Global Health

The work in health policy at WGGP centers on health care labor markets, health care reform and biofuels, all within a global context. The question linking all of WGGP's research and policy activities in the health arena is: who gets what and why? All of programs and projects attempt to provide a more robust understanding of these issues in order to affect change. All of our research, teaching, and egagement activities are examined with special attention given to the policy and gender issues.

We have two upcoming symposia on the health care labor shortages.
First, we have one on September 9-10, 2008 that is funded by The Sloan Foundation. The focus of this meeting is to examine how the convergence of labor shortages in all health care sectors affects service delivery and health care reforms globally.

The second meeting will occur in October 2008. This symposium, funded by the European Union (EU) Center, examines how the EU changes in nursing education are likely to affect global competition for nurses.

For more information about these and other health projects please contact Noreen M. Sugrue at nsugrue@uiuc.edu or 217-244-5812.

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April 9, Wednesday, 12 Noon: International Migration of Health Care Workers, Noreen Sugrue, Women and Gender in Global Perspectives Program, UIUC, 326 Lincoln Hall, 702 S. Wright St., Urbana, sponsored by Migration Studies Group.

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WGGP's CDMS Working Group

Health and Security Issues: Immigrants in the Rural Midwest

This working group focuses on health and human security issues facing immigrants settling in non-traditional geographic locales. The work of this group is not specific to one specific immigrant group or another but rather on the social, political, economic, and health issues facing immigrant groups, one and all. We are aware that the social, political, economic, and health challenges facing immigrant groups vary, depending on the group; nonetheless, all immigrant groups encounter barriers to health and human security, and it is those barriers that are of concern to us. In order to better understand the lives of immigrants living in the rural Midwest, as well as to develop an important and fundamental line of research inquiry, we require participation from faculty in a wide range of disciplines. This group is designed to be a locus at UIUC for bringing together faculty interested in the study of health and human security issues facing rural Midwestern immigrant populations.

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Kaiser Family Foundation Announces:
Graduate and Undergraduate Student Essay Contest in Health Policy
KaiserEDU.org announces its Second Annual Student Essay Contest. Submit an original essay on the topic below for a chance to win $1,000. Deadline for submission is March 17, 2008.
Contest Website: http://cme.kff.org/Key=13707.NM.C.C.D71LWc

ESSAY TOPIC
The date is November 24th, 2008. You have just started a job as an analyst working on the President elect's health care transition team. The director of the transition team has asked you to draft a memo to flesh out the health priorities for the new Administration on a major health policy issue. Select a candidate and an issue area (from the list below) and identify the major policies or strategies that the next Administration could develop to advance this issue. Make sure to include evidence and analysis to support your recommendations. Your priorities and strategies should be consistent with the proposals forwarded by the candidates in the campaign. You should also address the challenges in implementing your recommendations, such as budgetary and political considerations, delivery system issues, and how different stakeholders and constituencies would perceive the proposals.

For List of Presidential Candidates: (please refer to the contest website)

Issue Areas:
> Controlling Health Care Costs
> Eliminating Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities
> Expanding Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Efforts
> Improving Women's Health
> Improving the Quality of Health Care

CONTEST DETAILS
PRIZES:
First Place -- $1,000
Second Place -- $500

Eligibility: Submissions will be accepted from undergraduate and graduate-level students enrolled in a degree-granting program at the time of submission.

Essay length: Essays must not exceed 800 words in length and must be original work, prepared by one author only.

Essay submission: Entries must be submitted online only. No emails will be accepted.

Deadline: All essays must be submitted by March 17, 2008, 5p.m. EST.Judging: Entries will be judged by a panel of professionals with experience in health policy and politics from inside and outside the Kaiser Family Foundation. Winners will be notified by May 1, 2008

.For more information about Rules and Requirements visit Contest Website.

ANY STUDENT INTERESTED IN THIS SHOULD CONTACT NOREEN SUGRUE, nsugrue@uiuc.edu or 244-5812, IF THEY WANT MORE INFORMATION OR ANY ASSISTANCE WITH THIS.
BE SURE TO INCLUDE INFORMATION ON IMMIGRANTS AND IMMIGRANT HEALTH IN ANY ESSAY YOU WRITE.

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Electing Health Care

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Rural Health Policy Seminar, ACE 592, Fall 2005

"DISTRIBUTIVE JUSTICE AND DISPARITIES IN RURAL AMERICA: IMPLICATIONS FOR HEALTH POLICY"

 

 

 

 

For more information about the WGGP program and its projects, contact: Kathy Martin kcmartin@uiuc.edu
The Women and Gender in Global Perspectives Program
The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
320 International Studies Building, MC-480
Phone: (217) 333-1994
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