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Mathematica's Ann Arbor Office Set for Expansion
New Location Offers Natural Synergy with University of Michigan
Contact : Joanne Pfleiderer, (609) 275-2372, or
Catherine McLaughlin, (734) 794-1122
ANN ARBOR, MICH. (May 1, 2008)—Mathematica Policy Research, Inc., is set to expand its new office in Ann Arbor, Michigan, which opened in January 2008. The proximity of the new office to the University of Michigan presents exciting employment and teaming opportunities as Mathematica® gears up to offer its full array of services in this new location.
With more than 600 employees at its three offices in Princeton, N.J., Washington, D.C., and Cambridge, Mass., Mathematica, which is celebrating its 40th anniversary as one of the nation’s premier social policy research companies, focuses on rigorous empirical applied research on issues and policies that confront government and foundation decision makers. Evaluations of large multi-site program demonstrations are a key feature of its portfolio. Mathematica’s staff includes research, survey, data collection, and administrative support professionals.
At an open house on May 6 in the Ann Arbor office, company president Paul Decker will discuss Mathematica’s growth plans in southeast Michigan. With a focus on evaluations of a wide range of federal, state, and private health, education, and poverty programs across the country and internationally, Mathematica's research complements the educational and research emphasis of many University of Michigan academic units, including the Schools of Education, Medicine, Public Health, and Public Policy, and research centers such as the Population Studies Center, the National Poverty Center, and the Institute for Social Research.
Catherine McLaughlin, a Mathematica senior fellow and a professor in the Department of Health Management and Policy at the University of Michigan, directs the Ann Arbor office. A nationally recognized expert in health insurance, managed care, and market competition, she is an elected member of the Institute of Medicine and the National Academy of Social Insurance, a member of the Council on Health Care Economics and Policy and the American Hospital Association's Health Research and Educational Trust, and serves on the editorial board of the journal Health Services Research. She directs the Economic Research Initiative on the Uninsured (ERIU), a seven-year initiative funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to initiate and disseminate research to spark new policy discussions of health coverage issues. She has a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Wisconsin. Mary Harrington, a Mathematica senior researcher until 2002 who is receiving her Ph.D. from the University of Michigan this year, is the associate director of Health Research.
“New jobs are always good news for a community,” said McLaughlin. “We anticipate growing to 12 to 15 employees within the first two years. Two researchers from Mathematica’s Cambridge and D.C. offices have relocated here, and we just hired a recent Ford School of Public Policy graduate. Another new researcher who will be joining us is moving to the area and hopes to pursue a Ph.D. in economics at the University of Michigan. Bringing Mathematica to Ann Arbor enhances the university's ability to recruit exceptional doctoral students and to retain faculty interested in engaging in large-scale evaluations.”
Mathematica, a nonpartisan firm, conducts policy research and surveys for federal and state governments, foundations, and private-sector clients. The employee-owned company has conducted some of the most important studies of health care, disability, early childhood policies, welfare, education, employment, and nutrition programs in the U.S. Mathematica strives to improve public well-being by bringing the highest standards of quality, objectivity, and excellence to bear on the provision of information collection and analysis to its clients.