Pam Herd

Pamela Herd is the Carol Kakalec Kohn professor of social policy at the Ford School of Public Policy and a faculty associate at the Institute for Social Research’s Population Studies Center. Her research focuses on inequality and how it intersects...

Speaking with The Seattle Medium, Ford School professor Pam Herd stated paperwork and barriers to government benefits are almost always frustrating and painful. “It’s one thing to be frustrated at the DMV because you have a ton of paperwork to fill...

Pam Herd, a professor of social policy at the University of Michigan who studies administrative burdens involved in accessing government services, says barriers to health care access are especially painful."It's one thing to be frustrated at the DMV...

Pamela Herd, Ford School professor, says that disability benefits are "a category of benefits that’s most difficult to access and most misaligned with the population it’s trying to serve." Additionally, she says the system is "designed in ways that...