Research Team

Marjorie L. Baldwin (Principal Investigator)

Professor

Department of Economics

W. P. Carey School of Business

Arizona State University

Professor Baldwin is a health economist with an international reputation for her research on labor market discrimination and employment issues facing workers with disabilities. She is the author/co-author of more than 50 articles and book chapters on these topics. Since her son was diagnosed with schizophrenia in 1999, much of her research has focused on workers with serious mental disorders. In 2016, Professor Baldwin published a book, Beyond Schizophrenia: Living and Working with a Serious Mental Illness, in which she tells her story as the parent of a young man with schizophrenia, and challenges our mental health system to provide appropriate care for people with serious mental illness, and adequate support for the families who care for them.  

Steven C. Marcus (Co-investigator)

Research Associate

School of Social Policy and Practice

University of Pennsylvania

Professor Marcus is an epidemiologist, statistician, and computer scientist who studies the treatment, outcomes, and quality of care provided to vulnerable patients, including patients with mental illness. He has been a principal investigator and served as a research methods and statistical consultant on a wide variety of NIH-funded grants that have led to hundreds of scholarly publications in leading academic journals. He has worked closely with Dr. Baldwin for more than 20 years and has collaborated with her on a wide variety of projects and resulting publications that focus on serious mental illness in the workplace.  

Rebecca M. B. White (Co-investigator)

Associate Professor

T. Denny Sanford School of Social and Family Dynamics

Arizona State University

Professor White holds degrees in Community Health (MPH) and Family and Human Development (PhD). Her research focuses on health and wellness across the lifespan, including investigations about how different settings and contexts (like schools, neighborhoods, organizations) influence individuals’ health and wellness. She employs diverse methods in her research and brings specific training and expertise relative to combining open-ended interviewing techniques with survey data to inform improved understandings and practices.  She knows from personal experience that people with serious mental illnesses, like schizophrenia, can and do work. She hopes that, by gathering data from a lot of people about this topic, the current project can support others as they make critical workplace and employment decisions related to their mental wellbeing.