Simon Haeder
Simon Haeder’s Biography
Simon F. Haeder is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science in the John D. Rockefeller IV School of Policy & Politics at West Virginia University. His teaching and research interests include the public policymaking process, regulatory politics, lobbying and interest group politics, and healthcare policy.
Simon is also a Fellow in the Interdisciplinary Research Leaders Program, a national leadership development program supported by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to equip teams of researchers and community partners in applying research to solve real community problems.
His most recent work has focused on such issues as the implementation of the Affordable Care Act, provider networks, and regulatory policymaking at the Office of Management and Budget. This work has been published in the American Political Science Review, the Journal of Public Administration Research and Practice, Public Administration Review, Health Affairs, the Journal of the American Medical Association, and the Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law.
In addition, he is currently working on several projects in health policy focusing on provider networks, the implementation of the Affordable Care Act, the role of expertise in the policymaking process, the opioid epidemic, high-risk insurance pools, as well as several projects investigating regulatory politics at the president’s Office of Management and Budget and the Department of the Interior.
He is also a frequent contributor to the The Conversation, the Charleston-Gazette Mail, and the Register-Herald. His articles have been picked up by such publishers as Newsweek, Fortune, RealClearHealth, Salon, truthout, Raw Story, Huffington Post, Business Insider, the Chicago Tribune, USA Today, the Los Angeles Times, and the Associated Press.
Simon can be reached at simon.haeder@mail.wvu.edu.
You can also follow him on Twitter @SimonFHaeder