Disparities in Healthcare and Health Outcomes
All events will take place in the Wolstein Research Building Auditorium (unless otherwise noted)
November 3, 2005
5:15 – 6:00 p.m. – Reception
6:00 – 7:00 p.m. – Seminar
(Not) Making It in America: Poverty, Health and Children's Prospects  
Christina Paxson, Ph.D.
Professor of Economics and Public Affairs; Director, Center for Health and Wellbeing, Princeton
University
Christina Paxson is the founding director of the Center for Health and Wellbeing, an interdisciplinary health research center in the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International
Affairs at Princeton. She is a Senior Editor of The
Future of Children; a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research; and a Research Associate of Princeton’s Office of Population Research. Dr. Paxson’s research
interests are in the areas of applied economics, health, and development economics. Her current research focuses on economic status and health outcomes over the life course in both
developed and developing countries. She is the Principal Investigator of several NIH-funded studies, and is the director of an NIA Center for Demography of Aging at Princeton.
November 10, 2005
5:15 – 6:00 p.m. – Reception
6:00 – 7:00 p.m. – Seminar
Health Care Disparities: A Case of Local Politics 
Nicole Lurie, M.D., M.S.P.H.
Senior Natural Scientist and Co-Director for Public Health at the Center for Domestic and International Health Security; Director of the RAND Center for Population Health and Health Disparities; Paul O'Neill Alcoa Professor of Health Policy at RAND
Nicole Lurie was a Professor of Medicine and Public Health at the University of Minnesota, and most recently, Medical Advisor to the Commissioner at the Minnesota Department
of Health. From 1998-2001, she served as Assistant Secretary of Health in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Throughout her career, Dr. Lurie's research has focused
on health services, primarily in the areas of access to and quality of care, managed care, mental health, prevention, and health disparities. She is leading a collaborative effort,
centered at RAND, to study the impact of changes in the health care safety net in the District of Columbia, and to develop a collaborative, public-private health data infrastructure
for the District and the region.
Dr. Lurie serves as Senior Editor for Health Services Research and has served on editorial boards and as a reviewer for numerous journals. She was President of the
Society of General Internal Medicine, is currently on the board of directors for the Academy of Health Services Research, and is a member of the
Institute of Medicine.
November 30 - December 2, 2005 Symposium - View Itinerary
Keynote Address on December 1, 2005
5:15 – 6:00 p.m. – Reception
6:00 – 7:00 p.m. – Seminar
Understanding Inequalities in Health
Sir Michael Marmot, MBBS, MPH, Ph.D., FRCP, FFPHM
Director, International Institute for Society and Health; Professor of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London
Michael Marmot has been at the forefront of research into health inequalities for the past 20 years as Principal Investigator of the Whitehall studies of British civil servants,
investigating explanations for the striking inverse social gradient in morbidity and mortality. He chairs the Department of Health Scientific Reference Group on tackling health
inequalities and the National Institute for Clinical Excellence (NICE) Research and Development Committee. He also chairs the BHF Primary Prevention Committee. He was a member
of the Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution for six years. In 2000 he was knighted by Her Majesty The Queen for his services to epidemiology and understanding health inequalities.
Internationally acclaimed, Professor Marmot is a Vice President of the Academia Europaea; a member of the RAND Health Advisory Board; a Foreign Associate Member of the Institute
of Medicine, and he chairs the WHO Commission on Social Determinants of Health. He won the Balzan Prize for Epidemiology in 2004 and will give the Harveian Oration in 2006.
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