Brown served as former chair of the Mailman School’s Department of Health Policy and Management for 10 years and Columbia University’s Public Policy Consortium for three years. He is the author of Politics and Health Care Organizations: HMOs as Federal Policy and of articles on the political dimensions of community cost containment, expansion of coverage for the uninsured, national health reform, the role of analysis in the formation of health policy, and cross-national health policy.

Rosner is the author of Deceit and Denial: The Deadly Politics of Industrial Pollution, Deadly Dust, Silicosis and the Struggle for Workers’ Health, Children, Race and Power: Kenneth and Mamie Clark’s Northside Center and other books and articles. He is the recipient of a Robert Wood Johnson Investigator Award. In addition to numerous grants, he has been a Guggenheim Fellow, a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow and a Josiah Macy Fellow.

Shapiro’s latest research efforts look at American national policy-making, political leadership and opinion from 1960 to the present. He has studied and written on myriad aspects of American politics, including public opinion and campaign finance; Latino attitudes toward U.S. military service; and public opinion and civility in the United States.

Sparer studies and writes about the politics of health care, with an emphasis on the politics of public insurance programs, including Medicaid and Medicare, and ways that intergovernmental relations influence health policy. He served for seven years as a litigator for the New York City Law Department, specializing in intergovernmental social welfare litigation.

Warren specializes in the study of inequality and American politics, specifically the political organization of marginalized groups. His research and teaching interests cover ethnic politics, labor politics, urban politics, American political development, social movements and social science methodology. At Columbia, he also is affiliated with the Institute for Research in African-American Studies and the Institute for Social and Economic Research and Policy.