Chancellor's Professor Solomon Hsiang has been awarded a 2020 Andrew Carnegie Fellowship for his work using data and mathematical models to examine whether policies can both encourage economic development and manage the global climate. He is part of a class of 27 fellows, each of whom will receive $200,000 in philanthropic support for high-caliber scholarly research in the humanities and social sciences that addresses important and enduring issues confronting our society. Etablished in 2015, the Carnegie Fellowship represents an…

When Kaiser Permanente wanted to ensure that its 700 medical facilities serving over 12 million patients were sufficiently staffed to meet the COVID-19 crisis, and that those staff had enough medical supplies and personal protective equipment, they turned to GSPP alumni Michelle Wong (MPP/MPH ’01) and Mariana Saenz (MPP/MPH ’15).  Wong and Saenz work for the Kaiser Permanente Care Management Institute (CMI), a think tank that identifies and shares successful practices for improving patient care in the eight regions…

Will there be an election in 2020? Almost certainly, agreed a panel of UC Berkeley experts in politics, public policy, cybersecurity and law. Can we predict anything else about how a bad economy, strident polarization and continuing coronavirus pandemic will shape the November election? No, not yet, the group said. Examining an array of issues, from presidential approval ratings, the Constitution, election law, unemployment rates to the security of digital voting, the scholars concluded it was still too uncertain to draw…

Recent years have witnessed a rise in the level of nationalism in many countries with tightened immigration policies and stronger governmental oversight of multinational research collaborations. At the same time, competition among countries and universities for international students has increased significantly, while the demographics of young populations in many countries are shifting. Now, the onset of an historic global pandemic, with its serious travel challenges and dramatic economic effects, raises yet another threat to the future of internationalization on U…

The panel will provide multiple perspectives on the potential financial impact of COVID 19 on California’s public colleges and universities. Panel members will include campus CEOs from the University of California and California State University system as well as from a UC Berkeley higher education researcher with experience as a CFO at multiple UC and CSU campuses. Specific topics addressed by the panelists will include the financial impact of current responses to the COVID 19 crisis including on-line instruction and…

The COVID-19 crisis has demanded a rapid rethinking of how we deliver healthcare. We spoke (virtually, of course) with GSPP alum Erin Fraher (MPP ‘93) about how to flex our nation’s healthcare workforce, her recent perspective in the New England Journal of Medicine, and how the COVID-19 crisis can inform the future of healthcare delivery. We even learned how to frame our messages to public leaders so that they will hear us, and how Fraher’s…

The COVID-19 pandemic is confronting every level of the U.S. economy with an unprecedented challenge, and the government must mount a sustained, ambitious economic response lasting months and perhaps years, UC Berkeley economists said in an online forum today. In the latest event in the Berkeley Conversations: COVID-19 series, some of the nation’s leading economists and policy experts said the effort will require expansive additional measures to relieve workers, state governments and businesses. And they agreed that…

In the second part of this series, we continue last week’s conversation with Professor Jesse Rothstein on the economic response to COVID-19 through a Q&A with Professor Hilary Hoynes, Professor of Public Policy and Economics and Haas Distinguished Chair in Economic Disparities. Last week, we discussed Congressional efforts to address the economic crisis by incentivizing businesses to retain their workers and expanding Unemployment Insurance (UI). This week, Professor Hoynes helps us understand additional…

A shorter version of this Q & A was featured by UC Berkeley News. As the US Coronavirus death continues to rise, we are reminded that the disease is, primarily and tragically, a public health crisis. But we are also clearly in the early stages of an economic crisis. We sat down with Jesse Rothstein, Professor of Public Policy and Economics and former Chief Economist at the Obama Administration Department of Labor, to discuss the economic consequences of shelter-in-place,…

UC Berkeley’s Goldman School of Public Policy ranks number one in public policy analysis, according to the US News & World Report's 2021 ranking of the best graduate schools. GSPP also ranks number three in the overall category of public affairs, up from number seven the previous year. "Public policy analysts define societal problems, evaluate solutions to them, and propose the best way to solve them,” says Dean Henry E. Brady. "Over fifty years ago, the Goldman…