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Annual DC career trip fosters connections between students and alumni

Feb 11, 2020

On February 6 and 7, 2020, the Ford School held its annual DC career trip with record student attendance (55 graduate students) and alumni participation (140). A Ford School tradition, this year’s Washington, DC experience provided students with...

New BA minor opens policy education to more U-M students

Dec 10, 2019

Starting fall 2020, the Ford School will offer University of Michigan undergraduates a 16-credit minor in public policy. The minor will have a competitive application process that will go live in April 2020. The school expects to enroll around...

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An original IPPSter gives back: James Hudak’s gift establishes a named professorship in health policy

Nov 8, 2019

“I want to use my money, not to change my lifestyle, but to change the world,” says James Hudak, MPP ’71. “And I believe that education is the way.” “Most Ford School graduates work in the public sector,” Hudak continues, “and do not make a lot...

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Leiser and Mills contribute to resources for new Michigan Lead and Copper Rule

Jun 27, 2019

The Flint Water Crisis prompted the state of Michigan to adopt a new Lead and Copper Rule (LCR)—the guidelines that water utilities must follow to ensure the public’s health is protected. The most proactive LCR in the country, the University of...

For moms, working multiple jobs can be depressing, Bruns and Pilkauskas finds

May 22, 2019

Working mothers who have more than one job have a higher risk of depression than those who don’t, say University of Michigan researchers.According to the U-M study, working multiple jobs is linked to a 3-4 percentage points increase in the...

Amanda Kowalski receives 2019 ASHEcon Medal

May 22, 2019

The American Society of Health Economists (ASHE) awarded Amanda Kowalski as this year’s ASHEcon Medal recipient. The ASHEcon Medal is “awarded to an economist age 40 or under who has made the most significant contributions to the field of health...

Iovan and Lantz discuss their latest research on super-utilizers

May 14, 2019

On May 13, 2019, Michigan News published a Q&A with the Ford School’s Samantha Iovan and Paula Lantz, along with the Department of Emergency Medicine at U-M Medical School’s Mahshid Abir. The three, with help from student Katie Allan (MPP ‘19),...

Paula Lantz announced as inaugural James B. Hudak Professor of Health Policy

Mar 28, 2019

Thanks to a $2.5 million gift from James B. Hudak (MPP ‘71), the University of Michigan’s Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy has established a new professorship for health policy. Professor and associate dean Paula Lantz will be the inaugural...

Professor Brendan Nyhan writes his prescription for the anti-vaccine crusade

Mar 7, 2019

Everyone has seen it while cruising through social media: anti-vaccine proponents (anti-vaxxers) demonizing immunization as a link to causing autism. Or you may have scrolled past a meme mocking such claims. While social media and the internet...

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Sarah Mills' key to the success of wind energy projects gets media attention

Feb 11, 2019

As the drive to develop renewable energy projects escalates, attention shifts towards harnessing wind energy as a reliable energy source. Despite the benefits wind energy provides—mainly jobs—advocates for wind energy must continue to combat...

Sarah Burgard shares her concern on the mental health impact of the government shutdown

Jan 29, 2019

While the longest government shutdown in United States history has ended, many of the 800,000 furloughed federal government employees may have to continue to cope with the devastating effects of temporary unemployment. In her January 24, 2019...

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Lantz and Iovan detail Pay-For-Success financing model use for housing interventions

Jan 7, 2019

Ford School professor Paula Lantz and researcher Samantha Iovan were published in the December 2018 issue of Behavioral Science & Policy. The journal article “Using pay-for-success financing for supportive housing interventions: Promise &...

Paula Lantz advocates for population health over medicalization in Milbank Quarterly

Dec 20, 2018

In an opinion column for The Milbank Quarterly, Paula Lantz, associate dean for academic affairs and professor at the Ford School, warns that medicalization of population health will leave some people behind, as it focuses more on individual...

Ford School hosts faculty roundtable with Sen. Peters on issues related to emerging technologies

Nov 2, 2018

Faculty from the Ford School and around the University joined an expert roundtable with Senator Gary Peters (D-MI) on Wednesday. Sen. Peters called on faculty to provide insight into some of the rapidly-moving emerging technologies that intersect...

U.S. Senator Gary Peters (D-MI) at a roundtable hosted by the Ford School and shown here with Shobita Parthasarathy and Bob Axelrod.

Shobita Parthasarathy calls for patent regulation in rapidly-advancing gene editing

Oct 26, 2018

Shobita Parthasarathy, professor of public policy at the Ford School, is keeping tabs on the upcoming International Summit on Human Gene Editing in Hong Kong. In her October 23, 2018 piece for Nature titled “Use the patent system to regulate gene...

Ford School's Molly Kleinman joins Ann Arbor Transportation Commission

Oct 19, 2018

Molly Kleinman, the Ford School’s Program Manager of the Science, Technology, and Public Policy program, is the most recent addition to the 11-member Ann Arbor Transportation Commission (AATC). The diverse group of commision members advise the city...

MPP alum named Health Policy Research Scholar

Oct 15, 2018

Demar Lewis (MPP ’16), a member of the Ford School’s Alumni Board, was named a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health Policy Research Scholar (HPRS). This prestigious program supports second-year doctoral students across disciplines who have an...

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Introducing our 2019 David Bohnett Leadership and Public Service Fellows

Sep 21, 2018

Three Ford School graduate students – Eric Hanss, Jonatan Martinez, and Nick Najor – have recently been selected to serve the City of Detroit Mayor’s Office as the 2019 David Bohnett Leadership and Public Service Fellows. In addition to completing...

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Michigan-Harvard team up to bolster Detroit economy, tackle nationwide opioid epidemic

Sep 14, 2018

The University of Michigan and Harvard University are forming two new partnerships designed to spur economic mobility and reduce poverty in Detroit, as well as combine resources and expertise in response to the national opioid...

CLOSUP report: 54 percent of Michigan local officials oppose marijuana legalization

Sep 13, 2018

A majority of officials in Michigan oppose medical marijuana facilities in their jurisdiction, according to a new survey by University of Michigan...

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Students publish 15th edition of the Michigan Journal of Public Affairs

Jul 9, 2018

In June, Ford School graduate students announced the publication of the Michigan Journal of Public Affairs, Volume 15. The journal is available online here.MJPA is the Ford School's graduate student-run journal, dedicated to publishing innovative...

Graphic with text "Michigan Journal of Public Affairs in Solidarity with Black lives"

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

Jun 22, 2018

“Pay for Success” (PFS) financing could help scale implementation of evidence-based childhood asthma interventions in the Medicaid population if legal and regulatory barriers can be overcome, write Paula Lantz, Samantha Iovan, and co-authors in the...

Meghan Klaric’s (MPP ’18) “Villanova fans for Flint, MI” fundraiser featured in MLive

Apr 18, 2018

Passions were running high at the NCAA championship basketball game between the University of Michigan and Villanova University on April 2. But Meghan Klaric (MPP ’18) says some Villanova fans crossed the line when they hung a banner near campus...

Michigan News release: Rate of dementia on the decline—but beware of growing numbers

Apr 17, 2018

The good news? The rate of older Americans with dementia is on the decline. The bad news? The number of Americans 85 and older will roughly double in the next 20 years, so even with a decline in the rate of dementia among older adults, the number...

Hall & Jacobson in Health Affairs: “Health in All Policies” can promote health equity

Mar 6, 2018

An article by Richard Hall and Peter Jacobson (University of Michigan) in the March edition of Health Affairs reports on "Examining whether the health-in-all-policies approach promotes health equity." Hall participated in a briefing about the new...

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Judith Arnold (MPP ‘83) honored for lifetime dedication to universal healthcare

Feb 23, 2018

On an oddly mild winter day in Ann Arbor, Michigan, Judith Arnold (MPP ‘83) stood beside the podium at the front of Paula Lantz’s Ford School course on social disparities in health. There, the school presented Arnold with the Neil Staebler Award for...

Health

Annual DC career trip fosters connections between students and alumni

New BA minor opens policy education to more U-M students

An original IPPSter gives back: James Hudak’s gift establishes a named professorship in health policy

Leiser and Mills contribute to resources for new Michigan Lead and Copper Rule

For moms, working multiple jobs can be depressing, Bruns and Pilkauskas finds

Amanda Kowalski receives 2019 ASHEcon Medal

Iovan and Lantz discuss their latest research on super-utilizers

Paula Lantz announced as inaugural James B. Hudak Professor of Health Policy

Professor Brendan Nyhan writes his prescription for the anti-vaccine crusade

Sarah Mills' key to the success of wind energy projects gets media attention

Sarah Burgard shares her concern on the mental health impact of the government shutdown

Lantz and Iovan detail Pay-For-Success financing model use for housing interventions

Paula Lantz advocates for population health over medicalization in Milbank Quarterly

Ford School hosts faculty roundtable with Sen. Peters on issues related to emerging technologies

Shobita Parthasarathy calls for patent regulation in rapidly-advancing gene editing

Ford School's Molly Kleinman joins Ann Arbor Transportation Commission

MPP alum named Health Policy Research Scholar

Introducing our 2019 David Bohnett Leadership and Public Service Fellows

Michigan-Harvard team up to bolster Detroit economy, tackle nationwide opioid epidemic

CLOSUP report: 54 percent of Michigan local officials oppose marijuana legalization

Students publish 15th edition of the Michigan Journal of Public Affairs

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

Meghan Klaric’s (MPP ’18) “Villanova fans for Flint, MI” fundraiser featured in MLive

Michigan News release: Rate of dementia on the decline—but beware of growing numbers

Hall & Jacobson in Health Affairs: “Health in All Policies” can promote health equity

Judith Arnold (MPP ‘83) honored for lifetime dedication to universal healthcare

Axinn: "Suicidal thoughts and behaviors among college students and same-aged peers"

Tipirneni, Goold, and Ayanian write research letter on expanded Medicaid in Michigan

Axinn’s research on sexual assault finds greater risk for women with little or no college

Nadine Jawad wins Rhodes Scholarship, one of only 32 recipients across the U.S.