Policy, Regulation, and Compliance

Abraham, Amanda

Michael and Caroline Fierman Professor, Public and International Affairs
Distinguished Scholar, 2014 GDPP Graduate, Owens Institute for Behavioral Research
website | aabraham@uga.edu
Research Interests include health policy, substance use disorder treatment, accessibility/quality of SUD treatment, organizational change, and maternal healthn

Ager, Mary

Associate Professor, Social Work
website | ager@uga.edu

Research Interests: Poverty, social policy, consumer debt, and social media

Bagwell-Adams, Grace

Associate Professor, Health Policy and Management
website | gbagwell@uga.edu

Research Interests: food assistance policy, obesity policy, effect of health policy on vulnerable populations, program evaluation

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Baker III, Thomas

Professor, Kinesiology
2013-15 GDP Participant, Owens Institute for Behavioral Research
website | tab3@uga.edu

Research Interests: how commercial laws influence sport marking, and on risk management in two specialized areas: (a) preventing sexual abuse in youth sports and (b) terrorism management at sports facilities

Bang-Jensen, Bree

Assistant Professor, International Affairs/ Health Policy and Management
website | bree.bangjensen@uga.edu

Research Interests: Computational Methods, Conflict, Emotion, Group Processes and Intergroup Relations, Infectious Disease, International Relations, Organizations, Policy, Regulation, and Compliance, Social Psychology

Bradford, W. David

Busbee Chair in Public Policy, Public Administration and Policy
website | bradfowd@uga.edu

Research Interests include health economics, health policy, substance use policy, and cannabis policy

Brosius, Peter

Professor, Anthropology
Distinguished Scholar, Owens Institute for Behavioral Research
website | pbrosius@uga.edu

Research Interests include environmental anthropology, cultural politics of conversation, political ecology, hunter-gatherers, transnational environmental movements and institutions, and human ecology in SE Asia

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Bruner, Christopher

Stembler Family Distinguished Professor in Business Law, School of Law
website | christopher.bruner@uga.edu

Research Interests: Group Processes and Intergroup Relations, International Relations, Organizations, Policy, Regulation, and Compliance

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Clay, Chad

Associate Professor, International Affairs
website | kcclay@uga.edu

Research Interests include international determinants of government respect for human rights, and effect of political processes surrounding human rights on other policy outcomes

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Coverdill, James

Meigs Professor, Sociology
website | jimcov@uga.edu

Research Interests include sociology of work and organizations, work-hour reforms and surgical work

Dunnigan, Allison

Associate Professor, Social Work
website | allison.dunnigan@uga.edu

Research Interests include child welfare policy and services, foster care, and system responses to human trafficking

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Fazlul, Ishtiaque

Assistant Professor, Health Policy & Management and International Affairs (Jointly)
website | ifazlul@uga.edu

Research Interests include: Health economics; Education economics

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Foohey, Pamela

Professor, School of Law
website | pamela.foohey@uga.edu

Research Interests: Aging and Gerontology, Bias, Discrimination, and Inequality, Emotion, Gender, Marriage, Family, and Close Relationships, Mental Health, Networks, Organizations, Physical Health and Well-being, Policy, Regulation, and Compliance, Sexuality and Sexual Identity, Substance Use and Addiction, Survey Methods, Work and Occupations

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Gibbs, Daniel

Assistant Professor, School of Social Work
website | dangibbs@uga.edu

Research Interests include: Child well-being; Professional decision-making; Foster care; Data science; Social work and the law

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Goulart, Pedro

Data Analyst, School of Social Work – CenHTRO
website | pedro.avila@uga.edu

Research Interests: Computational Methods, Conflict, Experimental Methods, Geographic Information Systems, International Relations, Networks, Organizations, Policy, Regulation, and Compliance, Survey Methods

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Graizbord, Diana

Associate Professor, Sociology
website | dgraizbord@uga.edu

Research Interests include sociology of science, political sociology, globalization, and development and social change

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Hetherington, Emma

Clinical Associate Professor, School of Law
website | ehether@uga.edu

Research Interests: Policy, Regulation, and Compliance, Prevention and Implementation Science, Survey Methods, Youth, Adolescence, and Emerging Adulthood

Holloway, Steven

Professor, Geography
website | holloway@uga.edu

Research Interests include the geography of youth labor markets, the impact of public housing on the geographies of poverty and crime, and the geographically contingent nature of discrimination in mortgage lending

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Jones, Lindsay

Assistant Professor, Insurance, Legal Studies, and Real Estate (Terry)
website | lsainjones@uga.edu

Research Interests: Bias, Discrimination, and Inequality, Mental Health, Physical Health and Well-being, Policy, Regulation, and Compliance

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Jung, Daniel

Assistant Professor, Health Policy & Management
2021-23 GDP Participant, Owens Institute for Behavioral Research
website | daniel.jung1@uga.edu

Research Interests include quality of care, long-term care/post-acute care, Medicare/Medicaid policy, unnecessary health care utilization, health disparities, and machine learning methods

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Lapegna, Pablo

Associate Professor, Sociology
2023-2025 Grant Development Program Participant
website | plapegna@uga.edu

Research Interests include: Environmental and rural sociology; Social movements; Political sociology; Health

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Lee, Heewon

Assistant Professor, Public Administration and Policy
website | heewon.lee@uga.edu

Research Interests: Environment and Ecosystems, Experimental Methods, Policy, Regulation, and Compliance, Survey Methods

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Li, Niying

Assistant Professor, Clinical & Administrative Pharmacy
website | niying.li@uga.edu

Research Interests include: Aging and Gerontology, Immigration, Policy, Regulation, and Compliance, Survey Methods

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Melcher, Katherine

Professor, College of Environment and Design
website | kmelcher@uga.edu

Research Interests include: Aging and Gerontology, Cognition, Culture, Environment and Ecosystems, Ethnography, Gender, Geographic Information Systems, Group Processes and Intergroup Relations, Identity, Mental Health, Obesity, Organizations, Physical Health and Well-being, Policy, Regulation, and Compliance, Prevention and Implementation Science, Youth, Adolescence, and Emerging Adulthood

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Pridemore, William

Department Head and Franklin Professor of Sociology
website | pridemore@uga.edu

Research Interests: Assessment and Evaluation, Crime and Corrections, Culture, Physical Health and Well-being, Policy, Regulation, and Compliance, Prevention and Implementation Science, Risk Behaviors, Substance Use and Addiction, Violence and Injury

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Samples, Tim

Professor, Insurance, Legal Studies, and Real Estate
website | tsamples@uga.edu

Research Interests: Cognition, Computational Methods, International Relations, Policy, Regulation, and Compliance

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Schlesinger, Ari

Assistant Professor, School of Computing
website | ari.schlesinger@uga.edu

Research Interests include: Bias, Discrimination, and Inequality, Communication, Computational Methods, Culture, Diversity, Education and Learning, Ethnography, Gender, Group Processes and Intergroup Relations, Identity, Media, Organizations, Policy, Regulation, and Compliance, Sexuality and Sexual Identity, STEM, Work and Occupations

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Sheagley, Geoffrey

Associate Professor, Political Science
website | geoff.sheagley@uga.edu

Research Interests include political psychology, political polarization, decision-making, and political knowledge

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Singh, Shane

Professor, International Affairs
website | singh@uga.edu

Research Interests include: Elections; Democracy; Political attitudes; Electoral behavior; Electoral rules

Song, Suhang

Assistant Professor, Health Policy & Management
website | suhang.song@uga.edu

Research Interests include: Health disparities; Health policy; Health economics; Non-communicable diseases; Cognitive aging

Thapa, Janani

Associate Professor, Health Policy & Management
website | jrthapa@uga.edu

Research Interests include policy oriented research primarily field and community based research, program planning and evaluation, and application of behavioral economics in addressing childhood obesity and food behavior

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Xie, Lusi

Assistant Professor, Agricultural and Applied Economics
website | lusi.xie@uga.edu

Research Interests include: Behavioral economics; Agri-environmental policies; Ecosystem services

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Zeng, Yingying

Assistant Professor, Social Work
website | yzeng@uga.edu

Research Interests include: Assessment and Evaluation, Bias, Discrimination, and Inequality, Gender, Immigration, Mental Health, Policy, Regulation, and Compliance, Youth, Adolescence, and Emerging Adulthood