CHAS 2006-2007 Michael Davis Archive

November 1 - Peter Jacobson, J.D., M.P.H.

University of Michigan
Professor of Health Law and Policy
Director, Center for Law, Ethics, and Health University of Michigan School of Public Health
Title: “We Were All Sold A Bill Of Goods: Litigating The Science of Breast Cancer Treatment"
[Presentation Slides]

November 8 - Robert Frank, Ph.D.

Cornell University
Henrietta Johnson Louis Professor of Management
Goldwin Smith Professor of Economics, Ethics, and Public Policy
Johnson Graduate School of Management & Department of Economics
Title: "Are Positional Externalities Different from Other Externalities?"
Background Article [PDF]

December 6 - Philip Cook, Ph.D.

Duke University
ITT/Sanford Professor of Public Policy Duke University
Title: "Paying the Tab: The Case for Raising Alcohol Excise Taxes"
Presentation [PDF]

December 13 - Edward Berkowitz, Ph.D.

George Washington University
Professor of History and of Public Policy and Public Administration
Director, Program in History and Public Policy
Title: "The American Way of Handling Disability: A Historical Perspective."

March 12 - Richard Zeckhauser, Ph.D. (Special Monday Seminar)

Harvard University
Frank Plumpton Ramsey Professor of Political Economy
Kennedy School
Title: "Targeting in Social Programs: Avoiding Bad Bets, Removing Bad Apple"
[Presentation Slides]

March 28 - Edward Lawlor, Ph.D.

Washington University
Dean and Professor
George Warren Brown School of Social Work
Title: "Health Reform in China: reconciling history, markets, and social change"

April 4 - David Autor , Ph.D.

Ford Foundation Visiting Associate Professor of Economics, University of Chicago
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Department of Ecomomics
Tentative Title: "Do Temporary Help Jobs Improve Labor Market Outcomes for Low-Skilled Workers? Evidence from Random Assignments”
[Background Reading] with Susan Houseman

April 11 - Ellen Meara, Ph.D.

Harvard University
Assistant Professor of Health Care Policy
Department of Health Care Policy
Title: "The Impact of Changes in Public Income Assistance on Health and Economic Outcomes for Individuals with Mental Health and Substance Use Disorders"
Background Article [PDF]

April 18 - Andrew Sullivan

Atlantic Monthly, Senior Editor, Columnist/Blogger
Former Editor of the New Republic
Title: " Living Through and Beyond a Plague: HIV in America and the World"
Special SSA Lobby Event

April 25 - Greg Duncan, Ph.D.

Northwestern University
Edwina S. Tarry Professor, Education and Social Policy
Institute for Policy Research
Title: "New Hope for the Working Poor and Their Children"
[Abstract] [Presentation] [BookIntro]

May 2 - Eileen Boris, Ph.D.

University of California at Santa Barbara
Professor and Hull Chair
Women's Studies Program
Title: "Organizing Home Care: Low Wage Workers in the Nation's Health & Welfare"
[Background Article][Working Paper]

May 9 - Fred Ssewamala , Ph.D.

Columbia University
Assistant Professor of Social Work
Senior Research Fellow, New America Foundation
Title: "A Novel Economic Program Intervention to Promote Health Among Orphaned and Vulnerable Children in Sub-Saharan Africa"
[Project Link]

May 23 - Alvaro Moncayo, Ph.D.

Universidad de los Andes
Associate Researcher
Centro de Microbiologia y Parasitologia Tropical-CIMPAT
Title: "Interruption of Chagas Disease in Latin America"
[Background Article] [Presentation]

May 30 - David Holtgrave, Ph.D.

Johns Hopkins University
Professor and Chair
Department of Health Behavior & Society
Title: "What Works, and What Remains to be Done, in HIV Prevention in the United States"
[Background Article] [Presentation]