Prof. Pamela Herd, Ph.D.

Pamela Herd is the Carol Kakalec Kohn Professor of Social Policy and faculty associate at the Institute for Social Research Population Studies Center. Her research focuses on inequality and how it intersects with health, aging, and policy. She is also an expert in survey research and biodemographic methods. She is currently one of the Co-Principal Investigators for General Social Survey, an Investigator with the Wisconsin Longitudinal Survey, and Chair of the NIH Data Advisory Board for the National Study of Adolescent Health.

Pamela Herd is a Visiting Fellow at CAS LMU in June 2026 upon invitation of Dr. Fabian Pfeffer (LMU) in the context of the CAS Research Focus The Future of Bureaucracy.