Paula Lantz

Faculty

Paula Lantz

Title:

Associate Dean for Academic Affairs; Professor of Public Policy

Faculty:

Core faculty

Email:

plantz@umich.edu

Phone:

(734) 764-8976

Office:

Weill Hall
735 S. State St. #4125
Ann Arbor, MI 48109

Biography

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Paula Lantz is the Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and a professor of public policy at the Ford School. She most recently was professor and chair of the Department of Health Policy and Management at the Milken Institute School of Public Health at George Washington University. From 1994-2011, she was faculty member at the University of Michigan with a primary appointment in the School of Public Health, and affiliations with the Ford School and the Institute for Social Research. Dr. Lantz, a social demographer, studies the role of public health in health care reform, clinical preventive services (such as cancer screening and prenatal care), and social inequalities in health. She is particularly interested in the role of health care versus broad social policy aimed at social determinants of health in reducing social disparities in health status. She is currently doing research regarding the potential of social impact bonds to reduce Medicaid expenditures. Lantz received an MA in sociology from Washington University, St. Louis, and an MS in epidemiology and PhD in sociology from the University of Wisconsin.

Educational Background:

PhD, Social Demography, University of Wisconsin, 1991
MS, Epidemiology, University of Wisconsin, 1991
MA, Sociology, Washington University, 1983
BA, Sociology/English, St. Olaf College, 1981

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Lantz, Iovan, et al published in The Milbank Quarterly on using “Pay for Success” to finance childhood asthma interventions

Catch up on Ford School faculty news in the Spring 2018 edition of State & Hill magazine

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Paula Lantz offers seven recommendations for 'pay-for-success' interventions

Harnessing the private sector for effective social programs

Catch up on Ford School faculty news in the spring 2017 edition of State & Hill magazine

DE&I: Building on the longstanding success of faculty research and policy engagement

Paula Lantz publishes article on early results of Pay for Success on population health

Ford School faculty news from the fall 2016 edition of State & Hill

Pay-for-success: Paula Lantz on an innovative model for population health

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News

Lantz, Iovan, et al published in The Milbank Quarterly on using “Pay for Success” to finance childhood asthma interventions

Catch up on Ford School faculty news in the Spring 2018 edition of State & Hill magazine

Join us in congratulating Paula Lantz, elected to National Academy of Social Insurance

Paula Lantz and Samantha Iovan in SSIR: "When does pay-for-success make sense?"

Paula Lantz offers seven recommendations for 'pay-for-success' interventions

Harnessing the private sector for effective social programs

Catch up on Ford School faculty news in the spring 2017 edition of State & Hill magazine

DE&I: Building on the longstanding success of faculty research and policy engagement

Paula Lantz publishes article on early results of Pay for Success on population health

Ford School faculty news from the fall 2016 edition of State & Hill

Pay-for-success: Paula Lantz on an innovative model for population health

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