National Scholars Seminar SERIES
The National Scholars' Current Issues in Health Policy Seminar Series is a lecture series that is held in the spring semester. The National Scholars' Current Issues in Health Policy Seminar Series is the RWJF Center for Health Policy at Meharry Medical College's signature experience for the Health Policy Scholars Program and the Health Policy Fellows Program. It provides an opportunity for anyone interested in provocative health and health policy issues to hear from the field's leading experts from across the nation. The purpose is to familiarize Health Policy Fellows and Scholars with current and substantive key issues in health policy, health services research, and health disparities research with an emphasis in the social science disciplines of economics, sociology, and political science. While many of these topics will be addressed more fully in other Center courses, this seminar series focuses on the breadth of topics and controversies affecting health policy – now and in the foreseeable future. Because of the dynamic nature of health policy, the content of this series will vary from year to year as issues evolve and new challenges emerge. All National Scholars scheduled to lecture are listed below. Lunch is provided at each seminar.
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2013 NATIONAL SCHOLARS’ CURRENT ISSUES IN HEALTH POLICY SEMINAR SERIES
Anne C. Beal, MD, MPH
Chief Operating Officer
Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute
“Developing a Disparities Research Agenda”
Wednesday, March 6
James F. Blumstein, MA, LLB
University Professor of Constitutional Law and Health Law & Policy
Director of the Vanderbilt Health Policy Center
RWJF Center for Health Policy at Meharry Medical College National Advisory Board Member
“Issues in Implementing the Affordable Care Act”
Wednesday, January 9
Gail C. Christopher, DN
Vice President for Program Strategy
W.K. Kellogg Foundation
“Social Determinants of Health Equity: Moving from Theory to Practice”
Wednesday, February 6
Gordon H. DeFriese, Ph.D.
Professor of Social Medicine, Epidemiology, and Health Policy and Administration,
Emeritus
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
President Emeritus, North Carolina Institute of Medicine
“Long-Term Care & ‘Obamacare’: Who's Gonna Care?”
Wednesday, April 3
Julianne Malveaux, Ph.D.
Economist, Author, Columnist
Immediate Past-President, Bennett College for Women
“Income, Access, and Attitudes: The Roots of Health Disparities”
Wednesday, March 20
Paula D. McClain, Ph.D.
Dean of the Graduate School
Vice Provost for Graduate Education
Professor of Political Science and Public Policy
Duke University
RWJF Center for Health Policy at Meharry Medical College National Advisory Board Member
“Race, Politics and the American Political System”
Wednesday, April 17
Kavita Patel, M.D., MS
Fellow, Economic Studies Program
Managing Director, Engelberg Center for Health Care Reform
Brookings Institution
“The Road to the Affordable Care Act and Beyond”
Wednesday, January 23
LECTURE CANCELLED
Lisa Simpson, MB, BCh, MPH, FAAP
President & Chief Executive Officer
AcademyHealth
“How Health Services Research Has Advanced Child Health Policy”
Wednesday, February 20
2012 NATIONAL SCHOLARS’ CURRENT ISSUES IN HEALTH POLICY SEMINAR SERIES
Claudia Baquet, M.D., M.P.H.Associate Dean for Policy and Planning;
Director, Center for Health Disparities
University of Maryland School of Medicine
Baltimore, Maryland
Giselle Corbie-Smith, MD, MSc
Professor, Social Medicine
Professor, Department of Medicine
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, School of Medicine
Peggye Dilworth-Anderson, Ph.D.
Professor, Health Policy and Management;
Gillings School of Global Public Health
Interim Co-Director,
UNC Institute on Aging
University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
Senator William Frist, M.D.
Physician and U.S. Senator
RWJF Center for Health Policy
National Advisory Board Member
Nashville, Tennessee
Darrell J. Gaskin, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Health Economics
Department of Health Policy and Management
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Dora Hughes, M.D., M.P.H., F.A.C.P.
Counselor for Science and Public Health
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services,
Washington, D.C.
Kevin Johnson, M.D., M.S.
Professor and Vice Chair of Biomedical Informatics
Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Camara Phyllis Jones, M.D., M.P.H., Ph.D.
Research Director on Social Determinants of Health and Equity
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Atlanta, Georgia
Wayne Riley, M.D., MPH, MBA, MACP
President and Chief Executive Officer
Meharry Medical College
2011 NATIONAL SCHOLARS’ CURRENT ISSUES IN HEALTH POLICY SEMINAR 
Vence Bonham, Jr., J.D.
Senior Advisor to the Director on
Societal Implications of Genomics
National Human Genome Research Institute
Bethesda, Maryland
Otis Brawley, M.D.
Chief Medical Officer
American Cancer Society
Atlanta, Georgia
Tim Carey, M.D., M.P.H.
Professor of Social Medicine
Director, Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Sheldon H. Danziger, Ph.D.
Henry J. Meyer Distinguished University Professor of Public Policy
Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy
Director, National Poverty Center,
Director, Research and Training Program on Poverty and Public Policy
Research Professor, Population Studies Center, Institute for Social Research
University of Michigan
James Jackson, Ph.D.
Daniel Katz Distinguished University Professor of Psychology
Professor of Health Behavior and Health Education
School of Public Health
Director, Institute for Social Research
University of Michigan
Thomas A. LaVeist, Ph.D.
William C. and Nancy F. Richardson Professor
in Health Policy
Department of Health Policy and Management
Director, Hopkins Center for Health Disparities Solutions
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Wayne Riley, M.D., MPH, MBA, MACP
President and Chief Executive Officer
Meharry Medical College
Frank Sloan, Ph.D.
J. Alexander McMahon Professor of Health Policy and Management
Professor of Economics
Director, Center for Health Policy, Law and Management
Duke University
Brian D. Smedley, Ph.D.
Vice President and Director, Health Policy Institute
Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies
Washington, D.C.
David Williams, Ph.D.
Florence Sprague Norman and Laura Smart Norman Professor of Public Health,
Professor of African American Studies
Harvard University
Cambridge, Massachusetts