Home About Us Divisions Centers & Programs RWJF Programs Fellowships Research   People Events Directions   Related Sites Site Map About this Site   Contact Us 112 Paterson Street New Brunswick, NJ 08901-1293 (848) 932-8413 Email: webmaster		About Us » Lectures, Seminars & Events: Upcoming • All Events 3/13/2014 Community Health Centers and Access to and Costs of Health Care Brown Bag Seminar Series Sandra L. Decker Distinguished Consultant Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Health Statistics Thursday, March 13, 2014, 12:00 pm-1:30 pm 112 Paterson Street, 1st floor conference room Sandra L. Decker, PhD, is an economist and Distinguished Consultant at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC’s) National Center for Health Statistics. Most of her research involves examining causal connections between state Medicaid program attributes and the use of health services. Her work has been widely published in journals such as the Journal of the American Medical Association, Health Affairs, the Journal of Health Economics, and others. She was the 2010 co-recipient of the CDC Shepard Award for excellence in scientific achievement in the area of “Prevention and Control”. Dr. Decker earned a PhD in economics from Harvard University. 4/3/2014 Global Health Panel: The Globalization of Stigma: Prejudice Against the Mentally Ill in 16 Nations Brown Bag Seminar Series Beth Angell Associate Professor School of Social Work, Rutgers University Deborah Carr Assistant Professor Department of Sociology, Rutgers University Javier Escobar Associate Dean for Global Health and Professor of Psychiatry and Family Medicine Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School Allan Horwitz Interim Director and Board of Governors Professor of Sociology IHHCPAR and Department of Sociology, Rutgers University Bernice Pescosolido Distinguished Professor of Sociology and Director of the Indiana Consortium for Mental Health Services Research Indiana University Thursday, April 03, 2014, 12:00 pm-1:30 pm 112 Paterson Street, 1st floor conference room Additional information is available here: http://global.rutgers.edu/events/icalrepeat.detail/2014/04/03/649/-/the-globalization-of-stigma-prejudice-against-the-mentally-ill-in-16-nations 4/10/2014 Osteoporosis: Does the Evidence Suport the Diagnosis? Brown Bag Seminar Series Gerald Grob Henry E. Sigerist Professor of the History of Medicine, Emeritus IHHCPAR and Department of History, Rutgers University Thursday, April 10, 2014, 12:00 pm-1:30 pm 112 Paterson Street, 1st floor conference room Gerald N. Grob PhD, the Henry E. Sigerist Professor of the History of Medicine (Emeritus) at Rutgers University, is an historian of mental health policy and medicine. His classic book, The State and the Mentally Ill, received the 1965 annual prize of the American Association of State and Local History. Professor Grob is the author of a three-volume history of mental health policy. The first book in this set, Mental Institutions in America (1973) was followed by Mental Illness and American Society, 1875-1940 (1983) and From Asylum to Community: Mental Health Policy in Modern America (1991). Another book, The Mad Among Us: A History of the Care of America's Mentally Ill, was published in 1994. His most recent books include Aging Bones: A Short History of Osteoporosis (2013), Diagnosis, Therapy, and Evidence: Conundrums in Modern American Medicine with Allan V. Horwitz (2010), The Dilemma of Federal Mental Health Policy: Radical Reform or Incremental Change? ( 2006) and the The Deadly Truth: A History of Disease in America with Howard H. Goldman (2002). 4/17/2014 Reference Pricing as an Employer Strategy Brown Bag Seminar Series James C. Robinson Visiting Fellow, Division of Outcomes and Effectiveness Research Weill Cornell Medical College Thursday, April 17, 2014, 12:00 pm-1:30 pm 112 Paterson Street, 1st floor conference room Dr. James Robinson is a Visiting Fellow in the Division of Outcomes and Effectiveness Research at Weill Cornell Medical College. He is on sabbatical from the University of California, Berkeley, School of Public Health, where he is the Leonard D. Schaeffer Professor of Health Economics in the Division of Health Policy and Management and Chair of the Berkeley Center for Health Technology. Dr. Robinson's research interests include biotechnology policy and strategy, health insurance, physician payment methods, health care finance and nonprofit and for-profit organizations. He has been the senior director for medical technology at the Integrated Healthcare Association, where he has led an effort to promote value-based purchasing for medical devices in orthopedics and cardiology. The information he has supplied is used by health plans, physician group practices and hospital systems in California as they try to make more cost-effective decisions about care. 4/24/2014 The State of Psychiatric Diagnosis: DSM-5, RDoCs and Other Anomalies Brown Bag Seminar Series Javier Escobar Associate Dean for Global Health and Professor of Psychiatry and Family Medicine Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School Thursday, April 24, 2014, 12:00 pm-1:30 pm 112 Paterson Street, 1st floor conference room Javier I Escobar MD, MSc is Associate Dean for Global Health and Professor of Psychiatry and Family Medicine at Rutgers-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School. Recognized as a national leader in academic psychiatry, Dr. Escobar has been a teacher and researcher focused primarily on clinical psychopharmacology, psychiatric epidemiology, psychiatric diagnosis, cross-cultural medicine and psychiatry and somatic presentations of psychiatric disorders in primary care. He has been a member of the Task Force of the American Psychiatric Association that guided the development of the new diagnostic DSM-V system in psychiatry. He has been Principal Investigator of the “MUPS in Primary Care Research Center” a P-20 grant from NIMH and “Critical Research Issues on Latino Mental Health” a mentoring grant funded with an R-13 grant from NIMH. Dr. Escobar has been a member of the National Advisory Mental Health Council at NIMH and worked at NIMH as Senior Advisor to the Director. At NIMH, he also led the council work group that prepared the NIMH report to address mental health disparities in the United States. 5/1/2014 Preventing Newborn Sepsis and Meningitis through Maternal Vaccination: Cost-effectiveness of Policy Options in Sub-Saharan Africa Brown Bag Seminar Series Anushua Sinha Department of Preventive Medicine & Community Health Rutgers-New Jersey Medical School Thursday, May 01, 2014, 12:00 pm-1:30 pm 112 Paterson Street, 1st floor conference room Anushua Sinha, MD, MPH, is associate professor in the Department of Preventive Medicine & Community Health in its Health Economics and Policy Research Unit at Rutgers- Robert Wood Johnson Medical School. Dr. Sinha’s research focuses on estimating the costs, health benefits, and cost-effectiveness of group B streptococcal vaccination in South Africa and low-income countries in the southern African sub-region, using decision analytic methods in developing an early stage comparative effectiveness model of the optimal modality for detecting latent TB infection in pregnant women at risk and using health services data combined with comparative effectiveness approaches to examine health benefits and costs associated with newer medications for tight glycemic control. With CDC funding, she has a research site in a multi-sited economic analysis of the costs of prevention and management of tuberculosis in contemporary urban America. 5/8/2014 How Does Actual Unemployment and the Perceived Risk of Joblessness Affect Smoking Behavior? Gender and Intra-family Effects Brown Bag Seminar Series Irina Grafova Assistant Professor, Health Systems and Policy Rutgers School of Public Health Thursday, May 08, 2014, 12:00 pm-1:30 pm 112 Paterson Street, 1st floor conference room Irina B. Grafova, PhD is Assistant Professor in the Department of Health Systems and Policy in the Rutgers School of Public Health. Her research interests include the economics of risky health behaviors including decisions regarding smoking and behaviors leading to obesity. She has undertaken studies that explore the effects of the neighborhood and social environment on obesity and has examined the relationship between financial strain and health behaviors. In 2009 Dr. Grafova received the Excellence in Research Award from the Foundation of UMDNJ. Upcoming Events : 3/13/2014, 12:00 pm Community Health Centers and Access to and Costs of Health Care Sandra L. 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