Health policy expert to speak on health care reform as part of WWU series
Aaron Katz, a health policy expert and faculty member in the University of Washington’s Department of Global Health, will deliver the winter quarter Global Health and Social Justice lecture at Western Washington University.
The lecture, which is titled “Health Care Reform (or what passes for that in Congress),” will take place from 7 to 8:30 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 3, at St. Luke’s Community Health Education Center Room C. The center is located at 3333 Squalicum Parkway in Bellingham.
In his lecture, Katz will discuss the major health care legislation currently under debate in Congress.
“What will it really mean for the goal of providing quality, effective and efficient care for all Americans?” Katz asks. “And does this mean the United States finally joins the ‘community of nations’ that manifest a human right to health?”
Katz is a principal lecturer in Health Services and an adjunct principal lecturer in Global Health at the University of Washington. He also directs the UW’s Packard-Gates Population Leadership Program. His current research interests focus on strengthening public health systems in developing countries through enhancing policy research, development and advocacy capacity and leadership training and development, in addition to long-standing research on health system change in the United States. He received the American Public Health Association’s Award for Excellence in 2006 and the School of Public Health and Community Medicine’s Outstanding Teaching Award in 2004.
The lecture is sponsored by the Critical Junctures Institute for Health Advancement and Research, the Slum Doctor Programme and WWU’s Fairhaven College of Interdisciplinary Studies. The lecture is free and open to the public. Donations will be accepted at the door.
For more information on this lecture or on the Global Health and Social Justice lecture series, contact Liz Mogford, an assistant professor in the WWU Department of Sociology, at (360) 650-3002 or liz.mogford@wwu.edu.