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Health Policy and Management
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The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
170 Rosenau Hall | CB 7400 | 135 Dauer Drive
Chapel Hill, NC 27599-7400 | 919.966.3215
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UNC student paper reports on HPM

The Daily Tar Heel featured the Department of Health Policy and Management (HPM) in two recent articles. 

Read "UNC professors provide expertise to lawmakers" online.

Read "UNC preps students for future of health care" online

Posted 11/19/09

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Health Overhaul Has Long Road Ahead

The House of Representatives worked into the wee hours and came away with landmark legislation that would reshape the health care system. But there's a long way to go, as professor Jonathan Oberlander tells Guy Raz, host of "All Things Considered" on National Public Radio.

Oberlander, a professor of health care politics at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, draws a few parallels between last night's action and the birth of Medicare in 1965. 

Read the complete article online.

Posted 11/19/09

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Harris lectures in Germany

Dean Harris, JD
Dean Harris, JD
On Thursday, October 22, 2009, Health Policy and Management Clinical Associate Professor Dean Harris, JD, gave a lecture at the University of Bayreuth in Germany. The topic of the lecture was "Health Care Reform in the US."

HPM has a long-standing relationship with the University of Bayreuth, and currently is hosting three visiting students from Bayreuth. Harris also had the opportunity to meet with faculty and students in Bayreuth.  Earlier that week, he also gave a similar lecture at the Technical University of Berlin.

Posted 11/05/09

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 Oberlander interviewed on CBS Sunday Morning

"What's In The Health Care Bill?," by CBS reporter Martha Teichner, was aired on CBS Sunday Morning on August 16, 2009. The piece includes an interview with with Jonathan Oberlander, PhD, associate professor of health policy and management in the UNC Gillings School of Public Health and associate professor of social medicine in the UNC School of Medicine. Go to the CBS Sunday Morning site to see the video. 

Posted 08/25/09

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Gentry to aid National Guard on Botswana mission

Bill Gentry
Bill Gentry
Bill Gentry, director of the Community Preparedness and Health Policy Program in the Department of Health Policy and Management, has been requested to accompany the North Carolina National Guard on Saturday, Sept. 19, through Friday, Sept. 25, on a mission to Botswana to familiarize Botswana Defense Forces with the management and coordination between civil and military entities during disaster management.

Posted 08/25/09

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Last updated November 19, 2009
 
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