"Unhealthy Politics: The Battle over Evidence-Based Medicine in the United States"

The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Scholars in Health Policy Research Program invites you to an upcoming Core Seminar with Eric Patashnik of the University of Virginia. "Unhealthy Politics: The Battle over Evidence-Based Medicine in the United States" Monday, May 2nd, 11:00 am – 12:30 pm CGIS South Building, Room S-450 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA Eric Patashnik is Professor of Public Policy and Politics and Director of the Center for Health Policy at the University of Virginia. He is also Nonresident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution and a Fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration. He previously held faculty positions at Yale University and UCLA. He served as Acting Dean and Associate Dean for Academic Affairs of the Batten School between 2009 and 2012. In July 2016, he will become editor of the Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law. Patashnik is the author of Reforms at Risk: What Happens After Major Policy Changes Are Enacted (Princeton University Press, 2008), which received the 2009 Louis Brownlow Book Award given by the National Academy of Public Administration. His other books and edited volumes include Congress and Policymaking in the 21st Century (co-editor with Jeffery A. Jenkins, Cambridge University Press, 2016), Living Legislation: Durability, Change, and the Politics of American Lawmaking (co-editor with Jeffery A. Jenkins, University of Chicago Press, 2012), Promoting the General Welfare: New Perspectives on Government Performance (co-editor with Alan S. Gerber, Brookings Institution Press, 2006), and Putting Trust in the US Budget: Federal Trust Funds and the Politics of Commitment (Cambridge University Press, 2000). His current book project (with Alan S. Gerber and Conor M. Dowling) is Unhealthy Politics:The Battle over Evidence-Based Medicine in the United States (under advance contract, Princeton University Press). His essays have appeared in Perspectives on Politics, Health Affairs, Policy Sciences, Political Science Quarterly, Governance, Journal of Health Politics, Policy & Law, Social Service Review, and in many edited volumes. Patashnik received both his M.P.P. and Ph.D. (political science) from the University of California at Berkeley. Kindly RSVP to skochavi@rwj.harvard.edu. RSVPs are not necessary but are welcome. A calendar of seminars may be found at: http://www.rwj.harvard.edu/CoreSeminar1516.html.