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Yana Gallen

Assistant Professor
University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy

Yana Gallen is an assistant professor at the University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy. She received a PhD in economics from Northwestern University in 2016. She is a labor economist studying the gender wage gap. Her research focuses on understanding the sources of the gender pay gap—preferences, discrimination, or productivity? She is also interested in the impact of family friendly policies on the labor market, particularly looking at indirect or unanticipated effects of policy reforms. Many of her projects use Danish register data linking workers and firms. Her current work focuses on the savings and career decisions of household before they know their preferences concerning child-rearing.

Yana Gallen

Assistant Professor
University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy

Yana Gallen is an assistant professor at the University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy. She received a PhD in economics from Northwestern University in 2016. She is a labor economist studying the gender wage gap. Her research focuses on understanding the sources of the gender pay gap—preferences, discrimination, or productivity? She is also interested in the impact of family friendly policies on the labor market, particularly looking at indirect or unanticipated effects of policy reforms. Many of her projects use Danish register data linking workers and firms. Her current work focuses on the savings and career decisions of household before they know their preferences concerning child-rearing.

Michael Greenstone

Milton Friedman Distinguished Service Professor in Economics; Director, EPIC; Director, Institute for Climate and Sustainable Growth
Energy Policy Institute at the University of Chicago

Michael Greenstone is the Milton Friedman Distinguished Service Professor in Economics at the University of Chicago. In addition, he serves as the founding director of the University’s Institute for Climate and Sustainable Growth and the director of the interdisciplinary Energy Policy Institute at the University of Chicago. He was previously the director of the Becker Friedman Institute for Economics.

His research is focused on the global energy challenge that requires all societies to balance the needs for inexpensive and reliable energy, protection of the public’s health from air pollution, and minimizing the damages from climate change.

Greenstone received a Ph.D. in economics from Princeton University and a BA in economics with High Honors from Swarthmore College.

Michael Greenstone

Milton Friedman Distinguished Service Professor in Economics; Director, EPIC; Director, Institute for Climate and Sustainable Growth
Energy Policy Institute at the University of Chicago

Michael Greenstone is the Milton Friedman Distinguished Service Professor in Economics at the University of Chicago. In addition, he serves as the founding director of the University’s Institute for Climate and Sustainable Growth and the director of the interdisciplinary Energy Policy Institute at the University of Chicago. He was previously the director of the Becker Friedman Institute for Economics.

His research is focused on the global energy challenge that requires all societies to balance the needs for inexpensive and reliable energy, protection of the public’s health from air pollution, and minimizing the damages from climate change.

Greenstone received a Ph.D. in economics from Princeton University and a BA in economics with High Honors from Swarthmore College.

Louise Hawkley

Senior Fellow
The Bridge at NORC
Phone: (773) 256-6214

Louise is a field-leading expert on loneliness and social isolation and their associations with health during aging. At NORC, she leads research and analyses centered on identification of factors that increase risk for loneliness and individual and environmental sources of changes in loneliness. Her publications include more than 100 peer-reviewed articles and book chapters.

Louise acts as a co-investigator on the National Social Life, Health, and Aging Project (NSHAP), a National Institute on Aging funded panel study of health and social factors among older adults in the United States. Additionally, she is the Principal Investigator of NSHAP’s COVID-19 supplemental study, which ran from 2020 to 2021. She also consults on NIA-funded NSHAP-related projects that explore the role of social factors in the diabetes disease course and another that extends NSHAP into a nationally representative sample of LGBT older adults.

Louise is a member of the Gerontological Society of America and the American Society on Aging. She is an international speaker and served as an expert witness for the solitary confinement case, Ashker v. Governor of California, 2015. Louise is a founding member of the International Loneliness and Isolation Research Network (ILINK), and a member of the Scientific Advisory Committee for the national Foundation for Social Connection.

Louise Hawkley

Senior Fellow
The Bridge at NORC
(773) 256-6214

Louise is a field-leading expert on loneliness and social isolation and their associations with health during aging. At NORC, she leads research and analyses centered on identification of factors that increase risk for loneliness and individual and environmental sources of changes in loneliness. Her publications include more than 100 peer-reviewed articles and book chapters.

Louise acts as a co-investigator on the National Social Life, Health, and Aging Project (NSHAP), a National Institute on Aging funded panel study of health and social factors among older adults in the United States. Additionally, she is the Principal Investigator of NSHAP’s COVID-19 supplemental study, which ran from 2020 to 2021. She also consults on NIA-funded NSHAP-related projects that explore the role of social factors in the diabetes disease course and another that extends NSHAP into a nationally representative sample of LGBT older adults.

Louise is a member of the Gerontological Society of America and the American Society on Aging. She is an international speaker and served as an expert witness for the solitary confinement case, Ashker v. Governor of California, 2015. Louise is a founding member of the International Loneliness and Isolation Research Network (ILINK), and a member of the Scientific Advisory Committee for the national Foundation for Social Connection.

Joshua Gottleib

Associate Professor
University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy

Joshua Gottlieb is an Associate Professor at the University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy. His research in applied microeconomics focuses on the economics of the health care system, including the organization of insurance markets, physician behavior, administrative costs, and implications for labor economics. Gottlieb also conducts research in public finance more broadly, including urban and health economics. He is a Co-Editor of the Journal of Public Economics and a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research.

Gottlieb has published in academic journals such as the American Economic Review, Journal of Political Economy, and Journal of Labor Economics. He won the 2015 Kenneth Arrow Award for best paper in health economics and the 2012 National Tax Association Dissertation Award for this work.

Gottlieb’s research focuses on questions directly relevant to public policy. He was instrumental in developing and promoting a novel property tax scheme, which influenced housing policy in British Columbia.

Gottlieb completed his Ph.D. in economics at Harvard University in 2012. He was previously an Assistant and Associate Professor at the University of British Columbia and a Visiting Assistant Professor at Stanford University.

Joshua Gottleib

Associate Professor
University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy

Joshua Gottlieb is an Associate Professor at the University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy. His research in applied microeconomics focuses on the economics of the health care system, including the organization of insurance markets, physician behavior, administrative costs, and implications for labor economics. Gottlieb also conducts research in public finance more broadly, including urban and health economics. He is a Co-Editor of the Journal of Public Economics and a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research.

Gottlieb has published in academic journals such as the American Economic Review, Journal of Political Economy, and Journal of Labor Economics. He won the 2015 Kenneth Arrow Award for best paper in health economics and the 2012 National Tax Association Dissertation Award for this work.

Gottlieb’s research focuses on questions directly relevant to public policy. He was instrumental in developing and promoting a novel property tax scheme, which influenced housing policy in British Columbia.

Gottlieb completed his Ph.D. in economics at Harvard University in 2012. He was previously an Assistant and Associate Professor at the University of British Columbia and a Visiting Assistant Professor at Stanford University.

Alycia Bayne

Associate Director
Public Health
Phone: (202) 999-0992

Alycia directs research on public health, transportation, aging, and rural health. She has expertise in qualitative research and mixed methods and has collected data in communities across the country. Alycia has authored over 60 technical reports and publications and 50 presentations. Her evaluation findings have informed state and federal programs and policies.

Alycia is the project director for NORC’s work to design and conduct an evaluation of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Public Health Data Modernization Implementation Center Program. NORC is designing and conducting the evaluation as a subcontractor to the Public Health Accreditation Board to explore how the program will affect public health agencies’ ability to exchange data. Also, Alycia formerly directed a three-year contract for the CDC Public Health Infrastructure Center to provide research, monitoring, and evaluation support.

Alycia leads research on aging and health, including a study for CDC to support the use of its MyMobilityPlan, an informational tool to help older adults maintain their mobility and independence as they age. She formerly led a study for the CDC Foundation on public health interventions that support older adults and their caregivers during public health emergencies, and evaluations for the YMCA of the USA on social connectedness, health, and aging in rural communities.

Alycia also directs work on transportation, safety, and health. She led a study for CDC to identify barriers and facilitators of older adults’ use of ride share services. For the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety, Alycia is leading a study to identify the factors that influence seat belt use, and formerly led projects to identify countermeasures for drowsy driving and evidence-based practices for traffic safety campaigns. She also serves as an advisor on a study identifying maternal transport programs for the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists. Alycia also led the development of a toolkit on access to transportation in rural communities as part of a series of Rural Evidence-Based Toolkits for the Federal Office of Rural Health Policy.

Alycia has served in a leadership role on many other cross-site evaluations that have implications for public health policy and practice. She is the chair of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine’s Transportation Research Board Subcommittee on Older Drivers. She is interim chair of the Healthy New Jersey 2030 Advisory Council, which advises the New Jersey Department of Health on topic areas and objectives for health promotion and disease prevention interventions in the state.

Alycia Bayne

Associate Director
Public Health
(202) 999-0992

Alycia directs research on public health, transportation, aging, and rural health. She has expertise in qualitative research and mixed methods and has collected data in communities across the country. Alycia has authored over 60 technical reports and publications and 50 presentations. Her evaluation findings have informed state and federal programs and policies.

Alycia is the project director for NORC’s work to design and conduct an evaluation of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Public Health Data Modernization Implementation Center Program. NORC is designing and conducting the evaluation as a subcontractor to the Public Health Accreditation Board to explore how the program will affect public health agencies’ ability to exchange data. Also, Alycia formerly directed a three-year contract for the CDC Public Health Infrastructure Center to provide research, monitoring, and evaluation support.

Alycia leads research on aging and health, including a study for CDC to support the use of its MyMobilityPlan, an informational tool to help older adults maintain their mobility and independence as they age. She formerly led a study for the CDC Foundation on public health interventions that support older adults and their caregivers during public health emergencies, and evaluations for the YMCA of the USA on social connectedness, health, and aging in rural communities.

Alycia also directs work on transportation, safety, and health. She led a study for CDC to identify barriers and facilitators of older adults’ use of ride share services. For the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety, Alycia is leading a study to identify the factors that influence seat belt use, and formerly led projects to identify countermeasures for drowsy driving and evidence-based practices for traffic safety campaigns. She also serves as an advisor on a study identifying maternal transport programs for the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists. Alycia also led the development of a toolkit on access to transportation in rural communities as part of a series of Rural Evidence-Based Toolkits for the Federal Office of Rural Health Policy.

Alycia has served in a leadership role on many other cross-site evaluations that have implications for public health policy and practice. She is the chair of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine’s Transportation Research Board Subcommittee on Older Drivers. She is interim chair of the Healthy New Jersey 2030 Advisory Council, which advises the New Jersey Department of Health on topic areas and objectives for health promotion and disease prevention interventions in the state.