Rev. J. Bryan Hehir is the Secretary for Social Services and the President of Catholic Charities in the Archdiocese of Boston. He is also the Parker Gilbert Montgomery Professor of the Practice of Religion and Public Life at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.
Father Hehir served as President and CEO of Catholic Charities USA from 2001 through 2003. From 1998-2001 he served as Interim Dean and Dean of the Divinity School.
Dr. Gail Wilensky, an economist and a Senior Fellow at Project HOPE (an international health education foundation) analyzes and develops policies relating to health care reform and to ongoing changes in the health care environment.
Dr.
Susan Waltz is a Professor of Public Policy. She is a specialist in human rights and international affairs. Susan is the author of Human Rights and Reform: Changing the Face of North African Politics (1995), and she has recently published a series of articles on the historical origins of international human rights instruments and the political processes that produced them.
Peggy McIntosh, Senior Research Scientist and Associate Director, Wellesley Centers for Women.
Attendance at this event is limited to the Ford School community. For more information, please contact Tresa Kappil: [email protected].
Brought to you by Students of Color in Public Policy (SCPP) & Ford School Student Affairs Committee (SAC).
The Charge to the Class will be delivered by Cecilia Munoz, senior vice president for the Office of Research, Advocacy and Legislation at the National Council of La Raza (NCLR), 'the largest constituency-based Hispanic civil rights and advocacy group in the United States.' During Winter 2007, Cecilia taught a class at the Ford School and delivered a public lecture as the Towsley Foundation Policymaker in Residence. Her duties at the NCLR include oversight of all legislative activities pertaining to the policy staff.
An informal conversation with Jan Svejnar, who was narrowly defeated by the incumbent, Victor Klaus, in the recent election for the presidency of the Czech Republic.
Refreshments served. Join us as we highlight and celebrate the intellectual achievements of graduate and undergraduate students at the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy. The thirty-four posters on display were nominated for inclusion by Ford School faculty, and they will represent a wide range of student work: from local issues to foreign policy, from social welfare policy to health care reform, from undergraduate work to dissertation research.
Spring Preview is designed to help you make the most informed decision about our school. With this in mind, we have organized a program that will allow you structured time with our faculty, staff, and students.
The purpose of the conference is to explore a number of regulatory issues involving trade and related policies that cut across the economies of the United States and European Union and that have wider ramifications for the global trading system as a whole. An indication of the scope of the conference and the papers being commissioned is available via the links in the agenda, below. Attendance: Open to interested faculty, students, and the public.
