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Pamela Herd

Carol Kakalec Kohn Professor of Social Policy
Pamela Herd is the Carol Kakalec Kohn Professor of Social Policy and faculty associate at the Institute for Social Research Population Studies Center. Her research focuses on inequality and how it intersects with health, aging, and policy. She is…
Pam Herd
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Don Moynihan

J. Ira and Nicki Harris Family Professor of Public Policy
Donald Moynihan is the Ford School’s J. Ira and Nicki Harris Family Professor of Public Policy. Previously he served as Georgetown University’s McCourt School of Public Policy Chair of Public Policy and the director of the La Follette School at the…
Don Moynihan

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Research, learning, and impactThe Ford School is home to or co-sponsor of a growing number of active, multi-disciplinary research centers and initiatives leveraging the knowledge and expertise across the University of Michigan. They serve as a...
Kathy Cramer
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Moynihan on disruption caused by DOGE

Mar 9, 2025 ABC News
Don Moynihan, Ford School professor, said the DOGE cuts at agencies created by Congress "is implementing an unprecedented scale of disruption.” Rather than just shrinking the government in ways conservatives have long advocated, these efforts by...
Don Moynihan
In the Media

Moynihan on DOGE employees' government salaries

Mar 4, 2025 Wired
Don Moynihan, Ford School professor, spoke about reports of DOGE employees receiving six-figure salaries from government agencies. He said, "It does seem worth understanding what these employees are being paid, especially if they are being paid...
Don Moynihan
In the Media

Moynihan on donors paying millions to dine with Trump

Mar 4, 2025 Wired
Don Moynihan, Ford School professor says his worries about donors dining with Trump is "where there doesn’t seem to be a clear line between Trump’s businesses and the presidency.” He says, “The concern is less about fundraising and more about access...
Don Moynihan
In the Media

Moynihan argues Trump's mass federal layoffs are an assertion of power

Feb 27, 2025 Associated Press
"There’s a fundamental realignment of power here," said Don Moynihan, a public policy professor at the Ford School, commenting on the mass federal firings carried out by the Trump administration. “This administration is saying we have much more...
Don Moynihan
In the Media

Concerns arise with Trump's OMB director nomination - Moynihan

Feb 4, 2025 The New York Times
Donald Moynihan, professor at the Ford School, commented on President Trump's nomination for director of the Office of Management and Budget, Russell Vought: “Vought is Trump’s Thomas Cromwell: the behind-the-scenes fixer who enables his master’s...
Don Moynihan
News

Q&A with health policy expert Pam Herd

Jan 9, 2025
Sociologist Pamela Herd joined the Ford School faculty in September 2024 as the Carol Kakalec Kohn Professor of Social Policy. Her research focuses on inequality and how it interacts with policy issues including health, aging, and administrative...
Pamela Herd
State & Hill

Faculty news, fall 2024

Dec 17, 2024
William G. Axinn is the interim director of the Ford School’s International Policy Center. He recently published “Early-life risk factors for depression among young adults in the United States general population: Attributable risks and gender...
Top row (from left to right): Sarah Cohodes, Yusuf Neggers, Morela Hernandez, Paula Lantz. Bottom row (from left to right): Katherine Michelmore, Yousif Hassan, Barry Rabe, Kevin Stange.
State & Hill

A conversation with public management scholar Donald Moynihan

Dec 17, 2024
Donald Moynihan joined the Ford School this year as the next J. Ira and Nicki Harris Family Professor of Public Policy. His research seeks to improve how government works by studying the administrative burdens people encounter in government, and he...
Don Moynihan
In the Media

Moynihan's fear Trump "punishments and purges"

Dec 11, 2024 The New York Times
The New York Times spoke with the Ford School's Don Moynihan on what can be expected from the Republican Party following the 2024 election. Moynihan shared that, "Authoritarians tend to target certain institutions to cement their control: typically...
Don Moynihan
In the Media

Moynihan: Schedule F reinterpretation unlikely

Nov 29, 2024 The Washington Post
Donald Moynihan, a professor of public policy at the University of Michigan who has studied Schedule F, said Trump’s move may go beyond the scope of the law governing the civil service and rests on a novel reading of its powers.“I don’t believe the...
Don Moynihan