Health Policy, Community Economics: Shireen Ohadi-Hamadani, MPA ’20
"Public management, policy analysis, and CBA course work has been valuable in better executing the creation and implementation of our office’s policy and best practices."
Inspiring evidence-based policymaking
"Public management, policy analysis, and CBA course work has been valuable in better executing the creation and implementation of our office’s policy and best practices."
"I learned a great deal about how to facilitate cross-collaboration and partnerships with staff, students, and faculty which has helped me in my current role."
"What I took away from La Follette was not necessarily specific information or tools that were 'plug and play' in my career. Rather, La Follette prepared me for how to think."
"The nonprofit management skills I studied, more in a theoretical sense, help me greatly in applying them in practice."
"The La Follette School emphasizes training and education in evidence-based policy."
"My time in school here has reinforced the importance of empirical analysis in policy design and evaluation."
"I’ve appreciated meeting classmates with very different experiences (both professional and personal) who come from all over the world."
Join us on Tuesday, April 1 at 7 p.m. at the Memorial Union in Madison for a public presentation from Linda Thomas-Greenfield on The Art of Negotiation.
"I was initially drawn here by the opportunities for interdisciplinary learning, the small cohort, and the plentiful resources for UW graduate students."
"At La Follette, I developed critical skills in synthesizing policy and initiatives which I now apply to my work in communications."