Resource Center Events

UW Dept of Health Services Policy Seminar Series

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.

--March 19, 2008 | 12:00 - 1:20pm | HSB H-670--
"Investing in Health: Is Education Better Than Medicine?"
Don Sloma, MPH
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?"
Hector Rodriguez, PhD, MPH
Assistant Professor, Department of Health Services
University of Washington
Slides

--February 20, 2008--
"User Fees for Typhoid Immunization in India"
Joseph Cook, PhD
Assistant Professor, Evans School of Public Affairs
University of Washington

--February 6, 2008--
"The Federal Politics of Health Care in an Election Year"
Diana Birkett, MPH, MPA
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"
Melissa Burke-Cain, JD
Senior Counsel, Agriculture and Health Division
Washington State Attorney General's Office

See also 2007 UW Dept of Health Services Policy Seminar Series
(seminars listed below)

--May 16, 2007--
"The 2007 Legislative Session in Review: What Happened and What Does It Mean?"
Jonathan Seib
Jane Beyer

--April 18, 2007--
"Recreational Genetics: All Fun and Games?"
Stephanie Malia Fullerton, D.Phil

--March 21, 2007--
"Globalization and the International Trading Regime - Some Interdisciplinary Implications for the Health Services Sector"
Gregory Shelton

--January 17, 2007--
"Certificate of Need: Old Dogs and New Tricks?"
Cindy Watts, PhD
Rick Woods

See also 2006 UW Dept of Health Services Policy Seminar Series
(seminars listed below)

--November 15, 2006--
"Another '94? Post-election analysis and implications for health policy in the 110th Congress"
Diana Birkett, MPH, MPA

--October 4, 2006--
"Preemptive Public Policy for Genomics"
Rick J. Carlson, JD

--March 15, 2006--
"A report on the CMS study of severity of illness, quality, patient satisfaction, and community benefits in physician-owned specialty hospitals compared to competing community hospitals"
Elisabeth Dowling Root, MA
Bill Dowling, Ph.D.
Cindy Watts, Ph.D.

--February 15, 2006--
"Public Financing and Delivery of HIV/AIDS Care: Securing the Legacy of Ryan White [Report of the Institute of Medicine's Committee of Public Financing and Delivery of HIV Care, 2005]"
Will Welton, DrPH, MHA

--January 4, 2006--
"To Improve Access to Primary Care Services, Should the VA Open New Clinics or Contract with Community Providers?"
Chuan-fen Liu, PhD, MPH

See also 2005 UW Dept of Health Services Policy Seminar Series
(seminars listed below)

--November 16, 2005--
"The End Game: Is Health Care an Asset or an Entitlement?"
Rick Carlson, JD
Phil Haas, MBA

--October 26, 2005--
"Disowned in the Ownership Society: Does market ideology prevent us from making good health policy choices?"
Aaron Katz
Lou Garrison