Dr. Nichol received his Ph.D. degree from the University of Southern California, and his M.S. from the University of Oregon. He served as associate director and executive director of a regional health planning organization prior to completing his doctorate. He serves on several journal editorial boards, and on the boards of several health care policy and research organizations. Currently, he is an associate professor of clinical pharmacy and pharmaceutical economics and policy (USC School of Pharmacy), with joint appointments in the Andrus School of Gerontology and the School of Policy, Planning, and Development. He chairs the University's Health Collaborative.

Liz Falletta is a clinical assistant professor at the USC School of Policy, Planning, and Development and a lecturer at the USC School of Architecture. Professor Falletta earned a B.A. in architecture with a minor in philosophy from Washington University in St. Louis. She also holds master's degrees in architecture from the Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc) and in real estate development from USC. Professor Falletta has extensive teaching experience, teaching studios at schools throughout the country, including UCLA, SCI-Arc, and Iowa State University. She has been an invited critic at UCLA, Cal-Poly Pomona, SCI-Arc, Otis College of Art and Design, Woodbury University, University of Texas at Austin, and Iowa State University as well as the Technion in Israel. Professor Falletta also runs a small real estate development firm focusing on the provision of middle market housing in central Los Angeles. She most recently completed a small lot subdivision project in the El Sereno neighborhood in northeast LA.

Darius Lakdawalla is an Associate Professor in the University of Southern California (USC) School of Policy, Planning, and Development (SPPD), and Director of Research at the USC Schaeffer Center for Health Policy and Economics.

His research has been concerned with the economics of risks to health, and the organization of health care markets. In particular, he has published studies exploring the reasons behind the declining use of nursing homes by the elderly, rising rates of obesity in America, acceleration in the rate of new HIV infections, and the surprising growth in disability among younger Americans.

Dana Goldman is a Professor and the Norman Topping Chair in Medicine and Public Policy at the University of Southern California. Until Fall 2009, he held RAND's Distinguished Chair in Health Economics and directed RAND's program in Economics, Finance, and Organization. He is also an Adjunct Professor of Health Services and Radiology at UCLA.

Dr. Goldman is a nationally-recognized health economist influential in both academic and policy circles. He is the author of over 100 articles and book chapters, including articles in some of the most prestigious medical, economic, health policy, and statistics journals. He is a health policy advisor to the Congressional Budget Office, and is a frequent speaker on health care issues. He serves on several editorial boards including Health Affairs and the American Journal of Managed Care. He is also a founding editor of the Forum for Health Economics and Policy, an online journal devoted to health economics and health policy.

Stephen Hora serves as Director of the USC Homeland Security Center for Risk and Economic Analysis of Terrorism Events (CREATE). He is also a Research Professor in School of Policy, Planning, and Development and the Viterbi School of Engineering's Department of Industrial and System Engineering at USC. Previously, he served on the faculties of Arizona State University and Texas Tech University and has been a visiting faculty member at Wake Forest University, the University of Tennessee at Knoxville, the University of Oregon and Researcher in Residence at Technical University of Delft, Netherlands. Professor Hora has served as Intermin Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs and Dean of Arts and Sciences at the University of Hawaii at Hilo.

During the past two decades, Professor Hora's research has focused on the analysis of risks from technological hazards. Most prominent has been his research into the use of experts to quantify risk and decision models. The work spans a range from practical application to theoretical foundations and entails being an active participate in designing and staging elicitation processes.

Jenny Schuetz is an Assistant Professor in the School of Policy, Planning, and Development at the University of Southern California (USC). Her primary research interests are urban economics, local public finance, land use regulation and housing policy. Her research has been published in a variety of journals, including the Journal of Housing Economics, Regional Science and Urban Economics, the Journal of Policy and Management, and the Journal of the American Planning Association. Current research projects include the effects of real estate cycles on neighborhood retail services, the outcomes of distressed mortgage borrowers, and the relationship between art galleries and gentrification.

Anthony Bertelli holds the C.C. Crawford Chair in Management and Performance in the School of Policy, Planning, and Development at the University of Southern California (USC). His research interests converge on the role of political institutions in shaping public policy outcomes and organizational structures. His work has appeared in a variety of scholarly journals including the British Journal of Political Science, Journal of Politics, Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, Journal of Theoretical Politics, Political Studies, Public Administration Review, and Public Choice. He serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of Politics, British Journal of Political Science, Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, and International Public Management Journal.

Assistant Professor

Leonard Mitchell has more than 25 years of comprehensive, multi-level experience as a Counselor at Law and Consultant to Executive Level Management in areas of: Business Law, Business Workouts, The Law and Finance of Corporate Acquisitions, Business Torts, Business Start-up Finance, Business Planning, Business Reorganization, Public School System Finance and Administration, Investor Owned Utility Finance, Organization and Management of Federal Government Agencies.

He served in the Carter/Mondale Administration as a member of the Transition Planning Team and was Lead Advisor to President Carter on transition policy, operating strategy and recommendations for cabinet and sub-cabinet appointments for the primary financial related agencies and organizations: Treasury Department, Council of Economic Advisors, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve, Office of Management and Budget, Import/Export Bank, Overseas Private Investment Corporation, U.S. Executive Director and the candidate for President of the World Bank.

Mr. Mitchell served as Staff Consultant to the Chairman of the House Committee on the Judiciary, The Honorable Peter Rodino, and conducted a national study on "Hostile Corporate Takeovers: Their Financing and Related Implications in Financial Markets and on Employment." The study was conducted within the Subcommittee on Monopolies and Commercial Law, The U.S. House of Representatives, and also chaired by Peter Rodino.

During the past several years, Mr. Mitchell has focused his broad-based experience and extensive expertise in corporate and commercial finance on developing alternative financing methods for international trade transactions, corporate acquisitions, real estate, economic development and redevelopment projects. He is currently conducting research on "New Financing Vehicles" to establish trade relationships between depressed U.S. communities and developing countries. This initiative grew out of years of extensive travel throughout the world including Africa, Western Europe, North and South America, Near and Far East, and the Pacific.

In addition to the work above, Mr. Mitchell has spent significant amounts of time over the last three years researching and developing background information on Eco-Industrial Parks and Sustainable Communities, their development and financing.

Mr. Mitchell earned a Master of Arts in Educational Administration from Goddard College; a Master of Business Administration in Finance and Investments from The George Washington University; and a Juris Doctorate degree in Law from the Antioch School of Law, Antioch University. Presently, Mr. Mitchell serves on the staff and as an adjunct faculty member at the School of Policy, Planning, and Development, University of Southern California, where he is also the Director of the USC Center for Economic Development. His areas of academic interest and teaching are Real Estate Development Finance and Law, Regional and Local Economic Development, Economic Development Finance and Law, International Trade Finance and Law.

Chris Weare, Ph.D., is deputy director of the Civic Engagement Initiative and Research Associate Professor within the USC School of Policy, Planning, and Development. He is also a principal investigator with the Neighborhood Participation Project. With Juliet Musso, he heads the Neighborhood Council Evaluation Project, which examines the implementation of the Los Angeles Neighborhood Council system over a period of seven years. Dr. Weare employs social network analysis to examine how voluntary associations join communities together and connect them to organs of governance. He also studies the development and impacts of e-government. Before joining SPPD, he was a research fellow at the Public Policy Institute of California. Dr. Weare holds a Ph.D. in public policy from the University of California, Berkeley.

Richard Callahan, Ph.D., is the associate dean and director of State Capital and Leadership Programs at SPPD. His current research includes networks and state agencies, leadership training practices, leadership in information technology for executives in state government, and the political design of public agencies. He has been published in the Public Administration Review, American Review of Public Administration, and the Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory. He received the Editor's Choice award for outstanding contributions in 2005 for his service on the editorial board of the academic journal: Public Administration Review.

Since 1998, he has directed the delivery of graduate degree programs in Sacramento, with 35 classes annually, as well as directing leadership training programs, designed and presented by USC, for: state government executives; newly elected local officials and staff; regional government; nonprofit and county health executives; county mental health executives; and legislative staff from across the United States.

He also teaches practices and applied theory in working with the private and public sectors for graduate students in the master degree programs of health, planning, public administration, and public policy.

Dr. Callahan serves on the editorial board of Public Administration Review, board of directors of Sacramento Healthcare Decisions; the American Congress of Health Care Executives, Sacramento Regent's Advisory Board; and the Executive Council of the Sacramento Chapter of the American Society of Public Administration.

Previously, he has more than 12 years of local government and county government experience, including five years as a township administrator for a $35 million annual operating budget. He has designed and implemented a range of new local government programs.

He has a B.A. degree, with honors in political theory, from Georgetown University and attended Tenri University in Japan. He has a master's degree and a doctorate in public administration from USC.

Professor
Director, Master of Public Administration

Shui Yan Tang, Ph.D., has researched institutional analysis and design, common-pool resource governance, economic development, and environmental policy. He is the author of Institutions and Collective Action: Self-Governance in Irrigation (ICS Press, 1992) and has been published in numerous journals, including Comparative Politics, Economic Development Quarterly, Environment and Planning A, Governance, Human Ecology, Harvard Business Review, Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, Land Economics, Public Administration Review, The China Quarterly, and World Development. Professor Tang is associate editor of the Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory. He serves on the editorial boards of International Public Administration Review and Journal of Public Affairs Education.

Clinical Associate Professor

Professor Blair Lewis joined the faculty in the Fall of 1996. Her areas of expertise include American politics, public policy (most notably health policy), interest groups, and federal programs. Dr. Blair's research has focused on federal programs, interest groups, community health, health status of women and children, Medicare/Medicaid managed care, and the institutional impacts of welfare reform. She is currently involved in examining the changes in federal funding for community health clinics, and issues of access to health care services in Medicare and Medi-Cal managed care. In addition, Professor Blair is a member of the American Political Science Association. She is also a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory.

Research Professor

In addition to his position in USC's School of Policy, Planning and Development, Professor Rose serves as coordinator for economics at USC's DHS Center for Risk and Economic Analysis of Terrorism Events (CREATE); and as the acting director of USC's new Energy Institute. Much of Professor Rose's research is on the economics of natural and man-made hazards. His other research areas include the economics of energy and climate change policy.

Senior Fellow

Sherry Bebitch Jeffe, Senior Fellow at the USC School of Policy, Planning and Development is a contributing editor for the Los Angeles Times, writing for the Opinion Section, and a contributing editor for the California Journal, where her column on Southern California politics, "Southern Exposure," appears several times a year. In the 2000 election cycle she also served as political analyst for NBC4 in Washington, D.C. and for BBC Scotland and BBC Wales. Dr. Jeffe regularly writes and comments on American and California government and politics in the state, national and international media. Prior to her affiliation with USC, Dr. Jeffe taught political science at Claremont Graduate University, Loyola Marymount University, and Pitzer College.

Assistant Professor

Vivian Wu, Ph.D., joined the USC School of Policy, Planning, and Development in the fall of 2005. In addition to studying at Harvard University, she completed her undergraduate training at National Taiwan University. Professor Wu's research examines price bargaining between hospitals and health plans, the interaction between private and public health insurance programs, the effect of ownership types, and market competition in the hospital sector. During 2000-2001, she served on the President's Council of Economic Advisors as a staff economist. She is a consultant at the RAND Corporation.

Professor
Director, Homeland Security Center for Risk and Economic Analysis of Terrorism Events (CREATE)

For the past thirty years, Detlof von Winterfeldt, Ph.D., has been active in teaching, research, university administration, and consulting. He has taught courses in statistics, decision analysis, risk analysis, systems analysis, research design, and behavioral decision research. His research interests are in the foundation and practice of decision and risk analysis as applied to technology development, environmental risks, natural hazards and terrorism. As a consultant he has applied decision and risk analysis to many management problems of government and private industry. He has served on several committees and panels of the National Science Foundation and the National Academies of Sciences (NAS), including a recent appointment to the NAS Board on Mathematical Sciences and their Applications. He is a fellow of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) and of the Society for Risk Analysis.

Professor
Faculty Advisor, Undergraduate Program

Richard Sundeen, Ph.D., focuses his research and teaching on nonprofit organizations, volunteers, community service, and service learning. In 2002 Professor Sundeen received the USC Teaching Has No Boundaries award for his efforts in developing service learning and other off-campus learning opportunities. Also, he has co-directed the USC Summer Public Service Internship program and, in 2005 and 2006, he served as faculty advisor for USC Alternative Spring Break work projects in Guatemala. His current research project is on ethnicity and volunteering in the US. Other recent research topics have included barriers to volunteering, volunteers to religious organizations, volunteers in social development, volunteerism in Sweden, and high school community service among students in Southern California.

Assistant Professor

David Suárez, Ph.D., is an assistant professor at the University of Southern California's School of Policy, Planning and Development. He teaches courses on public management, organizational behavior, and leadership in the nonprofit sector. David's dissertation research investigated the role of professional advocacy and nongovernmental organizations in the spread of human rights education. His current work continues to address the diffusion of ideas, and his research on nonprofit management seeks to understand a) why and how business practices emerge in the nonprofit sector and b) the consequences of sector-blending and business practices in the nonprofit sector. His work has been published in Comparative Education Review, Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, Comparative Education, and a variety of edited volumes.

Professor
Director, Master of Planning Program

David Sloane, Ph.D., teaches courses in urban planning, policy, and history, and community health planning and policy. His research examines the urban planning and public health, American, health disparities and community development, neighborhood dynamics of public safety and crime, and public and private commemoration. He is currently engaged in research projects regarding the role of resource environments in health disparities in cardiovascular disease and diabetes among African Americans, changing styles of commemoration in post-Vietnam America, civil gang injunctions and public safety, and a social assessment of Hollywood, California. He has served on the board of advisors to the Journal of the American Planning Association and as a director of the Vernacular Architecture Forum. He currently serves as moderator for the Medicine and Public Health Work Group sponsored by the Huntington-USC Institute for the Study of California and the West.

Assistant Professor

Lisa A. Schweitzer has multiple areas of research that pertain to transportation, urban environments, and social justice. Her recent projects evaluate the distribution social and economic opportunities and the location of environmental hazards. Her recent projects examine hazardous material spills and major industrial accidents throughout Los Angeles and the United States. Her work has appeared in a wide range of planning and interdisciplinary journals. She is currently doing research on decision-making during evacuations and community resources for environmental security. Dr. Schweitzer is an award-winning instructor who teaches classes in transportation, the environment, and social policy.

Associate Professor

Peter Robertson, Ph.D., brings to the School's faculty an interest in the application of "new paradigm" ideas to the development of new models of organization and governance. Recent papers propose a model of "collaborative organizing" and describe its potential role in the context of sustainable development, and outline a "living systems" perspective on organizations that is applied to the topic of ecological governance. Previous research has addressed issues pertaining to interorganizational collaboration, organizational commitment, the process and outcomes of organizational change, the impact of organizational contexts on participants' behavior and attitudes, and the implementation of school-based management as a mechanism for public school reform. He has provided consulting and training for a variety of organizations. Professor Robertson is a member of the Academy of Management and the Institute of Noetic Sciences.

Professor
James Irvine Chair in Urban and Regional Planning

Harry W. Richardson, M.A., has taught at USC for over 30 years. His research interests are urban and regional economics, and international planning and development. His current research focuses on Los Angeles and other U.S. metropolitan regions and includes themes such as changes in metropolitan spatial structure, urban travel behavior, and economic impact methodologies. Professor Richardson has published 19 books and more than 130 research papers. He has consulted for a wide variety of international, national, and local agencies.

Assistant Professor

Christian L. Redfearn, Ph.D., is interested in research in applied microeconomics, applied econometric, urban and regional economics, real estate finance, and price index construction. He is currently involved in both domestic and international research projects, including Swedish housing markets, residential real estate markets in Singapore, and Los Angeles Basin Real Estate Submarket Dynamics. Professor Redfearn's work has been published in the Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics, Journal of Urban Economics, and Real Estate Economics.

Associate Professor
Director of Research, Lusk Center for Real Estate

Gary Painter, Ph.D., serves as the Director of Research at the Lusk Center for Real Estate. Professor Painter's research interests focuses on education, housing and urban economics. His most recent work in housing has been on the determinants of homeownership among racial and ethnic minorities. He has written several papers using Census data to address questions of migration, mobility, and tenure choice. Some of his recent work in education has focused on the importance of neighborhood sorting in determining the role of school quality in determining education outcomes and on the impact of various kindergarten policies on future educational attainment. He has served as a consultant for the National Association of Realtors, Pacific Economics Group, Andrew Davidson Co., Fannie Mae, Grant Thorton LLP, Burr Consulting, and the Research Institute for Housing America.

Professor
President, The Tomas Rivera Policy Institute

Harry P. Pachon, Ph.D. is a professor of Public Policy at USC and joined the Tomas Rivera Policy Institute (TRPI) in 1993, as president. In 1997, Dr. Pachon was appointed to serve as a member of the President's Advisory Commission on Educational Excellence for Hispanic Americans. He is a board member of the Haynes Foundation and Southern California Public Radio. Dr. Pachon is a founding board member and past executive director of the National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials (NALEO) Educational Fund. While at NALEO, he initiated a nationally acclaimed U.S. citizenship project that has been replicated on a multi-ethnic basis across the country and initiated the National Directory of Latino Elected Officials, which is now in its seventeenth year of publication. Dr. Pachon has authored over twenty articles and journals, and co-authored three books on U.S. Latino politics and political behavior.

Professor
Frances R. and John Duggan Distinguished Professorship in Public Administration

Chester Newland, Ph.D., has taught at USC since 1966. His public administration research, practice, and teaching have focused on public executives, federal and local government management, the American presidency, public law, business and government, human resources, and labor management relations. He served as editor-in-chief of the Public Administration Review (1984-1990). He was national president of the American Society for Public Administration, (ASPA;1980-1981), and he has been a member of the National Academy of Public Administration (NAPA) since 1973. He has authored many publications and is co-editor of the Handbook of Public Law and Administration, (1997). Professor Newland was the initial director of the Lyndon Baines Johnson Presidential Library, and he served twice as the director of the Federal Executive Institute. He has worked internationally, including places such as Bahrain, the Czech and Slovak Republics, Greece, Hungary, Kazakhstan, Kuwait, Moldova, and Poland.

Professor

Robert Myrtle's key research interests are interorganizational relations, strategic decision making, and organizational and management effectiveness. He holds a joint appointment with USC's School of Gerontology and, through his work on long-term care systems, has received grants to study the impact of payment systems (capitated/non-capitated) on the treatment outcomes of elders in sub-acute facilities; the development of community-based long-term care; regulatory policies affecting the development of long-term care organizations; and the effect of changes in organizational culture on the attitudes and performance of health care workers. His current projects include the analysis of the influence of job change on career growth and progression; an assessment of the factors influencing organizational legitimacy during and following major natural disasters, and, factors influencing the performance of surgical teams.

Professor
Director, Population Dynamics Research Group

Dowell Myers, Ph.D., is a specialist in urban growth and development with expertise as a planner and urban demographer. He is an advisor to the Bureau of the Census and has authored the most widely referenced work on census analysis, Analysis with Local Census Data: Portraits of Change (Academic Press, 1992). His program of research has pursued two contributions to the planning field: bringing people back in as the focus of planning success, and understanding planning as a temporal process of developing the future. Recent research projects have focused on the upward mobility of immigrants to Southern California and the many changes they create in the city, as well as on projections of the future impacts of the growing California population. Professor Myers is an academic fellow of the Urban Land Institute and a member of the Governing Board of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning.

Associate Professor
Director, Master of Public Policy Program

Juliet Musso, Ph.D., has expertise in federalism and urban political economy, with specific research interests in intergovernmental fiscal policy, local institutional reform, and community governance. She has written on the political economy of municipal incorporation and currently is researching the neighborhood council movement in the City of Los Angeles. Other current research topics include local government use of advanced telecommunications technologies and intergovernmental fiscal capacity in the Southern California region.

Professor
Chair, Daniel J. Epstein Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering

James Elliott Moore II, Ph.D., has been with USC since 1988. He is director of the Transportation Engineering program in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, and co-director of the Master of Construction Management (MCM) program, which is jointly sponsored by Civil Engineering and the School of Policy, Planning, and Development. Professor Moore conducts fundamental and applied research on the engineering economic aspects of large-scale transportation and land use systems. His research interests include risk management of infrastructure networks subject to natural hazards and terrorist threats; economic impact modeling; transportation network performance and control; large scale computational models of metropolitan land use/transport systems, especially in California; evaluation of new technologies; and infrastructure investment and pricing policies. He has been published extensively in transportation planning and engineering literature. Prior to joining USC, he was on the faculty of Northwestern University's McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science.

Professor
Blue Cross of California Chair in Health Care Finance
Director, IPPAM Program

Glenn Melnick, Ph.D., is a world-renowned expert in health economics and finance. Professor Melnick joined the School of Public Administration faculty in 1996. Previously, he served as a faculty member of the UCLA School of Public Health, a consultant at RAND, and an expert witness to the Federal Trade Commission. He has been published in the American Journal of Public Health, Health Affairs, Medical Care, Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law, Health Policy Reform: Competition and Controls, and Journal of Ambulatory Care Management. He has been principal investigator for a number of funded projects in Jakarta, Indonesia, and in Taiwan.

Professor
Bedrosian Chair in Governance
Director, The Judith and John Bedrosian Center on Governance and the Public Enterprise

Daniel A. Mazmanian, Ph.D., previously served as USC School of Policy, Planning, and Development's C. Erwin and Ione L. Piper Dean and Professor. Before coming to USC, he was dean of the School of Natural Resources and Environment at the University of Michigan, and previous to that was the first director of the Center for Politics and Economics at the Claremont Graduate University. Professor Mazmanian is a widely published scholar in the field of policy implementation and, in particular, environmental policy. His research has been focused on the transition to the greening of industry and on sustainable communities. He has received the Aaron Wildavsky Enduring Contribution Award from the American Political Science Association, and the Thomas R. Dye Service Award from the Policy Studies Organization.

Professor

Martin Krieger, Ph.D., does social-science informed aural and photographic documentation of Los Angeles, including storefront houses of worship and industrial Los Angeles. He is also a research fellow of the Center for Religion and Civic Culture. Recently, Professor Krieger has won three consecutive Mellon Mentoring Awards, for mentoring undergraduates, faculty, and graduate students. Professor Krieger has worked in the fields of planning and design theory, ethics and entrepreneurship, mathematical models of urban spatial processes, and has explored the role of the humanities in planning. His seven published books describe how planning, design, and science are actually done. Professor Krieger has been a fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences and at the National Humanities Center. He has received grants from a variety of private foundations, and has served as the Zell/Lurie Visiting Professor of Entrepreneurship at University of Michigan's Business School. He joined the USC faculty in 1984

Dean
C. Erwin and Ione L. Piper Dean and Professor

Jack H. Knott took the reins of the School of Policy, Planning, and Development in August 2005 as the C. Erwin and Ione L. Piper Dean and Professor. Before joining USC, Dean Knott served from 1997 until 2005 as professor of political science and director of the Institute of Government and Public Affairs at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Chicago. From 1987 to 1997, Dean Knott was a professor in the Department of Political Science at Michigan State University, where he served as departmental chair and director of Michigan State's Institute for Public Policy and Social Research. Dean Knott is a leading scholar in the fields of political institutions and public policy, health policy, and public management. He has published three books, including Reforming Bureaucracy: The Politics of Institutional Choice, and numerous journal articles and book chapters. He received his Ph.D. in political science from the University of California, Berkeley, his M.A. in comparative political economy from the School of Advanced International Studies at The Johns Hopkins University, and his undergraduate degree in history from Calvin College.

Professor
Director, International Initiative

Eric Heikkila, Ph.D., has been with USC since 1986. He is an economist by training and has been published extensively in three main areas of research: urban and regional development, urban information systems, and East Asian cities and cultures. His book, The Economics of Planning, was published by the Center for Urban Policy Research at Rutgers University. As co-founder and executive secretary of the Pacific Rim Council on Urban Development, Professor Heikkila has been instrumental in developing and maintaining a strong international network of scholars and practitioners who are involved in urban development throughout the Pacific region. As a recipient of a Fulbright Fellowship, he spent an academic year with Beijing University's Department of Urban and Environmental Sciences, where he undertook joint research on urbanization in China.

Professor

Howard Greenwald, Ph.D., has research interests in policies affecting health services delivery, survey design and management, and political sociology. He has served as director of USC's Health Services Administration Program, chairman of the Western Network for Education in Health Administration, and executive board member of the American Society for Public Administration (ASPA) in Sacramento. He is currently director of USC's W. K. Kellogg Hispanic Leadership Project. He has made major contributions to research on medical manpower, health promotion, and cancer survival. His book, Who Survives Cancer? (University of California Press, 1992), reports the results of a ten-year survival study. Earlier work includes Social Problems in Cancer Control (Ballinger, 1980), Work and Health: Inseparable in the Eighties (Western Institute for Occupational/Environmental Studies, 1980), and articles in Public Health Reports, Public Administration Review, Journal of the American Public Health Association, Milbrook Memorial fund Quarterly, and other academic journals.

Professor
Director and Chair of the USC Lusk Center for Real Estate

Richard K. Green, Ph.D., is the Director of the USC Lusk Center for Real Estate. He holds the Lusk Chair in Real Estate and is Professor in the School of Policy, Planning, and Development and the Marshall School of Business. Prior to joining the USC faculty, Dr. Green spent four years as the Oliver T. Carr, Jr., Chair of Real Estate Finance at The George Washington University School of Business. He was Director of the Center for Washington Area Studies and the Center for Real Estate and Urban Studies at that institution. Dr. Green also taught real estate finance and economics courses for 12 years at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he was Wangard Faculty Scholar and Chair of Real Estate and Urban Land Economics. More recently, he was a visiting professor of real estate at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School.

Professor
Senior Associate Dean for Faculty and Academic Affairs

Elizabeth Graddy, Ph.D., teaches courses in quantitative analysis, governance, and business and government. Her research focuses on the private sector role in public service delivery, how industry and organizational structure affect performance, and how information asymmetry and uncertainty affect institutional design and effectiveness. These interests have led to her work on the structure and performance of healthcare, philanthropic, and nonprofit organizations. She is currently studying community foundations, public-private alliances providing local public services, and the state regulation of health professions. Professor Graddy's earlier research focused on products liability outcomes, occupational regulation, the contracting decisions of local governments, and the evolution of new industries.

Professor

Peter Gordon, Ph.D., holds a joint appointment with the Department of Economics. His research interests include topics in applied urban and regional economics. Professor Gordon has participated in the development and application of the Southern California Planning Model (SCPM), which has been used to forecast the economic costs of various policies and natural events. Professor Gordon's recent work concerns the interaction of urban settlement patterns and travel demand. He has consulted for a number of international agencies, government departments, and private groups.

Professor
Senior Associate Dean for Research and Technology
Director, METRANS

Genevieve Giuliano, Ph.D., conducts research on relationships between land use and transportation, transportation policy analysis, and information technology applications in transportation. Her current research includes analysis of regulatory policies aimed at reducing impacts of freight in metropolitan areas, development of metropolitan freight flow models, and analysis of changes in metropolitan spatial structure. Prof. Giuliano has published over 130 papers. She serves on the Editorial Boards of Urban Studies and Journal of Transport Policy. She was named a National Associate of the National Academy of Sciences in 2003, received the TRB William Carey Award for Distinguished Service in 2006, and was awarded the Deen Lectureship in 2007. She has participated in several National Research Council policy studies; currently she is chairing the Committee on Funding Options for Freight Transportation Projects of National Significance. She is also founding Chair of the California Transportation Research and Technology Advisory Panel.

Professor
Emery Evans Olson Chair in Non-Profit Entrepreneurship and Public Policy
Director, Center on Philanthropy and Public Policy

James Ferris, Ph.D., specializes in the economics of the public and nonprofit sectors, public finance, and public policy. His research focuses on the shifting roles of the public, nonprofit, and for-profit sectors in governance and the economy. Professor Ferris is currently investigating the changing landscape of philanthropy, social capital and philanthropy, the role of philanthropic foundations in public policymaking, the causes and consequences of the conversion of nonprofit health care organizations to for-profit status, and intersectoral alliances for urban problem solving. His previous research examines public service delivery, focusing on the contracting decisions of local governments, the use of volunteers, and strategies to improve public sector performance through competition, decentralization, and privatization.

Assistant Professor

Elizabeth Currid, Ph.D., is an assistant professor at University of Southern California?s School of Policy, Planning and Development. She teaches courses in economic development and urban policy and planning. Her research involves economic development, with particular focus on the artistic and cultural economy, and the importance of social networks, nightlife, and innovation in urban economic growth. Professor Currid received her undergraduate and master?s degree in urban policy from Carnegie Mellon University in 2000 and 2002, respectively. She received her Ph.D. in urban planning from Columbia University in 2006.

Professor
The Maria B. Crutcher Professor in Citizenship and Democratic Values

Terry L. Cooper, Ph.D., focuses his research on citizen participation and ethics in government. Currently, Professor Cooper is one of the co-principal investigators in the USC Neighborhood Participation Project. There, he conducts research on the role of neighborhood organizations in governance in the City of Los Angeles through the newly established system of neighborhood councils. During 1993-94, Professor Cooper was a member of a national panel of the National Academy of Public Administration where he developed a decision-making process to encourage intergenerational equity in the management of hazardous wastes by the U.S. Department of Energy. He spent the 1988-89 academic year on a Fulbright Lecturing/Research Grant at the Chinese University in Hong Kong. There, his research emphasized the conflicting loyalties likely to be experienced by middle- and upper-level public administrators during Hong Kong's transition from the United Kingdom of China.

Professor

Gerald Caiden, Ph.D., has research and teaching interests in several areas of public administration, notably comparative and development administration, administrative theory, and the study of maladministration and bureaupathology. He is responsible for over 29 books and over 270 academic articles on diverse topics, such as administrative corruption, public accountability, auditing, ombudsman, public service ethics, comparative administrative cultures, and public management systems. He is best known for his pioneering studies in administrative reform, organizational diagnosis, ombudsman, comparative corruption, and public sector innovations. He is currently a member of the U.N. Panel of Experts in Public Administration and Development since 1994. He won the USC Mellon Foundation Award for Excellence in Mentoring for the 2005-2006 academic year.

Professor
Director, Master of Real Estate Development Program

Raphael Bostic, Ph.D., joined USC's faculty after spending six years on the staff at the Federal Reserve Board of Governors. He enjoyed a successful tenure at the Fed, having quickly attained the rank of Senior Economist and received a Special Achievement Award in 2000 for his work supporting a Congressional mandate. Professor Bostic has done extensive research on consumer banking issues, with a primary focus on mortgage and small business lending, bank branching patterns, and credit scoring and automated underwriting. His research on financial markets and institutions has focused on banks in community development, the role and effects of regulation in banking, housing and homeownership, urban economic growth, wage and earnings profiles, affordable housing, and policy analysis. He is currently conducting research on the ways in which the Community Reinvestment Act has influenced the behavior of lenders and credit markets.

Associate Professor

Catherine Burke, Ph.D., researches organizational design, management theory, and systems, including the application of Stratified Systems Theory. Professor Burke has been instrumental in the USC's metropolitan simulation program. She has contributed to the development of new approaches in organization and management systems with organizations in Australia, England, and the United States. These include a large public utility (Communications and Computing Services, Regulatory Policy and Affairs, and Public Affairs Departments), city and county governments, an international mining and manufacturing firm, an ISP (Internet Service Provider), and a regimental commander in the British Army. Professor Burke is also interested in the study of political and administrative roles, democratic theory and the role of the citizens, innovation, and urban government. She has been a panelist and consultant to the office of Technology Assessment of the U.S. Congress, and a member of the Los Angeles County Economy and Efficiency Commission.

Professor
James Irvine Chair in Urban and Regional Planning

Tridib Banerjee, Ph.D., has focused his research, teaching, and writing on the design and planning of the built environment and the related human and social consequences. In particular, he is interested in the political economy of urban development, and the effects of globalization in the transformation of urban form and urbanism from a comparative international perspective. His current research includes implementation of smart growth policies, converting brown fields to affordable housing, designing for residential density and walkable communities, and transit oriented development. He served as associate dean of the former USC School of Urban and Regional Planning from 1982 to 1986, and as vice dean of SPPD from 1998 to 2001. He is principal investigator of USC's Center for Economic Development and serves as the director of the Community Development and Design Forum.