The COVID Impact Survey is supported by a standing, four-member advisory committee for strategic and technical advice on implementation of the project. In addition, more than 30 experts from the fields of public health, economics, and social sciences contributed to the design of the survey instrument.
Advisory Committee
Anand Parekh, MD
Anand Parekh is the Bipartisan Policy Center’s chief medical advisor providing clinical and public health expertise across the organization. Since 2015, he has led specific efforts tackling a variety of policy issues including the opioid crisis, obesity epidemic & nutrition, health & housing, domestic and global HIV/AIDS, business & public health collaboration, emergency preparedness, social isolation, rural health, and prescription drug costs.
Prior to joining BPC, he completed a decade of service at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). As a HHS deputy assistant secretary for health from 2008 to 2015, he developed and implemented national initiatives focused on prevention, wellness, and care management.
Briefly in 2007, he was delegated the authorities of the assistant secretary for health overseeing ten health program offices and the U.S. Public Health Service Commissioned Corps. Earlier in his HHS career, he played key roles in public health emergency preparedness efforts related to pandemic influenza and bioterrorism as special assistant to the science advisor to the secretary.
Parekh is an adjunct professor of health management and policy at the University of Michigan School of Public Health. He currently serves on the dean’s advisory board of the University of Michigan School of Public Health, the Presidential Scholars Foundation board of directors, and the board of directors of WaterAid America.
A native of Michigan, Parekh received a B.A. in political science, an M.D., and an M.P.H. in health management and policy from the University of Michigan. He was selected as a U.S. Presidential Scholar in 1994.
Nancy Potok, PhD
Dr. Nancy Potok is the former Chief Statistician of the United States and the Chief of Statistical and Science Policy at the U.S. Office of Management and Budget.
Previously, she served as the Deputy Director and Chief Operating Officer of the US Census Bureau (2012-2017). Dr. Potok has over 30 years of leadership experience in the public, non-profit, and private sectors. She has served as the Deputy Under Secretary for Economic Affairs at the U.S. Department of Commerce; the Principal Associate Director and Chief Financial Officer as well as the Associate Director for Demographic Programs at the US Census Bureau; Senior Vice President for Economic, Labor, and Population Studies at NORC at the University of Chicago; and the Chief Operating Officer of McManis & Monsalve Associates, a start-up business analytics and management consulting firm.
Potok is an adjunct professor at the Trachtenberg School of Public Policy and Public Administration at The George Washington University, where she has taught in the M.P.A. and M.P.P. programs since 2011. Early in her career she was a Presidential Management Fellow, an analyst on federal transportation programs at the US Office of Management and Budget, and the Deputy Assistant Director for Finance and Budget at the Administrative Office of the US Courts. Dr. Potok is also an elected Fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration.
Dr. Potok earned her B.A. at Sonoma State University, her M.A. at the University of Alabama, and her Ph.D. in public policy and administration at The George Washington University. Her doctoral area of emphasis was program evaluation, and her dissertation research focused on identifying and eliminating barriers to linking administrative and survey data in the federal environment.
Charlie Rothwell, MS, MBA
Charles Rothwell is the former Director of the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS), the Nation’s principal health statistics agency and a part of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). He became the Center’s seventh director since its inception in 1960. At NCHS, Mr. Rothwell directed a comprehensive program of statistical activities designed to monitor the health of the nation and produce the information needed for research, policy and programs.
Mr. Rothwell came to NCHS in 1987 as the Associate Director of NCHS responsible for bringing new IT and data dissemination technologies to the agency. Earlier in his career, Mr. Rothwell worked in the State Health Department in North Carolina and founded the North Carolina State Center for Health Statistics. He served as an officer in the Marine Corps reaching the rank of Captain. He is a Fellow of the American Statistical Association and the 2011 recipient of the Hal Dunn Award in Biostatistics.
Mr. Rothwell received his BS in Physics from the Virginia Military Institute, his MS in Operations Research and Systems Analysis from UNC and an MBA from University of Maryland.
Elena Manresa,
PhD
Elena Manresa is the Assistant Professor of Economis at New York University Department of Economics.
Co-Principal Investigators
Joe Willey, PhD, Data Foundation
Abigail Wozniak, PhD, Senior Fellow, Data Foundation and Economist, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis
Contributors to Survey Instrument Design
Daniel Aaronson, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
Susan Athey, Stanford University
David Autor, MIT Economics
Sandra Black, Columbia University
Jonathan Brown, Mathematica and Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health
Kathryn Edin, Princeton University
Ezra Golberstein, University of Minnesota
Andrew Goodman-Bacon, Vanderbilt University
Nick Hart, Data Foundation and George Washington University Trachtenberg School of Public Policy and Public Administration
Pamela Herd, Georgetown University
Calliope Holingue, Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health
Larwrence Katz, Harvard University
Ana Kent, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
Adriana Lleras-Muney, UCLA
Elena Manresa, New York University
Jason Markesich, Mathematica
Bhash Mazumder, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
Joe Morenoff, University of Michigan
Anand Parekh, Bipartisan Policy Center
Nancy Potok, Fmr. Chief Statistician of the United States
Robert Putnam, Harvard University
Lowell Ricketts, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
Evan Roberts, University of Minnesota
Esteban Rossi-Hansberg, Princeton University
Charlie Rothwell, Fmr. Director of the National Center for Health Statistics
Aaron Sojourner, University of Minnesota
William Spriggs, Howard University
Elizabeth Stuart, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Erin Taylor, Mathematica
Tara Watson, Williams College
Joe Willey, Data Foundation and George Washington University Milken School of Public Health
Abigail Wozniak, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis