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Health care reform headlines Midland Lecture

Posted 04/08/2009

Lawrence D. Brown, Ph.D., will deliver the Midland Lecture titled, "Perhaps We Can: Prospects for Health Care Reform in the Age of Obama" on Tuesday (4/14), 1:45 to 3:00 p.m., 1183 Postle Hall.

Light refreshments will be served at 1:30.

Brown is professor of health policy and management at the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health. He is the author of numerous articles and books, including the recent volume (with Lawrence Jacobs), The Private Abuse of the Public Interest: Market Myths and Policy Muddles (Chicago University Press).

Brown is the former editor of the Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law and has received a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Investigator Award in Health Policy Research.

The lecture, sponsored by the College of Public Health’s Division of Health Services Management and Policy and the Center for Health Outcome, Policy and Evaluation Studies (HOPES), will explore whether current political circumstances are more conducive to reform than they were when the Clinton plan collapsed 15 years ago. Brown will also address the unique challenges confronting health care reform today.

The Center for HOPES conducts applied health services research studies to help public and private organizations evaluate clinical effectiveness, quality of care, costs of medical services, processes of care, and other investigations in the areas of health outcomes, policy, and evaluation. Our programs have a direct and strong impact on health care in both the private and public sectors. Visit the center's web site at http://cph.osu.edu/hopes.

RSVP by April 13th to Carol Smathers.

 

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