healthcare

State & Hill

Former governors Steve Bullock and John Kasich reflect on a less partisan future

Dec 17, 2024

As the 2024 elections approached, former governors Steve Bullock (D-MT) and John Kasich (R-OH) modeled speaking and listening across political and policy fault lines. The talk was organized by the Ford School with support from the University of...

Kasich, Bednar, Bullock, and Watkins-Hayes

Publication

As election approaches, national poll shows which health topics concern older adults most

Aug 15, 2024

All types of health care costs, and financial scams, rise to the top in University of Michigan study.More than half of the people who voted in the 2020 election were age 50 and older, making this age group a key demographic for candidates up and...

State & Hill

Snapshot: Associate Dean Jeffrey Morenoff

Dec 12, 2023

Sociologist Jeffrey Morenoff, associate dean for research and policy engagement Focus: neighborhood environments, crime and criminal justice, the social determinants of health, racial/ethnic/immigrant inequality, and methods for analyzing...

State & Hill

Faculty News, spring 2023

May 3, 2023

Dominique Adams-Santos, Celeste Watkins-Hayes, and PhD candidate Kayonne Christy contributed a chapter, "Narratives in Context: Locating Racism and Sexism in Black Women's Health Experiences," to The Routledge Companion to...

Headshots of Kathryn M. Dominguez, Rusty Hills, Morela Hernandez, Brian Jacob, Barry Rabe, Megan Stewart, David Thacher, Christina Weiland

In the Media

Parthasarathy comments on new ARPA-H director

Sep 13, 2022 Nature

President Joe Biden recently named Renee Wegrzyn as the inaugural director of the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H), a new agency tasked with finding innovative solutions to biomedical problems. Nature asked Shobita...

Professor Shobita Parthasarathy leads a discussion in the Betty Ford Classroom

Publication

Michigan poverty map identifies regional needs related to child care, health care, affordable housing

Jun 16, 2022

A new data map displaying a variety of poverty and well-being metrics across Michigan holds implications for how federal American Rescue Plan Act funds could be used to address the state’s most pressing needs. Poverty Solutions at the University...

Publication

Most Detroiters vaccinated in second half of 2021 were previously unsure about COVID-19 vaccines

Apr 6, 2022

DETROIT—Nearly a third of a random sample of Detroit adults who had not received any COVID-19 vaccinations in June 2021 obtained their first dose in the second half of last year, according to a new University of Michigan survey. Most of these...

In the Media

Udow-Phillips weighs in on Beaumont-Spectrum merger

Feb 1, 2022 Bridge Michigan

Following the merger of Beaumont Health and Spectrum Health, patients are wondering if their costs will rise. Marianne Udow-Phillips, lecturer in public policy, discussed the merger. “We certainly know what they've said publicly — that from a...

Publication

From birth control to mammograms, many women missed out on preventive care for all of 2020

Jul 18, 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic knocked many women off schedule for important health appointments, a new study finds, and many didn’t get back on schedule even after clinics reopened. The effect may have been greatest in areas where such care is already...

In the Media

Ayanian on the relationship between high blood pressure and structural racism

Apr 15, 2021 American Heart Association News

John Ayanian commented that "in well-organized health systems, we're doing a better job of monitoring and controlling blood pressure, but the U.S. has a fragmented health care system." In a recent news article, the American Heart Association cited...

In the Media

Schwarz comments on medical group donations to Republican lawmakers

Feb 16, 2021 The Detroit News

Despite the fact that some Michigan Republicans flout health protocols promoted by the state, medical groups, and hospitals, health care interest groups still contributed more to Michigan Republicans than Democrats. Joe Schwarz, former Republican...

Ford School alum advocates to preserve reproductive rights during global pandemic

May 18, 2020

The global push for funding to fight COVID-19 has many concerned that sexual and reproductive health will suffer. Experts predict that the diversion of funds to fight COVID-19, along with some women avoiding hospitals altogether, will result in...

Healthcare sector takes a hit amidst the broader economic downturn

May 1, 2020

The news released on April 30 that the U.S. economy had shrunk 4.8 percent in the first quarter of 2020 confirmed that the country is poised to experience a deep recession. The analyses of Ford School economists Betsey Stevenson and Justin Wolfers...

Ford School receives $1.2 million grant for health policy research

Jan 15, 2016

The University of Michigan received a three-year, $1.2 million grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to establish the Policies for Action Research Hub at the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy. The Ford School is one of three...

Dingells mark Medicare and Social Security anniversary at Ford School

Aug 12, 2015

Two elected leaders and a roundtable of University of Michigan researchers convened at the Ford School on August 11 to mark the 50th anniversary of the legislation that created the Medicare system and the 80th anniversary of Social Security's...

Photo of Congressman John Dingell and Congresswoman Debbie Dingell

Dr. Matthew Davis appointed deputy director of Institute for Healthcare Policy and Innovation

May 11, 2015

By Christina Camilli-WhisenhuntOn May 1, 2015, Dr. Matthew Davis began his appointment as deputy director of the University of Michigan's Institute for Healthcare Policy and Innovation (IHPI). In this newly created role, Davis will help lead the...

Gilbert S. Omenn and Martha A. Darling Health Policy Fund

State Proposals for Single Payer Health Insurance Systems: Policy Visions and Challenges

Sep 16, 2024, 4:00 pm EDT

Joan and Sanford Weill Hall Annenberg Auditorium (1120)

An examination of single-payer healthcare policy

Watch live from this page

Racial Foundations of Public Policy

Racial Foundations of Public Policy: Health policy

Oct 13, 2022, 4:00-5:15 pm EDT

Watch Party: Weill Hall Betty Ford Auditorium (Room 1110)

The Center for Racial Justice presents Steven Thrasher, in conversation with Dr. Celeste Watkins-Hayes on health policy.

Gilbert S. Omenn and Martha A. Darling Health Policy Fund

Medicare/Medicaid and Social Security Anniversary Event: a faculty roundtable featuring Congresswoman Debbie Dingell and former Congressman John Dingell

Aug 11, 2015, 4:30-6:00 pm EDT

Weill Hall, Room 3240

Two elected leaders and a roundtable of U-M researchers will convene to mark the 50th anniversary of the legislation that created the Medicare system and the 80th anniversary of Social Security's creation.

Health Care Reform in the 111th Congress

Feb 16, 2009, 1:00-2:30 pm EST

University of Michigan School of Public Health

Please Join U.S. Representative John Dingell to Discuss Health Care Reform in the 111th Congress

PubPol 750.012

healthcare

Former governors Steve Bullock and John Kasich reflect on a less partisan future

As election approaches, national poll shows which health topics concern older adults most

Snapshot: Associate Dean Jeffrey Morenoff

Faculty News, spring 2023

Parthasarathy comments on new ARPA-H director

Michigan poverty map identifies regional needs related to child care, health care, affordable housing

Most Detroiters vaccinated in second half of 2021 were previously unsure about COVID-19 vaccines

Udow-Phillips weighs in on Beaumont-Spectrum merger

From birth control to mammograms, many women missed out on preventive care for all of 2020

Ayanian on the relationship between high blood pressure and structural racism

Schwarz comments on medical group donations to Republican lawmakers

Ford School alum advocates to preserve reproductive rights during global pandemic

Healthcare sector takes a hit amidst the broader economic downturn

Ford School receives $1.2 million grant for health policy research

Dingells mark Medicare and Social Security anniversary at Ford School

Dr. Matthew Davis appointed deputy director of Institute for Healthcare Policy and Innovation

State Proposals for Single Payer Health Insurance Systems: Policy Visions and Challenges

Racial Foundations of Public Policy: Health policy

Medicare/Medicaid and Social Security Anniversary Event: a faculty roundtable featuring Congresswoman Debbie Dingell and former Congressman John Dingell

Health Care Reform in the 111th Congress

PubPol 750.012: Topics: Politics of Healthcare Reform

Rheingans, Grim, and Lunge: Single payer health insurance systems

Steven Thrasher: Health policy

Carolyn Hughes Tuohy: Remaking Policy: Scale, Pace and Political Strategy in Health Care Reform

The Affordable Care Act: Where do we go from here?

Helen Levy: Committee on Ways and Means testimony