Contributors
- Contributors
Pablo Arredondo is a recent graduate of the University of California, Berkeley, where he received a B.A. in political science. While at Berkeley, he worked at the Human Genome Center for the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory conducting research on gene expression in murine hearts. In 2001 he worked at the University of Pennsylvania Center for Bioethics on a project examining ethical issues arising from genetic engineering. He is a coauthor of “Ethics for the New Life Sciences,” which was presented in March 2002 at the Biotechnology and Sustainable Development: Voices of the North and South conference held in Alexandria, Egypt. He is currently a student at Stanford Law School.
Lawrence D. Brown is a professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management at The Joseph L. Mailman School of Public Health of Columbia University. He is 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 the states 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.
Ramón Castellblanch is assistant professor in the health education department at San Francisco State University. Before coming to academia, he was a lobbyist in the California legislature for the Service Employees International Union. During the debate over President Clinton’s universal health insurance proposal, he was national political director for the Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law. He is a regular oped columnist with the Hartford Courant, and he also writes health policy columns for the Progressive Media Project. His primary research interest is how grassroots mobilization affects health policy making in the United States and at the international level. [End Page 569]
David M. Frankford is a professor of law at the Rutgers University School of Law in Camden and a professor at the Rutgers Institute for Health, Health Care Policy, and Aging Research in New Brunswick; faculty director at Camden of the Rutgers Center for State Health Policy; and a member of the Rutgers Graduate Department of Public Policy and Administration in Camden. He also is an associate editor and the book review editor of the Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law. His primary current research interest concerns the reconstitution of professionalism as the normative integration of professions and community. In prior work, he has focused on the interactions between health services research, health care politics and policy, and the institutions of professions and professionalism.
Mark A. Hall is the Fred D. and Elizabeth L. Turnage Professor of Law and Public Health at Wake Forest University. He received his law degree with highest honors at the University of Chicago and was on the faculty at Arizona State University before assuming his current position. He also has completed a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health Finance Fellowship at Johns Hopkins University and more recently has been a visiting professor at the University of Pennsylvania and at Duke University. Hall specializes in health care law and public policy, with a focus on economic, regulatory, and corporate issues. His present research interests include doctor/patient trust, managed care regulation, health care rationing, genetics, and insurance market reform. He is the author or editor of ten books on health care law and policy, including Making Medical Spending Decisions (Oxford University Press, 1997) and Health Care Law and Ethics, 6th ed. (Aspen, 2003).
Elizabeth H. Kilbreth is associate professor at the Edmund Muskie School of Public Service, University of Southern Maine. Her research interests encompass comparative state analysis focused on health system reform, children’s health policy, and health care access. Her publications include articles and chapters on state access strategies and analyses of global health care funding strategies. Kilbreth teaches in the Muskie School’s health policy and management master’s program...
