Contributors
- Contributors
Robin Briant graduated in medicine from University of Otago, New Zealand, with postgraduate qualifications in internal medicine, and received an M.D. in clinical pharmacology while studying and working at the Royal Postgraduate Medical School in London. Research and teaching interests are in the clinical pharmacology of older age and the treatment of hypertension. Clinical work has been as internist in acute hospitals and in private consulting practice. Her previous position as chair of the Medical Council of New Zealand generated a particular interest in standards of medical practice.
Peter Davis is professor of public health at the Christchurch School of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Otago, New Zealand. He is a social scientist by training, with master’s degrees in sociology and in statistics from the London School of Economics and a doctorate in community health from the University of Auckland. Health services and policy research have been a consistent theme of his work, most recently in the quality of care.
Julie Fitzjohn is a house surgeon with the Canterbury District Health Board, Christchurch, New Zealand. She is currently working full time as a junior medical staff member and has participated and published in research projects with a policy focus.
Susan Bartlett Foote, J.D., M.A., is associate professor and division head of the Division of Health Services Research and Policy at the School of Public Health, University of Minnesota. She is widely published in the fields of health policy and medical technology policy, including her book Managing the Medical Arms Race (University of California Press, 1992). From 1990 to 1995 she served as a senior health policy analyst in the office of U.S. Senator Dave Durenberger. She is on the board of directors of the Medical Technology Leadership Forum, an educational think tank on medical technology issues. [End Page 885]
Daniel M. Fox is president of the Milbank Memorial Fund. He has published many books and articles on the politics of health policy, including Power and Illness: The Failure and Future of American Health Policy (University of California Press, 1995).
Judith G. Gonyea is associate professor and chair of the research department at the Boston University School of Social Work. She is also director of the Boston University sociology and social work doctoral program. Her research focuses on the economic and health status of vulnerable populations. She is particularly interested in the cumulative effects of lifelong social and economic inequalities on the experiences of older adults. She is the coauthor (with Nancy Hooyman) of Feminist Perspectives on Family Care: Policies for Gender Justice (Sage, 1995). Currently she is the American editor of Community, Work & Family.
Michael K. Gusmano is the senior research analyst at the International Longevity Center-USA (ILC) and a visiting research scholar at New York University’s Wagner School. His research interests include comparative health policy and the politics of health care reform. Prior to joining the ILC, Gusmano was a senior research associate at the New York Academy of Medicine. He holds a Ph.D. in political science from the University of Maryland at College Park and an M.A. in public policy from the University at Albany and was a postdoctoral fellow in the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Scholars in Health Policy Research program at Yale University.
Phil Hider is a public health physician and senior research fellow at New Zealand Health Technology Assessment, the Christchurch School of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Otago, New Zealand. He is a medical graduate with a background in primary medical care and subsequent training in public health medicine and clinical epidemiology. His ongoing interests are in the areas of quality and clinical effectiveness.
Lawrence R. Jacobs is professor of political science, adjunct professor in the Hubert H. Humphrey Institute, and associate director of the Institute of Social, Economic, and Ecological Sustainability at the University of Minnesota. His coauthored book (with Robert Shapiro), Politicians Don’t Pander: Political Manipulation and the Loss of Democratic Responsiveness (University of Chicago Press, 2000), has received, among other awards, the Neustadt Book Prize from the American Political Science Association and the Distinguished Book Prize in political sociology from the American Sociological Association. He is also the...
