LDI Health Policy Panel Discussion

Our distinguished panel of political scientists will share their early findings from the Federalism and Health Reform project where they are conducting a state-level field study of implementation of the Affordable Care Act. Local researchers in 29 states are analyzing the institutional and political changes underway, and the challenges that have arisen in each state.

Richard P. Nathan, PhD; Rockefeller Institute of Government
Richard Nathan, a senior fellow at the Rockefeller Institute of Government, formerly served as director of the Institute and distinguished professor of political science and public policy at the State University of New York at Albany. Nathan has written and edited books on the implementation of domestic public programs in the United States and on American federalism. Prior to coming to Albany, he was a professor at Princeton University. He served in the federal government as assistant director of the U.S. Office of Management and Budget, deputy undersecretary for welfare reform of the U.S. Department of Health Education and Welfare, and director of domestic policy for the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders (The Kerner Commission).

Michael Rich, PhD; Emory University
Michael J. Rich is Associate Professor of Political Science and Environmental Studies and founding director of the Center for Community Partnerships at Emory University. He is the author of Collaborative Governance for Urban Revitalization (with Robert Stoker, Cornell University Press, forthcoming), Federal Policymaking and the Poor, and several publications on federalism and a variety of urban public policy topics, including community development, housing and homelessness, crime, and economic development. His current research focuses on community building, neighborhood revitalization and local poverty reduction strategies, particularly concerning issues relating to cross-sector collaboration and the revitalization of urban communities.

He received his PhD in political science from Northwestern University and has held research appointments at the Brookings Institution and the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. He previously taught at Brown University, where he served as director of the Policy Analysis Laboratory, and was the founding executive director of The Providence Plan, a collaborative city-state-university initiative to revitalize the city of Providence and its neighborhoods.

John J. Dilulio, PhD; University of Pennsylvania
John J. DiIulio, Jr. is the Frederic Fox Leadership Professor of Politics, Religion, and Civil Society at the University of Pennsylvania. He serves as faculty director of Penn’s Robert A. Fox Leadership Program and its Program for Research on Religion and Urban Civil Society. Before coming to Penn, he was Professor of Politics and Public Affairs at Princeton University. He received his doctorate from Harvard University, where he also taught for several years. He is winner of the David N. Kershaw Award of the Association of Public Policy Analysis and Management, the Leonard D. White Award in Public Administration, and several awards for excellence in teaching, including Penn’s Lindback Award and its Abrams Award. He has been a senior fellow and a research center director at several policy think tanks including the Brookings Institution. He has served on numerous national and local nonprofit boards including Big Brothers Big Sisters of America and Partners for Sacred Places. He has developed national programs to expand education opportunities for low-income children, mentor the children of prisoners, support urban religious nonprofit organizations that deliver social services, and sustain the recovery process in post-Katrina New Orleans. He served as Assistant to the President of the U.S. and first Director of the White House Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives; he assisted the Obama administration in reconstituting that office. His more than a dozen books and edited volumes include a best-selling textbook now in its 14th edition, American Government: Institutions and Policies (co-authored with James Q. Wilson and Meena Bose, Cengage, 2014); Godly Republic: A Centrist Blueprint for America’s Faith-Based Future (University of California Press, 2007), and Making Health Reform Work: The View from the States (co-edited with Richard P. Nathan, Brookings, 1994). In 2013, he joined the Aspen Institute’s effort to mobilize one million 18-28 year-old citizens annually into year-long national and community service positions. His present research includes a site-based, 30-state national study of the implementation of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010. He is a Roman Catholic in the Jesuit tradition.

Joseph P. Tierney; University of Pennsylvania
Joseph P. Tierney has served as the Executive Director of Penn’s Robert A. Fox Leadership Program (www.foxleadership.org) since 2002. He is also a Senior Research Associate at Penn’s Program for Research on Religion and Urban Civil Society (PRRUCS). Mr. Tierney was previously Vice President of Public/Private Ventures where he was instrumental in developing several nationally recognized programs including the Youth Education for Tomorrow (YET) literacy centers, the Amachi mentoring program for the children of prisoners, Bridges to Work and the Youth Violence Reduction Partnership (YVRP). He is the Principal Investigator of the landmark evaluation of Big Brothers Big Sisters of America, Making a Difference: An Impact Study of Big Brothers Big Sisters of America. In 2001 he received the Philadelphia Business Journal’s “40 under 40” award which annually recognizes 40 individuals under 40 years of age who are making their mark in their professional fields and in their communities. In 2014, he will be inducted into the National Mentoring Hall of Fame in Dallas. He holds an undergraduate degree from Saint Joseph’s University and an M.A. from Princeton University.

This seminar is part of LDI’s Spring 2014 Policy Seminar Series: “Rollout of the Affordable Care Act: What’s working, what’s not, and what do we need to change?”. Click here to view all events in the seminar series.

This event is free and open to the public, but registration is required.

Sponsored by the Charles C. Leighton, MD Memorial Lecture Fund