Over the Life Course: The Integration of Research, Health Care, and Policy & The ACA and the Future of Health Care Research in the U.S

BSSR Lecture Series "Over the Life Course: The Integration of Research, Health Care, and Policy" Neal Halfon, MD, MPH Neal Halfon, MD, MPH is director of the UCLA Center for Healthier Children, Families and Communities. He is a professor of pediatrics in the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, health policy and management in the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, and public policy in the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs. Dr. Halfon served as a member of the Board on Children, Youth and Families of the National Research Council and Institute of Medicine from 2001-2006, and also served on the IOM/NRC Committee on Child Health that produced the report, Children’s Health the Nation’s Wealth. Dr. Halfon has been involved with the National Children’s Study in several capacities including as a special advisor, steering committee member, director of the NCS Health Measurement Network and principal investigator for the Los Angeles County Study Center. In 2006, the Academic Pediatric Association awarded Dr. Halfon its annual Research Award in recognition of his lifetime achievement in the field of child health research. For more than a decade Dr. Halfon has been instrumental in advancing research, policy and systems innovations focused on the healthy development of children at local, national and international level. He directed the federally funded National Center for Infancy and Early Childhood Health Policy, and he currently directs the WK Kellogg funded Tr...
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