UW Dept of Health Services Policy Seminar Series:
Seminars for 2008
Though primarily intended for UW faculty and staff, all are welcome to the policy seminar series. The series often features discussions in a Point/Counterpoint format. The full list of seminar titles, topics, and speakers is available here.
--November 24, 2008 | 12:00 - 1:20pm | HSB H-670--
"Post-Election Analysis: What Might 'Change' Really Mean For Health Care?"
Director, Federal Relations and Policy
Group Health Cooperative
Diana Birkett's slides
--March 19, 2008 | 12:00 - 1:20pm | HSB H-670--
"Investing in Health: Is Education Better Than Medicine?"
Policy Director
Washington Health Foundation
Document: OFM Talking Points
Ann Daley's HECB slides
Maxine Hayes' determinants of health slides
--March 5, 2008--
"Spillover Effects: A Motivation for Large-Scale Health Care Reform?"
Assistant Professor, Department of Health Services
University of Washington
Slides
--February 20, 2008--
"User Fees for Typhoid Immunization in India"
Assistant Professor, Evans School of Public Affairs
University of Washington
--February 6, 2008--
"The Federal Politics of Health Care in an Election Year"
Director, Federal Relations
Group Health Cooperative
--January 16, 2008--
"Regulatory Stew: How ERISA, HIPAA, IRS and State Laws Catalyst (and Bound) State Health Reform Efforts"
Senior Counsel, Agriculture and Health Division
Washington State Attorney General's Office