LEADERSHIP TEAM

Manoj Mohanan

Interim Director

Creed C. Black Professor of Public Policy and Interim Dean of the Sanford School of Public Policy

Manoj Mohanan is the Creed C. Black Professor of Public Policy and Interim Dean of the Sanford School of Public Policy. He is an applied microeconomist, focusing on health and development economics, with a background in medicine and public health. His research focuses on topics related to health and health care in developing countries including: performance-based contracts, measurement of provider quality and performance, social franchising, and social accountability / monitoring.  He also studies the role of subjective expectations and beliefs in health care behavior. Several of his projects feature field experiments, policy interventions and evaluations. Many of his current projects are based in India.

Meg Bittle

Assistant Director

Margaret (Meg) Bittle is the Assistant Director of Polis: Center for Politics and the Civil Discourse Project. Meg provides developmental oversight and management of programs while assisting with strategic planning for the center. Prior to her career at Duke, she worked with the Finance and Administration team at George Washington University’s School of Business. She spent three years working in higher education and interning at various political think tanks in Washington, DC before moving back to her hometown of Durham. Meg studied International Relations & Political Science, with a focus on East Asian Studies at North Carolina State University and received a Graduate Certificate in Quantitative Business Foundations at GWU.

Steering Committee

  • Nick Carnes

    Z. Smith Reynolds Distinguished Professor of Public Policy Studies

  • Mark Dalhouse

    Senior Quad Advisor - Craven, Duke Advising

  • Peter Feaver

    Professor of Political Science & Public Policy, Director of the Duke Program in American Grand Strategy

  • Kristin Goss

    Susan B. King Distinguished Professor of Public Policy

  • Polly Ha

    Associate Professor of the History of Christianity; Director of the Transformative Ideas Program

  • Asher Hildebrand

    Professor of the Practice in the Sanford School of Public Policy, E-MPA Director of Graduate Studies in the Sanford School of Public Policy

  • Bruce Jentleson

    William Preston Few Distinguished Professor of Public Policy

  • Eric Mlyn

    Lecturer in the Sanford School of Public Policy

  • Jay Pearson

    McLain Foundation Associate Professor of Public Policy

  • David Price

    Professor Emeritus of Political Science & Public Policy

  • Kenneth Rogerson

    Professor of the Practice in the Sanford School of Public Policy

  • Deondra Rose

    Kevin D. Gorter Associate Professor at the Sanford School of Public Policy

  • David Schanzer

    Professor of the Practice in the Sanford School of Public Policy

  • Chris Simmons

    Vice President for Government Relations

  • Mallory SoRelle

    Tony & Teddie Brown Associate Professor in the Sanford School of Public Policy

  • Kate Whetten

    Professor of Public Policy and Global Health, Co-Director of Duke's Sexual and Gender Minority Health Program