Faculty and Researchers with STS Interests - Profile

Ann Keller
Assistant Professor, School of Public Health
University of California, Berkeley


Email: annk@berkeley.edu

Ann Keller is an assistant professor of Health Policy and Management at the School of Public Health and received her Ph.D. in political science from Berkeley. Her research focuses on the use of scientific and technical expertise in public decision making. She has published in the Public Administration Review on the question of institutional stability in managing long-lasting, hazardous wastes. Her work on the political frames operating in the debate surrounding weapons plutonium disposition appears in The Non-Proliferation Review. Currently, Keller is working on a book manuscript that examines scientists' participation in the policy-making processes for acid rain and climate change. In a related study, she is researching organizational strategies for maintaining credibility and relevance in applying scientific expertise to political decision-making. Recently, she has begun a study of the development and maintenance of expertise at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in the face of shifting trends in national morbidity and mortality. Her teaching areas include environmental politics and health policy in the United States; public administration and organization theory; and science and technology policy.

Website: http://ist-socrates.berkeley.edu/~hptp/rwjf_past.htm#AK

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