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Penn IUR is affiliated with more than 200 experts in the field of urbanism. Its Faculty Fellows program identifies faculty at the University of Pennsylvania with a demonstrated interest in urban research; the Penn IUR Scholars program identifies urban scholars outside of Penn; and the Penn IUR Fellows program identifies expert urban practitioners. Together, these programs foster a community of scholars and encourage cross-disciplinary collaboration.

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Monica Brezzi

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Head, Governance Indicators and Performance Evaluation Division, OECD

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    About

    Monica Brezzi is Head of the Governance Indicators Division at OECD. Her current activities focus on the analysis of regional comparative advantages and the assessment of policies to reduce inequalities in the access to key services for citizens. She has recently contributed to design a web mapping tool to help decision makers and citizens develop a better knowledge of their society using statistical information. Before joining OECD, she worked for the Ministry of Economic Development in Italy where she contributed to design and launch a performance-based policy to measure the efficiency of local public services. 

    Affiliated PhD Student

    Ryan Gross

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    PhD Candidate, Statistics and Data Science Department, Wharton School

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      About

      Ryan is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Statistics and Data Science at The Wharton School. His research involves spatiotemporal modeling of the urban environment, with a focus on Bayesian methodology. He is currently working with causal inference methods to determine the impact of vacant lot greening on outcomes such as crime rates and real estate value in the city of Philadelphia. Prior to graduate school, Ryan graduated from Rutgers University - New Brunswick, where he studied mathematics, statistics, and economics and was a member of the Men’s Cross Country and Track and Field teams. 

      Selected Publications

      Humphrey, C., Gross, R., Small, D. S., & Jensen, S. T. (2023). Using Predictability to Improve Matching of Urban Locations in Philadelphia. The Annals of Applied Statistics, 17(3), 2659–2679.

      Fellow

      Andrew F. Haughwout

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      Interim Director of Research and Head of the Research and Statistics Group

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        About

        Andy F. Haughwout is the Director of Household and Public Policy Research at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. He is the Group’s Senior Administrative Officer and a co-editor of the Liberty Street Economics blog. In addition to his duties at the Bank, he serves on a Transportation Research Board panel investigating the value of transportation spending as economic stimulus. He is a past Chair of the North American Regional Science Council and the Federal Reserve System Committee on Regional Analysis and serves on the Advisory Board of the Journal of Regional Science. Prior to joining the New York Fed, Haughwout served as Assistant Professor at Princeton University. 

        Faculty Fellow

        Shane Jensen

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        Professor of Statistics and Data Science, Wharton

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          About

          Shane T. Jensen is a Professor of Statistics in the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, where he has been teaching since completing his Ph.D. at Harvard University in 2004. Dr. Jensen has published over eighty academic papers in statistical methodology for a variety of applied areas, including biology, sports and social science. His current research interests include methodology for high-dimensional data, models for sports performance and urban analytics: the quantitative study of cities. In particular, he is interested in creating empirical measures of vibrancy and evaluating the association between the built environment and safety or health of urban neighborhoods.

          Selected Publications

          Humphrey, C., Jensen, S.T., Small, D. and Thurston, R. (2019). “Analysis of urban vibrancy and safety in Philadelphia.” Accepted for publication in Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science. arXiv:1702.07909

          Balocchi, C. and Jensen, S.T. (2019). “Spatial modeling of trends in crime over time in Philadelphia.” Accepted for publication in the Annals of Applied Statistics. arXiv:1901.08117

          Faculty Fellow

          Jennifer Pinto-Martin

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          Viola MacInnes/Independence Professor of Nursing

          Professor of Epidemiology, Perelman School of Medicine

          Faculty Fellow, Perry World House

          About

          Jennifer Pinto-Martin PhD, MPH, is the Executive Director for the Center for Public Health Initiatives and oversees all education, research, and action initiatives. She is also the Director of the recently-funded Center for Autism and Developmental Disabilities Research and Epidemiology (CADDRE). The CADDRE is one of five such centers funded by the national Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to work collaboratively to understand the causes of autism and the reasons for its recent increase in prevalence nationwide. The CADDRE is also engaged in research on early screening and identification of autism spectrum disorder (ASD), nursing care for families with children newly diagnosed with ASD, sleep disorders in children with ASD, and the psychological health of siblings of children with ASD. Dr. Pinto-Martin served as the President of the Society for Pediatric Epidemiologic Research and is currently on the Editorial Board for the journal Pediatric and Perinatal Research. She served as a special consultant to the National Institutes of Health on their research initiative on autism during 2001. Dr. Pinto-Martin teaches undergraduate “Statistics” with a focus on the real world application of statistical knowledge. In addition, she teaches an “Introduction to the Principles” and ” Methods of Epidemiology,” a course that is very popular with researchers who want to learn about the techniques of epidemiologic research.

          Selected Publications

          Konanki, R., Mishra, D., Gulati, S., Satinder, A., Deshmukh, V., Silberberg, D., Pinto, J.M., Durkin, M., Pandey, R.M., Nair, M.K.C., Arora, N.K. and INCLEN study group (in press). INCLEN Diagnostic Tool for Epilepsy (INDT-EPI) for Primary Care Physicians: Development and Validation.. Journal of the Indian Academy of Pediatrics, .

          Juneja, M., Mishra, D., Russell, P.S.S., Gulati, S., Deshmukh, V., Sagar, R., Silberberg, D., Bhutani, V.K., Pinto, J.M., Durkin, M., Pandey, R.M., Nair, M.K.C., Arora, N.K. and INCLEN study group (in press). INCLEN Diagnostic Tool for Autism Spectrum Disorder (INDT-ASD): Development and Validation.. Journal of the Indian Academy of Pediatrics, .

          Mukherjee, S., Satinder, A., Russell, P.S.S., Gulati, S., Deshmukh, V., Sagar, R., Silberberg, D., Bhutani, V.K., Pinto, J.M., Durkin, M., Pandey, R.M., Nair, M.K.C., Arora, N.K. and *INCLEN study group (in press). INCLEN Diagnostic Tool for Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (INDT-ADHD): Development and Validation.. Journal of the Indian Academy of Pediatrics, .

          Mukherjee, S., Satinder, A., Russell, P.S.S., Gulati, S., Deshmukh, V., Sagar, R., Silberberg, D., Bhutani, V.K., Pinto, J.M., Durkin, M., Pandey, R.M., Nair, M.K.C., Arora, N.K., INCLEN study group (in press). INCLEN diagnostic tool for neuro-motor impairment (INDT-NMI) for primary care physician: Development and Validation.. Journal of the Indian Academy of Pediatrics, .

          Liu, J., Wang, W., McCauley, L., Pinto-Martin, J., Wang, J., Li, L., Yan, C.H., Rogan, W. (in press). Blood lead levels and children’s behavioral and emotional problems: A cohort study.. JAMA Pediatrics.

          Karmaus W, Jetton J, Paneth N, Pinto-Martin J. (in press). Asthma prevalence is lower in multiple births compared to singletons. The Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, .

          Mahoney, A.D., Pinto-Martin, J., Hanlon, A. (2014). Home environment, brain injury, & school performance in LBW survivors.. The American Journal of Maternal Child Nursing, 39 (1), 18-25.

          Zhang, J., Mahoney, A.D., & Pinto-Martin, JA (2013). Perinatal brain injury, visual motor function and poor school outcome of regional low birth weight survivors at age nine.. Journal of Clinical Nursing, 22, 2225-32.

          Movsas, TZ, Pinto-Martin, JA, Whitaker, AH, Feldman, JF, Lorenz, JM, Korzeniewski, SJ, Levy, SE & Paneth, N. (2013). Autism Spectrum Disorder is associated with ventricular enlargement in a low birth weight population. The Journal of Pediatrics, 163(1), 73-8.

          Korzeniewski, S., Whitaker, A., Paneth, N., Lorenz, J.M., Feldman, J., Pinto-Martin, J., Pappas, A. & Levy, S. (2013). Association between Transient Hypothyroxinemia of Prematurity and Adult Autism Spectrum Disorder in a Low Birthweight Cohort: An Exploratory Study.. Paediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology, 27(2), 182-7.

          Faculty Fellow

          Vincent Reina

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          Associate Professor

          About

          Vincent Reina is an Assistant Professor in the Department of City and Regional Planning at the University of Pennsylvania.  His research focuses on urban economics, low-income housing policy, household mobility,  neighborhood change, and community and economic development. Reina's work has been published in various academic journals, such as Urban StudiesHousing Policy Debate, and Journal of Housing Economics. In 2017 he helped the City of Philadelphia develop its framework and strategy for preserving its stock of existing subsidized housing, and in 2018 worked with City of Philadelphia to write it's first citywide housing plan.  He was given the award for Best Dissertation in Public Policy and Management by the Association of Public Policy and Management (APPAM), and was recently selected for the APPAM 40 for 40 fellowship.  Reina is a 2018 Visiting Scholar at the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia, and a 2018 Lincoln Institute for Land Policy Scholar.   Reina was previously a Fellow at the Furman Center for Real Estate and Urban Policy at New York University (NYU), a Research Associate at the Lusk Center for Real Estate at the University of Southern California (USC), a Coro Fellow, and worked at the Local Initiatives Support Corporation and the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.  He holds a PhD in Public Policy and Management from USC, an MBA with a concentration in Economics and Real Estate Finance from NYU's Stern School of Business, an MSc in Comparative Social Policy from the University of Oxford, and a BS with honors in Urban Studies from Cornell University. 

          Affiliated PhD Student

          Kailey Spencer

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          Doctoral Candidate, Education Policy, Graduate School of Education

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            About

            Kailey Spencer is a PhD candidate in education policy at the University of Pennsylvania, Graduate School of Education. She has broad research interests which span policies and practices that impact public education. Her dissertation research examines student mobility in public schools, with a particular focus on comparing student mobility in traditional public and charter schools. Prior to enrolling at UPenn, Kailey received her BA from Hunter College, of the City University of New York, with concentrations in Social Research in Education and Applied Statistics. 

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