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Associate Professor of Public Policy, University of Maryland

• AREAS OF EXPERTISE
— Global politics (ie, large-scale change over long periods)
— Domestic governance and political behavior (especially from an evolutionary perspective)
— Human health and environmental policy
— United States health policy
— Bioethics
— Sustainability (as an aspiration and a field)
— Disease and disaster in the developing world

• AB, History, Dartmouth College
• MD, College of Medicine, University of Cincinnati
• Fellow, American Academy of Family Physicians
• Fellow, American Academy of Pediatrics
• PhD, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University
• Refugee camp physician, Thai-Cambodian border
• Associate Professor, University of Maryland School of Public Policy
• Founding Co-Director, University of Maryland Sustainability Minor
• Author, PROFESSION OF CONSCIENCE: THE MAKING AND MEANING OF LIFE SCIENCES LIBERALISM (Princeton University Press)
• Editor-in-Chief (2001-2008; 2015-2016), POLITICS AND THE LIFE SCIENCES, a Cambridge University Press journal

Experience

  • 2001–present
    Associate Professor, University of Maryland School of Public Policy