Jeanne Lambrew, Ph.D., director of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Health Reform, will speak at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill on April 15.
Jeanne Lambrew, Ph.D., director of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Health Reform, will speak at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill on April 15.
Lambrew, an alumna of the Gillings School of Global Public Health, will present the school’s 42nd annual Fred T. Foard Jr. Memorial Lecture at 6 p.m. at the William and Ida Friday Center for Continuing Education. A reception will follow at 7:30 p.m.
Before joining the Office of Health Reform, Lambrew was associate professor at the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs, where she specialized in health care and policy and conducted research on Medicaid, Medicare, long-term care and the uninsured. She also was senior fellow for health policy at the Center for American Progress.
From 1997 to 2001, she was program associate director for health at the White House Office of Management and Budget and a senior health analyst on the National Economic Council. Lambrew led White House efforts to draft and implement the Children’s Health Insurance Program and helped develop the president’s Medicare reform plan and other proposals.
The Fred T. Foard Jr. Memorial Lecture was established in 1969 by his widow, Elsie D. Foard, to honor his work as a public health practitioner during a career spanning more than a half century, much of it with the U.S. Public Health Service.
The events are free and open to the public, but seating is limited. Please register online at http://cfx.research.unc.edu/res_classreg/browse_multiple.cfm?New=1&event_id=22394,or for more information, contact the public health school’s Office of External Affairs at (919) 966-0198. The talk will be available online sometime after the event at http://www.sph.unc.edu/media/webcasts.html.
Gillings School of Global Public Health contact: Ramona DuBose, (919) 966-7467, ramona_dubose@unc.edu