“My time at PSC - at least as much as any other aspect of my training - helped prepare me for career responsibilities”
Michael Schoenbaum
Senior Advisor for Mental Health Services, Epidemiology, and Economics [C], Division of Services and Intervention Research, National Institute of Mental Health.
Research Affiliate, Population Studies Center.
Ph.D. 1995 Ecomomics, University of Michigan
Personal Notes
I live in Bethesda with my wife, Elisa Rapaport, a graphic designer and public health educator; our children, Yael and Natan; and our beagle, Rosie. We remain close with other members of my PSC cohort who live in the area, and their respective families: Emily Agree, Scott Boggess, Laura (Duberstein) Lindberg, Suzanne Duryea, Ellen Kramarow, Tim Waidmann, and Brent Wolff (when he's on this continent).
I live in Bethesda with my wife, Elisa Rapaport, a graphic designer and public health educator; our children, Yael and Natan; and our beagle, Rosie. We remain close with other members of my PSC cohort who live in the area, and their respective families: Emily Agree, Scott Boggess, Laura (Duberstein) Lindberg, Suzanne Duryea, Ellen Kramarow, Tim Waidmann, and Brent Wolff (when he's on this continent).
Research Interests
Dr. Schoenbaum’s broad interests include health and labor economics, economic development, and economic demography. He has conducted analyses of the Palestinian health system to identify policy options for improving clinical performance and economic viability; and analyses for several national trials to improve care for depression. He collaborates regularly with John Bound on projects studying disability and work.
Dr. Schoenbaum’s broad interests include health and labor economics, economic development, and economic demography. He has conducted analyses of the Palestinian health system to identify policy options for improving clinical performance and economic viability; and analyses for several national trials to improve care for depression. He collaborates regularly with John Bound on projects studying disability and work.
PSC's Influence on Career
The Palestine and Army STARRS projects are obviously very different, from each other and, in many ways, from much of my other research. (I also became involved in each somewhat serendipitously.) Still, I view both as exactly the kinds of work I hoped to do when I undertook my graduate training. My time at PSC - at least as much as any other aspect of my training - helped prepare me for the various responsibilities I have had across my career, in very tangible ways. This includes the disciplinary and substantive training I received, of course, but also my experience working with colleagues from other disciplines; as well as the training I received from presenting my work at internal seminars and external conferences, which PSC actively encouraged and supported (and other institutions in the university seemed largely indifferent to).
The Palestine and Army STARRS projects are obviously very different, from each other and, in many ways, from much of my other research. (I also became involved in each somewhat serendipitously.) Still, I view both as exactly the kinds of work I hoped to do when I undertook my graduate training. My time at PSC - at least as much as any other aspect of my training - helped prepare me for the various responsibilities I have had across my career, in very tangible ways. This includes the disciplinary and substantive training I received, of course, but also my experience working with colleagues from other disciplines; as well as the training I received from presenting my work at internal seminars and external conferences, which PSC actively encouraged and supported (and other institutions in the university seemed largely indifferent to).
Memories of PSC
When I was at PSC, it was not yet part of ISR, neither organizationally nor physically - it was still on South University, in comfortable if not very luxurious facilities. In my experience, PSC was a nice place to work. On the plus side, reasonable facilities for the mechanics of research, plus lots of interesting (and almost uniformly nice) students and faculty to interact with; with the usual caveats about recall bias, the main minuses I remember were contraband cigarette smoke in one corner and a decomposing Economic Report of the President (!) in another. All in all, quite different from the stereotypical graduate school experience of working in isolation and without support or diversion.
When I was at PSC, it was not yet part of ISR, neither organizationally nor physically - it was still on South University, in comfortable if not very luxurious facilities. In my experience, PSC was a nice place to work. On the plus side, reasonable facilities for the mechanics of research, plus lots of interesting (and almost uniformly nice) students and faculty to interact with; with the usual caveats about recall bias, the main minuses I remember were contraband cigarette smoke in one corner and a decomposing Economic Report of the President (!) in another. All in all, quite different from the stereotypical graduate school experience of working in isolation and without support or diversion.