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Ruth Browne (MPP/MPH '83) to teach health disparities seminar this winter

Nov 21, 2014

This winter, Ruth Browne (MPP/MPH ’83), will return to the Ford School as the 2015 Harry A. and Margaret D. Towsley Foundation Policymaker in Residence.Browne is currently the CEO of the Arthur Ashe Institute for Urban Health, a leader in providing...

Healthy Michigan Plan a good blueprint for states looking to expand Medicaid, says Ayanian

Oct 24, 2014

John Ayanian discusses the success of Medicaid enlargement in Michigan in Crain's Detroit Business article, “UM report: Planning helped Michigan Medicaid expansion rollout,” and New England Journal of Medicine podcast, "Interview with Dr. John...

Parthasarathy on the limitations of pink ribbon campaigns

Oct 22, 2014

“This month, we are inundated with pink,” writes Shobita Parthasarathy, for The Conversation, a news source newly launched in the U.S. to offer views from the academic and research community.“By wearing pink ribbons, purchasing pink products, and...

Davis tapped to lead Michigan’s Ebola prevention initiatives

Oct 22, 2014

Governor Rick Snyder has appointed Dr. Matthew Davis, chief medical executive for the State of Michigan, and Nick Lyon, director of the Michigan Department of Community Health, to spearhead the state’s Ebola prevention efforts, reports Virginia...

Read 'the Ford School feed'

Oct 17, 2014

The latest edition of the Ford School feed, an email news source for alumni and friends of the school, arrived in inboxes this week.This fall edition:Reminds alumni and friends to RSVP for the Centennial Reunion, Oct. 31 – Nov . 1, which will...

Matthew Davis in Freep on Michigan Ebola worries

Oct 7, 2014

“Michigan health care professionals are ready to deal with the threat of the Ebola virus that is now on American shores,” report Cassandra Spratling and Eric D. Lawrence of the Detroit Free Press in the October 2 story, “Ebola’s U.S. arrival comes...

“For inspiration in college ratings, look to health care,” says Dynarski

Sep 16, 2014

“The Obama administration is preparing a system of college ratings that it hopes will improve college quality and hold down tuition by arming consumers with better information,” writes Susan Dynarski in The Upshot, The New York Times’ curated blog...

Questions amid growing push for genetic screening for breast and ovarian cancer

Sep 15, 2014

“Before we get too excited about the possibility of giving everyone access to potentially life-saving information, we need to remember that the relationship between the BRCA genes and cancer incidence is complex and fraught with uncertainty,” writes...

Mapping Ebola to combat its spread

Sep 3, 2014

On August 18, Dr. Dan Kelly published an op-ed in the San Francisco Gate. His friend and colleague, a medical doctor, had died in Sierra Leone after serving an Ebola patient without protective gear. It wasn’t negligence, wrote Kelly, an infectious...

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Carl Simon talks Ebola and the power of quarantine

Aug 26, 2014

In an August 26 Policy Points video, Carl Simon argues that quarantine is the key to containing and eliminating the recent outbreak of the Ebola virus—the most deadly to date. “The first Ebola outbreak was noted about 40 years ago in small...

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Symposium honors Jim House; 35 years of teaching, service

Jun 10, 2014

After an academic career spanning eight years at Duke University and some 35 years at the University of Michigan, Professor James S. House will retire this August. To celebrate his career, former students and postdocs participated in a day-long...

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Detroit Free Press publishes Matthew Davis op-ed; Davis argues for regulating e-cigarettes as tobacco products

May 6, 2014

Michigan's regulators agree that highly addictive e-cigarettes shouldn't be sold to minors. The question they now face is how to regulate them. "The simplest way to prohibit the sales of e-cigarettes to minors is to classify e-cigarettes as...

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Matthew Davis finds two out of three support Affordable Care Act's contraception coverage

May 2, 2014

In an April 28 Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) article, Ford School Professor Matthew Davis and colleagues released the results of a recent survey on public support for the Affordable Care Act's coverage requirements. Davis found...

Matthew Davis discusses short- and long-term benefits of investments in lead abatement

Apr 24, 2014

Ford School Professor Matthew Davis, who serves as chief medical executive for the State of Michigan, joined Michigan Radio on April 23 to discuss the continuing public health threat that lead poising poses to children in Michigan, and especially...

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Strategy to reduce infant mortality rate in Detroit must have strong medical and social component, says Davis

Jan 30, 2014

In a Detroit News article on Detroit's high infant mortality rate, Dr. Matthew Davis discusses the challenges to making progress on infant deaths, as well as the potential impact of expanded insurance coverage for low-income mothers. Detroit's...

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Levy testifies in front of the House Ways and Means Committee on the Affordable Care Act's definition of full time employment

Jan 30, 2014

At the House of Representatives Ways and Means Committee hearing on " The Impact of the Employer Mandate's Definition of Full-time Employee on Jobs and Opportunities," Helen Levy testified that concerns about the effect of defining full time...

Davis quoted on health impacts and growing appeal of e-cigarettes

Dec 25, 2013

In a story for Michigan Radio, Dr. Matthew Davis explains that no studies have been done on the long-term health impacts of e-cigarettes, which are unregulated and increasingly popular with teens.Davis notes that, while they are likely less harmful...

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Not your typical physician - Dr. Matt Davis uses policy to tackle health disparities

Dec 16, 2013

Dr. Matthew Davis is not your typical physician. Sure, he attended medical school and completed a residency, just like his peers. But while continuing his studies as a Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholar at the University of Chicago, Davis also...

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BA alum among 'Top 35 under 35' foreigners making an impact in Africa

Dec 16, 2013

Madelynne Wager (BA '13), a first generation college student from the small town of Greenville, Mich., knew she wanted to make an impact. When she started her studies at the University of Michigan, she thought she could do that best by becoming a...

Alyssa Mouton heads to U.N. to learn advocacy skills at Commission on the Status of Women Conference

Dec 3, 2013

Alyssa Mouton (MPP/MPH '14) will gain experience in the art of advocacy at a practicum held March 8 – March 15, 2014 in conjunction with meetings of the United Nation's Commission on the Status of Women (CSW), the principal global policy-making body...

Levy remarks on impact of ACA subsidies and rollout glitches

Oct 18, 2013

Nearly one month into the rollout of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), Helen Levy responds to criticisms about the potential fallout from ACA subsidies, as well as questions about the program's current technical issues.Levy wrote a Detroit Free Press...

Dr. Matthew Davis launches free online course on understanding the Affordable Care Act

Oct 3, 2013

Answering questions raised by the latest reform to the U.S. health care system—the Affordable Care Act—is the goal of a new University of Michigan free online course created by Dr. Matthew Davis, professor of medicine and public policy. Dr. Davis,...

Ban smoking when kids are in the car, survey says, but few states have laws that actually do

Jul 22, 2013

According to the C.S. Mott Children's Hospital National Poll on Children's Health, although 87 percent of adults agree that adult drivers and passengers shouldn't smoke when kids are in the car, only seven states have laws that actually prohibit the...

Direct Relief recognized for outstanding use of mapping in humanitarian work

Jul 11, 2013

Ford School alumnus Andrew Schroeder (MPP '07), director of research and analysis for DirectRelief, accepted the Esri President's Award on behalf of the nonprofit on July 8 in San Diego, California. Direct Relief was recognized for its outstanding...

Who really pays for the cost savings behind workplace wellness programs?

Jun 25, 2013

In March 2013, Jill R. Horwitz, Brenna D. Kelly, and John E. DiNardo published "Wellness Incentives In The Workplace: Cost Savings Through Cost Shifting To Unhealthy Workers," in which they examine how the Affordable Care Act may be affecting...

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Kay Kelly works in transportation policy. So how did she become an advocate for newborn screening?

Jun 19, 2013

It was a scene that began like so many others: Kay (Milewski) Kelly (MPA '05) and her husband had just brought home their three-day-old son from the hospital. Waiting to welcome the newest member of the family, along with a homemade birthday cake,...

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Improving urban health through the power of community

Apr 22, 2013

Ruth Browne (MPP/MPH '83) just did the happy dance. She's celebrating a gift to the Arthur Ashe Institute for Urban Health, an institute she's directed since its founding in 1992 by the legendary African American tennis star and humanitarian. This...

Call for Summer 2015 Internship Partnership Proposals in Science, Technology, or Health Policy

Apr 10, 2013

The Ford School seeks proposals from alumni to develop Summer 2015 internship partnerships in the areas of science, technology, or health policy. Proposals must be for internships within public and non-profit organizations otherwise unable to fund...

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Being ladylike does not require silence, the irrepressible First Lady Betty Ford

Dec 18, 2012

Being ladylike does not require silence There are photos and movies of Betty Ford in her family home from the 1960s. They show a caring homemaker and mother, busy looking after her husband and four young children in their suburban Virginia home....

Shobita Parthasarathy's book, Building Genetic Medicine, which informs the debate over gene patents, re-released in paperback

Feb 13, 2012

Shobita Parthasarathy's book on the development and implications of gene testing and patenting has been re-released in paperback by The MIT Press.The book, Building Genetic Medicine: Breast Cancer, Technology and the Comparative Politics of Health...