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Elizabeth Gershoff, Ph.D., a Professor of Human Development and Family Sciences, has been appointed as the Director (September 2020) of the Population Research Center (PRC) at The University of Texas at Austin. She has been an integral part of the PRC and has served as the Development Core Director and Postdoctoral Training Director.

Whether you are a policymaker or a program manager, you will need to determine if your program actually works as intended and why or why not. Dr. Cynthia Osborne, Associate Dean for Academic Strategies and director of the Center for Health and Social Policy at the LBJ School of Public Affairs, will discuss how to begin to answer the question of “Does it work?” including how to develop a strong logic model that guides the evaluation of programs. More.

CHASP Faculty Fellow and LBJ School of Public Affairs Dr. Todd Olmstead joins as health economist on $3.3 million 5-year R01 grant funded by the NIH's National Institute on Minority Health & Health Disparities on how to improve employment outcomes for unemployed persons living with #HIV/#AIDS. Learn more: https://lbj.utexas.edu/lbj-school-researcher-explores-employment-outcome... #LBJsocialpolicy

Prisons in America affect millions of lives, not just those who live and work there, but the families who are left behind. They consume a meaningful share of state budgets, house over 1.3 million people, and employ over 200,000 corrections officers in state-run correctional institutions. Yet despite the scale and impact of prisons, they are among the least transparent and most understudied public institutions in our country.