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Colleen M. Grogan, Ph.D.

Coleen Grogan

- Biography
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Biography

Colleen M. Grogan is an Associate Professor in the School of Social Service Administration at the University of Chicago. Her fields of special interest include health policy and health politics, the American welfare state, comparative state-level policy and politics, and empirical studies of participatory decision making processes.

Professor Grogan has a recent book (2008) with coauthor Michael Gusmano titled Healthy Voices/Unhealthy Silence: Advocacy and Health Policy for the Poor (Georgetown University Press). This book considers a central question: why do able advocates fight to participate in a deliberative advisory process, and choose not to publicly discuss topics of great concern?

Her second book project examines the political history of the Medicaid program-our largest health care program in the U.S. This book attempts to explain changes in legislation and political discourse over time, examines policy feedbacks within the program, and assesses Medicaid's potential to act as a stepping stone to universal coverage in the U.S.

Coleen Grogan

Professor Grogan joined the SSA faculty in 1999 after serving as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Epidemiology and Public Health at Yale University, where she also held a joint appointment with the Institution for Social and Policy Studies. Prior to that she completed post-doctoral work at the University of California-Berkeley and conducted a year of independent study on urban health insurance reform in P.R. China. Professor Grogan graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Madison with a B.A. in Sociology, and earned a Ph.D. in Health Services Research and Policy from the University of Minnesota. She is a recipient of the Robert Wood Johnson Health Policy Investigator Award.

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Publications
  • Grogan, C.M. & Gusmano, M.K. In press. The voice of advocates in health care: Policymaking for the poor. Journal of Health and Social Policy.
  • Grogan, C.M. & Smith,V. In press. "From charity care to Medicaid": Governors, states, and the transformation of American health care. In A more perfect union, ed. E. Sribnick. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.
  • Grogan, C.M. 2008. "Medicalization of long-term care": Weighing the risks. In Handbook of long-term care administration and policy, eds. C.M. Mara & L. Katz Olson. New York: CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group.
  • Grogan, C.M. 2008. "Medicaid": Health care for you and me? In Health politics and policy, eds. J. Morone, T. Litman & L. Robins. New York: Delmar Thompson.
  • Grogan, Colleen M. and Michael K. Gusmano. 2007. Healthy Voices/Unhealthy Silence: Advocacy and Health Policy for the Poor. Washington DC: Georgetown University Press.
  • Grogan, C.M. 2006. "A marriage of convenience": The history of nursing home coverage and Medicaid. In Putting the past back in: History and health policy in the United States, eds. R.A. Stevens, C.E. Rosenberg & L.R. Burns. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press.
  • Grogan, C.M. 2005. "The politics of aging within Medicaid." In The new politics of old age policy, ed. R.B. Hudson. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press.
  • Grogan, C.M. & Gusmano, M.K. 2005. Deliberative democracy in theory and practice: Connecticut's Medicaid managed care council. State Politics & Policy Quarterly 5(2).
  • Grogan, C.M. & Patashnik, E. 2005. "Medicaid at the crossroads." In Healthy, wealthy and fair: Health care and the good society, eds. L. Brown, L. Jacobs & J. Morone. New York: Oxford University Press.
  • Kandula, N.R., Grogan, C.M., Rathouz, P.J. & Lauderdale D.S. 2004. The unintended impact of welfare reform on the Medicaid enrollment of eligible immigrants. Journal of Health Services Research 39(5): 1509-1526.
  • Grogan, C.M. & Patashnik, E. 2003. Between welfare medicine and mainstream program: Medicaid at the political crossroads. Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law 28(5): 821-858.
  • Grogan, C.M. & Patashnik, E. 2003. Universalism within targeting: Nursing home care, the middle class, and the politics of the Medicaid program. Social Service Review 77(1): 51-71.
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