UCLA Fielding School of Public Health,
Department of Health Policy and Management
CONGRATULATIONS to the NAHSE Case Competition Team!!
Michelle Chen, Joshua Morris, and Marisol Rodriguez represented UCLA at the Everett V. Fox Student Case Competition, held in conjunction with the National Association of Health Services Executives (NAHSE) Annual Conference in Detroit, Michigan. Twenty-three programs from across the country participated and our UCLA team placed 2nd, beating former winners such as Michigan and Ohio State, nationally ranked schools like Cornell and George Washington ...and crosstown rival USC! We are so proud of them, their hard work, and the way the represented UCLA to the rest of the country.
New Global Course:
The UCLA Department of Health Policy and Management is excited about a new course we are offering in the spring. The class will be open to both first and second year students and also to students outside the HPM department and it examines the way health is organized and administered at the global level by participating in the World Health Assembly (the decision-making body of the World Health Organization) in Geneva. There will be some preparatory meetings and then students will be assigned to a delegation for the duration of the WHA (Monday-Friday, 8am-10pm), which is generally the third week of May.
New Department Chair for HPM:
Dr. Jack Needleman is the new HPM Department Chair. He has been a professor in the Department since 2003 and most recently was the Director of the MS and PhD Programs. He has also been on the faculty at Harvard and a Vice President at Lewin-ICF. Dr. Needleman’s research on the impact of nurse staffing and nurses’ working conditions on patient outcomes in hospitals and the business case for increasing nurse staffing received the first AcademyHealth Health Services Research Impact Award. In 2007, he was inducted as an honorary Fellow of the American Academy of Nursing. He is an elected member of the Institute of Medicine.
New Faculty Member in HPM:
Welcome to Dr. James Macinko! His work focuses on health policy from a global perspective with emphasis on health services and systems. Main areas of research include assessing the impact of health reforms and policy changes, developing tools to evaluate health system performance, and exploring the role of health policies and services in the production and potential reduction of health disparities. Dr. Macinko was formerly a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health & Society Scholar at the University of Pennsylvania and a Fulbright Scholar in Brazil. Most recently he was an Associate Professor at NYU.
Student Awards and Achievements:
Danielle Andrews and Michelle Chen were two of the ten Winston Scholars for 2014-15.
Congratulations to Dwight Asuncion, a Foster G. McGaw scholarship winner!