Beth Truesdale

Beth Truesdale

Beth Truesdale

Beth Truesdale is a PhD candidate in Sociology and a doctoral fellow in Inequality and Social Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School. She has broad research interests in public policy, inequality, and labor markets. Her current research examines the relationship between evidence and early childhood policy in the U.S. and U.K. A second project investigates the causes of increasing socioeconomic disparities in health. Truesdale has collaborated with the U.K.’s Social Research Unit at Dartington on several projects designed to improve the use of evidence in services for children and families, and worked at the White House Office of Management and Budget on disability policy. Her research has been supported by Harvard’s Center on the Developing Child, the Center for American Political Studies, the Weatherhead Center, and the Tobin Project. Before coming to Harvard, Beth worked in London, leading teams of analysts in creating reports that helped to shape U.K. public policy. She studied at St. Olaf College and the University of Oxford, where she was a Rhodes Scholar.

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