Contributors
- Contributors
Lawrence D. Brown is a professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management at the Mailman School of Public Health of Columbia University. He is the author of Politics and Health Care Organization: HMOs as Federal Policy (Brookings, 1983) and various monographs and articles. He writes on competitive and regulatory issues in health, the politics of state and national strategies to achieve affordable universal coverage, and the uses of policy analysis in the policy process. Current research projects include an assessment of the institutional capacities of communities to pursue health reform, the implications of managed care in Medicaid, the political prospects for expanded health coverage, and the diffusion of health policy innovations between the United States and other nations. From 1984 to 1989 he was editor of the Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law.
Andrea Louise Campbell is assistant professor of government at Harvard University and author of How Policies Make Citizens: Senior Political Activism and the American Welfare State (Princeton University Press, 2003). Her research explores the interconnections among political behavior, political institutions, and public policy. She was a Robert Wood Johnson Scholar in Health Policy at Yale University from 2001 to 2003.
Brian L. Cole is program manager for the Partnership for Prevention/UCLA School of Public Health Impact Assessment Project. His degrees include bachelor’s degrees in environmental science and biology from Washington State University and master’s and doctoral degrees in public health from UCLA. His doctoral research examined how organizational factors in the workplace shape risk perceptions among hazardous waste workers. He is also an instructor in health education for the teacher-training program at UCLA Extension. He served two years as a Peace Corps volunteer teaching science and health in the Central African Republic.
Dalton Conley is professor of sociology and public policy at New York University and Director of NYU’s Center for Advanced Social Science Research. He is also adjunct professor of community medicine at Mount Sinai School of Medicine and a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. His scholarly research [End Page 1257] focuses on how socioeconomic status is transmitted across generations and the public policies that affect that process. Conley is the author of The Starting Gate: Birth Weight and Life Chances (with Kate Strully and Neil G. Bennett) and The Pecking Order: Which Siblings Succeed and Why.
Katherine A. Desmond is a consultant in biostatistics and data management working in Culver City, CA. She has a master’s degree in biostatistics from the University of North Carolina and has worked for such research organizations as Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation in the Department of Health and Human Services, SRI International, the Research Triangle Institute, the University of North Carolina, RAND, and UCLA. Her consulting projects have included an econometric analysis of adverse selection in the Medicare supplemental insurance market; an evaluation of proposals to reform Medicare through a premium support program, including simulation models of program impacts; an analysis of trends in and determinants of retiree health benefits; and analyses of quality-of-life issues among breast cancer survivors.
Elizabeth Eagan holds a master’s of science in health policy and management degree from the Harvard School of Public Health. She also holds a bachelor’s degree in economics from Boston College and spent a year of her undergraduate education studying at the London School of Economics, where she discovered her interest in health care economics. When this article was written, she was working at the Center for Studying Health System Change. Since then, some of her work has included being an independent consultant on pharmaceutical accessibility and affordability for the West Virginia attorney general and researching the effect of economic downturn on community health centers in Massachusetts.
Jonathan E. Fielding is director of public health and health officer for Los Angeles County and a professor in the Schools of Medicine and Public Health at UCLA. He is the author of over 150 peer-reviewed articles, chapters, and editorials on a wide range of public health and preventive medicine issues and is the editor of Annual Review of Public Health. He is immediate past president of the American College...
