Contributors
- Contributors
Mollyann Brodie is vice president, director of public opinion and media research of the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. Currently she directs public knowledge and opinion–related projects, including ongoing survey partnerships with the Washington Post, National Public Radio, and the Newshour with Jim Lehrer. She also directs the Kaiser Family Foundation/Harvard School of Public Health Program on the Public and Health Policy. She received her Ph.D. in health policy from Harvard University.
Wendy Clemeña coordinates a clinical research program at the University of Kansas Medical Center that provides risk assessments and prevention consultations for women who are at high risk for breast cancer. Her research interests include Medicaid reimbursement rates and methodology, social marketing campaigns, and health care policy, especially related to breast cancer prevention and treatment.
Rima Cohen is a vice president at Greater New York Hospital Association and the director of the Insurance Options for the Uninsured project. Before holding this position, she was a senior health policy advisor to the Senate democratic leader, Tom Daschle—a position she held for ten years—and a fellow in the office of Senator Bill Bradley. Cohen has an undergraduate degree in economics from the University of Michigan and a master’s in economics and public policy from Princeton. She has consulted for the World Bank in Indonesia and was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship in 1986 to study Indonesian development projects.
Christopher J. Conover is an assistant research professor of health policy studies in the Terry Sanford Institute of Public Policy, Senior Fellow in the Center for Health Policy, Law and Management, Duke University, and director of the Health Policy Certificate Program. He received his doctorate in policy analysis from the RAND Graduate School. His research interests are in the area of state health policy, especially on issues related to health care for the medically indigent, the social burden of illness, and health regulation. Conover currently serves as editor of News and Notes for JHPPL and serves on its executive committee. [End Page 1429]
Shama Gamkhar is an assistant professor at the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs, University of Texas at Austin. She has published research on intergovernmental grants in the National Tax Journal, Public Finance Review, and Journal of Policy Modeling. Her research interests are state and local public finance, fiscal federalism, and intergovernmental grants.
Karen Goldsteen is a senior research scientist with Camcare Center for Health Services and Outcomes Research and has an interest in the social and structural origins of population health, particularly child health. She is currently conducting research on diabetes-related amputations and access to medical care.
Raymond L. Goldsteen is the director of healthcare policy research for the West Virginia Center for Healthcare Policy and Research and a professor in community medicine at West Virgina University School of Medicine. Goldsteen has an interest in public opinion related healthcare policy and currently is conducting research on attitudes toward unfair rationing of health care. He has a general interest in health disparities, their social and structural origins, and the role of public policy in reducing them.
Jennifer L. Hochschild is professor of government and Afro-American Studies at Harvard University. Until recently she was William Stewart Tod Professor of Politics and Public Affairs at Princeton University. She is the author of Facing Up to the American Dream: Race, Class, and the Soul of the Nation (Princeton University Press, 1995) and is working on two book manuscripts, entitled The American Dream and the Public Schools and Madison’s Constitution and Identity Politics. She received her B.A. from Oberlin College in 1971 and her Ph.D. in political science from Yale University in 1979.
Stephen Jackson is executive director at Liverpool John Moores University. He is a geographer who has written articles and books on population aging. Jackson wrote the book Britain’s Population (1999) edited by Routledge.
Lawrence R. Jacobs is associate professor of political science at the University of Minnesota and has published widely on public opinion and social policy in political science and health policy journals. With Robert Y. Shapiro, he last wrote Politicians Don’t Pander: Political Manipulation and the Loss of Democratic Responsiveness (University of Chicago...
