Call for Papers: "New Directions in American Health Care: Innovations From Home and Abroad."

Hofstra University will host a two-day conference on Thursday and Friday, March 11-12, 2010: "New Directions in American Health Care: Innovations From Home and Abroad."

The goal of the conference is twofold: 1) to facilitate discussion from an interdisciplinary perspective, a year into the new presidential administration, around transferable, just solutions to America's health coverage crisis; and 2) to help set a research and policy agenda to broaden social justice by ameliorating critical dilemmas in coverage, cost and quality of health care.

Researchers and scholars from a variety of disciplines (including law, ethics, anthropology, political science, public health, health policy, history, economics, sociology, health services research and health systems research) are invited to submit 400-600 word summaries of their 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

Applicants should submit summaries as attachments via email to hofculctr@hofstra.edu by Feb. 27, 2009. Applicants should indicate in the covering e-mail the session for which they believe the submission is appropriate. Submissions will be evaluated by peer reviewers on the basis of quality and appropriateness of subject matter. Notification of acceptance will be sent by June 20, 2009.

The conference has already enlisted two keynote speakers:

Vicente Navarro, M.D., Ph.D., Dr.P.H.
Professor of Public Policy, Sociology and Public Studies, Johns Hopkins University's Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Md.

Peter Zweifel, Ph.D. Professor of Economics, University of Zurich, Switzerland.

Conference Co-Directors:
Janet Dolgin, Ph.D., J.D. Jack and Freda Dicker Distinguished Prof. of Health Care Law (Janet.L.Dolgin@hofstra.edu)
Rachel Kreier, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Economics (Rachel.E.Kreier@hofstra.edu)
Corinee Kyriacou, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Community Health (Corinne M.Kyriacou@hofstra.edu)

For more information, visit the conference website: hofstra.edu/Community/culctr/culctr_events_americanhealthcare

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