Congratulations, New Scholars!

Lori Beaman,: Economics
Tim Büthe,: Political Science
Cybelle Fox,: Sociology
John Friedman,: Economics

News

May 2007: Anthony Chen publishes, "The Party of Lincoln and the Politics of State Fair Employment Practices Legislation in the North, 1945-64" in the American Journal of Sociology.
April 2007: Alexandra Kalev's groundbreaking new study that shows employee diversity training does not work is featured in Time Magazine.
August 2006: Naomi Murakawa receives the Best Dissertation Award from the American Political Science Association's Race, Ethnicity, and Politics section.
August 2006: Robert Mickey receives the American Political Science Association's E.E. Schattschneider Award for the best doctoral disseration in the field of American Government.
April 2006: Anthony Chen publishes,"The Hitlerian Rule of Quotas: Racial Conservatism and the Politics of Fair Employment Legislation in NY State, 1941-45."

Seminar Series Archives

American Health Care System Seminar

Fall 2007

Reader Volume I
Reader Volume II
Reader PDF
AHCS Seminar List PDF

August 28: Joan Bloom
“Overview of the U.S. Health System: Access, Costs, Quality, and Outcomes of Care”
August 30: No Seminar – American Political Science Association Conference
September 4: Thomas Rundall
“The Problem of the Uninsured in the U.S.”
September 6: Stephen Shortell
“Variation in Quality and Outcomes of Care”
September 11: John Ellwood
“Health Programs Budgeting at the National Level”
September 13: William Dow
“Health Savings Accounts”
September 18: Richard Scheffler
“How Do We Know When We Have Too Many or Too Few Doctors?”
September 20: Ralph Catalano
“Long-Term Care and Mental Health”
September 25 1:30pm-3:00pm: Jodi Halpern
“Ethical Considerations in Health Care”
(with RWJF Health & Society Scholars)
September 27: Harold Luft
“Getting to Where You Want to Be, But Doing It the Hard Way: Employment-Based Financing vs. Employment-Based Coverage”
October 2: Charlene Harrington
“Long Term Care Research and Policy Issues”
October 4: Wade Aubry
“Issues in Health Technology, Comparative Effectiveness, & Coverage with Evidence Development”
October 9: Joan Bloom
Richard Scheffler
“Summary, Feedback, and Wrap-up”
October 11 2:00pm-5:00pm: Daniel Dohan
“From Theory to Practice in American Health Policy Research: The Role and Perceived Need for Transdisciplinary Approaches”
November 13 10:00am-12:30pm: Carroll Estes
Helene Lipton
UCSF Session: “Medicare Reform, with Emphasis on Medicare Part D” tentative title)

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