Stephanie Mercier​, Director of Strategy, Impact & Evaluation​, Corporation for Supportive Housing (CSH)​

Panelists

Sarah Gillespie​, Interim Vice President, Housing & Communities ​​Division​​, Urban Institute​​​

Sarah Gillespie is interim vice president for the Housing and Communities Division at the Urban Institute. Her research focuses on housing and homelessness, particularly examining how these issues intersect with criminal justice, health, and child welfare systems. She is leading a seven-year experimental evaluation of a supportive housing pay-for-success initiative in Denver, targeting frequent users of emergency services and the criminal justice system. Her past research also includes the evaluation of the Denver supportive housing Social Impact Bond and an evaluation of the impact of expanding supportive housing on Medicaid use and costs in Colorado.​

Sarah Hunter, PhD​, Senior Behavioral Scientist at RAND Corporation ​, Professor at the RAND School of Public Policy​

Sarah Hunter, PhD, is a Senior Behavioral Scientist at RAND and Professor at the RAND School of Public Policy.  Hunter has extensive experience examining the link between housing and health, including evaluations of initiatives in Los Angeles County, the Inland Empire (CA), and Tucson, AZ to provide supportive housing to people with chronic health conditions. Dr. Hunter also has extensive experience using HMIS, Medicaid, and other public data sources, as well as collecting survey data on health and housing needs among unsheltered populations. Hunter is also trained as an implementation scientist and has studied how federal, state and local policymaking influences the use of evidence-based practices and outcomes.  Her research has been featured in several media outlets including CNN, Forbes, Los Angeles Times, New York Times and NPR.​

Dan Treglia, PhD​, Assistant Professor​, Rutgers Center for State Health Policy​, Department of Family Medicine and Community Health, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School​

Dan Treglia is an Assistant Professor at the Rutgers Center for State Health Policy and in the Department of Family Medicine and Community Health at the Robert Wood Johnson School of Medicine. He is a health and social policy researcher focused on homelessness and parental loss and their respective impacts on health outcomes and utilization. His work includes National Institutes of Health-funded research on the impacts of homelessness and housing services on maternal and infant health, the contribution of homelessness to racial/ethnic disparities in health services outcomes, and efforts to reduce overdoses in permanent supportive housing; he also leads the evaluation of the housing component of New Jersey’s Section 1115 Medicaid Waiver. Dan earned his PhD in Social Welfare from the University of Pennsylvania’s School of Social Policy and Practice.