Institute for Quantitative Social Science at Harvard University

Susan Moffitt

Scholar, The Robert Wood Johnson Scholars in Health Policy Research Program

Susan Moffitt received a Ph.D. in political science from the University of Michigan in 2005. Her research focuses on how government-sponsored knowledge creation and distribution affect policy implementation and regulation. She has co-authored work on policy implementation, and she is currently completing two book projects. One book considers government agencies' choices about secrecy and publicity and how those choices bear on the agencies' regulatory goals. The second book is a co-authored study of ambitious social policy reform and the learning such reform requires of implementers and regulatory targets.

While a scholar at Harvard, Susan's research will assess the choices the Food and Drug Administration makes to promote agency and public learning about approved drugs' safety and efficacy.