Seminar Series, UM-RWJ



	School of Public Health Bldg. II, Rm. M3024 3:00 PM to 4:30 PM 2007-2008 Academic Year Fall October, 18, 2007 Lawrence Gostin, Ph.D. Associate Dean for Research and Academic Programs Director, Center for Law and Public's Health Linda and Timohty O'Neill Professor of Global Health Law Georgetown University Law Center "Hot Topics in National and Global Health" November 1 , 2007 Matthew Neidell, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Health Policy and Management Mailman School of Public Health Columbia University "The Labor Market Returns to Teeth" November 8, 2007 Rodney Hayward, M.D. Professor Deparment of Internal Medicine Professor, Department of Health Management and Policy Director, VA HSR& D Center of Excellence Director, RWJ Clinical Scholars Program University of Michigan "NIH-Certified Snake Oil: A Fundamental Barrier to Improving Healthcare" November 29, 2007 Daniel Eisenberg, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Health Management and Policy University of Michigan "Peer Effects and Smoking, Drinking, and Sex Among Eighth Graders" December 6, 2007 Renee Anspach , Ph.D. AssociateProfessor of Sociology Associate Professor of Women's Studies, LSA Adjunct Associate Professor of Social Work, SSW University of Michigan "Creepy Crusade: Jack Kevorkian and the Symbolic Politics of the Assisted Suicide Movement" Winter January 10, 2008 Charles Bosk, Ph.D. Department of Sociology University of Pennsylvania "The Same Mistake Twice" January 17, 2008 Daniel Silverman, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Department of Economics University of Michigan "Sources of Advantageous Selection: Evidence from the MediGap Insurance Market" January 31 , 2008 Carl Simon , Ph.D. Director, Ctr for the Study of Complex Systems Professor, Department of Economics/Mathematics and School of Public Health University of Michigan "A Complex Systems Approach to Studying the Spread of HIV" February 21 , 2008 Jasjeet S. Sekhon , P.D. Associate Professor Travers Department of Political Science University of California-Berkeley "Evaluating Public Health Care Programs and Clinical Interventions Using a New Non-Parametric Matching Method" March 13 , 2008 Gary King, Ph.D. David Florence Professor of Government Harvard University March 20 , 2008 Kevin Frick , Ph.D. Associate Professor Department of Health Policy and Management Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health March 27, 2008 Sandra Levitsky Ph.D. Postdoctoral Research Fellow Department of Sociology University of Michigan April 3 , 2008 Peter Bearman , Ph.D. Jonathan Cole Professor of Social Sciences Department of Sociology Columbia University April 24 , 2008 Ana Roux , Ph.D. Professor of Epidemiology Faculty Associate, Survey Research Center, ISR University of Michigan 2006-2007 Academic Year Current Topics in Health Policy in the U.S. Theodore Marmor, Ph.D. Yale University. Pay for Performance: In Practice and Research. Tammie Nahra, Ph.D. University of Michigan. Less Poverty and Worse Health? Evidence and Speculations on the Fortunes of US Black Women at the Turn of the Millennium. Arline Geronimus, Sc.D, University of Michigan. Is Mortality in Developing Countires Procyclical? Health Production and the Value of Time in Colombia's Coffee-Growing Regions. Grant Miller, Ph.D., Stanford University. Unaffordable: The Price of Life and the Costs of New Cancer Therapies. Peter Ubel, M.D. University of Michigan. Citizen's Health Care Working Group: A Report from the Field. Catherine McLaughlin, Ph.D., University of Michigan. The Diffusuion of Local Antismoking Policies. Charles Shipan, Ph.D. University of Michigan. Social Movements for Environmental Justice and Public Health. David Pellow, Ph.D., University of California, San Diego The Influence of Early-Life Events on Human Capital, Health Status, and Labor Market Outcomes Over the Life Course. Robert Schoeni, Ph.D., University of Michigan. Reinsuring Health: Why More Middle-Class People Are Uninsured and What Government Can Do. Katherine Swartz, Ph.D., Harvard University. You're Not You: Caregiver Autonomy and Disability Politics. Lynn Sanders, Ph.D., University of Virginia. The Siren Song of Autonomy: Professions, Culture, and the Ethics of 'Maternal Request' Surgical Birth. Raymond DeVries, Ph.D., University of Michigan. Social Class Health and Mortality Differentials: Are There Important Selection Effects? Alberto Palloni, Ph.D., University of Wisconsin. 2005-2006 Academic Year Hot Topics in US Health Policy. Len Nichols, Ph.D., New America Foundation. Welfare Consequences of Hospital Mergers. Robert Town, Ph.D. University of Minnesota. Family and Sibling Change after an Unintended Birth. Jennifer Barber, Ph.D., University of Michigan. The Debate Nobody Wanted: The Politics of European Union Health Policymaking. Scott Greer, Ph.D., University of Michigan. Peer Pressure: Hospital Market Mix and Service Provision. Jill Horwitz, MPP., JD., Ph.D., University of Michigan. Charity Care, Risk Pooling, and the Decline in Private Health Insurance. Michael Chernew, PhD., University of Michigan. Lobbying for (and against) Public Health. Rick Hall, Ph.D., University of Michigan. The Role of Information in Medical Markets: An Analysis of Publicly Reported Outcomes in Cardiac Surgery. Mary Beth Landrum, Ph.D., Harvard University. FAT POLITICS: The Real Story Behind America's Obesity Epidemic. Eric Oliver, Ph.D., University of Chicago. The Delegation of Care from Health Professionals to Relatives in Pediatrics Asthma: Articulation Work and Opportunity Costs. Stefan Timmermans, Ph.D., Professor of Sociology, University of California Los Angeles. Geography and Racial Health Disparities. Amitabh Chandra, Ph.D., Harvard University. Social Disparities in BMI Trajectories Across the Life Course: A Convergence in Risk? Philippa Clarke, Ph.D., University of Michigan. 2004-2005 Academic Year Current Issues in Health Policy. Sara Rosenbuam, J.D., The George Washington University Medical Center. When Germs Travel: Six Major Epidemics That Have Invaded America Since 1900 and the Fears They Have Unleashed. Howard Markel, M.D., Ph.D., University of Michigan. Men Retire When Health Declines, Women do Not. Amy Pienta, Ph.D., University of Michigan. Technology Adoption from Hybrid Corn to Beta Blockers. Douglas Staiger, Ph.D., Dartmouth College. Food Spending and Obesity Among Single Mothers in the 1990s. Helen Levy, Ph.D., University of Michigan. Job Security and Health Outcomes in the United States. Sarah Burgard, Ph.D., University of Michigan. The Impact of Civil War on Public Health. Paul Huth, Ph.D., University of Michigan. Manufacturing Desire: The Ethics of Pharmaceutical Drug Development and Marketing. Jennifer Fishman, Ph.D., Case Western Reserve University. The Sick and the Sinful: Morality, Politics and Health. James Morone, Jr., Ph.D., Brown University. The Shifting Engines of Medicalization. Peter Conrad, Ph.D., Brandeis University. 2003-2004 Academic Year Health Services Research and Health Policy. Carolyn M. Clancy, M.D., Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. Assessing the Impact of SSRI Antidepressants on Popular Notions of Depressive Illness. Jonathan Metzl, M.D., Ph.D., University of Michigan. The Effect of Cigarette Excise Taxes on Smoking Before, During and After Pregnancy. Michael Grossman, Ph.D., The City University of New York. Stress, Life Events and Socioeconomic Disparities in Health. Paula Lantz, Ph.D., University of Michigan. The Effects of Permanent Partial Disability on Employment and Earnings. Robert Schoeni, Ph.D., University of Michigan. Socioeconomic Disparities in Health and Aging: Evidence from a Nationally Representative Longitudinal Sample Between 1986 and 2001/2. James House, Ph.D., University of Michigan. Testing for Statistical Discrimination in Health Care. Thomas G. McGuire, Ph.D., Harvard Medical School. Who Influences U.S. Policy? The Limits of Democracy and Implications for American Health Policy. Larry Jacobs, Ph.D., University of Minnesota Twin Cities. The Effect of Insurance on Access to Medical Care: Results from an Audit Study. Helen Levy, Ph.D., Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Michigan. Assistant Professor, University of Chicago. The Resources that Matter: Fundamental Causes of Health Disparities and the Challenge of Intelligence. Bruce Link, Ph.D., Columbia University. The Ethics of Engagement and Detachment: Emotions in Medical Decision Making. Renee Anspach, Ph.D., University of Michigan. Metaphorical Reasoning and Democratic Deliberation About American Health Policy. Mark Schlesinger, Ph.D., Yale University. 2002-2003 Academic Year Medical Care in Canada and the United States: The Political Understanding of Mutual Misapprehension Across the Border. Ted Marmor, Ph.D., Yale University. Snap Back: The Dynamic Effects of a Co-payment Increase on the Utilization and Expenditures of Outpatient Prescription Drugs. Teresa Gibson, Ph.D., University of Michigan. The Science & Politics of “Report Cards” for Provider Quality & Costs. Rodney Hayward, M.D., University of Michigan. Medical Technology and Health Disparities. Dana Goldman, Ph.D., RAND Corporation. The Impact of State CHIP Programs on Early Childhood Health Insurance Coverage. Julie Cullen, Ph.D., University of Michigan. How Much Does Death Matter? Attention to Disease in the Public Arena. Elizabeth Armstrong, Ph.D., Princeton University. How Corporate Chains are Transforming the Nursing Home Industry: Lessons from the Last 10 Years. Jane Banaszak-Holl, Ph.D., University of Michigan. African Americans and Mental Disorder: Implementing DSM Criteria in the Hospital and Community. Woody Neighbors, Ph.D., University of Michigan. Price and the Health Plan Choices of Retirees . Tom Buchmueller, Ph.D., University of California– Irvine. Benefits of and Barriers to Large Medical Group Practice in the United States. Kelly Devers, Ph.D., Center for Studying Health Systems Change. Symbols and Advocacy. Frank Baumgartner, Ph.D., Penn State University. For Love Nor Money: The Commodification of Care. Deborah Stone, Ph.D., Dartmouth College.