Kerry Spitzer

Kerry Spitzer is the Senior Clinical Research Coordinator at the Institute for Healthcare Delivery and Population Science at Baystate Health. She holds a PhD in Urban Policy and Planning from MIT and a Masters in Public Administration from NYU Wagner. She is a mixed-methods researcher with expertise in both qualitative and quantitative methods. She received a Horowitz Foundation for Social Policy grant to support her dissertation research and was an MIT Presidential Fellow.

Her research is focused on issues related to inequality and public policy including, housing and homelessness, incarceration, and military veterans. In addition, she has worked for New York City government as a budget and policy analyst at the Independent Budget Office and as a project manager at the Department of Housing Preservation and Development. She has taught at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst in the Department of Landscape Architecture and Regional Planning.