Teaching

Office Hours

Fall 2025: Tuesdays 10 am - 12 noon & Wednesdays 10 - 11 am
>> By Zoom (link will be sent when appt is confirmed)
>> Make appointments online

Advice for Students

Professor Andrew Abbott's Aims of Education address to University of Chicago students (a little long but worth the read)

Author Michael Lewis’ 2012 Baccalaureate speech to Princeton University students

Student Research Opportunities

USC Schaeffer Center for Health Policy and Economics Fellowships (Graduate) and Research Assistantships (Undergraduate and Graduate)

You may also contact me directly about possible research projects. Student research assistants who work with me have usually completed statistics/econometrics and programming coursework (e.g., Python, Stata, R).

Student Undergraduate Research Experience (SURE) for USC undergraduate Public Policy students

USC Provost’s Undergraduate Research Fellowships

Course Syllabi

PPD 202

Health and Health Care in America Today (UG)
with Dana Goldman, PhD

PPD 325

Fundamentals of Health Policy and Management (UG)

PPD 514

Economic Concepts Applied to Health (G)

HCMG 250 • 850

The American Health Care System: Policy, Politics, and Reform (UG/G) with Ezekiel Emanuel, MD PhD, and Amol Navathe, MD PhD

HCMG 101

Health Care Systems (UG)

PBHL 852

Health Economics I (G)

PBHL 853

Health Economics II (G)

PBHL 508

Health Care Data Analytics (G)

HSMP 7607

Methods in Health Services Research (G)

PBHL 3030

Health Policy (UG)
with Sharon Devine, JD PhD