Arkaprava Deb
Arkaprava Deb will be joining the Health Policy Center as a visiting fellow for the 2010-2011 academic year. He holds an M.D. from the NYU School of Medicine and a Masters in Public Administration from New York University's Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service. He is a preventive medicine resident at the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health and an intern at Bassett Healthcare.
Dr. Deb previously worked for the U.S. Senate Committee on Finance—Majority Health Team, the NYC Office of Citywide Health Insurance Access, and the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
William T. Gormley
William T. Gormley served as interim dean at the Georgetown Public Policy Institute and is the codirector of the Center for Research on Children in the United States. He received his Ph.D. in political science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and is a leading expert in government reform, public management, childcare, and education.
Dr. Gormley is the author of nine books and is planning a new book on children, preschool, and pre-K. As a visiting fellow at Urban Institute, he will be developing joint projects with the Center on Labor, Human Services, and Population.
Sherrie A. Kossoudji
Sherrie A. Kossoudji will be focusing on immigration issues as a visiting fellow in the Center on Labor, Human Services, and Population. She earned her Ph.D. in economics from the University of Michigan and currently works at the university as an associate professor in the School of Social Work and an adjunct associate professor in the Department of Economics.
Dr. Kossoudji’s work focuses on wealth disparities and immigrants in the United States, the link between legal status and economic outcomes, and immigrant children, particularly orphans adopted from other countries.
Shinwon Kyung
Housing and urban planning expert Shinwon Kyung will be a visiting fellow in the Metropolitan Housing and Communities Policy Center from July through December. Dr. Kyung has a Ph.D. in urban and regional studies from the University of Birmingham, United Kingdom. She will be researching international comparisons regarding distressed neighborhoods, effects on youth, and neighborhood revitalization.
Dr. Kyung previously worked as a lecturer in comparative housing for the Center for Urban and Regional Studies at the University of Birmingham and as an associate research fellow at the Korea Housing Institute in South Korea.
Yap Mui Teng
Yap Mui Teng will be joining the Center on Labor, Human Services, and Population as a visiting fellow. She is a senior research fellow at the Institute of Policy Studies, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore (NUS), where she works on demographic and family issues. She is also an associate at the Asia Research Institute, NUS.
Dr. Yap has a Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Hawaii. Previously, she worked for the Population Planning Unit of Singapore’s Ministry of Health and the Research and Evaluation Unit of the Singapore Family Planning and Population Board. Her current research interests are policy responses to low fertility in Singapore and elsewhere and policies on aging populations, migration, and poverty alleviation.
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