Professor
Health Policy and Administration
School of Public Health


Director, North Carolina Rural Health Research Program and Program on Health Policy Analysis
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill


Email
tom_ricketts@unc.edu

Phone & Fax
919-966-5541 phone
919-966-5764 fax

Address
725 Airport Road, Suite 305
University of North Carolina
Chapel Hill , North Carolina 27599

Research Interests
Rural Healthcare
Primary Care
Regionalization of Services
Political Philosophy
Policy Implementation and Policy Development
Global and Comparative National Health Policies

Educational Background
B.A., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1970

M.P.H., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Public Health, 1978

Ph.D., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1988

Link to CV

Languages
French: Intermediate Reader, Beginning Writer, Beginning Speaker
Russian: Intermediate Reader, Intermediate Writer, Intermediate Speaker
Spanish: Beginning Reader, Beginning Writer, Beginning Speaker

Professional Service Awards
2002 R. J. Reynolds Research Leave
R. J. Reynolds Foundation-UNC
1999 Member, North Carolina Institute of Medicine
North Carolina Institute of Medicine
1998 Distinguished Investigator Awward
Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research
1997 Outsanding Rural Researcher Award
National Rural Health Association

Professional Memberships
American Public Health Association
Association for Health Services Research
Association of American Geographers
Royal Geographical Society, Fellow