The Medicare NewsGroup asked its newly formed Medicare Leaders Advisory Board – a group of prominent former leaders of the federal program and political veterans – this question: “What context should journalists have in order to evaluate competing Medicare reform proposals?”...
”We want to help get it right,” states diabetes advocacy group
In Del Norte County, groups such as the Children's Health Collaborative seek funding in a push to provide more nutritious meals at high schools and encourage students to make healthier food decisions.
Biographical Sketch
Dr. Manuel Pastor is Distinguished Professor of Sociology and American Studies & Ethnicity at the University of Southern California. Pastor holds an economics Ph.D. from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, is the inaugural holder of the Turpanjian Chair in Civil
Manuel Pastor is professor of geography and American studies and ethnicity at the University of Southern California, where he also serves as director of the Program for Environmental and Regional Equity (PERE) at the Center for Sustainable Cities and co‐director of the Center for the Study of Immigrant Integration (CSII). Founding director of the Center forJustice, Tolerance, and Community at UC Santa Cruz, Professor Pastor holds a doctorate in economics from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and has received numerous fellowships and grants.
Stan Bosch is a psychotherapist and supervisor for gang intervention workers and case managers for the city of Los Angeles’ Gang Reduction and Youth Development project (GRYD). A Catholic priest, he has ministered to Los Angeles’s gang-involved youth for more than 20 years. He is a member of the Missionary Servants of the Most Holy Trinity, a religious community that works with the poor and abandoned. He previously served as pastor of several churches in Mexico and for 11 years as pastor of Our Lady of Victory and Sacred Heart churches in Compton.
Career archivist Kim Klausner takes her roles as a historian and as a public health advocate equally seriously. As the Industry Documents Digital Libraries Manager for the University of California-San Francisco, she is in charge of the Drug Industry Documents Archive, a collection of thousands of records that shine a light on practices by Wyeth, Pfizer, Abbott and other Big Pharma companies.
Even in his infamy, Dr. Daniel Carlat, founder of The Carlat Psychiatry Report, is popular with drug companies. Carlat was invited recently by Schering-Plough to help promote a new drug.
We continue our 5-part series on the high cost of health care in America.
We continue our 5-part series on the high cost of health care in America.
