The LSE-Columbia Health Policy Group
Health policy analysis is central to studies of public policy, and over
the past two decades an ever increasing cadre of specialists have been
trained in this area. The UK and the US are two countries that have a
particularly strong presence in this form of analysis, and have
specialists working on broadly similar topics: i.e. on issues around
improving the efficiency, equity, accountability, responsiveness, safety
and general governance of health care. However, although great scope for
cross-country policy learning is clearly there, opportunities for such
learning are very rarely taken. As part of the ongoing collaboration
between the LSE and Columbia University, an LSE-Columbia Health Policy
Group will be established in January 2009, with the objective of forging
genuine and lasting collaborations between health policy specialists at
the two universities.
The co-directors of the group will be Dr Adam Oliver (LSE) and Professor
Michael Sparer (Columbia). They will be supported by a management team
comprising of Professors Gwyn Bevan and Martin Knapp at the LSE, and
Professor Larry Brown and Dr Katharina Janus at Columbia. Initial themes
for the group will include the history of health policy, performance
management, health care evaluation, globalization of health risks and
surveillance, mental health policy, federalism in health care, access to
health care, health care choice policies, social care and aging, and
health inequalities.
For more information, contact Adam Oliver at [log in to unmask] or
Michael Sparer at [log in to unmask] The Management Team work out of LSE
Health and Social Care, and the Department of Health Policy and
Management at Columbia's Mailman School of Public Health.
The co-directors would like to acknowledge the invaluable financial
support of the joint LSE-Columbia Research Fund.
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