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Health & Welfare Policies

Countries around the world create policies to promote healthy, well-educated, and well-nourished populations, but not all policies are created equal and UCSC researchers are interested in what makes them different and what their divergent outcomes are in terms of health and well-being.

We know that social protection varies widely across countries. Some countries provide free and high-quality healthcare and education, as well as a minimum income to all citizens. Others provide meager benefits to few citizens, and enforce harsh exclusions from healthcare and welfare services on migrants. In some countries the state is the main provider of social protection, while in others it is private-sector providers or the family that have more prominent roles.

We are interested in how these variations shift over time, particularly in the context of globalization and all the associated forms of pro-market policy-making that are widely understood and critiqued in terms of ‘neoliberalism’. Comparisons of social, welfare and healthcare policies in the U.S. and Western Europe with those in Latin America, Eastern Europe, and East Asia also therefore interest our faculty as indicators of broader shifts both towards and away from neoliberal norms.

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Alicia RIley

Alicia Riley

Assistant Professor

Sociology

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Andrea Steiner

Andrea Steiner

Continuing Lecturer

Community Studies

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Anjuli Verma

Assistant Professor

Politics

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Brent Haddad

Brent Haddad

Professor

Environmental Studies

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Carlos Dobkin

Carlos Dobkin

Professor

Economics

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Chris Benner

Chris Benner

Professor/Director, Inst. for Social Transformation & Everett Program

Env. Studies & Sociology

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David Bernick

David Bernick

Assistant Adjunct Professor

Biomolecular Engineering

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Grant Hartzog

Grant Hartzog

Professor, Associate Dean

Molecular, Cell, & Developmental Biology

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Heather Bullock

Professor and Director of the Blum Center

Psychology Department

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James Doucet-Battle

Associate Professor

Sociology

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Jamie Morse

Assistant Professor

Sociology

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Jennifer Maytorena Taylor

Jennifer Maytorena Taylor

Associate Professor

Film and Digital Media

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Juan Manuel Pedroza

Assistant Professor

Sociology

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Magy Seif El-Nasr

Magy Seif El-Nasr

Professor, Vice Chair

Computational Media

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Mary Beth Pudup

Mary Beth Pudup

Associate Professor

Community Studies

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Matt Sparke

Professor

Politics, Executive Director of Global and Community Health

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Megan Moodie

Associate Professor

Anthropology

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Melissa L. Caldwell

Professor

Anthropology

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Muriam Haleh Davis

Assistant Professor

History

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Neda Atanasoski

Neda Atanasoski

Professor

Feminist Studies

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Nirvikar Singh

Distinguished Professor

Economics

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Ravi Rajan

Professor

Environmental Studies

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Rebecca London

Associate Professor

Sociology

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Sara Niedzwiecki

Assistant Professor

Politics

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Shelly Grabe

Shelly Grabe

Professor

Psychology

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Thomas Serres

Assistant Professor

Politics

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