Gary Hoover is the Executive Director of The Murphy Institute and Professor of Economics at Tulane University. His research focuses on the intersection of economics, race, and public policy. Since 2012, he has served as co-chair of the American Economic Association Committee on the Status of Minority Groups in the Economics Profession. He is also the current and founding editor of the Journal of Economics, Race and Policy, past Vice-President of the Southern Economic Association, and a fellow of CESifo Group Munich.

The meeting is open only to members of the Health Policy Working Group.

Haibin Jiang is a 2020-2022 Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Economics and The Murphy Institute. Before joining Tulane, he received a Ph.D. in Economics from Clemson University. He is an applied microeconomist with interests in labor and public economics. His work focuses on tax subsidy policy, child care, the female labor supply, and education.  He is currently studying the effects of the Child Care Tax Credit policy in the United States and its impact on maternal labor supply and children's well-being. 

Conference will feature economists and public health experts from institutions across the US, who will present their research in two main areas: (1) pharmaceuticals and health and (2) information, behavior, and competition in health markets.

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David O’Brien is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy and a faculty member at Murphy Institute. In 2022-23 he was Faculty Fellow-in-Residence at the Edmond & Lily Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard University. Professor O'Brien received his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and specializes in political philosophy and normative ethics.  His academic interests also include applied ethics, the philosophy of education, and metaethics. 

Shyam Nair is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Arizona State University and a 2019-2020 Center for Ethics and Public Affairs Faculty Fellow at the Murphy Institute. His research focuses on the intersection of ethics (especially normative ethics, practical reason, and metaethics), epistemology, and philosophical logic.

Benjamin Rossi is a 2019-2020 Center for Ethics and Public Affairs Faculty Fellow at the Murphy Institute. He previously taught philosophy at the University of Cincinnati, Miami University, University of Texas at El Paso, Holy Cross College, and the University of Notre Dame. He specializes in ethics, with a particular focus on meta-normativity, with additional interests in the philosophy of law, free will and moral responsibility, the ethics of blame, and political philosophy.

Amandine Catala is an Associate Professor of Philosophy and Canada Research Chair on Epistemic Injustice and Agency at University of Quebec at Montreal and a 2019-2020 Center for Ethics Faculty Fellow at the Murphy Institute. Her primary research interests are in feminist philosophy and epistemology, social and political philosophy, and philosophy of race, and include topics such as epistemic injustice, territorial rights, secession, annexation, colonialism, self-determination, indigenous issues, migration, cultural minorities, and deliberative democracy.