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Paula Lantz named to The Milbank Quarterly editorial advisory board

Oct 23, 2020

This week, The Milbank Quarterly, a leading health policy journal, announced the formation of a new Editorial Advisory Board. The Gerald R. Ford School Associate Dean for Academic Affairs Paula Lantz will be one of 38 scholars who comprise the new...

In the Media

Wolfers on potential liability for irresponsible COVID-19 choices

Oct 6, 2020 Washington Post

"The purpose of liability law is to incentivize responsible behavior by making irresponsibility costly", said Wolfers. “We’d expect to see many more irresponsible choices being made by those taking the president’s comments to heart." Read the...

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Lantz calls on Michigan leaders to back a science-based approach to control pandemic

Oct 6, 2020

Associate Dean Paula Lantz and a coalition of 15 health experts call on the Michigan legislature and county/city governments to take a science-based approach to controlling the COVID-19 pandemic in an op-ed published in the Detroit Free Press. The...

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Udow-Phillips recommends nursing home 'hubs', opposes separate facilities

Sep 16, 2020 MLive

“We don’t think a COVID-only facility will answer the problem that is trying to be addressed, and we know now that patients indeed can be maintained safely with the right safety protocols." You can access the MLive article here. Read the full...

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Former GOP Congressman Schwarz fights to maintain Gov. Whitmer's emergency powers

Sep 16, 2020 Michigan Advance

“The virus is still out there,” said Schwarz, who is a lecturer at the Ford School and also a surgeon. “And it is ubiquitously still out there. I don’t agree with the governor on everything but I think that she is doing the right thing.” Read the...

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Stevenson: Women's employment has fallen off a pandemic cliff

Sep 15, 2020 NPR Here and Now

“We had what you might even call a gendered shutdown. The kinds of industries that had to send people home, that shut down, disproportionately employed women," said Stevenson. "How long it takes women to recover is going to depend on the [childcare]...

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Young: Multiple factors need to be considered when examining why COVID-19 has impacted the Black community disproportionately

Sep 10, 2020 Inside Higher Ed

In an Academic Minute mini-podcast produced by Inside Higher Ed, Ford School courtesy faculty Alford Young says household density, economic security and cultural factors heighten susceptibility of low-income Black...

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MDHHS partners with U-M Youth Policy Lab to evaluate Michigan’s Maternal Infant Health Program

Aug 13, 2020

The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services (MDHHS) and the University of Michigan Youth Policy Lab have been awarded a grant by Arnold Ventures to conduct a rigorous impact evaluation of Michigan’s Maternal Infant Health Program, the...

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Stevenson and Wolfers: Michigan’s go-slow approach good for public health and economy

Aug 13, 2020

When other states were reopening their economies in May, Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer was taking a go-slow approach, which infuriated small business owners and Republican legislators. An article in Mlive says that as COVID-19 cases are surging in...

Alumni spotlight

Zara Ahmed (MPP/MPH ‘09): Dual degree fostered her ‘Swiss Army Knife’ mindset

Jul 28, 2020

Zara Ahmed (MPP/MPH '09), associate director for federal issues at the Guttmacher Institute, spent seven years overseas with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Rwanda, Namibia, and Haiti, before coming back to the U.S. to...

The Longview: Reflections on the ACA at 10

Jul 27, 2020

By Marianne Udow-Phillips, Founding Executive Director, Center for Health and Research Transformation This article was originally published by Findings Magazine on July 16, 2020 The framers of the Affordable Care Act—or the ACA—can be proud of...

President Obama signs the Affordable Care Act with a crowd of stakeholders

Alumni spotlight

Tannistha Datta (MPA ‘09) protects children’s rights in India

Jul 13, 2020

Since volunteering with a children’s nonprofit in high school, Tannistha Datta (MPA '09) wanted to pursue children’s rights protection work. At the Ford School, this desire was confirmed. "Through policy and international development frameworks, the...

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Research looks at COVID-19 response around the world

Jul 10, 2020

The COVID-19 crisis is affecting an unprecedented number of people at the same time. As the pandemic evolved in April and May, a group of researchers, including Ford School professor Ann Lin, undertook a survey in over a dozen locations around the...

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Congratulations to Celeste Watkins-Hayes for two ASA awards!

Jul 9, 2020

Newly-appointed Ford School collegiate professor of public policy Celeste Watkins-Hayes has received two awards from the American Sociological Association for her book Remaking a Life: How Women Living with HIV/AIDS Confront Inequality (2019,...

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Democracy & Debate Theme Semester launches

Jul 2, 2020

This week marks the launch of the Democracy & Debate Theme Semester, a unique opportunity for teaching and learning about free speech and the exchange of ideas, democratic engagement from a global perspective and what it means to be a member of a...

Ford School’s Paula Lantz leads amicus brief that states 3,500 COVID-19 deaths prevented by Whitmer’s actions

Jun 25, 2020

A distinguished group of Michigan public health experts has filed in several courts an Amicus Curiae brief defending Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer’s stay-at-home orders. Represented by lawyers from Kaplan Hecker & Fink LLP in New York City, the...

“Trust in public health is essential amid COVID-19 pandemic” write Udow-Phillips and Lantz in Journal of Hospital Medicine

Jun 19, 2020

“Trust in public health is essential amid the COVID-19 pandemic,” write Marianne Udow-Phillips and Paula Lantz in a new Journal of Hospital Medicine Perspectives piece. With more than two million cases of COVID-19 in the United States to date,...

Marianne Udow-Phillips and Paula Lantz headshots

Lantz discusses COVID-19 health inequity

Jun 19, 2020

Paula Lantz, associate dean of the Ford School and James B. Hudak Professor of Health Policy, and Michael S. Barr, dean of the Ford School, discussed the emerging social epidemiology of COVID-19 and current understanding regarding public health and...

Yang leads USAID resiliency study in Mozambique

Jun 17, 2020

When Cyclone Idai struck Mozambique in March, 2019, it was the most destructive cyclone ever recorded in Africa, displacing 127,500 and affecting 1.85 million people. Beyond the initial short-term impact, medium-term food insecurity and risk of...

Four Ford School students honored with Institute for Social Research Next Generation Awards

Jun 17, 2020

Ford School students were honored by the University of Michigan Institute for Social Research’s (ISR) Next Generation Awards. The donor-funded awards propel recipients forward in their careers and catalyze impactful research projects. ISR says...

Burgard says calculating benefits of a lockdown is “ethically complex.”

Jun 12, 2020

An article written by Agence France Press June 12 and distributed to publications around the world states that “lockdowns undoubtedly prevented large numbers of deaths from the new coronavirus, [yet] the repercussions of the pandemic response are...

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Schneidewind (MPP/MBA ‘15) practices international development at home and abroad

Jun 5, 2020

Serving in Mozambique with the Peace Corps, Jimmy Schneidewind (MPP/MBA '15) became frustrated by deep-rooted, operational red tape. "You become aware of what you don’t know," said Schneidewind, recalling the information disconnect between field...

Reducing coronavirus pandemic inequities requires bold policy action, Associate Dean Lantz stresses in new paper

Jun 4, 2020

“The novel coronavirus pandemic has set in high relief the entrenched health, social, racial, political, and economic inequities within American society,” opens an article co-authored by Associate Dean Paula Lantz that appears in the Journal of...

High rate of Michigan nursing home deaths should trigger robust response - Udow-Phillips

May 29, 2020

One in four deaths due to COVID-19 in Michigan have been linked to long-term care residents at nursing homes, new data has indicated.Marianne Udow-Phillips, executive director of the Center for Health Research and Transformation at the University of...

Health

Paula Lantz named to The Milbank Quarterly editorial advisory board

Wolfers on potential liability for irresponsible COVID-19 choices

Lantz calls on Michigan leaders to back a science-based approach to control pandemic

Udow-Phillips recommends nursing home 'hubs', opposes separate facilities

Former GOP Congressman Schwarz fights to maintain Gov. Whitmer's emergency powers

Stevenson: Women's employment has fallen off a pandemic cliff

Young: Multiple factors need to be considered when examining why COVID-19 has impacted the Black community disproportionately

MDHHS partners with U-M Youth Policy Lab to evaluate Michigan’s Maternal Infant Health Program

Stevenson and Wolfers: Michigan’s go-slow approach good for public health and economy

Zara Ahmed (MPP/MPH ‘09): Dual degree fostered her ‘Swiss Army Knife’ mindset

The Longview: Reflections on the ACA at 10

Tannistha Datta (MPA ‘09) protects children’s rights in India

Research looks at COVID-19 response around the world

Congratulations to Celeste Watkins-Hayes for two ASA awards!

Democracy & Debate Theme Semester launches

Ford School’s Paula Lantz leads amicus brief that states 3,500 COVID-19 deaths prevented by Whitmer’s actions

“Trust in public health is essential amid COVID-19 pandemic” write Udow-Phillips and Lantz in Journal of Hospital Medicine

Lantz discusses COVID-19 health inequity

Yang leads USAID resiliency study in Mozambique

Four Ford School students honored with Institute for Social Research Next Generation Awards

Burgard says calculating benefits of a lockdown is “ethically complex.”

Schneidewind (MPP/MBA ‘15) practices international development at home and abroad

Reducing coronavirus pandemic inequities requires bold policy action, Associate Dean Lantz stresses in new paper

High rate of Michigan nursing home deaths should trigger robust response - Udow-Phillips

Ethical and logistical problems raise questions about COVID-19 antibody test efficacy

Ford School Policy Talk: Hope for economic recovery tied to health success

Ford School alum advocates to preserve reproductive rights during global pandemic

Public consensus on anti-COVID-19 measures risks being politicized, says Parthasarathy

Healthcare sector takes a hit amidst the broader economic downturn

Wolfers challenges U.S. business who seek immunity from coronavirus lawsuits