centre for
Economic Analysis, Italy. From 2003-2005 he was the Senior Policy Advisor to the Ontario Minister of Finance where he worked on health, education, and tax policy. His recent work focuses on the economics of child health and development, the public/private mix in the financing of health care, and tax policy and health insurance. His recent publications include ?Child Mental Health and Human Capital Accumulation: the Case of ADHD,? in the Journal of Health Economics, ?Socio-economic Status and Child Health: Why is the Gradient Stronger for Older Children,? in the American Economic Review, ?The Integration of Child Tax Credits and Welfare: Evidence from the Canadian National Child Benefit Program,? in the Journal of Public Economics. He has advised the Senate of Canada, Health Canada, and the Ontario Ministry of Health, among others, on health care reform. He is co-editor of a forthcoming book on health care reform, Exploring Social Insurance: Can a Dose of Europe Cure Canadian Health Care Finance.
