Global Health
The work in health policy at WGGP centers on health care labor
markets, health care reform and biofuels, all within a global context. The
question linking all of WGGP's research and policy activities in the health
arena is: who gets what and why? All of programs and projects attempt to
provide a more robust understanding of these issues in order to affect change.
All of our research, teaching, and egagement activities are examined with
special attention given to the policy and gender issues.
We have
two upcoming symposia on the health care labor shortages.
First, we have one on September 9-10, 2008 that is funded by The Sloan
Foundation. The focus of this meeting is to examine how the convergence
of labor shortages
in all health care sectors affects service delivery and health care reforms
globally.
The second
meeting will occur in October 2008. This symposium, funded by the European
Union (EU) Center, examines how the EU changes in
nursing
education are likely to affect global competition for nurses.
For more
information about these and other health projects please contact Noreen
M. Sugrue at nsugrue@uiuc.edu or 217-244-5812.
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Kaiser
Family Foundation Announces:
3rd Annual Graduate
and Undergraduate Student Essay Contest in Health Policy
December 16, 2008
Dear Professors and Faculty,
As you plan your course work for next semester, I am pleased to let you know that kaiserEDU.org will launch its third annual essay contest on January 26, 2009. Students will be asked to submit an original essay of no more than 1,000 words. If this essay topic is relevant to course work you are preparing for next semester, you may wish to include the contest as part of your class assignments, as other professors did last year.
ESSAY TOPIC: President-elect Obama has stated that reforming the health care system is one of his top priorities, and there is broad interest from policymakers and the public in making a change. During the campaign, he outlined a framework for reforming health care. What elements of his plan should be prioritized given the current economic crisis, what elements are most likely to garner support and which ones will be most challenging and why?
Undergraduate and graduate students will be judged separately and the winners will receive $1,000. Complete details, rules and regulations for the essay contest will be available online by January 26, 2009 and all essays must be submitted by March 2, 2009.
KaiserEDU.org is a free site which provides a wide range of educational materials and resources on major areas of health care policy, designed for students and faculty. The site, http://www.kaiserEDU.org, has several tutorials and issue modules that would be useful resources for students researching the essay question. Additionally, resources on the Kaiser Family Foundation's main Web site, http://www.kff.org/uninsured/healthreform.cfm, provide insight into the nation's health care challenges and various reform proposals being considered at the national and state levels.
If you do not regularly receive emails about kaiserEDU.org updates and would like to sign up for our free emails (sent approximately twice per month), please visit our Web site, http://www.kaiserEDU.org/email.
If you have any questions about the contest or other features on kaiserEDU.org, please feel free to contact me.
Thank you,
Alina Salganicoff, Ph.D. Vice President and Director, KaiserEDU.org
alinas@kff.org
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Past Events
April 9, Wednesday, 12
Noon: International Migration of Health Care Workers, Noreen
Sugrue, Women and Gender in Global Perspectives Program, UIUC,
326 Lincoln Hall, 702 S. Wright St., Urbana, sponsored by Migration Studies
Group.
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WGGP's CDMS Working
Group
Health
and Security Issues: Immigrants in the Rural Midwest
This working
group focuses
on health and human security issues facing immigrants settling
in non-traditional geographic locales. The
work of this group is not specific to one specific immigrant group
or
another
but rather on the social, political, economic, and health issues
facing immigrant groups, one and all. We are aware that the social,
political, economic, and health challenges facing immigrant groups vary,
depending
on the group; nonetheless, all immigrant groups encounter barriers
to health and human security, and it is those barriers that are
of concern
to us.
In order to better understand the lives of immigrants living in
the rural
Midwest, as well as to develop an important and fundamental line
of research inquiry, we require participation from faculty in a wide
range
of disciplines.
This group is designed to be a locus at UIUC for bringing together
faculty interested in the study of health and human security issues
facing rural
Midwestern immigrant populations.
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Kaiser
Family Foundation Announces:
Graduate
and Undergraduate Student Essay Contest in Health Policy
KaiserEDU.org
announces its Second Annual Student Essay Contest. Submit an original essay
on the topic below for a chance to win $1,000. Deadline for submission is
March 17, 2008.
Contest
Website: http://cme.kff.org/Key=13707.NM.C.C.D71LWc
ESSAY
TOPIC
The date is November 24th, 2008. You have just started a job as an analyst
working on the President elect's health care transition team. The director
of the transition team has asked you to draft a memo to flesh out the health
priorities for the new Administration on a major health policy issue. Select
a candidate and an issue area (from the list below) and identify the major
policies or strategies that the next Administration could develop to advance
this issue. Make sure to include evidence and analysis to support your recommendations.
Your priorities and strategies should be consistent with the proposals forwarded
by the candidates in the campaign. You should also address the challenges in
implementing your recommendations, such as budgetary and political considerations,
delivery system issues, and how different stakeholders and constituencies would
perceive the proposals.
For List
of Presidential Candidates: (please refer to the contest website)
Issue
Areas:
> Controlling
Health Care Costs
> Eliminating Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities
> Expanding Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Efforts
> Improving Women's Health
> Improving the Quality of Health Care
CONTEST
DETAILS
PRIZES:
First
Place -- $1,000
Second Place -- $500
Eligibility:
Submissions will be accepted from undergraduate and graduate-level
students enrolled in a degree-granting program at the time
of submission.
Essay
length: Essays must not exceed 800 words in length and must
be original work, prepared by one author only.
Essay
submission: Entries must be submitted online only. No emails
will be accepted.
Deadline:
All essays must be submitted by March 17, 2008, 5p.m. EST.Judging:
Entries will be judged by a panel of professionals with experience
in health policy and politics from inside and outside the Kaiser
Family Foundation. Winners will be notified by May 1, 2008
.For
more information about Rules and Requirements visit Contest
Website.
ANY
STUDENT INTERESTED IN THIS SHOULD CONTACT NOREEN SUGRUE, nsugrue@uiuc.edu
or 244-5812, IF THEY WANT MORE INFORMATION OR ANY ASSISTANCE
WITH THIS.
BE SURE TO INCLUDE INFORMATION ON IMMIGRANTS AND IMMIGRANT HEALTH IN ANY ESSAY
YOU WRITE.
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Electing
Health Care
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Rural
Health Policy Seminar, ACE
592, Fall 2005
"DISTRIBUTIVE
JUSTICE AND DISPARITIES IN RURAL AMERICA: IMPLICATIONS FOR HEALTH
POLICY"
