IGPA engages a wide range of policy-oriented faculty across the University System who collaborate within focused working groups. Each of these groups is comprised of dozens of faculty researchers representing each of the three System universities. As questions arise in both the public sphere and academia, IGPA scholars use the latest research methods and work together to evaluate current affairs, ask tough questions, and identify possible solutions.
Members of this working group engage in research and formulate policies promoting justice, inclusion, equity, and fullest life chances, through innovative and often interdisciplinary lenses.
Kathryn Lee Baynes Dallenbach Professorship in Liberal Arts and Sciences | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
rubymen@illinois.edu View ProfileCo-Lead, Equity, Justice, and Human Flourishing Working Group; COVID-19 Task Force
skim49@uic.edu View ProfileAffiliation | Assistant Director School of Public Health (UI Health) | University or Illinois Chicago |
macosta4@uic.edu |
Affiliation | Research Scientist Carle Illinois | University of Illinois Urbana Champaign |
fadibu2@illinois.edu |
Affiliation | Director Institute of Disability and Human Development | University or Illinois Chicago |
kkeiling@uic.edu |
Affiliation | Director, Clinical Assoc Prof, Immigration Law Clinic, College of Law | University of Illinois Urbana Champaign |
laronson@illinois.edu |
Affiliation | Professor and Director of the Institute for Juvenile Research, Department of Psychiatry, College of Medicine | University of Illinois Chicago |
atkins@uic.edu |
Affiliation | Asst to the Assoc Vice Chancellor, Office of the Vice Chancellor for Health Affairs | University of Illinois Urbana Champaign |
afb@uic.edu |
Affiliation | Assistant Director, Education Policy, Organization and Leadership | University of Illinois Urbana Champaign |
baker44@illinois.edu |
Affiliation | Director, Discovery Partners Institute | University of Illinois System |
megbates@illinois.edu |
Affiliation | Associate Professor, Departments of Political Science and Statistics, College of Liberal Arts & Sciences | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign |
jwbowers@illinois.edu |
Affiliation | Associate Dean, Carle Illinois College of Medicine | University of Illinois Urbana Champaign |
jhbreit@illinois.edu |
Affiliation | Research Professor and Director of Special Projects, Gies School of Business | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign |
jlcheng@illinois.edu |
Affiliation | Division Director and Professor, Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, School of Public Health | University of Illinois Chicago |
lconroy@uic.edu |
Affiliation | Professor and Director of the Center on Mental Health Services Research and Policy, Department of Psychiatry, College of Medicine | University of Illinois Chicago |
jcook@uic.edu |
Affiliation | Assistant Professor, Agricultural and Consumer Economics | University of Illinois Urbana Champaign |
jwcoppes@illinois.edu |
Affiliation | Assistant Professor, College of ACES, Human Development & Family Studies | University of Illinois Urbana Champaign |
cuthbert@illinois.edu |
Affiliation | Founder/Executive Director, Education | University of Illinois Urbana Champaign |
tracy@dreaam.org |
Affiliation | Pampered Chef, Ltd., Endowed Chair in Family Resiliency, Professor and Director of the Family Resiliency Center | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign |
dariotis@illinois.edu |
Affiliation | Assistant Professor, Disability and Human Development (UI Health) | University of Illinois Chicago |
yeisen2@uic.edu |
Affiliation | Primary Affiliation: Equity, Justice, and Human Flourishing Working Group Department of Political Science, College of Liberal Arts & Sciences | University of Illinois Chicago |
ejfagan@uic.edu |
Affiliation | Associate Professor, Political Science | University of Illinois Chicago |
aleka@uic.edu |
Affiliation | Senior Associate Dean, Center for Healthy Work, School of Public Health | University of Illinois Chicago |
lforst@uic.edu |
Affiliation | Research Associate Professor and Director of the Children and Family Research Center, School of Social Work | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign |
t-fuller@illinois.edu |
Affiliation | W. Russell Arrington Professor of State Politics, Department of Political Science, College of Liberal Arts & Sciences | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign |
bjgaines@illinois.edu |
Affiliation | Chief of Staff, Carle Illinois College of Medicine | University of Illinois Urbana Champaign |
rgarciat@illinois.edu |
Affiliation | Assistant Professor, School of Social Work | University of Illinois Urbana Champaign |
rcgarthe@illinois.edu |
Affiliation | Adjunct Research Asst Professor, Disability and Human Development (UI Health) | University of Illinois Chicago |
mgelder@uic.edu |
Affiliation | Dean Professor School of Public Health |
wgiles@uic.edu |
Affiliation | Clinical Assistant Professor, Public Administration | University of Illinois Springfield |
bgoul2@uis.edu |
Affiliation | Associate Professor, Department of Urban and Regional Planning, College of Fine & Applied Arts | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign |
agreen4@illinois.edu |
Affiliation | Dean/Professor, College of Social Work | University of Illinois Chicago |
cfh@uic.edu |
Affiliation | Associate Professor, School of Social Work | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign |
rherna17@illinois.edu |
Affiliation | Director, Institute for Policy and Civic Engagement, College of Urban Planning and Public Affairs | University of Illinois Chicago |
jhoereth@uic.edu |
Affiliation | Associate Professor, Dept of History | University of Illinois Urbana Champaign |
rhogarth@illinois.edu |
Affiliation | Clinical Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology | University of Illinois Urbana Champaign |
hughesc@illinois.edu |
Affiliation | Director, Albert E. Jenner, Jr. Memorial Law Library and Clinical Professor of Law, College of Law | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign |
fjone@illinois.edu |
Affiliation | Sweeney Professor of Basic Sciences and Head, Department of Physiology & Biophysics, College of Medicine | University of Illinois Chicago |
kitaj@uic.edu |
Affiliation | Associate Vice Chancellor for Research and the Savithri and Samuel Raj Professor of Pediatrics, Executive Vice-head of the Department of Pediatrics, College of Medicine | University of Illinois Chicago |
jonklein@uic.edu |
Affiliation | Associate Director, Family Resiliency Center | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign |
bkoester@illinois.edu |
Affiliation | Professor, Department of Sociology, College of Liberal Arts & Sciences | University of Illinois Chicago |
krysan@uic.edu |
Affiliation | Executive Director, Center for State Policy and Leadership | University of Illinois Springfield |
mehle01s@uis.edu |
Affiliation | Research Specialist, Children and Family Research Center | University of Illinois Urbana Champaign |
clanda@illinois.edu |
Affiliation | Associate Professor, Anesthesiology, College of Medicine (UI Health) | University of Illinois Chicago |
leehelen@uic.edu |
Affiliation | Deputy Associate Director, National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) | University of Illinois Urbana Champaign |
jonglee1@illinois.edu |
Affiliation | Program Assistant, Carle Illinois College of Medicine | University of Illinois Urbana Champaign |
samyral2@illinois.edu |
Affiliation | Distinguished Professor and Director of Institute for Research on Race and Public Policy, Department of Sociology, College of Liberal Arts & Sciences | University of Illinois Chicago |
aelewis@uic.edu |
Affiliation | Associate Professor, School of Social Work | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign |
jliechty@illinois.edu |
Affiliation | Senior Advisor to the Vice Chancellor for Research, Office of Research Development | University of Illinois Chicago |
wjm7@uic.edu |
Affiliation | Associate Dean for Equity and Inclusion and Professor, Department of Population Health Nursing Science, College of Nursing | University of Illinois Chicago |
aliciak@uic.edu |
Affiliation | Albert E. Jenner, Jr. Professor of Law and Director of the Program in Constitutional Theory, History, and Law, College of Law | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign |
mazzonej@illinois.edu |
Affiliation | Community & Economic Dev Educator, Illinois Extension | University of Illinois Urbana Champaign |
rmedley@illinois.edu |
Affiliation | Associate Director, Office of Research Development | University of Illinois Chicago |
mileym@uic.edu |
Affiliation | Lead Research Programmer, National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) | University of Illinois Urbana Champaign |
cmnavarr@illinois.edu |
Affiliation | Professor, Educational Psychology and African American Studies | University of Illinois Urbana Champaign |
helen.neville1@gmail.com |
Affiliation | Clinical Instructor, Pediatric Dentistry (UI Health) | University of Illinois Chicago |
knoorula@uic.edu |
Affiliation | Associate Professor, Women & Gender in Global Perspectives Program, College of Liberal Arts & Sciences | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign |
bogolsky@illinois.edu |
Affiliation | Associate Professor, College of Urban Planning and Policy | University of Illinois Chicago |
bkparker@uic.edu |
Affiliation | Professor, Department of Urban and Regional Planning | University of Illinois Urbana Champaign |
rpendall@illinois.edu |
Affiliation | Assistant Clinical Professor, UIC College of Law | University of Illinois Chicago |
epiekarz@uic.edu |
Affiliation | Associate Professor, School of Social Work | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign |
tlpowell@illinois.edu |
Affiliation | Interim Associate Director, Institute of Government and Public Affairs, Associate Professor, Department of Economics, College of Liberal Arts & Sciences | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign |
epowers@illinois.edu |
Affiliation | Professor, Department of Psychology, College of Liberal Arts & Sciences | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign |
bwrobrts@illinois.edu |
Affiliation | Alum, UIUC & UIC |
jrossmph@gmail.com |
Affiliation | Professor, College of Law | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign |
karowell@illinois.edu |
Affiliation | Associate Dean, UIC Law | University of Illinois Chicago |
schwinn@uic.edu |
Affiliation | Design Strategist, Population Health Sciences Program | University of Illinois Chicago |
rsherr4@uic.edu |
Affiliation | Assistant Dean and Program Leader, Community and Economic Development | University of Illinois Extension |
asilvis@illinois.edu |
Affiliation | Research Director, Center for State Policy and Leadership | University of Illinois Springfield |
Phone | 217-206-8109 |
asimm2@uis.edu |
Affiliation | Director, Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies | University of Illinois Urbana Champaign |
gsin@illinois.edu |
Affiliation | Assistant Professor, Department of African American Studies | University of Illinois Urbana Champaign |
bobbyjs2@illinois.edu |
Affiliation | Research Associate Professor and Director of the Urban Transportation Center, Institute for Environmental Science and Policy, College of Urban Planning and Public Affairs | University of Illinois Chicago |
sriraj@uic.edu |
Affiliation | Professor, College of Social Work, Office of the Vice-Chancellor for Health Affairs | University of Illinois Chicago |
jaswartz@uic.edu |
Affiliation | Director, Siebel Center for Design | University of Illinois Urbana Champaign |
rswitzky@illinois.edu |
Affiliation | Associate Director, Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies | University of Illinois Urbana Champaign |
szremski@illinois.edu |
Affiliation | Associate Professor, Health Population Nursing Science (UI Health) | University of Illinois Chicago |
etarlo1@uic.edu |
Affiliation | Professor and Head, Department of Urban Planning and Policy, Director of the Center for Urban Economic Development, College of Urban Planning and Public Affairs | University of Illinois Chicago |
theodore@uic.edu |
Affiliation | Assistant Professor, Art & Design | University of Illinois Urbana Champaign |
Nthomas5@illinois.edu |
Affiliation | Dean Emerita, College of Nursing | University of Illinois Chicago |
teweaver@uic.edu |
Affiliation | Associate Professor, School of Social Work | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign |
kwegmann@illinois.edu |
Affiliation | Professor, Department of Psychiatry, Director of the Center for Global Health, College of Medicine | University of Illinois Chicago |
smweine@uic.edu |
Affiliation | Associate Dean for Research and Professor, School of Social Work | University of Illinois Chicago |
lwindsor@illinois.edu |
Affiliation | Executive Director of the Center for Professional Responsibility in Business and Society and Adjunct Professor, College of Business | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign |
gwinter@illlinois.edu |
Affiliation | Associate Professor, School of Social Work | University of Illinois Urbana Champaign |
cfangwu@illinois.edu |
Affiliation | Director, Voorhees Center for Neighborhood and Community Improvement | University of Illinois Chicago |
yittazel@uic.edu |