Noteworthy
Dexter Voisin appeared on WTTW's Chicago Tonight as a member of a panel discussing gun violence.
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SSA's US News Ranking: The School of Social Service Administration has solidified its US News & World Report ranking at number 3 among graduate schools of Social Work.
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Breast Cancer in Black Women May be Connected to Neighborhood Conditions: Path-breaking project led by Sarah Gehlert, Director of the Center for Interdisciplinary Health Disparities Research at the University.
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Featured Events
Professional Development Program
Summer Schedule now online
Rhoda G. Sarnat Lecture
Eileen D. Gambrill, Berkeley School of Social Welfare, The University of California
June 7th: Alumni Weekend
Harold Pollack, Ph.D.
Harold Pollack is an Associate Professor at the School of Social Service Administration, and faculty chair of the Center for Health Administration Studies. He has published widely at the interface between poverty policy and public health. His recent research concerns HIV and hepatitis prevention efforts for injection drug users, drug abuse and dependence among welfare recipients and pregnant women, infant mortality prevention, and child health. His research appears in such journals as Addiction, Journal of the American Medical Association, American Journal of Public Health, Health Services Research, Pediatrics, and Social Service Review.
Professor Pollack has been appointed to two committees of the National Academy of Sciences' Institute of Medicine. He received his undergraduate degree, magna cum laude, in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from Princeton University. He holds master's and doctorate degrees in Public Policy from the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. Before coming to SSA, Professor Pollack was a Robert Wood Johnson Scholar in Health Policy Research at Yale University and taught Health Management and Policy at the University of Michigan School of Public Health.
Sample Publications since 2002:
Schoeni, R.F., House, J.S., Kaplan, G.A., & Pollak, H.A. (Eds)). The health effects of social and economic policy. New York: Russell Sage, forthcoming.
Levine, J., Emery, C., & Pollack, H.A. 2007. "The well-being of children born to teen mothers." Journal of Marriage and the Family, 69(1): 105-122.
Pollack, H.A. 2007. "Learning to walk slow: America's partial policy success in the arena of intellectual disability." Journal of Policy History, 19(1): 95-112.
Scott, G., Thomas, S., Pollack, H.A., & Ray, B. 2007. "Observed patterns of Chicago overdose deaths 1999-2003." Journal of Urban Health, 84(2): 292-306.
Phinney, R., Danziger, S., Pollack, H.A., & Seefeldt, K. 2007. "Housing instability among current and former welfare recipients." American Journal of Public Health, 97(5): 832-837.
Pollack, H.A., Wheeler, J.R.C., Cowan, A.E., & Freed, G.L. 2007. "The impact of managed care enrollment on emergency department use among children with special health care needs." Medical Care, 45(2): 139-145.
Pollack, H.A., & Reuter, P. 2006."The implications of recent findings on the link between cannabis and psychosis." Addiction, 102: 173-176.
Reuter, P., & Pollack, H. 2006. How much can treatment reduce national drug problems? Addiction , 101(3): 341-347.
Pollack, H.A., & Reuter, P. 2006. "Welfare receipt and treatment among substance-using mothers: Did welfare reform make a difference?" American Journal of Public Health; 96(11): 2024-2031.
Martin, E.G., Pollack, H.A., & Paltiel, A.D. 2006. "Fact, fiction, and fairness: Resource allocation under the Ryan White CARE Act." Health Affairs, 25(4): 1103-1112.
Pollack, H.A., D'Aunno, T, & Lamar, B. 2006. "Outpatient substance abuse treatment and HIV prevention: An update." Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment, 30(1): 39-47.
Pollack, H.A. 2006. "Changes in the timing of SIDS deaths in 1989 and 1999: Indirect evidence of low homicide prevalence among reported cases." Paediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology, 20(1): 2-13.
Pollack, V.P., & Pollack, H.A. 2006. "Bringing Vincent home." Health Affairs, 25(1): 231-236.
Metsch, L.R., & Pollack, H.A. 2005. "Welfare reform and substance abuse." Milbank Quarterly, 83(1): 65-99.
Soliman, S., Pollack, H.A., & Warner, K.E. 2004. "Decrease in the prevalence of environmental tobacco smoke exposure in the home during the 1990s in families with children." American Journal of Public Health, 94(2): 314-320.
Pollack, H.A., Dombkowski, K.J., Zimmerman, J.B., Davis, M.M., Cowan, A.E., Wheeler, J.R., Hillemeier, A.C., & Freed, G.L. 2004. "Emergency department use among Michigan children with special health care needs." Health Services Research, 39(3): 665-692.
Strauss, R.S., & Pollack, H.A. 2003. "Social marginalization of overweight adolescents," Archives of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine, 157(8): 746-752.
Pollack, H.A., & Jacobson, P.D. 2003. "The political economy of youth smoking regulation." Addiction, 98(S1): 123-138.
D'Aunno, T., & Pollack, H.A. 2002. "Changes in methadone treatment practices: Results from a national panel study, 1988-2000." Journal of American Medical Association, 288(7): 850-856.
Pollack, H.A.., Danziger, S., Jayakody, R., & Seefeldt, K. 2002. "Substance use among welfare recipients: Trends and policy responses." Social Service Review, 76(2): 256-274.
Pollack, H.A., & Frohna, J.G.. 2002. "Infant sleep placement following the Back to Sleep Campaign." Pediatrics, 109(4): 608-614.
Pollack, H.A., Khoshnood, K., Blankenship, K., & Altice, F. 2002."The impact of needle exchange-based health services on emergency department use." Journal of General Internal Medicine, 17(5): 341-348.
Pollack, H.A., Danziger, S., Jayakody, R., & Seefeldt, K. 2002. "Drug testing welfare recipients-False positives, false negatives, unanticipated opportunities." Women's Health Issues, 12(1): 23-31.
Institute of Medicine Committee on Ryan White CARE Act: Data for Resource Allocation, Planning, and Evaluation, Measuring what matters. National Academy Press, 2003.
