Spring 2026 HMP Faculty Bio Book

Spring 2026 Department Faculty Biography Book St. Mary’s Hall 3700 Reservoir Road NW Washington, DC 20057

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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH MANAGEMENT & POLICY CORE FACULTY Maria Alva, DPhil……………………………………………………………………………………….………3 Caroline Efird, PhD, MPH…………………………………………………………………..………………….4 Gultekin Gollu, PhD………………………………………………………………………………..…………...5 Sam Halabi, JD, MPhil……………………………………………………………………………...…………...6 Sean Huang, PhD………………………………………………………………………..………………………8 Vanessa Hurley, PhD……………………………………………………………………………..……………..9 Bette Jacobs, PhD…………………………………………………………………………………….………....10 So-Yeon Kang, PhD………………………………………………………………………….………………...12 Daniel Kim, PhD………………………………………………………………………………………….…....13 Christopher J. King, PhD, MHSc, FACHE…………………………………………………………………..14 John Kraemer, JD, MPH……………………………………………………………………………………….16 Regina LaBelle, JD……………………………………………………………………………………………...17 Michael Stoto, PhD…………………………………………………………………………………………….18 Ryung Suh, MD …….………………………………………………………………………………………….19 Debra Winberg, PhD .…………………………………………………… ………………………………..….20 Adjunct Department Faculty…………………………………………………………………………….........21

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MARIA ALVA, DPHIL

Assistant Professor mla72@georgetown.edu Dr. Maria L. Alva joins the Health Management & Policy Department at the School of Health from the McCourt School of Public Policy Massive Data Institute. Her research focuses on impact evaluations of healthcare interventions and the cost- effectiveness of preventive decisions. She works primarily in the area of behavioral health and NCDs. Her interest in NCDs started at the University of Oxford, where her Ph.D. research focused on economic analyses of the United Kingdom Prospective Diabetes Study—a landmark trial of policies to improve type-2 diabetes management.

Before joining academia, Maria worked as a Senior Research Associate at Impaq International (now American Institutes for Research) and Health Economist in the Division of Public Health and Policy Research at RTI International, where she worked on disease models for the CDC based on individual patient data to predict lifetime costs and outcomes and on CMS program valuations of healthcare interventions using both Medicare and Medicaid data.

Education Oxford University – DPhil, Public Health Oxford University – MPhil, Economics Expertise/Interests Health Economics, Program Evaluation, Behavioral Health, Public Health

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CAROLINE EFIRD, PhD, MPH

Assistant Professor caroline.efird@georgetown.edu Dr. Caroline R. Efird is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Health Management and Policy. Her interdisciplinary research and teaching seek to promote health equity by addressing social and structural drivers of racialized health disparities and inequities. She primarily uses mixed methods to investigate how whiteness influences the health and well-being of racially majoritized and minoritized populations. Dr. Efird has published her scholarship in journals such as the American Journal of Public Health, Social Science & Medicine, Du Bois Review: Social Science Research on Race, Pedagogy in Health Promotion, and others. She holds a Ph.D. and MPH in Health Behavior from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Gillings School of Global Public Health. She also completed a postdoctoral research fellowship with the Racial Justice Institute at Georgetown University. Prior to her career in health equity research, Dr. Efird earned a B.S. in Elementary Education from Appalachian State University and she worked with children and families in public schools and non-profit settings for over 9 years.

Education University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill – PhD, Health Behavior University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill – MPH, Health Behavior Appalachian State University – BS, Elementary Education Expertise/Interests Health Equity, Population Health, Rural Health, Structural and Social Determinants of Health, Qualitative Research Methods Hours of Availability Meetings available by appointment.

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GULTEKIN GOLLU, PHD

MHSA Program Director Associate Professor gultekin.gollu@georgetown.edu Dr. Gultekin Gollu is an Associate Professor in the Department of Health Management & Policy. His research examines the effects of health policies on labor markets, crime, and health outcomes, with a particular focus on social and economic disparities in the United States. He collaborates with healthcare organizations on data analytics initiatives to improve quality of care and advance patient outcomes. Dr. Gollu teaches courses in health data analytics and visualization, health economics, and health services research.

He also serves as the Program Director for the Master’s in Health Systems Administration program. In addition to his academic and administrative roles, Dr. Gollu is committed to fostering diversity, intercultural dialogue, and sustainability through music and community engagement.

Education University of Wisconsin-Madison – PhD, Economics Bogazici University – MA, Economics Sabanci University – BA, Economics Expertise/Interests Health Economics, Health Data Analytics, Healthcare Policy Analysis Hours of Availability Meetings available by appointment.

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SAM HALABI, JD, M.PHIL

Department Chair Professor sfh9@georgetown.edu Professor Sam Halabi is the Bette Jacobs Endowed Professor in the Department of Health Management & Policy and the Director of the Center for Transformational Health Law at the O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law. Prior to joining SOH, Prof.

Halabi served as the senior associate vice-president for Health Policy and Ethics in Colorado State University's Office for the Vice-President of Research and as a professor at the Colorado School of Public Health. He is the former Manley O. Hudson Professor of Law and director of the Center for Intellectual Property and Entrepreneurship at the University of Missouri, where he earned the Husch Blackwell Award for Distinguished Teaching. He has published five books and more than 80 manuscripts in the fields of data sharing, the development and deployment of vaccines in routine and emergency circumstances, liability and indemnity factors affecting private sector participation in emergency response, the philosophy of medicine, international technology transfer, public health ethics, universal health coverage, and vector-borne disease surveillance.

His work on international cooperation and data sharing in epidemic and pandemic preparedness has been supported by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Resolve to Save Lives, USAID, the Wellcome Trust, the Wilson Center, and the World Health Organization. His work is published in the Georgetown Law Journal, the Harvard International Law Journal, JAMA, the Lancet, the New England Journal of Medicine, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society and the Yale Journal of International Law. Halabi advises or has advised the COVAX Facility, the World Bank, the World Health Organization, the National Foundation for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the Global Virome Project, among other national and international organizations. He is a member of the board of directors of the International Food Security Treaty Campaign. Halabi is a licensed attorney and practiced law at the Washington, D.C. office of Latham & Watkins and clerked for U.S. District Judge Nanette K. Laughrey. His research on the law of companies and corporations is cited by both federal and state courts in the U.S. Education Harvard University – JD University of Oxford (St. Antony’s College) – MPhil, International Relations Kansas State University – BA, BS Expertise/Interests Corporations, Data Science for Public Policy, Intellectual Property, Global Health Law, Philosophy of Science, Vaccines Hours of availability Meetings available by appointment.

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SEAN HUANG, PHD Associate Professor sean.huang@georgetown.edu Dr. Sean Huang is an Associate Professor in the Department of Health Management & Policy at Georgetown University. Dr. Huang’s research focuses on the regulation and behavior of hospitals, nursing homes, and home health agencies domestically and internationally, including the relationship between a health care provider’s governance structure and the quality of care. His academic pursuits also involve the application of corporate finance and industrial organization to health care delivery systems. He teaches Financial Management.

Education University of Michigan – PhD, Health Economics University of Michigan – MA, Economics National University of Taiwan – BA, Finance/International Relations Expertise/Interests Health Economics, Healthcare Finance, Healthcare Markets, Long-Term Care Hours of Availability Meetings available by appointment.

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VANESSA HURLEY, PHD

Assistant Professor vh151@georgetown.edu Dr. Vanessa Hurley is an assistant professor within the Department of Health Management & Policy in the School of Health. Her research interests lie at the intersection of organizational learning and quality improvement, with a particular focus on healthcare collaboratives and their role in elevating patient-centered innovations. She is also interested in understanding organizational correlates of sustained quality improvement engagement at the physician practice level. In addition to having conducted research in partnership with the High-Value Healthcare Collaborative, she also collaborates with scholars at the UC Berkeley Center for Health Management and Policy Research, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, MedStar Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center, MedStar Diabetes Institute, and the MedStar Health National Center for Human Factors in Healthcare.

She previously worked as a health policy analyst for the New America Foundation and as a project manager and quality improvement consultant within rural and community healthcare settings across the Northeast. At Georgetown, she teaches Organizational Leadership and Strategic Management for graduate students in the MHSA program in addition to mentoring undergraduate honors thesis students.

Education University of California at Berkeley – PhD, Health Policy Tufts University – MS, Biomedical Science Dartmouth College – MPH, Health Policy Dartmouth College – AB, English Expertise/Interests Health Administration, Health Care Management, Organizational Behavior Hours of Availability Meetings available by appointment.

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BETTE JACOBS, PHD

Professor bette.jacobs@georgetown.edu Dr. Bette Jacobs is Professor, Health Management & Policy; Distinguished Scholar and co-founder at the O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law; and a Fellow and Visiting Professor at Campion Hall University of Oxford. A Native American whose body of work spans community, academic, service, and corporate leadership, she is recognized for contributions in successful start-ups, financial integrity, and interdisciplinary innovations.

She served with distinction as Dean for the Georgetown University School of Nursing and Health Studies for 11 years overseeing unprecedented programmatic growth within the University. Previous executive experience includes vice presidency for Honda of America Manufacturing; founding faculty member and Associate Director of Applied Research at the Civitan International Research Center; and Acting Dean of Graduate Studies and Research at California State University. Jacobs’ extraordinary cross-disciplinary and cross- sector leadership has fostered innovation and improved systems.

Her personal and professional activities emanate from crossing childhood cultural boundaries triangulating a colonized, missionized tribal history through pathways in education, business, and service. Strong cultural roots anchor and animate her work to advance the common good with practical abilities to do so. Dr. Jacobs is a scholar skilled in operations. She established enduring innovative models in business and education and sorted or refined programs in both. Dr. Jacobs has published numerous articles and chapters including “Bridging the Divide Between Genomic Science and Indigenous People” in the Journal of Legal and Medical Education, hosted a colloquium featuring the US Health and Human Service position statement on Personalized Medicine, and has testified before Congress.

Her honors include ceremonial/commencement recognition at Heritage College on the Yakima Indian Reservation, Chang Gung University in Taiwan, Anhui University in China, and James Cook University in Australia. She has designed and implemented corporate safety, human resource, construction, and efficiency projects using best-in-class quality standards. Dr. Jacobs has presented at the Institute of Medicine, the American Statistical Association, EUWHO for medical students at the World Health Organization, and for wide variety of management meetings associated with health, engineering, and culture. She served as expert panel member for reports to shape policy for the Secretary of Health and Human Services, the Social Security Administration, and National Academy of Science. She chaired NIH study sections and consulted on the design and launch of process engineering and for imaging facilities. She has mentored students and fellows in many fields in places as representative as Wyoming, Texas, England, China, and Japan. Dr. Jacobs is long time member of organizations such as the Society for the Advancement of Chicanos and Native Americans in to Science, work groups such as the International Group on Indigenous Health Measurement, and served on Boards ranging from Environmental Health and Safety to Reading is Fundamental.

Dr. Jacobs has been involved with social entrepreneurship throughout her career. Her current scholarship and teaching on non-profit governance incorporates the entire scope of a diverse and unique experience. Since her sabbatical at Oxford University, this body of work reflects deeper understanding of the British Charity Model that shaped the foundation used for US and International aid. She has pursed areas where harmony across non9

profit, public, and commercial sectors contribute to improving the human condition. In addition, her research is informed by political theory, Jesuit Catholic values, and the Honda philosophy and focuses on the non-profit sector as a primary vehicle for the common good.

Education University of Texas – PhD, Public Health California State University – MS, Public Health California State University – BS, Nursing Expertise/Interests Organizational Leadership and Governance, Non-profit, Non-Governmental and For-Profit Models, Health Equity, Racial Justice, Policy and Programs as Instruments for the Common Good Hours of Availability Meetings available by appointment.

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SO-YEON KANG, PHD

Assistant Professor sk2327@georgetown.edu

Dr. So-Yeon Kang is an Assistant Professor of Health Management and Policy in Georgetown University School of Health and is a full research member of the Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center- Cancer Prevention and Control. Kang holds a PhD in Health Service Research and Policy from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Health, an MBA from the Johns Hopkins Carey Business School, and an undergraduate degree from Korea University.

Her research agenda centers around the intersection of healthcare payment policy, healthcare innovations, and business management. Currently, her work focuses on three main areas: prescription drug pricing policy, drug access and affordability, and the diffusion of innovations in the context of value-based payment reform. Kang’s research has been published in peer-reviewed journals, such as JAMA, JAMA Health Forum, and Health Affairs, and has been featured in media outlets including Forbes and Reuters. Prior to coming to academia, Kang gained experience in the pharmaceutical industry, having held positions in pricing, commercial strategy, and health technology assessment at Eli Lilly and Novartis Oncology.

Education Johns Hopkins University – PhD, Health Service Research and Policy Johns Hopkins University – MBA Johns Hopkins University – MPH Korea University – BA Expertise/Interests Expertise: Health Services Research; Econometric Analysis of Large Databases (e.g., insurance claims data, survey, administrative data, etc.); Cost Analysis, Economic Evaluation; Comparative Policy Research; Macroorganizational Change Theories Interests: Health Care Payment and Coverage Policy; Prescription Drug Pricing Policy, Access, and Affordability; Precision Medicine; Value-based Payment Models; Care Delivery Innovations

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DAE HYUN (DANIEL) KIM, PHD Assistant Professor dk1146@georgetown.edu Dae Hyun (Daniel) Kim is an Assistant Professor of Health Management and Policy at Georgetown University's School of Health.

His research portfolio mainly centers around healthcare quality improvement. With a focus on health literacy, care delivery innovation, and health leadership and education, his work aims to bridge gaps within the context of healthcare organizations. Dr. Kim's research has been published in the Journal of Healthcare Management, JAMIA, and Annals of Surgery.

He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Alabama at Birmingham and a B.A. from the University of Michigan.

Education University of Alabama at Birmingham – PhD, Health Services Administration University of Michigan – BA, Psychology Expertise/Interests Competency-Based Education, Health Disparities, Health Literacy, Quality Improvement, Well-Being and Resilience, Mixed Methods, Qualitative Data Analysis, Quantitative Analysis

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CHRISTOPHER J. KING, PHD, MHSC, FACHE

Dean of the School of Health Associate Professor ck806@georgetown.edu As inaugural Dean of the Georgetown University School of Health, Dr. Christopher J. King works collaboratively with internal and external stakeholders to establish a world-class academic destination for advancing health and well-being.

He is also responsible for academic and operational leadership of the school, which currently consists of three Departments - Human Science, Global Health, and Health Management and Policy - representing more than 400 students and 78 fulltime and part-time faculty. The school also has a growing graduate education portfolio currently composed of seven degree offerings.

Prior to his role as Dean, he served as chair of the Department of Health Management & Policy, where he provided visionary leadership and oversight of undergraduate degree in Health Care Management and Policy and a nationally accredited master's degree in Health Management & Policy. As an associate professor, he teaches and contributes to scholarship on the creation of equitable systems of care within the context of national health reform goals. He works closely with public and private providers to bridge the gap between medical care and public health.

Prior to joining Georgetown University, Christopher served as the first Assistant Vice President of Community Health for MedStar Health, a $6B not-for-profit healthcare system comprising 10 hospitals in the Baltimore/Washington region. Accomplishments included planning, launching and managing a new corporate function designed to apply more rigor and evidence in community- based planning, implementation and evaluation. He was also responsible for developing, testing and evaluating innovative approaches to integrate social factors in systems of care.

Prior to his work with MedStar Health, Christopher served as a director for Greater Baden Medical Services, Inc., a Federally Qualified Health Center in southern Maryland. During his four-year tenure, he managed federal grants, oversaw support services and secured more than $7M in public and private grants to promote health equity and improve the health of vulnerable and underserved populations. Through volunteer work, he has spearheaded regional efforts to heighten awareness of how racism, discrimination and implicit bias influence individual and population health.

Christopher is an active member of the American College of Healthcare Executives and has been a contributor to Healthcare Executive magazine. He has conducted health disparity and health equity presentations to 13

national audiences. As a former senior fellow of the Health Research & Educational Trust (HRET), Christopher represents an esteemed group of national thought leaders dedicated to transforming health care through research and education. His national investigations on screening and barriers to care among cancer survivors by race and ethnicity were published in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine and the American Journal of Medical Quality. His thought leadership around Black Lives and the Triple Aim has been published in the Journal of the National Medical Association.

Christopher is a Fellow of the American College of Healthcare Executives and former executive officer of the DC Hospital Association Board of Directors. He has also been an advisor for the DC Department of Health State Innovation Model, Adventist HealthCare's Center for Health Equity and Wellness and the Maryland Governor’s Wellmobile Program. In 2019, he was appointed a Commissioner for the District of Columbia Commission on Health Equity. In 2020, he authored Health Disparities in the Black Community: An Imperative for Racial Equity and most recently, his work on Race, Place and Structural Racism in the District of Columbia was published in Health Affairs – the nation’s leading peer-reviewed journal on health, healthcare and policy. As a recipient of the Vincent C. Gray Health Equity Award (2025), Christopher’s leadership has helped hospitals in the nation’s capital improve services so no population is left behind. The Washington Business Journal has recognized him as one of the region’s top minority business leaders.

Education University of Maryland – PhD, Health Services Administration Towson University – MHSc, Master of Health Science East Carolina University – BS, School and Community Health Expertise/Interests Health Disparities, Public Health, Racial Equity, Social Determinants of Health, Health Equity, Racial Equity, Systemic Racism and Health Outcomes Hours of Availability Meetings available by appointment. Please contact Dr. King’s acting executive assistant, Bryson Daniels – Stevens, (bryson.daniels@georgetown.edu)

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JOHN KRAEMER, JD, MPH

HCMP Program Director Associate Professor jdk32@georgetown.edu Professor John Kraemer is an associate professor in Georgetown University's Department of Health Management & Policy, and he is also affiliated with the university's O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law and African Studies Program. Trained in both public health and the law, his work focuses on the intersection of empirical evidence and public health policy. Substantively, he mainly studies women and children’s health in rural populations in sub-Saharan Africa and road safety for vulnerable road users. Methodologically, most of his work analyzes complex sample survey data.

His current and past projects include work with the Pink Ribbon Red Ribbon initiative against women's cancers, the United Nations Special Envoy for Malaria, and Last Mile Health. At Georgetown, John teaches undergraduate epidemiology and graduate quantitative methods. He also teaches a course on the intersection of democracy, rights, and health and a seminar on the 2014-2015 West African Ebola epidemic.

Education Georgetown University – JD, Law/Public Health Johns Hopkins University – MPH, Public Health Baker University – BA, Political Science Expertise/Interests Epidemiology, Global Health, Health Law, International Health, Survey Research Hours of Availability Meetings available by appointment.

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REGINA LABELLA, JD Professor regina.labelle@georgetown.edu Professor Regina LaBelle is a distinguished scholar and director of the Center on Addiction Policy at the O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law at Georgetown University Law Center. She is also a member of the faculty at Georgetown University’s School of Health, where she directs the Master of Science in Addiction Policy and Practice program, a program she founded in 2021.

Regina has a history of public service, including in the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) under the Biden and Obama administrations. At ONDCP, Regina was appointed Acting Director in the first year of the Biden Administration. Under President Obama, Regina served as Chief of Staff at ONDCP where she managed the agency's response to the overdose epidemic and the implementation of the National Drug Control Strategy. Prior to her federal service, Regina was appointed Legal Counsel to the mayor of Seattle, a position she held for 8 years.

Regina’s work has been published in the Journal of Opioid Management; Journal of Correctional Health Care/ Criminal Justice Review, and The Journal of Addiction Medicine. She has testified before both Senate and House Committees in the US Congress and is widely quoted in major media outlets, including The New York Times and The Washington Post. Regina has also appeared on CNN, MSNBC, the BBC, and CBS. Regina earned her J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center and B.A. magna cum laude from Boston College. She serves on the National Advisory Council on Drug Abuse at the National Institutes of Health and previously served on the International Ethics Board for the World Anti-Doping Agency.

Education Georgetown University – JD Boston College – BA Expertise/Interests Alcohol and other drug use disorder policy; The Americans with Disabilities Act and substance use disorder; opioid litigation spending and governance practices; substance use disorder care for justice-involved populations; drug trafficking Hours of Availability Meetings available by appointment.

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MICHAEL STOTO, PHD Professor Emeritus stotom@georgetown.edu Dr. Michael A. Stoto is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Health Management and Policy, School of Health, Georgetown University. He is also an adjunct professor of biostatistics at the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health and a Professorial Lecturer in Biostatistics and Bioinformatics at The George Washington University. A statistician, epidemiologist, and health services researcher, Dr. Stoto’s methodological interest includes systematic reviews and meta-analysis, community health assessment, evaluation methods, and performance measurement. His substantive research focuses on public health systems, especially with regard to emergency preparedness, infectious disease policy, and drug and vaccine safety.

Much of Dr. Stoto’s recent work has focused on public health emergency preparedness, especially the evaluation of biosurveillance methods and systems, the development of methods for assessing emergency preparedness capabilities based on exercises and actual events, and the effectiveness of public health systems. He was the coPrincipal Investigator of the CDC-funded Preparedness and Emergency Response Research Center based at the Harvard School of Public Health, and currently serves as Co-chair of the Public Health Extreme Events Research Network (PHEER) Steering Committee. Dr. Stoto is also the lead associate editor for Globalization and Health’s special collection on cross-border infectious disease threats.

During the COVID-19 pandemic, Dr. Stoto’s research has focused on surveillance and data systems to guide decision-making, interpretation of test results and policy for testing, and other aspects of public health policy and practice from the local to global level. He is working with the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) and Alma Mater Studiorum -Università di Bologna on the assessment of public health emergency capabilities and capacities during the COVID-19 pandemic and the implications monitoring and evaluation methodology for public health emergency preparedness.

Education Harvard University – PhD, Statistics Princeton University – AB, Statistics Expertise/Interests Epidemiology, Biostatistics, Health Systems Research, Public Health Policy

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RYUNG SUH, MD Associate Professor Emeritus suhr@georgetown.edu Dr. Ryung Suh brings three decades of executive management and organizational leadership experience and expertise and has been teaching at Georgetown since 2003, serving as Chair of the Department of Health Management & Policy from 2014-2019.

He serves as the Chief of Staff, Veterans Health Administration, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs and directs an incubator lab and social impact investment fund. He previously built and exited a middle- market health management consultancy that led major transformation efforts for federal health agencies, directed public and private sector enterprise-level modernization and organizational change initiatives, managed a commercial consulting practice serving the life sciences industry, and launched over a dozen successful businesses that have served government and private industry clients.

He is the President of the American College of Preventive Medicine and has previously served as President of the American Association of Public Health Physicians, on the Board of Governors of the American Journal of Preventive Medicine, on a National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine Committee, and in other leadership roles within organized medicine. He has served as a Senior Fellow with NORC at the University of Chicago, on the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights State Advisory Committee, and as a Term Member on the Council on Foreign Relations. Dr. Suh also served as an infantry and medical corps officer for 26 years with a diverse set of operational, special operations, and military health system responsibilities. He is a combat veteran who has deployed to multiple overseas locations to include service as a Task Force Surgeon during Operation Enduring Freedom, where he was awarded the Bronze Star Medal. His military qualifications include airborne, ranger, jumpmaster, and flight surgeon.

Education Georgetown University – MD Georgetown University – MBA Georgetown University – MPP Uniformed Services University – MPH United States Military Academy – BS, Chemistry Expertise/Interests Business Innovations and Entrepreneurship, Health Care Management and Policy, Organizational Transformation, Population and Public Health, Occupational Medicine

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DEBRA WINBERG, PHD Assistant Professor dw1051@georgetown.edu Dr. Debra Winberg is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Health Management & Policy at Georgetown University’s School of Health. Her research examines how digital health and policy interventions shape health system outcomes, particularly in chronic disease care and equity-focused innovation. Her most recent work focuses on the impact of remote patient monitoring on people living with diabetes and hypertension. Her current projects explore the role of artificial intelligence in healthcare operations and research and the utilization of health innovations to combat multi-morbidities. Dr. Winberg’s research has been published in Health Affairs Scholar, BMJ Open, and Value in Health.

Prior to her academic appointment, Dr. Winberg held roles across the pharmaceutical and health policy sectors, with organizations including Pfizer, Merck, Jannsen, and global health startups. Her work bridges academia, industry, and think tanks, drawing on experience in real-world evidence, data analytics, and cross-sector strategy development. Dr. Winberg aims to work with multi-sectoral partners to create tangible impact from her research. She holds a Ph.D. in Health Policy and Management from Tulane University, an MSc in International Health Policy from the London School of Economics, an MA in Bioethics, and a BA in English Literature from Case Western Reserve University.

Education Tulane University – PhD, Health Policy and Management London School of Economics – MSc, International Health Policy Case Western Reserve University – MA, Bioethics Case Western Reserve University – BA, English Literature Expertise/Interests Digital Health, Pharmaceutical and Biotechnology, Healthcare Policy Analysis, Econometrics Hours of Availability Meetings available by appointment.

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ADJUNCT DEPARTMENT FACULTY

John Boerstler – Department of Veteran Affairs Deborah Braidic – Children’s Hospital Los Angeles Sonia Canzater – O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law Saad Chaudhry – Luminis Health Wilson Compton – NIDA Beth Connolly – Winning Strategies Washington Emily Einstein – American Society of Addiction Medicine Taleed El-Sabawi - Wayne State University Ed Gwozda – LeanOps PLUS Sara Hejazi – Tandigm Health Bernard Horak – MITRE Fred Hyde – Fred Hyde & Associates Christopher Jones - SAMHSA Susan Kim – Georgetown University Amanda Latimore - On the Shoulders of Giants Consulting, LLC Andrew Mulcahy – RAND Corporation Jason Ormsby – Guidehouse Sonal Parasrampuria – U.S. Department of Health & Human Services Brandon del Pozo – Brown University Adi Radhakrishnan – O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law Sheela Ranganathan – O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law Maureen Schafer – George Mason University Kaajal Singh – Guidehouse Angela Thomas – MedStar Health Research Institute 20

Shelly Weizman - O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law Shannon Wu – American Hospital Association, Haipeng Zhang – Department of Veterans Affairs Mimi Zhang – Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center Last Updated: January 2026

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