EVENT ANNOUNCEMENT

DATE: 1-2:30 p.m. Feb.18, 2013

EVENT: “Fractious Federalism and the Future of Medicaid”

In a free public event, health policy experts Frank Thompson and Scott Greer will discuss the challenges Medicaid faces in the second term of the Obama administration.

Thompson, a professor of public affairs and administration at Rutgers University-Newark, has served as a fellow with the U.S. Public Health Service and has published extensively on issues of Medicaid, health policy and implementation. He recently completed a book about Medicaid, federalism and health reform during the Clinton, Bush and Obama administrations.

Greer, an associate professor of health management and policy at the University of Michigan School of Public Health, is an expert on European Union health policy, devolution and health policymaking in the U.K., and the territorial politics of health.

PLACE: Annenberg Auditorium, 1120 Weill Hall, Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, 735 S. State St., Ann Arbor (http://uuis.umich.edu/cic/buildingproject/index.cfm?BuildingID=527)

SPONSORS: The Ford School’s Center for Local, State, and Urban Policy and Center for Public Policy, and the School of Public Health

INFORMATION: (734) 647-4091, http://www.closup.umich.edu