Executive Committee
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 3.357
David C. Warner's major teaching and research interests are in economics, health policy, and health finance. A graduate of Princeton University and Syracuse University (Ph.D. in economics), he formerly taught at Wayne State University and Yale University and was Deputy Director of the Office of Program Analysis of the New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation.
Professor Warner has served as a consultant to a number of organizations in the health sector, and for six years was a member of the Board of Directors of Austin's Brackenridge Municipal Hospital. In addition, he was Chairman of the Texas Diabetes Council from January 1985 to December 1989. He has also served on several editorial and advisory boards and been appointed to other state level advisory committees.
At the LBJ School, Professor Warner has directed policy research projects on a variety of health and mental health topics. Among his publications are Toward New Human Rights, more than forty articles and book chapters, and sixteen books, monographs, and policy research project reports. He is currently working on projects related to improving health insurance coverage, the integration of the U.S. and Mexican health care systems, diabetes policy, public health funding, and U.S.-Mexico border health.
Jacqueline L. Angel
Professor of Public Affairs and Sociology
Contact Info:
Phone: 512-471-2956
Email: jangel@mail.utexas.edu
Office: BUR 460
Jacqueline L. Angel is Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin. She received her PhD from Rutgers University in 1989 and post-doctoral training at Rutgers in mental health services research and the Pennsylvania State University Program in Demography of Aging. Her research focuses on issues at the intersection of family, health, and aging. She is particularly interested in evaluating the impact of policies on the health and well-being of Latinos, immigrants, and other vulnerable groups, and how cultural heterogeneity among the elderly affects the design of programs for the cost-effective delivery of health services.
Dr. Angel is a Co-Investigator on an NIH/National Institute on Aging funded benchmark study of the longitudinal health of older Mexican Americans in the Southwestern United States. Since the inception of the project, she has assessed the impact of nativity and the migration process on health outcomes, and examined their implications for family living arrangements and long term care policy.
She is currently developing a research agenda that focuses on the role of civil society and non-governmental organizations on the care of low-income elderly in the United States and Latin America.
Dr. Angel has published extensively in the sociology of aging and how it is affected by the life course and social policy, including numerous articles, chapters, and books. Her most recent books are Hispanic Families at Risk: The New Economy, Work, and the Welfare State co-authored with Ronald Angel (Springer, 2009); Inheritance in Contemporary America: Social Dimensions of Giving Across Generations (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008); and The Health of Aging Hispanics: The Mexican-Origin Population, co-edited with Keith Whitfield (Springer Publishing, 2007).
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, she 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.
In 2000, she was awarded Fellowship Status by The Gerontological Society of America.
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
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: 3.352
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.
Jeanne M. Lambrew
Associate Professor of Public Affairs (On Leave); Director of the Health and Human Services Office of Health Reform
Contact Info:
Phone: 512-471-3270
Email: jlambrew@mail.utexas.edu
Office: SRH 3.216
Jeanne M. Lambrew joined the LBJ School faculty in the summer of 2007 as associate professor of public affairs. She specializes in health care and policy and conducts research on the uninsured, Medicaid, Medicare, and long-term care. Dr. Lambrew is also a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress. Currently, Lambrew is serving as Director of the Health and Human Services Office of Health Reform.
Previously, Dr. Lambrew was an associate professor at the Department of Health Policy at The George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services. From 1997 to 2001, Dr. Lambrew worked on health policy at the White House as the program associate director for health at the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) and as the senior health analyst at the National Economic Council. In these roles, she helped coordinate health policy development, evaluated legislative proposals, and conducted and managed analyses and cost estimates with OMB, the Department of Health and Human Services, the Treasury Department, the Labor Department and other relevant agencies. She was the White House lead on drafting and implementing the Children's Health Insurance Program and helped develop the president's Medicare reform plan, initiative on long-term care, and other health care proposals. She also worked at the Department of Health and Human Services during the 1993-1994 health reform efforts, and coordinated analyses of budget proposals in 1995. Prior to serving at the White House, Dr. Lambrew was an assistant professor of public policy at Georgetown University (1996).
Dr. Lambrew received her master’s degree and Ph.D. from the Department of Health Policy, School of Public Health at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and bachelor's degree from Amherst College.
Jane Arnold Lincove
Assistant Professor of Public Affairs
Contact Info:
Phone: 512-232-2561
Email: lincove@mail.utexas.edu
Office: SRH 3.328
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.
Cynthia Osborne
Assistant Professor of Public Affairs
Contact Info:
Phone: 512-471-9808
Email: cosborne@prc.utexas.edu
Office: SRH 3.234
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.
Benjamin Sasse
Assistant Professor of Public Affairs
Contact Info:
Email: sasse@mail.utexas.edu
Office: SRH 3.304
Ben Sasse served as U.S. assistant secretary of health and human services from 2007 to 2009. Nominated by President Bush and unanimously confirmed by the Democratic Senate to the fourth-ranking position in the government's largest-budget agency, Sasse led policy, planning, and research functions across the Department's eleven operating divisions, with a special focus on Medicare, Medicaid, and the Food and Drug Administration.
He teaches public policy at the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas and is a Visiting Scholar in the Economic Studies program at the Engelberg Center for Health Care Reform at Brookings. His current research looks at efforts to modernize payment systems in American health care, to eventually migrate from "paying for more" to "paying for better" in ways that will stimulate
entrepreneurial innovation from doctors, hospitals, and adjacent industries. Previously, he served as a chief of staff in the U.S. House of Representatives and as the chief of staff of the Office of Legal Policy, the internal think-tank of the U.S. Department of Justice.
Sasse began his career with the Boston Consulting Group and has advised a wide variety of organizations at moments of strategic crisis – working with airlines, utilities, manufacturers, the Department of Homeland Security, the FBI, the Federal Bureau of Prisons, the government of Iraq, and a number of nonprofit and educational institutions.
He was educated at Harvard, Oxford, and St. John's (Annapolis) before receiving his Ph.D. from Yale, where his dissertation on domestic politics during the Cold War won the Theron Rockwell Field and the George Washington
Egleston Prizes.
Pat Wong
Associate Professor of Public Affairs
Contact Info:
Phone: 512-471-8962
Email: patwong@mail.utexas.edu
Office: SRH 3.358
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.
Staff:
Robin Pearson
Phone: 512-232-3423
Fax: 512-471-6961
E-mail: robin.pearson@mail.utexas.edu
