William Brandon

Emeritus Professor of Health Policy
Emeritus MMF Distinguished Professor, Political Science and Public Administration

Research interests: Health and Healthcare; Social Policy; Medicaid/Affordable Care Act; Aging; History of Health Care; Health Financing

Since retiring in December 2014, Dr. Brandon has supervised three PhD dissertations and is currently conducting a reading course (“Rethinking State and Workplace: Alternatives to Neoliberalism in Public Policy and Private Appropriation in Political Economy”) for a PPOL doctoral student. He is also serving for a second year on a CIES peer-review committee (“Public/Global Health”) evaluating Fulbright scholar applications. This is in addition to publishing multiple articles and two scholarly book chapters on public health history.

Recent Publications:

• Brandon, W. P. (2021). Federalize Medicaid to fix the Affordable Care Act: For efficiency, equity, and social justice. Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved, 32(1), 68-89.
• Brandon, W. P. (2022). Flattening epidemic curves and Covid-19: policy rationales, inequality, and racism. Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved, 33(3), 1700-1714.
• Smith III, G. H., Hampton, C., Tripp, H. L., & Brandon, W. P. (2023). Acculturation, Hispanic ethnicity, and trust: Verifying and explaining racial/ethnic differences in trust in health providers in North Carolina Medicaid. Politics and the Life Sciences, 42(1), 120-145.