As part of a national, leading-edge center, Nicole Maestas, the John D. MacArthur Professor of Economics and Health Care Policy, and Chair of the Department of Health Care Policy at Harvard Medical School, will lead Harvard’s participation in a new grant supporting the Rehabilitation Research and Training Center on Disability Employment Policy.
Led by Syracuse University’s Burton Blatt Institute (BBI), the $4.6 million award from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)’s National Institute on Disability, Independent Living and Rehabilitation Research (NIDILRR), will help create policy solutions for both future labor market needs and the employment of people with disabilities.
At Harvard, Maestas will collaborate with Ari Ne'eman, Assistant Professor of Health Policy and Management at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, and Health Policy Ph.D. student, Reigne Dadey. The team will focus on employment growth and labor demand, and labor policies affecting adults with Intellectual/Developmental Disabilities (I/DD).
Harvard joins other BBI partners at Rutgers, Cornell, and Mathematica, in addition to leading disability-led organizations, including the National Organization on Disability, Independent Living Research Utilization, Mental Health America, the Council of State Administrators of Vocational Rehabilitation, and the Association of People Supporting Employment First (APSE).
To read more, visit the press release at Syracuse University Today.