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National Health Care
The Obama Administration and Congress are working to enact major health care reform legislation. The University of Maryland has faculty experts who can provide the analysis and background you need.
Dr. Robert Sprinkle. Prof. Ken Apfel, Jack Meyer, and Prof. Bonnie Braun especially can talk National Health Care Policy. Economics Professor Peter Morici can discuss economic issues associated with the adoption of a national health insurance plan.
Experts are listed in alphabetical order. Feel free to contact our faculty experts directly.
Number of experts found: 15
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Douglas J. Besharov
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Professor
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School of Public Policy
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Expertise Key Words:
Education (vocational, high-school counseling, Affirmative Action, and student aid); Poverty; Welfare reform (job training and program evaluation); Families (marriage, divorce, same-sex marriage, and nonmarital births); Child abuse/child welfare; Preschool and Head Start; Race and ethnicity.
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301 405 6341
201 862-5984
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besharov@umd.edu
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Bonnie Braun
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Associate Professor
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Family Science (MCE Family & Consumer Sciences)
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Expertise Key Words:
Family Policy; Civic and Democratic Engagement; Rural Families: Poverty, Health, Spirituality and Religiosity, Public Assistance; Food Stamp Nutrition Education; Food Insecurity; Resiliency; Intergenerational Storytelling about Tough Times; Cooperative Extension Education.
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E-mail(s)
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301 405 3581
301 405-3672 (Main Office)
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bbraun@umd.edu
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Judith N. Freidenberg
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Associate Professor, Affilate Associate Professor; Director Anthropology of Immigrant Life Course
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Anthropology
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Expertise Key Words:
Medical anthropology and community development of a neighborhood; Anthropology of low-income urban enclaves with emphasis on aging in immigrant communities.
Prof. Freidenberg is currently researching health care and employment needs of Latin American immigrant retirees in Langley Park, Maryland.
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301 405 1420
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jfreiden@umd.edu
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Darrell J. Gaskin
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Associate Professor
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African American Studies
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Expertise Key Words:
Healthcare Disparities,
Access to Healthcare,
Safety Net Hospitals,
Children with Special Healthcare Needs,
Medicaid and Medicare Policies, Managed Care and
Health Economics, Minority Healthcare
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301 405 1162
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dgaskin@umd.edu
dgaskin@aasp.umd.edu
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Jeffrey W. Herrmann
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Associate Professor
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Mechanical Engineering and Institute for Systems Research
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Expertise Key Words:
Production scheduling, manufacturing systems design, control of manufacturing systems, decision-making, product development, product design, simulation, industrial engineering, operations research, systems engineering, lean manufacturing, emergency preparedness, flu vaccination clinics, RFID. Health
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301 405 5433
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jwh2@umd.edu
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Samuel J. Kerstein
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Associate Professor
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Philosophy
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Expertise Key Words:
Ethics, bioethics (including organ [e.g., kidney] sales and rationing in health care), Kant.
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301 405 3119
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kerstein@umd.edu
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Sunmin Lee
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Assistant Professor
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Epidemiology & Biostatistics
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Expertise Key Words:
Health Disparities including and Minority and Immigrant Health, esp. Asian American health ( cancer and chronic disease) using Community-Based Participatory Research Model; Stress and Health;
Obesity
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301 405 7251
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sunmin@umd.edu
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Jack A. Meyer
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Prof Of Practice
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School of Public Policy
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Expertise Key Words:
Overcoming barriers to health care access; innovative designs for extending health insurance coverage to the uninsured.
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301 405 6971
202-785-3669, extension 12
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jmeyer1@umd.edu
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Peter G. Morici
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Professor
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Logistics, Business & Public Policy
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Expertise Key Words:
Macroeconomics, International Economics And International Business, And Government Regulation; Steel; Autos; Telecommunications; Airlines; Manufacturing; Retailing; Financial And Foreign Exchange Markets; Import And Export Issues
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301 405 2136
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703-549-4338
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pmorici@umd.edu
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Ann C. Sherrard
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4-H Extension Educator and Garrett County Director
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Maryland Cooperative Extension -Garrett County
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Expertise Key Words:
Public health, rural health, volunteer development, Western Maryland
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301 334 6963
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anns@umd.edu
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Judith A. Shinogle
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Assist ant Professor
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Health Services Administration
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Expertise Key Words:
Health insurance coverage; public and private health and disability benefits; health habits
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301 405 6545
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shinogle@umd.edu
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Robert H. Sprinkle, M.D., Ph.D.
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Associate Professor
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School of Public Policy
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Expertise Key Words:
Health-policy reform; Bioethics & biopolitics; Environmental health; Biosecurity
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Home phone
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301 405 0184
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301 864 2170
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301 775 0320
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sprinkle@umd.edu
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Laura B. Wilson
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Professor and Director
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Center on Aging
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Expertise Key Words:
Aging, gerontology, Baby Boomers, public policy in the field of aging, and exercise and aging.
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301 405 2470
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lwilson@umd.edu
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Ruth E. Zambrana
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Professor , Women's Studies and Director of Research, Consortium on Race, Gender and Ethnicity
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Women's Studies
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Expertise Key Words:
Latino studies, with an emphasis on women's and children's concerns including women and health; racial and ethnic disparities in family, child, and women's health; maternal and adolescent health and organizational barriers to health care services.
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301 405 0451
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rzambran@umd.edu
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