Executive Committee
Carolyn Heinrich
Sid Richardson Professor of Public Affairs; Director of the Center for Health and Social Policy
Contact Info:
Phone: 512-471-3779
Email: cheinrich@austin.utexas.edu.
Office: SRH 3.244
Carolyn Heinrich (Ph.D., University of Chicago) is the Sid Richardson Professor of Public Affairs and affiliated Professor of Economics and the Director of the Center for Health and Social Policy at the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs, University of Texas at Austin.
Prior to her appointment on July 1, 2011, she was the Director of the La Follette School of Public Affairs at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Heinrich?s research focuses on social welfare policy, labor force development, public management and econometric methods for program evaluation. She works directly in her research with governments at all levels, including with the federal government on evaluations of workforce development programs, with states on their social welfare and child support programs, and school districts in the evaluation of supplemental educational services and other educational interventions.
She also collaborates with nongovernmental organizations such as the World Bank, Inter-American Development Bank, UNICEF and others in research to improve program and policy design and the impacts and effectiveness of economic and social investments in middle-income and developing countries. Other ongoing projects involve the study of labor market intermediaries and labor market outcomes for low-skilled and disadvantaged workers, performance management and contracting, health-care reform provisions and policy factors that support effective provision of substance abuse treatment services, and conditional cash transfers and related poverty-reduction interventions.
She is the President and a founding board member of the Public Management Research Association and served as the editor of the Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory from January 2005 through December 2008. She also served on the Policy Council of the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management from 2004-2007 and as its chair of the Board of Institutional Representatives through spring 2011. In 2004, Heinrich received the David N. Kershaw Award for distinguished contributions to the field of public policy analysis and management by a person under age 40, and in 2010, she and was elected to the National Academy of Public Administration. She has published more than 50 peer-reviewed books and journal articles.
Jacqueline L. Angel
Professor of Public Affairs and Sociology
Contact Info:
Phone: 512-471-2956
Email: jangel@mail.utexas.edu
Office: SRH 3.239
Jacqueline L. Angel, (Ph.D., Rutgers 1989) is currently a Professor of Public Affairs and Sociology and a Faculty Affiliate at the Population Research Center and LBJ School Center for Health and Social Policy at The University of Texas at Austin. Prior to joining the U.T. Faculty, she did her post-doctoral training at Rutgers in mental health services research and the Pennsylvania State University Program in Demography of Aging. Her research addresses the relationships linking family structures, inequality, and health across the life course, including a special focus on older Hispanics. She is particularly interested in evaluating the impact of social policies on the health and well-being of aging immigrants.
Dr. Angel is the Principal Investigator on a National Institute of Minority Health and Health Disparities (MD) R01 study examining the risk of long-term care in older Mexican American families and since its inception, a Co-Investigator on the Hispanic Established Populations for the Epidemiologic Studies of the Elderly (H-EPESE). In addition, she is Co-Organizer of the NIA-funded (R-13) grant for the Conference Series on Aging in the Americas: Mexico and the United States.
She has published numerous peer-reviewed scientific articles, chapters, and essays related to her research on minority health and aging. Some of her recent books include: Handbook of the Sociology of Aging with Rick Settersten; Hispanic Families at Risk: The New Economy, Work, and the Welfare State co-authored with Ronald Angel;and The Health of Aging Hispanics: The Mexican-Origin Population, co-edited with Keith Whitfield. Dr. Angel is a Fellow of the Behavioral and Social Sciences section of the Gerontological Society of America (GSA) and a Senior Fellow at the Sealy Center on Aging, UTMB School of Medicine. In 2010, she received the GSA Senior Service Scholar Award for her research on health care disparities in older adults.
She also serves as an advisor to professional committees, non-governmental organizations and other agencies that provide basic services to the elderly. Dr. Angel currently serves on the Editorial Board of The Gerontologist, and is past Associate Editor of the Journal of Gerontology: Social Sciences and member of the Journal of Health and Social Behavior Editorial Board. The International Association for Gerontology and Geriatrics (IAGG) recently selected her to be Treasurer for the World Congress meeting in San Francisco, California in 2017. Previously she served on the U.S. Public Health Service, National Institutes of Health NIA Behavior and Social Science of Aging Review Committee, which she also chaired for two years, Chaired the American Sociological Association (ASA) Section on Aging and the Life Course, and Co-Organized the 2005 Conference Series on Aging in the Americas (CAA). Additionally, she sat on the Board President of Family Eldercare, Inc. and was elected to the President's Council in 2003.
At the LBJ School, Professor Angel teaches courses on policy development with respect to health care, population diversity with a special emphasis on Hispanic families, and inequality in an aging society.
Benedicte Callan
Sid Richardson Fellow focusing on health policy and innovation and as a research affiliate of the Center for Health and Social Policy (CHASP)
Contact Info:
Email: benedicte.callan@austin.utexas.edu
Office: SRH 3.237
Benedicte Callan joined the LBJ of Public Affairs research team as a Sid Richardson Fellow for innovation and health policy and as a research affiliate of the Center for Health and Social Policy (CHASP) in the fall of 2009.
Previously, Callan worked for 12 years at the Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) where she served in a number of capacities, most recently as Head of the Biotechnology Unit which focuses on the development and diffusion of innovative biotechnologies in a broad range of industrial sectors. She has also been Principal Administrator for Health, Executive Assistant to the Deputy Secretary General charged with overseeing OECD work on development and the environment, and an Administrator for science and technology policy. At the OECD, Callan gained practical experience in building international consensus on good policy practice in a broad range of science, innovation and economic policy issues.
Callan’s most recent publications focus on health and innovation policy in OECD countries and on challenges to meeting global health goals. Over 2009-2010, she will work on a project about policies, which support knowledge networks and markets for biomedical data. Prior to the OECD, Callan was a Fellow for Political Economy at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York. Callan received her PhD from the University of California-Berkley in Political Science in 1995 and her BA from Yale University in Biology and East Asian Studies.
The Center for Health and Social Policy (CHASP) at the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs, The University of Texas at Austin, addresses health and social policy concerns by conducting policy research, educating students and practitioners to become future leaders, and providing a forum for debate and dialogue among today’s foremost policymakers and scholars about critical health and social policy issues.
Angela Evans
Clinical Professor in Public Policy Practice
Contact Info:
Phone: 512-471-9883
Email: amgevans@gmail.com
Office: 3.254
Angela Evans joined the LBJ School of Public Affairs as clinical professor of the practice of public policy after serving 30 years in public service to the U.S. Congress. The last 13 of these years she served was as the Deputy Director of the Congressional Research Service—the Legislative Branch agency created by the U.S. Congress to serve as its primary source for policy research and analysis.
During her long career she worked with Members of Congress and their staffs on all major legislative deliberations, assisting them as they confronted some of the most critical and complex policy problems facing the nation.
As Deputy Director she led major organizational changes that not only enhanced the research capacity of the Service but also improved the effectiveness of critical operations. Among her achievements was the creation of a unique management position to lead the research and analysis of policy experts; the creation of a methodology by which the Service created and implemented an integrated, agency-wide research agenda directly aligned with the legislative deliberations of the Congress; and the development of performance standards to evaluate the success of the Service’s work in assisting policy making needs of the Congress.
In addition to her research responsibilities, she had responsibility for all infrastructure and support operations including: human resources; information resources; finance and budgeting; and technical systems. Among her accomplishments, she led the development of the first federally funded succession plan to address the potential retirement of a large cohort of the workforce; led several reorganizations, including the first reorganization of the Service since its inception in 1970; led the development of the first Web site for the agency and its major reconstruction; developed innovative programs to enhance the research capacity of the Service by partnering with graduate schools of public policy and public affairs; and led numerous initiatives to improve the research support available to researchers while under severe fiscal constraints.
Professor Evans also taught public policy and management as an adjunct professor at the University of Maryland.
Jane Arnold Lincove
Assistant Professor of Public Affairs
Contact Info:
Phone: 512-232-2561
Email: lincove@mail.utexas.edu
Office: SRH 3.240
Jane Arnold Lincove holds a Ph.D. in public administration from the University of Southern California and a Master's in public policy from the University of California at Los Angeles. Her research focuses on education policy and economics of education in the U.S. and in developing countries. Her research has been published in Public Administration and Development, Journal of Developing Areas, and Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis.
Prior to joining to the LBJ School, Dr. Lincove served as a policy consultant for the Child Care Alliance of Los Angeles, as an evaluator for several southern California public school districts, and as Development Coordinator for Para Los Niños, a non-profit children's agency serving the Skid Row area of Los Angeles. Lincove is a 2010-2012 Spencer Foundation/National Academy of Education Postdoctoral Fellow and a co-director for the Project on Educator Effectiveness and Quality (PEEQ), an initiative of the Center for Health and Social Policy.
Cynthia Osborne
Associate Professor of Public Affairs
Contact Info:
Phone: 512-471-9808
Email: cosborne@prc.utexas.edu
Office: SRH 3.241
Cynthia Osborne joined The University of Texas at Austin in 2005 as an Assistant Professor at the LBJ School and as an affiliate of the UT Austin Population Research Center. Her teaching and research interests are in the areas of social policy, poverty and inequality, family and child well-being, family demography, and school entry among disadvantaged children.
Prior to joining the LBJ School faculty, Osborne was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Center for Research on Child Wellbeing at Princeton University, where she worked on the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Survey of New Parents. She holds a Ph.D. in demography and public affairs from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University, a master's in public policy from Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, and a master of arts in education from Claremont Graduate University. Previously, Osborne was a middle school teacher in a low-income community in California.
Paul von Hippel
Assistant Professor of Public Affairs
Contact Info:
Phone: (512) 232-3650
Paul von Hippel joined the LBJ School faculty in 2010. He is a statistician and sociologist whose interests include education, obesity, banking, and fraud. Before starting at the LBJ School, he worked as a Postdoctoral Fellow and Research Statistician at Ohio State University, and he developed fraud detection models for major U.S. banks including Chase and the Bank of America. He holds degrees from Yale, Stanford, and Ohio State University, and is a three-time winner of best-article awards from the education and methodology sections of the American Sociological Association.
David C. Warner
Professor of Public Affairs and Wilbur J. Cohen Professor in Health and Social Policy
Contact Info:
Phone: 512-471-6277
Office: SRH 3.242
David Warner’s major research and teaching interests are in health finance, health policy and economics. A graduate of Princeton University and a Syracuse University [M(I)PA and Phd. In economics], he formerly taught at Wayne State University and Yale University and was Deputy Director of the Office of Program Analysis at the New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation. In addition to his courses in Health Care Finance and State Health Policy he has directed a number of student Policy Research Projects on issues ranging from the Health of Mexican Americans in South Texas, Diabetes Policy in Texas [which led indirectly to the creation of the Texas Diabetes Council], Cross Border Health Insurance, the Portability of Medicare to Mexico, Options for Expanding Health Insurance Coverage in Texas and Mental Health Policy. In recent years he has developed several additional courses including Immigrant and Border Health, Issues in Nonprofits and Health, and a Plan 2 Class on "Warren Buffett and Bill Gates: How they Got Rich and How They Will Give Their Money Away."
Professor Warner has served as a consultant to a number of organizations in the health sector, and for six years served on the board of Brackenridge Hospital in Austin and was chairman of the Texas Diabetes Council from January 1985-December 1989. He has served as a consultant to the NIH, to NIOSH, and several foundations. He was on a committee on the U.S.-Mexico border convened by the Academy of Medicine and the Mexican Academies of Medicine, and has served on a number of state and local advisory boards. He has also been a consultant to UNCTAD, the OECD, and the WHO in recent years primarily in the area of trade in health services and in particular movement of people across borders to receive health services.
At the University of Texas and the LBJ School he has served as Acting Director of the Center for Health and Social Policy, on the board of the UT Coop, on the advisory board of the Hogg Foundation, as Chair of the Student Health Center Advisory Board, and on many committees and study groups.
Professor Warner’s publications, in addition to more than 20 published Policy Research Projects, many of which have had lasting impact, includes an edited volume Toward New Human Rights and several monographs. These include a study of the Cost of Diabetes in Texas for the Texas Diabetes Council and a three volume study of the Cost of Cancer in Texas which was subsequently used in developing the rationale for the Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas in 2007. In addition he has authored 65 articles and book chapters. He is currently working on issues related to the implementation of the Affordable Care Act and on issues relating to the interrelationship and integration of health services in the U.S. and Mexico as well as topics relating generally to trade in health services.
Pat Wong
Associate Professor of Public Affairs
Contact Info:
Phone: 512-471-8962
Email: patwong@mail.utexas.edu
Office: SRH 3.243
Pat Wong holds a Ph.D. in social welfare from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. His primary areas of interest are social policy, family and child welfare, poverty issues, housing, and community development. Publications and government reports by Wong are in the areas of child support and welfare reform, Medicaid managed care, and coordination of social services. He currently cochairs a planning process dealing with homelessness at the City of Austin. He also serves as a board member on Texans Care for Children.
Formerly, Wong was the Assistant to the Director for Research and Planning of Oi Kwan Social Service in Hong Kong. In that capacity he was in charge of evaluation, planning, and staff development. Before that, he worked as a social worker for Yang Memorial Social Service and as a Resettlement Counselor for the International Institute in St. Louis.
Michele Deitch
Senior Lecturer
Contact Info:
512-328-8330
Email: mydeitch@aol.com
Office: SRH 3.258
Michele Deitch is an attorney with over 26 years of experience working on criminal justice policy issues with state and local government officials, corrections officials, judges, and advocates. She holds a joint appointment as a Senior Lecturer at the LBJ School and at the Law School, where she teaches graduate courses in criminal justice policy, juvenile justice policy, and the school-to-prison pipeline. Deitch was awarded a 2005-06 Soros Senior Justice Fellowship by the Open Society Institute of the Soros Foundation, one of the most prestigious prizes for individuals working on criminal justice policy reform. Her areas of specialty include independent oversight of correctional institutions, institutional reform litigation, prison conditions and management, prison and jail overcrowding, prison privatization, juvenile justice reform, and juveniles in the adult criminal justice system. She holds a J.D. with honors from Harvard Law School, an M.Sc. in psychology (with a specialization in criminology) from Oxford University (Balliol College), and a B.A. with honors from Amherst College.
Most of Prof. Deitch’s current research focuses on two issues: independent prison oversight, and the management of juvenile offenders. Her work on both subjects has been recognized nationally. The author of numerous articles about correctional oversight—including a 50-state inventory of prison oversight models—she helped coordinate and edit a landmark publication of the Pace Law Review in 2010 called a “Sourcebook on Prison Oversight.” She was invited to provide lead testimony on the prison oversight issue before the National Prison Rape Elimination Commission and the Commission on Safety and Abuse in America’s Prisons, and she organized a major international conference entitled "Opening Up a Closed World: What Constitutes Effective Prison Oversight?," (PDF) held at the LBJ School in April 2006. The Texas Legislature also honored her with a resolution for her research and work on this topic. She currently co-chairs (with Prof. Michael Mushlin from Pace Law School) the American Bar Association’s committee on independent correctional oversight. Previously, she served as Reporter (draftsperson) to the American Bar Association Task Force that wrote recently adopted national standards on the treatment of prisoners.
On the juvenile justice front, Prof. Deitch has combined both practical involvement in juvenile justice reform efforts and academic research. She served on the Blue Ribbon Task Force on the Texas Youth Commission, a panel appointed to recommend changes to the Texas juvenile justice system in the wake of high-profile scandals involving the statewide juvenile corrections agency. She also conducted extensive research on the issue of young children in the adult criminal justice system. Her book-length report, “From Time Out to Hard Time: Young Children in the Adult Criminal Justice System” (PDF, LBJ School, 2009), was endorsed in a lead editorial of the New York Times and received extensive national publicity. Her recent report, “Juveniles in the Adult Criminal Justice System in Texas” (LBJ School, 2011), led to legislative interest in this topic in Texas and the passage of two bills designed to address concerns about this issue. Through her courses, Deitch also supervises students conducting high-level research projects on behalf of juvenile justice system stakeholders in Texas. For her work on these issues, in 2010 Deitch was named “Juvenile Justice Advocate of the Year” by the Texas Criminal Justice Coalition. Her work with students to address community needs was similarly recognized by the University when she was given UT’s Tower Award for Outstanding Service Learning Professor in 2011.
Prior to entering academia, Deitch held some key positions with the Texas Legislature, including serving as General Counsel to the Texas Senate Criminal Justice Committee and as the Policy Director of the Texas Punishment Standards Commission. Working in those posts, she was involved with virtually every major criminal justice policy initiative considered by state officials in Texas in the early 1990s. She also served as a full-time monitor of conditions in the Texas prison system, appointed by Federal District Judge William Wayne Justice as part of the well-known Ruiz prison reform lawsuit. For more than 18 years, Deitch has also served as an independent consultant to state and local policy-makers and agency officials around the country on a wide range of corrections and sentencing issues.
Prof. Deitch regularly lectures on criminal justice subjects both nationally and internationally, provides invited legislative testimony, and has organized academic conferences. She is a frequent commentator in both the national and local media, has published numerous Op-Eds, and has been interviewed by journalist Dan Rather. She has also served on several boards, including serving as a member of the Amherst College Board of Trustees and the inaugural board of the Barbara Jordan Freedom Foundation.
Staff:
Esmeralda García Galván
Senior Program Coordinator
Phone: 512-232-1286
E-mail: esmegarcia@mail.utexas.edu
Office: SRH 3.246A
Esmeralda García Galván joined the Center for Health and Social Policy in November 2011. Prior to joining CHASP, Esmeralda had served as the Senior Grants and Contracts Specialist for the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs since January 2009. Her functions in support of faculty and staff included researching and disseminating funding opportunities from public and private sources; providing pre-award support services such as editing and drafting proposal templates and budgets; and facilitating the university submission and post-award process. Esmeralda also provided grant-related professional development to faculty and staff; collected, reported and maintained data on grants/contracts activity; and addressed university compliance issues related to grants and contracts.
Her professional career includes fifteen years of service in local government and public higher education, specializing in grant management and fundraising. She served as an environmental resources coordinator for the Lower Rio Grande Valley Development Council and an economic development specialist for Cameron County. García Galván worked six and half years at the University of Texas at Brownsville and Texas Southmost College, beginning as a grant writer and culminating as an assistant director of development.
García Galván holds a Ph.D. in educational administration from the University of Texas at Austin, a master's degree in public affairs from the LBJ School, and a bachelor's degree in political science from Texas A & M University. While pursuing her graduate education, Esmeralda served as the Bryna and Henry David Fellow/Graduate Research Assistant for the Ray Marshall Center for the Study of Human Resources and later as a full-time grant writer at Austin Community College.
Julie Montgomery
Senior Program Coordinator
Phone: 512-232-3423E-mail: juliamontgomery@utexas.edu
Office: SRH 3.246B
Julie Montgomery joined the Center for Health and Social Policy in November 2011. She is an alumna of the LBJ School (M.P.Aff., 2009) and has worked in a variety of social, economic, and health policy areas. Prior to joining CHASP, she worked at the Texas Legislature's House Research Organization (HRO) on the analysis of public pension and economic development legislation, at the Dallas Independent School District on education policy and performance management, at the Center for Public Policy Priorities (CPPP) on economic opportunity issues, at the St. David's Foundation on community health strategic planning, and at the LBJ School as a GRA to Dr. Cynthia Osborne on family stability. Before entering public policy, Julie was in electrical engineering, working in mission operations at NASA, Java programming at Schlumberger, and web development at IBM.
