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| CORE SEMINAR CALENDAR 2007 - 2008 |
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Fall Semester at The Institute for Quantitative Social Science
Center for Government and International Studies, South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, Room S050 (*unless otherwise noted below)
Tuesday Lunch Meeting 12:30 - 1:30 pm (lunch available at 12:15)
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| October 2nd |
Nancy Turnbull, Senior Lecturer on Health Policy and
Associate Dean for Educational Programs, Department of Health Policy and Management, Harvard School of Public Health, "The Massachusetts Health Care Reform"
*PLEASE NOTE: THIS SEMINAR WILL MEET AT WILLIAM JAMES HALL, 33 KIRKLAND STREET, ROOM 1550, CAMBRIDGE
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| October 9th |
Radha Iyengar , Robert Wood Johnson Scholar in Health Policy Research, Cohort XIII,
"The Political Economy of Disability Insurance: Evidence of Gubernatorial Learning" |
| October 16th |
Mary Waters,
M.E. Zukerman Professor of Sociology, Department of Sociology, “Second Generation Success: Some Implications for Measurement and Public Policy.”
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| October 23rd |
Tom McGuire, Professor of Health Economics, Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School,
"Discrimination by Race/Ethnicity in Health Care Treatment"
Related Readings: "Testing for Statistical Discrimination by Race/Ethnicity in Panel Data for Depression Treatment in Primary Care" and "Editorial Columns: How Does Race Matter, Anyway?" |
| October 30th |
Susan Moffitt, Robert Wood Johnson Scholar in Health Policy Research, Cohort XIII,
"Deliberate Publicity: The Policy Impact of Public Advice in the FDA" |
| November 6th |
David Cutler,
Otto Eckstein Professor of Applied Economics and Dean for the Social Sciences, Understanding Health Differences by Education"
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| November 13th |
Margarita Alegria, Director, Center for Multicultural Mental Health Research, Cambridge Health Alliance and Professor, Psychiatry Department, Harvard Medical School
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| November 27th |
Bruce Landon,
Associate Professor of Health Care Policy and of Medicine, Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School and Practicing Internist, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
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| December 4th |
Amitabh Chandra, Assistant Professor of Public Policy, Kennedy School of Government
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| December 11th |
Ellen Meara, Assistant Professor of Health Care Policy, Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School
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Spring Semester at Department of Health Care Policy
180 Longwood Avenue, Boston, Room 224E *unless otherwise noted below
Tuesday Lunch Meeting 12:30 - 1:30 pm (lunch available at 12:15)
| February 12th |
Damon Centola, Robert Wood Johnson Scholar in Health Policy Research, Cohort XIII, "Diffusion in Social Networks: New Theory and Experiments"
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| February 19th |
Radha Iyengar, Robert Wood Johnson Scholar in Health Policy Research, Cohort XIII, "Estimating the Health Benefits of Breast Feeding," jointly authored with Martha Bailey, University of Michigan. |
| February 26th |
Wesley Yin, Robert Wood Johnson Scholar in Health Policy Research, Cohort XIII,"Medicare Part D and Negotiating Prescription Drug Prices" |
| March 4th |
Susan Moffitt, Robert Wood Johnson Scholar in Health Policy Research, Cohort XIII, "The Policy Impact of Public Advice in the FDA" |
March 6th |
Professor Peter Bearman, "Early Thoughts on the Autism Epidemic" CGIS NORTH Room N262, Knafel Building, 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, 11:00 am - 12:30 pm. Light refreshments will be served.
Peter Bearman is Director of ISERP and the Lazarsfeld Center for the Social Sciences, the Cole Professor of Social Science, Co-Director of the Health & Society Scholars Program, and Chair of the Statistics department at Columbia University |
| March 11th |
Gopi Shah Goda, Robert Wood Johnson Scholar in Health Policy Research, Cohort XIV, "Do State Tax Incentives Affect the Decision to Purchase Long-Term Care Insurance?" |
| March 18th |
Nicole Esparza, Robert Wood Johnson Scholar in Health Policy Research, Cohort XIV, "Patient Dumping: Beyond Deterrence." |
| March 25 |
Spring Break. No core seminar this week. |
| April 1st |
Laura Evans, Robert Wood Johnson Scholar in Health Policy Research, Cohort XIV, "The State Politics of Health Earmarks: Who Wins Funding? Why?" |
| April 8th |
Rodney Andrews, Robert Wood Johnson Scholar in Health Policy Research, Cohort XIV, "Mental Health and Well-Being" |
| April 15th |
Avraham Ebenstein, Robert Wood Johnson Scholar in Health Policy Research, Cohort XIV, "Does Inconvenience Explain Low Takeup of Government Programs: Evidence from Unemployment Insurance" |
| April 22nd |
Jane Calhoun, Senior Research Officer, Committee on the Use of Human Subjects in Research, Harvard University, "Human Subjects Protection: History and Current Hot Topics." Please note this seminar meets at 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, Room S050. |
| April 29th |
20th Anniversary celebration of the Dept. of Health Care Policy. Keynote Speaker: Henry Aaron,The Bruce and Virginia MacLaury Senior Fellow, Economic Studies Program, Brookings Institution, speaking on "Health Care Cost Control: Inevitable, but Not Just Yet". From 5:00pm to 5:45pm, Location TBA
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| May 6th |
Practice talks for Aspen |
| May 13th |
Practice talks for Aspen |
| May 20th |
Practice talks for Aspen |
Archived Calendars:
Core Seminar Calendar 2006 - 2007
Core Seminar Calendar 2005 - 2006
Core Seminar Calendar 2004 - 2005
Core Seminar Calendar 2003 - 2004
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