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Health Politics and Policy

The organized section on Health Politics and Policy provides the ideal infrastructure in which members can more thoroughly, efficiently arm themselves with the additional expertise we need to explore health politics and policy questions.  The Section will define “health politics and policy” just as broadly as the phrase implies. Everything from the politics of Medicare Part D to the politics of women’s health; everything from comparative politics of AIDS in Africa, Eastern Europe, and South Asia to the comparative state politics of Medicaid and SCHIP, everything from the ethics of end of life decisions to the regulation of stem cell research, everything from public budgeting and regulation to public health disaster preparedness – all these and more fall with the scope of the Section.


2011 - 2012 Officers

President:
Rogan Kersh
New York University
Wagner School
295 Lafayette St
New York NY 10012
rk79@nyu.edu

President-Elect:
Deborah Stone
Dartmouth College
Government
HB 6108
Silsby Hall
Hanover NH 03755
deborah.stone@dartmouth.edu

Secretary:
Michael K. Gusmano
Columbia University
Health Policy and Management
600 West 168th Street
New York NY 10032
gusmanom@thehastingscenter.org

Treasurer:
Miriam J. Laugesen
Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health
Department of Health Policy & Management
722 W. 168th St
New York NY 10032
ml3111@columbia.edu

2012 Program Chair:
Deborah Stone
Dartmouth College
Government
HB 6108
Silsby Hall
Hanover NH 03755
deborah.stone@dartmouth.edu

Newsletter Editor of "OSHPP News "
Sue Tolleson-Rinehart, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Executive Council:
Rick Mayes, University of Richmond
Dagmar Radin, Mississippi State University
Joseph White, Case Western Reserve University
Daniel Cohn, York University

 

 


 

Awards


The Len Robins Best Paper on Health Politics and Policy Award, which was approved at the Section’s business meeting during the 2011 APSA annual meeting in Seattle, honors the late Len Robins, who through his presence and gentle questioning at virtually every health politics panel graciously nurtured the scholarship of both junior and senior scholars. 

Each year’s award will recognize the best paper on any subject that fits under the rubric of health politics and policy that was presented at the previous annual APSA meeting. All papers presented at panels sponsored or cosponsored by the OSHPP are eligible for consideration, and may be nominated by panel chairs and discussants. All other substantively appropriate papers presented at panels organized by other sections, divisions, and related groups are also eligible, if the authors made an electronic version available on-line. 

The first Robins Award will be conferred at the OSHPP business meeting during the 2012 APSA annual meeting in New Orleans, and will recognize a paper delivered at the 2011 annual meeting.

Award Committee Chair:
Mark A. Peterson
University of California, Los Angeles
UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs
3250 Public Affairs Bldg
Los Angeles CA 90095-1656
markap@ucla.edu

Award Committee Members:
Julia Abelson
McMaster University
Clinical Epidemiology & Biostatistics
1280 Main Street West
CRL Bldg 228
Hamilton ON L8S 4K1
Canada
abelsonj@mcmaster.ca

James A. Morone
Brown University
Political Science
Box 1844
36 Prospect St
Providence RI 02912
james_morone@brown.edu