HOFSTRA CULTURAL CENTER presents a conference

New Directions in American Health Care:

Innovations From Home and Abroad

With participation and support from Hofstra College of Liberal Arts and Schiences, Hofstra Law School, the School of Education, Health and Human Services, and the School of Medicine in partnership with North Shore - Long Island Jewish Health System. 

Thursday and Friday
March 11 and 12, 2010

Keynote Speakers:
Vicente Navarro, M.D., Ph.D., Dr.P.H.
Professor of Public Policy, Sociology and Policy Studies, John Hopkins University's Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD
and
Peter Zweifel, Ph.D.
Professor of Economics, University of Zurich, Switzerland

Faced with social, political, economic and health burdens as a result of uninsured and underinsured residents, the states and localities have emerged in the past few years as hotbeds of U.S. health coverage innovation. Simultaneously, many other nations (while having long ago achieved universal coverage) have experimented over the past few decades with a spectrum of organizational innovations as they have grappled with issues of cost, quality and persisten health disparities. 

The successes and failures of state and local efforts and the experiences of other nations contain valuable lessons that should inform American health care police, regardless of who occupies the Oval Office after January 2009. The goal of the New Directions in American Health Care conference is twofold: 1) to facilitate discussion from an interdisciplinary perspective, a year into the new presidential administration, around transferable solutions to America's health care coverage crisis; and 2) to help set a research and policy agenda to ameliorate critical dilemmas in coverage, cost and quality of health care. 

Researchers and scholars are invited to submit 400- to 600-word abstracts of papers for consideration for presentation at one of the following sessions:

• Lessons from the states and localities
• Lessons from abroad
• Historical perspectives on U.S. reform efforts
• Legal and ethical issues in American health insurance
• Quality of care and health coverage innovation
• Socioeconomic disparities and health coverage innovation
• Special issues in suburban health care and coverage
• Meeting the challenges of an aging population 

 Submissions from a variety of disciplines are welcome. Applicants should submit abstracts as attachements via e-mail to hofculctr@hofstra.edu by Febuary 27, 2009. More information about submitting an abstract can be found in the Conference Call for Papers. 

For more information contact the Hofstra Cultural Center at (516) 463-5669, Monday through Friday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Conference Co-Directors:

Janet Dolgin, Ph.D., J.D.
Jack and Freda Dicker Distinguished Professor of Health Care Law
Hofstra University

Rachel Kreier, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Economics
Hofstra University

Corinne Kyriacou, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Community Health Services
Hofstra University