Fellows & Distinguished Chairs
McCormack Graduate School of Policy and Global Studies Fellows
Padraig O'Malley, John Joseph Moakley Chair of Peace and Reconciliation: International Peace-broker
Nigel Hamilton, Senior Fellow: Award-winning Historical Biographer
Rosemarie Day, Visiting Fellow: Health Policy Specialist
Fellows at Our Centers and Institutes
Center for Social Policy
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The Center for Governance and Sustainability
Our fellows' expertise includes, among others:
| Business responses to climate change | Natural resource management & economics |
| Environmental physics and laser spectroscopy | Sustainable use of environmental resources |
| Global governance systems | Water management |
| International policy and trade | Whistleblowing |
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Center for Peace, Democracy, and Development
Our fellows' expertise includes, among others:
| Democratic political behavior | Legal & electoral reform |
| Human & minority rights | Politics & public policy |
| International affairs & foreign policy | Refugee & immigration law & policies |
| International political economy | Rule of law |
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Gerontology Institute
Our fellows' expertise includes, among others:
| Elder housing & assisted living | Needs assessment |
| Families in later life | Productive aging & older workers |
| Grandparenthood | Retirement & economic security |
| Health & long-term care | Transportation |
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McCormack Graduate School of Policy and Global Studies Fellows
Visiting Fellow Rosemarie Day: Health Policy Specialist
Rosemarie Day is the President of Day Health Strategies, a consulting firm specializing in the implementation of health reform. She served as the first Deputy Director and Chief Operating Officer for the Commonwealth Health Insurance Connector Authority. In this role, she was responsible for developing the operational strategy to implement many of the key pieces of Massachusetts’ landmark health care reform legislation. She joined the Connector as its second hire in July of 2006.
Prior to joining the Connector, Ms. Day served as Chief of Staff to the Dean of the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard. Ms. Day has over 16 years of leadership experience in Massachusetts state government. She served as the Chief Operating Officer for the MassHealth program which provides Medicaid coverage to one million people in Massachusetts. Prior to that, she served as an Assistant Secretary of Administration and Finance, ran the state’s Child Support Enforcement Program, and was the Budget Director for the Department of Transitional Assistance.
Ms. Day holds an AB in Public Policy from Stanford University, and she graduated from Harvard’s Kennedy School in 1992 with a Master in Public Policy.
Nigel Hamilton: Award-winning Historical Biographer
Nigel Hamilton is one of Britain’s most distinguished biographers and a recipient of the Whitbread Prize for Biography and the Templer Medal for Military History. Mr. Hamilton was elected as President of BIO, Biographers International Organization and hosted their inaugural conference at UMass Boston in May 2010. His latest book is American Caesars, a biography of the last twelve US presidents.
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His books include
■ The Brothers Mann
■ Monty, a three-volume work on the life of Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery
■ Bill Clinton, a two-volume biography
■ best-selling JFK: Reckless Youth, which was made into an ABC miniseries
He has also published two works on the history and practice of biography. Hamilton became the first professor of biography in Britain, at De Montfort University.
Padraig O'Malley: International Peace-broker
Padraig O'Malley is the John Joseph Moakley Distinguished Professor for Peace and Reconciliation
Awards
■ Liberal International Freedom Prize Award, 2008
■ Eire Society of Boston's Gold Medal, 2008
■ International Association of University Presidents Peace Award, 1985
■ Chancellor's Award for Distinguished Scholars, 1985
■ International Association of University Presidents Peace Award, 1983
"Peace hustler Padraig O'Malley doesn't just give peace a chance -- he spends years and even decades working at it . . . " Scott Liebs, UMass Alumni Magazine, January 2010
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