Ross A. Hammond, Director of CSDP, Senior Fellow, Economic Studies
Ross A. Hammond is a senior fellow in Economic Studies at the Brookings Institution, where he is director of the Center on Social Dynamics and Policy. His primary area of expertise is modeling complex dynamics in economic, social, and public health systems using mathematical and computational methods from complexity systems science. His current research topics include chronic disease prevention, obesity etiology, tobacco control, implementation science, food systems and food security, policy models, developmental and neurobiological approaches to food choice, social norms and social contagion, health disparities, behavioral epidemiology, and decisionmaking.
Matt Kasman, Assistant Research Director of CSDP
Matt Kasman is the assistant research director at the Center on Social Dynamics and Policy at Brookings. He has a background in computer science, software engineering, and policy analysis. He has applied complex systems science approaches to understand the impact of policies and practices across a wide range of topics in public health and is a pioneer in using these methodologies in the field of educational policy. His current research interests include childhood obesity prevention efforts, food systems, nutrition, physical activity, financial literacy, school choice, college enrollment, teacher labor markets, educational equity, tobacco regulatory policy, and adaptive decisionmaking.
Carol Graham, Senior Fellow, Economic Studies
Carol Graham is a senior fellow in Economic Studies at the Brookings Institution, a College Park Professor at the University of Maryland, and a senior scientist at Gallup. Graham is the author of numerous books and has published articles in leading journals. She is senior editor of Behavioral Science and Policy, an associate editor at the Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, and on the editorial boards of numerous other economic journals. She served on a National Academy of Sciences panel on well-being metrics and policy in 2012-13 and received a Pioneer Award from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation in 2017 as well as a Lifetime Distinguished Scholar award from the International Society of Quality of Life Studies in 2018.
Bobby Innes-Gold, CSDP Research Programmer
Bobby Innes-Gold is a research programmer for the Center on Social Dynamics and Policy at Brookings. He received his undergraduate degree in Math and Statistics from Amherst College in 2022. He previously worked in a data role at a market research firm.