FYI. Interesting talk on health care policy with a renowned scholar! Please see details below. The Roosevelt Institute and the Roosevelt House are cosponsoring an event at the Roosevelt House with Dr. John McDonough, the Public Health Scholar at the new school for public policy. I thought that this might be of interest to you and to any Pre-Med students who have expressed interest in public health. Thank you very much, David Weinberger  ---- David Weinberger President and Administrative Director Roosevelt Institute | Hunter College [log in to unmask] | [log in to unmask] Phone: (914) 479-9145 | Fax: (530) 451-9145  ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Roosevelt Institute | Hunter College <[log in to unmask]> Date: Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 12:11 PM Subject: Next Wednesday: A Brown Bag Lunch at the Roosevelt House with Public Health Scholar Dr. John McDonough To: [log in to unmask]   RICN_logo.jpg            RH logo.JPG  The Roosevelt Institute | Campus Network  & the Roosevelt House Public Policy Institute at Hunter College  Proudly invite you to attend a  Brown Bag Lunch with the Joan H. Tisch Fellow in Public Health, Dr. John McDonough  Wednesday, April 28th (12:30-2:00pm)   at the Roosevelt House (45-47 E. 65th St.) 2nd Floor Conference Room  Lunch will be served.  Hunter College's chapter of the Roosevelt Institute Campus Network, a student policy organization which engages students in unique, progressive activism, by empowering them as leaders, and promoting their ideas for change, will hold a brown bag lunch with Dr. McDonough to discuss national health care reform.  Faculty and students are welcome to attend and participate in this round-table conversation.  Kindly RSVP here by 11:59 PM on Monday, April 26. <https://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?formkey=dHVPSDJaOHNwSkF4Q0xqQS1PdkpkdkE6MQ>  Or call 212-650-3184 or email [log in to unmask]   -----  John E. McDonough, DrPH, MPA is the inaugural Joan H. Tisch Fellow in Public Health at the Roosevelt House Public Policy Institute. Dr. McDonough was formerly Senior Advisor to the U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions. Between 2003 and 2008, he served as Executive Director of Health Care For All, Massachusetts’ leading consumer health advocacy organization. From 1998 through 2003, he was an Associate Professor at the Heller School at Brandeis University. From 1985 to 1997, he served as a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives where he co-chaired the Joint Committee on Health Care. He is an adjunct lecturer at the Harvard School of Public Health. His articles have appeared in the New England Journal of Medicine, Health Affairs and other journals. He has written two books, Experiencing Politics: A Legislator’s Stories of Government and Health Care by the University of California Press and the Milbank Fund in 2000, and Interests, Ideas, and Deregulation: The Fate of Hospital Rate Setting by the University of Michigan Press in 1998. He received a doctorate in public health from the School of Public Health at the University of Michigan in 1996 and a master’s in public administration from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard in 1990.　 <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> If you wish to unsubscribe from the PREMEDINFO-L List, please send an E-mail to:"[log in to unmask]". Within the body of the text, only write the following:"SIGNOFF PREMEDINFO-L".