Description
View this engaging discussion on the
public health significance of Medicare, Medicaid, the Affordable Care Act and
the yet-to-be-realized goal of instituting a single-payer system in the U.S.,
along with APHA’s role in bring these vital programs to fruition.
A transcript can be found in the resources tab.
Contributors
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Georges Benjamin, MD
MODERATOR
Georges C. Benjamin, MD, is well-known as a health leader, practitioner and administrator. Benjamin has served as the executive director of the American Public Health Association, the nation's largest organization of public health professionals, since December 2002. He is a former secretary of health for the state of Maryland.
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Carmen Rita Nevarez, MD, MPH, Director, Center for Health Leadership & Practice; Past President, American Public Health Association (2010)
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Walter H. Tsou, MD, MPH, Adjunct Professor of Family Medicine and Community Health, University of Pennsylvania; Past President, American Public Health Association (2005)
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Theodore M. Brown, PhD
Theodore M. Brown is Professor Emeritus of History and Public Health Sciences at the University of Rochester. His publications include work on the history of U.S. and international public health and the history of U.S. health policy. He has long served as History Editor of the American Journal of Public Health. Among other publications, in 2012 (with Georges Benjamin and Susan Ladwig) he published The Quest for Health Reform: A Satirical History, and in 2019 (with Marcos Cueto and Elizabeth Fee) he published The World Health Organization: A History.