Lunch seminar: "How does one make a career in health policy design and implementation?" - Liz Fowler & Heather Howard
(More about event)Liz Fowler was a key staffer of the Senate Finance Committee, chaired by Senator Baucus (D-MT), and served as one of the architects of the Affordable Care Act of 2010. She then served as Deputy Director of the Office of Consumer Information and Oversight at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Fowler is currently a special assistant to the President for health care and economic policy at the White House National Economic Council. She holds a PhD in health policy.
Heather Howard is a Lecturer in the Woodrow Wilson School and Director of the State Health Reform Assistance Network, which is providing technical assistance to states implementing the Affordable Care Act. She served as New Jersey’s Commissioner of Health and Senior Services from 2008-2010, and before then was Governor Jon Corzine’s Chief Policy Counsel. At the federal level she has worked as Senator Jon Corzine’s Chief of Staff, as Associate Director of the White House Domestic Policy Council and as Senior Policy Advisor for First Lady Hillary Clinton, as an Honors Attorney in the U.S. Department of Justice’s Antitrust Division Health Care Task Force, and for the U.S. House of Representatives. (***RSVP REQUIRED***)
Location: 366 Wallace Hall
Date/Time: 12/14/11 at 12:15 pm - 12/14/11 at 1:00 pm
Category: Seminar
Department: Center for Health and Wellbeing