Events
Bringing National Health Reform to California
Friday, November 6, 2009 - Faculty Club, UC Berkeley
This conference was a conversation about health reform and California that addressed pressing questions for the state: What must California do to implement national health reform? What unique challenges does California face? What are the implications for California of the gaps in the national proposal? What lessons can national policy makers take back to Washington? To view the conference agenda click here.
To view the speaker bios click here.
To view a video of the event click here. (coming soon)
Shared Responsibility, Shared Risk: Government, Markets, and Social Policy in the Twenty First Century
Friday, October 16, 2009 - (Washington, DC)
The privatization of risk has become all the more stark in recent months with the collapse of the financial market. This conference offereded rigorous and creative solutions on how to improve economic security by rethinking the role of the government, employers and individuals should play in managing risks created by the market. Conference was co-sponsored by the Social Science Research Council and the Center for American Progress.To view the conference agenda click here.
To view a copy of the presenters research summary pamphlet click here.
To view the digital recordings of the conference click here.
Shared Responsibility, Shared Risk
May 7-8, 2009
Berkeley CHEFS held a Roundtable entitled "Shared Responsibility, Shared Risk: Government, Markets and Social Policy in the Twenty-First Century" on the Berkeley campus. Sponsored by a grant from the Social Science Research Council, this gathering of more than 30 experts and academics in the areas of federal contracting, housing security, income protection and health care reform included CHEFS faculty Co-Directors Steve Sugarman and Jacob Hacker, Executive Director Ann O'Leary, many Berkeley faculty, and nationally known experts such as Harvard law professor Martha Minow, CAP's Heather Boushey, Micah Weinberg and Mark Paul from the New American Foundation, Netsy Firestein of the Labor Project for Working Families and Paul Nathanson from the National Senior Citizens Law Center.
Health Care Reform: Considerations for the Obama Administration
April 1, 2009
CHEFS held a lunchtime talk on health reform at Boalt. More than 60 people packed into the Koret Room to hear Steve Shortell (Dean of the School of Public Health at Berkeley), Ken Jacobs (Chair of the Berkeley Labor Center), CHEFS Executive Director Ann O'Leary and moderator Melissa Rodgers, the Associate Director of CHEFS, speak about what is happening in the national health care debate.
Read about the event in the UC Berkeley News online by clicking here.
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Pictured: Ken Jacobs, Melissa Rodgers, and Steve Shortell (l to r)
Photo courtesy of Jeffery Kahn, UC Berkeley NewsCenter
Collaborative Working Group
November 10, 2008
CHEFS held a collaborative working meeting between an invited group of UC Berkeley and UCSF faculty. The topic was hybrid health care reform and explored topics such as: the structure of public health insurance, how the concept of hybrid health care fits with existing public programs, and how hybrid health care could best be administered. From this exciting afternoon's discussion, CHEFS is assembling two working groups which will focus on hybrid health care, and its delivery system reform. The first will meet this December, and the second group meeting is planned for January. Watch this site for future updates.
Post Election Analysis of Economic Security and Health Reform
November 6, 2008
More than 40 people attended the frst public forum given by CHEFS, held at the Berkeley School of Law. The talk focused on economic security and health care reform, post-election. Faculty Co-Directors Jacob Hacker and Mary Ann Mason, as well as Executive Director Ann O'Leary, spoke at the event.