Faculty

Current Research Projects

Project Title Faculty Funder

Exercise for Bone Health; Young Women with Breast

Cancer

Joan Bloom

NIH/NCI

Health Behavior, Aging, and Quality of Life; 15-year

Young Breast Cancer Survivors

Joan Bloom

NIH/NCI

Access to Care in Federally-Qualified Community

Clinics

Joan Bloom

IRLE

Costa Rican Health and Retirement Survey

William Dow

NIH

Encouraging Safe Sexual Practices Among Youth

Using Cash Rewards

William Dow

Hewlett Foundation/ Berkeley Population Ctr

Employer-level Effects of Mandated Health Benefits

in San Francisco

William Dow

CA Program on Access to Care/UC Berkeley Labor Employment Research fund/RWJ Foundation

Toward Improving Our Understanding of the Tie

Between Income and Health

William Dow

Russell Sage Foundation

Informing Public Policy Toward Binational Health

Insurance

William Dow

PIMSA

The Relationship Between Prepartum BMI, Exercise,

Weight Gain And Preterm Delivery

Sylvia Guendelman

NIH subaward

A Population Level Study Of Postpartum Depression

and Its Relationship To Maternal and Infant Health

Sylvia Guendelman

MCHB and RWJ subaward

California Health Care Associated Infection

Prevention Initiative, Phase II

Helen Halpin

BlueShield of CA Foundation

California Health Benefits Review Program

Helen Halpin

State Legislature

Coverage of Tobacco Dependence Treatments by

State Medicaid Programs

Helen Halpin

CDC

Medicare Risk Adjustment – Evaluation of Current

Approaches

John Hsu

Medicare Payment Advisory Comm (MedPAC)

Medicare Private Drug Plans – Early Selection and

Effects

John Hsu

Commonwealth

Medicare Prescription Drug Study

John Hsu

National Institute on Aging (NIA)

Models of Infections Disease Activity Study (MIDAS)

Using Comprehensive, Automated Clinical Data

John Hsu

National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS)

Information Feedback for Treatment Intensification

and Outcomes (INFO)

John Hsu

Agency for HealthcareResearch & Quality (AHRQ)

Global Infections Disease Response System

Ann Keller

NSF

Patterns of Crisis Management

Todd Laporte

Political Science Department funds

Organizational Evolution of Polar Orbiting

Environmental Satellites

Todd Laporte

Political Science Department funds

A Rigorous Evaluation Of Micro-Health Insurance In

Rural Cambodia

David Levine

AFD (French aid agency), USAID, Fung Fndn

A Rigorous Evaluation Of Solar Ovens In Senegal

David Levine

Sustainable Products and Services, UC Berkeley

A Rigorous Evaluation Of Improved Cookstoves In

Ghana

David Levine

3IE (Int’l Initiative for Impact Evaluation)

Determinants Of The Adoption And Sustained Use

Of Safe Water Products In Kenya

David Levine

Proctor and Gamble; Blum Center, UC Berkeley

Determinants Of The Adoption And Sustained Use

Of Safe Water Products In Bangladesh

David Levine

SIDA (Swedish aid agency)

A Rigorous Evaluation Of Cal-OSHA Workplace

Safety Inspections

David Levine

Labor and Employment Relations Fund, UC

Experimental Evidence on Child Health and Long-

run Outcomes in Kenya

Ted Miguel

NIH

Assessing Strategies To Make Rural Water Service

Provision Sustainable

Ted Miguel

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

Evaluating Best practices: Impact Evaluation

Training for Developing Country Health

Professionals

Ted Miguel

Leon Lowenstein Foundation

Effectiveness Of Alternative Water And Sanitation

Interventions

Ted Miguel

3IE (Int’l Initiative for Impact Evaluation)

Berkeley Center for Health Technology - 

Research re: innovation and affordability in

biotechnology and medical devices

James Robinson

Genentech

Value Purchasing for Medical Devices

James Robinson

Blue Shield of California Foundation

Economic Performance in Orthopedics and

Cardiology

James Robinson

California Healthcare Foundation

Key Factors Affecting Financial Performance Of

Safety-Net Hospitals (planning stage)

Thomas Rundall

California Healthcare Foundation

Evaluation of the Impact of the Mental Health

Services Act (MHSA)

Richard Scheffler

Department of Mental Health

National Study of Physician Organizations and the

Management of Chronic Illness II (NSPO2)

Stephen Shortell

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation/ Commonwealth Fund

The National Study of Small and Medium-Sized

Medical Practices

Stephen Shortell

subaward from Cornell University

Understanding Why Some Physician Organizations

Excel at Chronic Disease Management

Stephen Shortell

The Commonwealth Fund

Political Development over the Life-Cycle: A Long-

Term Panel Study

Laura Stoker

NSF

 

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