Media Resources

Faculty director of the UChicago Center in Beijing, Dali Yang is a leading expert on the politics of China’s development, particularly regulation, governance and state-society relations. 

William G. Howell is an expert on the American presidency. He is the author of Relic: How Our Constitution Undermines Effective Government—and Why We Need a More Powerful Presidency (2016).

Harold Pollack has published widely at the interface between poverty, policy and public health. He is co-director of The University of Chicago Crime Lab.

A leading scholar in the economic analysis of health policy, Katherine Baicker studies public and private health insurance, with a focus on finance and the effect of reforms on quality of care. 

Allen Sanderson is an authority on sports and economics, and studies the economic impact of big ticket events such as the Olympics, the Super Bowl and the World Cup. 

Sociologist Kathleen Cagney examines social inequality and its relationship to health. She can discuss how isolation will affect older adults, and steps people can take to support friends and neighbors. 

About 33 million people do not have paid sick leave in the US. Marci A. Ybarra, an expert on poverty and inequality, can discuss what needs to be done now so that workers can afford to stay home when they are sick. 
 

A former chair of President Barack Obama's Council of Economic Advisers, Austan Goolsbee’s research activities center on the internet, tax policy and business decisions, capital investment and government policy.

Jennifer Mosley can discuss factors – including the lack of sanitation and already stressed immune systems – that put homeless people at greater risk for coronavirus, and steps that can be taken to protect them.

Steven Neil Kaplan conducts research on issues in private equity, venture capital, entrepreneurial finance, corporate governance and corporate finance.