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Response: System Transformation and the ACA

  The fourth session of Equity and Choice in Health Care Access, a conference in celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Center for Health Administration Studies (CHAS) at the University of Chicago...

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ACOs and Inequality

  The fourth session of Equity and Choice in Health Care Access, a conference in celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Center for Health Administration Studies (CHAS) at the University of Chicago...

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What Does the Public Want from Comparative Effectiveness Research? Evidence...

  The fourth session of Equity and Choice in Health Care Access, a conference in celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Center for Health Administration Studies (CHAS) at the University of Chicago...

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Response: Is the Health Care System More Equitable and Fair under the ACA?

  The third session of Equity and Choice in Health Care Access, a conference in celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Center for Health Administration Studies (CHAS) at the University of Chicago...

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The Connection between Equity and Fairness in Policy Design in View of ACA

  The third session of Equity and Choice in Health Care Access, a conference in celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Center for Health Administration Studies (CHAS) at the University of Chicago...

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A Frame for Fairness

  The third session of Equity and Choice in Health Care Access, a conference in celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Center for Health Administration Studies (CHAS) at the University of Chicago...

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Keynote Address: The Affordable Care Act: An Insider’s View

  Sherry Glied delivered the keynote address during the Equity and Choice in Health Care Access conference. Her address focused on why the Affordable Care Act is important and needed in the United...

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Response: Cost/Coverage Harmony or Trade-Offs under the ACA

  The second session of Equity and Choice in Health Care Access, a conference in celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Center for Health Administration Studies (CHAS) at the University of Chicago...

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Health Care: Medical Monopoly—A Dose of Professional Capital to Remedy...

Several years from now, a patient will be admitted into the hospital with a series of severe and painful symptoms. What role will you play in this patient's care as a health care professional? Are you...

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Taking The Next Step 2012 Keynote: Myrtle Potter

Myrtle Potter is one of America’s foremost healthcare leaders and innovators and a best-selling author. She has dedicated three decades of service and leadership to America’s most successful global...

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UnCommon Core | Training at the Front Lines of Community Health

Disparities in health outcomes, quality of health care, and access to health services remain real and pressing problems for those living in underserved communities. Service learning at the University...

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UnCommon Core | The Emergence of Big Data as a Discipline and its Impact on...

The amount of data now being produced in a wide range of fields is overwhelming our ability to analyze it. In this talk, Robert Grossman describes some of the new techniques and approaches that are...

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Dr. Margit Burmeister speaks at Brain Awareness Day 2013

Dr. Margit Burmeister, Professor of Human Genetics and Psychiatry at the University of Michigan Medical School, speaks about “Genes and Experience Aren’t Everything When It Comes to Personality and...

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Dr. Larry Young speaks at Brain Awareness Day 2013

Dr. Larry Young, Professor of Psychiatry at Emory University School of Medicine, speaks about “Neurobiology of Social Bonding: Implications for New Treatments For Autism” at the Second Annual Brain...

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What Molecular Genetics Can Tell Us about How We Wake Up and Why We Sleep

Dr. Ravi Allada, Professor of Neurobiology at Northwestern University, speaks about “What Molecular Genetics Can Tell Us about How We Wake Up and Why We Sleep” at the Second Annual Brain Awareness Day...

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Sandeep Ahuja, Alumni Award for Public Service

Earlier this year, the University of Chicago Alumni Association recognized Chicago Harris alumnus Sandeep Ahuja, MPP’06, for his efforts to address the global pandemic of tuberculosis. Ahuja cofounded...

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Chicago: City of Big Data

The growing torrent of information released by city governments and collected by researchers is connecting with new tools developed by computer scientists, enabling significant advances in urban...

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Judith Farquhar on Integrating Alternative Medicine: Recent Chinese Experience

The People’s Republic of China has been a world leader in the successful inclusion of East Asian traditional medicine in the national public health system. Biomedical criticisms notwithstanding,...

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Thirty Million Words® Initiative

The Thirty Million Words® Initiative is an innovative parent-directed program designed to harness the power of parent language to build a child’s brain and impact his or her future. In the video,...

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SSA’s 2013 Edith Abbott Award for Lifetime Achievement: Nathan Linsk

Nathan Linsk, AM '74, PhD '82 is a recently retired professor (UIC/Jane Addams College of Social Work) and a founder of the Midwest AIDS Training and Education Center (MATEC) and the Great Lakes...

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