Public Policy Professor Emeritus David Salkever has coauthored a new article in the journal Administration and Policy in Mental Health and Mental Health Services Research. 

In his research, Dr. Salkever and his coauthors used Social Security Disability Benefits application data, local area economic characteristics, benefits receipt information, and interviews to predict the likelihood of applicants denied disability benefits to enroll in the Supported Employment Demonstration study, run by the Social Security Administration.

Public Policy Ph.D. alumna Dr. Xiaobei Dong and professors Dr. Tim Gindling and Dr. Nancy Miller have published a new article in the Disability and Health Journal.  

The research, which was the focus of Dr. Dong's dissertation work at UMBC's School of Public Policy, examines the impact of Affordable Care Act Medicaid expansion on people with disabilities - including health insurance coverage, access, and service use for working-age adults with disabilities. 

Public Policy Professor Emeritus Tim Brennan publishes a piece criticizing the recent expansion of antirust enforcement as a policy tool.

Last week, Public Policy Professor Mir Usman Ali was featured in a news segment in which he was interviewed about his research on citizen oversight of police. 

The story comes from Fox47 in East Lansing, MI where they recently established such a police oversight commission.

Read the article and watch the interview here.

In his recent article for the Technology Policy Institute, Public Policy Professor Emeritus Tim Brennan discusses Section 230 of the Telecommunications Act of 1996 , which protects internet platforms from liability for users' content.

This provision has been in the news lately as the focus of a civil suit filed by former president Trump against multiple internet platforms like Facebook and Twitter for suspending his accounts.

Read more here.

Read more here. 

Public Policy Professor Emeritus Tim Brennan suggests in an opinion piece that to decrease science denial policy, policymakers should use values and ethics as well as science to make policy choices. He acknowledges that while science helps policymakers choose the right policies, but it alone cannot dictate all policy.

Read more in The Regulatory Review. 

Read the essay here.

Public Policy Professor Fernando Tormos-Aponte has won an NSF-sponsored award through the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR).  

Through the grant, Dr. Tormos-Aponte will examine political drivers, dynamics, and consequences of social vulnerability to weather disasters, including the link between weather-related power outages and mortality.  Insights from this research will inform decision-making about allocation of disaster response resources.

Congratulations Dr. Tormos-Aponte!

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