Massachusetts Health Policy Student Forum: January 4-5, 2012
Background Reading List, Background Reading 1, Background Reading 2, Background Reading 3, Background Reading 4, Background Reading 5, Background Reading 6
2011 Student Forum Speaker biographies and photos
Speaker Presentations: Comm. Aron Boros Handout, Commissioner John Auerbach, Lois Johnson, Comm. Barbara Leadholm, Julian Harris, John McDonough
History:
The Massachusetts Health Policy Forum (MHPF) located at The Heller School for Social Policy and Management at Brandeis University was created in 1998 to bring public and private health care leaders together to engage in focused discussion on critical health policy challenges facing the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Student Forum:
The Massachusetts Health Policy Forum organizes an annual student forum designed to give advanced graduate students in public health, medicine and health policy direct access to the workings of state government. Students have an opportunity to meet with the senior legislative and state administrative officials to discuss the operations and responsibilities of state government. This is generally done in the context of pressing contemporary issues.
Funding:
The Massachusetts Health Policy Forum is supported by grants from Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts and Partners Health Care. The Forum is also part of the The National State Health Policy Institutes Collaborative a national network of nonpartisan health policy organizations.
Sponsors:
The Massachusetts Health Policy Student Forums are sponsored by the participating schools: The Heller School for Social Policy and Management at Brandeis University , Tufts University School of Medicine , Boston University School of Public Health , UMass Medical School and Commonwealth Medicine , UMass School of Public Health and Health Sciences , UMASS Boston, College of Nursing and Health Sciences, Simmons School of Management, Bouve College of Health Sciences, Northeastern University, and Boston University School of Medicine Primary Care Residency Program.
Who Should Apply:
Applications from advanced graduate students in public health, medicine and health policy are accepted by partcipating school representatives: