health policy

Dr. Ronald F. Lunsford

November 29, 2018 by Alex Chapin
department: English

Ronald LunsfordProfessor
Department of English

I am a Professor of English, Linguistics, and Rhetoric at UNC Charlotte. Over a long career, I have written about Cognitive Linguistics and Functional Linguistics. I have applied Cognitive Linguistics to the study of literature and both Cognitive and Functional Linguistics to writing instruction. In recent years, I have applied genre theory, a branch of Functional Linguistics, to medical communication.

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keywords: health communicationhealth disparitieshealth policyhealth systems and organizationsmedical humanities

Dr. Robert Boyer

September 28, 2018 by Robert Boyer
department: Geography and Earth Sciences

Robert BoyerAssistant Professor
Department of Geography and Earth Sciences

I research research policy and plans related to urban cycling as a mode of transportation that offers environmental and public health benefits. [read more=’Read more’ less=’Read less’] I am currently working with officers of Project Mosaic to identify colleagues in CHHS to collaborate on projects that explore the health benefits of active transportation in Charlotte.For more information: https://pages.charlotte.edu/robert-boyer/[/read]

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Dr. Jacqueline Chattopadhyay

September 28, 2018 by Jacqueline Chattopadhyay
department: Political Science and Public Administration

Jacqueline ChattopadhyayAssociate Professor
Department of Political Science and Public Administration

My research focuses on American politics with an emphasis on social policy, health policy, and immigration. [read more=’Read more’ less=’Read less’] In particular, I study fluctuations in the American welfare state; citizen interactions with regulatory and safety-net policies; households’ navigation of public and private insurance products; and the politics of policy implementation, durability, and retrenchment. I received past support from a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship; a Harvard Multidisciplinary Program in Inequality & Social Policy NSF-IGERT Doctoral Fellowship; the Harvard Center for American Political Studies; and the UNC Charlotte Faculty Research Grant program.[/read]

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Dr. James Douglas

October 24, 2018 by Alex Chapin
department: Political Science and Public Administration

James DouglasProfessor
Department of Political Science & Public Administration

I am interested in the Medicaid financing structure. In particular, I plan to assess whether state cost-sharing makes sense in our federal system of government.

keywords: health financinghealth policy

Dr. Ruth Groenhout

September 28, 2018 by Ruth Groenhout
department: Philosophy

Distinguished Professor of Health Ethics
Department of Philosophy

My primary areas of research in healthcare ethics focus on gender, health systems and organizations, and health policy. [read more=’Read more’ less=’Read less’] I have a book coming out in 2019 that uses an ethics of care as a framework for analyzing policy and systems in health care. Other books include Connected Lives: Human Nature and an Ethics of Care, Transforming Care, Bioethics: A Reformed Look at Life and Death Choices, and Philosophy, Feminism, Faith. Recent articles include “Beauvoir and the Biological Body” in the Blackwell Companion to Simone de Beauvoir, “Of Medicine and Monsters: Rationing and an Ethics of Care” in Care Ethics and Political Theory and “Virtue and a Feminist Ethics of Care” in Virtues and Their Vices.[/read]

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keywords: ethicsgenderhealth policyhealth systems and organizations

Dr. Ryan Kilmer

September 28, 2018 by Ryan Kilmer
department: Psychological Science

Ryan KilmerProfessor
Department of Psychological Science

A child clinical-community psychologist, my interests center around children and families and: (a) factors influencing the development of children at-risk for emotional, behavioral, and/or academic difficulties, particularly risk and resilience and youngsters’ adjustment to trauma; and (b) the use of evaluation research to guide system change, program refinement, service delivery, and policy. [read more=’Read more’ less=’Read less’] One recent effort involved a multi-year partnership with our local school system’s pre-kindergarten program and office of research, analytics, and evaluation. We worked to increase their capacity to collect, manage, and use data to better support teacher coaching, teacher differentiated instruction, teacher curricula implementation, and research capacity.
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keywords: behavioral healthclinical researchcommunity engagementcommunity healthcommunity-based participatory researchhealth policy

Dr. Amber Knight

September 28, 2018 by Amber Knight
department: Political Science and Public Administration

Amber KnightAssistant Professor
Department of Political Science

Broadly speaking, my research places disability at the center of political theorizing in order to evaluate the political nature of disability and the often disabling nature of our political arrangements . [read more=’Read more’ less=’Read less’] Even though my research is located in the field of normative political thought, I embrace an applied and contextualized approach by grappling with the empirical realities of our society in order to develop helpful strategies for just and egalitarian policy changes. I am currently working on a book manuscript, tentatively titled Disability and the Politics of Parenthood, which uses disability as a prism to better understand the relationship between “politics as usual” and the family. Chapters cover a range of relevant issues surrounding the experiences of parents of children with disabilities, including: prenatal genetic testing and the selective abortion of disabled fetuses; guardianship laws; in-home care support and Medicaid waivers; and, special education policy.[/read]

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Dr. Teresa Scheid

September 28, 2018 by Teresa Scheid
department: Sociology

Teresa ScheidProfessor
Department of Sociology

I am a full professor in the Department of Sociology with joint appointments in Public Policy and Health Services Research. [read more=’Read more’ less=’Read less’] I also work with doctoral students in Public Health and Health Psychology. My research focuses on the organization and delivery of mental health services and the work of mental health and HIV providers. I have examined the impact of a number of legislative mandates including outpatient commitment, the Americans with Disabilities Act, and state level efforts to reform mental health care. I have worked collaboratively with local agencies to develop and conduct cross-training workshops to help integrate mental health, substance use, and physical healthcare, and have been involved in a number of community based initiatives designed to integrate diverse systems of care for minority populations living with HIV/AIDS (see my 2015 book, Comprehensive Care for HIV/AIDS: Community-Based Strategies). I am senior editor (with Eric Wright) of the “Handbook for the Study of Mental Health: Social Contexts, Theories, and Systems”, and am currently working on a book on community mental health care. I advise doctoral students across all of the health related graduate programs on campus, and have worked with them to get their work published (including a recent book with Stephany De Scisciolo, “Reducing Race Differences in Direct-to-Consumer Pharmaceutical Advertising: The Case for Regulation”). I have also served as Executive Director of the Health Academy, the first UNC-C Academy, which is designed to foster collaborations across campus as well as within the community.
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keywords: community-based participatory researchhealth policyhealth systems and organizationsmental health