CHAS 2005-2006 Michael Davis Archive

October 5 - Peter Reuter, Ph.D.

University of Maryland
Professor, School of Public Policy and Department of Criminology
Director, Program on the Economics of Crime and Justice Policy
Title: "Heroin Maintenance: Is a U.S. Experiment Needed?"
[PDF]

October 19 - Greg Scott , Ph.D.

DePaul University
Assistant Professor
Department of Sociology
Title: "Chicago Overdose Deaths 1999-2004"
[PPT Presentation] [PPT Maps]

 October 26 - Sandra Danziger, Ph.D.

University of Michigan
Director, Michigan Program on Poverty and Social Welfare Policy
Professor, School of Social Work
Research Professor, Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy
Title: "All you need is work? welfare policy and the needs of low income single mother families"
Background reading: [PAPER 1] [PAPER2]

Presentation: [PDF]

November 2 - Jill Quadagno, Ph.D.

Florida State University
Mildred and Claude Pepper Eminent Scholar
Department of Sociology
Title: "Why the U.S. Has No National Health Insurance "
Background reading: [PDF] Presentation: [PDF]

November 9 - Dr. Mindy Fullilove, M.D.

Columbia University
Professor of Clinical Psychiatry and Public Health, Sociomedical Science
Title: "Habitat Instability and Human Health"
Visit: www.findtherivers.org and www.rootshock.org

November 22 - Nicholas Christakis, M.D., Ph.D.

Harvard Medical School
Professor of Medical Sociology
Co-director of the Robert Wood Johnson Scholars in Health Policy program at Harvard University
Title: "Health Externalities: How Illness and Health Care in One Spouse Affects the Survival of the Other"
Background Papers: [PAPER1] [PAPER2]

December 7 - Colleen Grogan , Ph.D.

University of Chicago
Associate Professor
Faculty Chair, Graduate Program in Health Administration and Policy
Title: "Are Vulnerable Groups Helped or Hindered by Medicaid's Reach into the Middle-Class?"

March 29 - Robyn Gershon, Ph.D.

Columbia University
Associate Professor
Mailman School of Public Health
Sociomedical Science
Title: "High Rise Building Evacuation: Lessons Learned from the World Trade Center Disaster"
[PDF]

April 5 - Nancy Wolff, Ph.D.

Rutgers University
Director, Center for Mental Health Services & Criminal Justice Research
Professor, Department of Urban Studies, E.J. Bloustein School of Planning and Policy
Title: "Sexual and Physical Victimization Inside Prison: Does Mental Illness Matter?"

April 10 - Eric Oliver , Ph.D.  

University of Chicago
Associate Professor of Political Science
Title: "Fat Politics: the Making of America's Obesity Epidemic"

April 19 - Elizabeth M. Armstrong, Ph.D.

Princeton University
Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs
Assistant Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs
Faculty Associate, Office of Population Research
Faculty Associate, Center for Health and Wellbeing
Title: "Whose Deaths Matter?: Mortality, Advocacy and Attention to Disease in the Mass Media 1980-1998"
[PDF]

April 26 - Marie Gottschalk, Ph.D.

University of Pennsylvania
Political Science
Associate Professor of Political Science
Title: "The Shadow Welfare State Five Years Later: Business, Labor, and the Future of Health Care Reform"

May 3 - James Morone , Ph.D.

Brown University
Political Science
Professor of Political Science and Urban Studies
Title: "Hellfire Nation: The Sick and the Sinful in American Politics"

May 10 - Marsha Mailick Seltzer, Ph.D.

University of Wisconsin
Director, Waisman Center
Vaughan Bascom Professor of Social Work
Title: "An Unanticipated Life: The Impact of Parenting a Child with Developmental Disabilities or Mental Illness"
[PDF]

May 17 - Paula Lantz, Ph.D.

University of Michigan
Associate Professor, Health Management and Policy
Chair, Health Management and Policy
Research Associate Professor, Survey Research Center, ISR
Title: "Process versus Outcome in Treatment Decisions for Breast Cancer"
[PDF]