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2/ Payne leaving Institute PUBLIC POLICY 5/ New members join BOV 8/ Where’s FEMA’s home? 11/ Effects of older students 14/ Faculty honors 15/ Alumni news Focus Students present Economists, management profs health research to join PPS faculty in fall ’06 to state, federal our new faculty members will come on Jim provide the right balance of federal and policymakers board this fall, including economists state experience to build on the pioneering F Elizabeth Oltmans Ananat and Marc contributions that Art Spengler made to our Health policy students at both the Bellemare, and professors of the practice program.” Spengler ended his Duke teaching Thomas Taylor and James Johnson. stint this spring after seven years with the graduate and undergraduate level “I am extremely enthusiastic about these Institute. (See story, page 4). presented their research directly to appointments,” said Institute Director Bruce Ananat will join the Institute faculty as an federal,state and local policymakers Kuniholm. “In every case they were the top assistant professor of PPS, with a secondary ap- this spring, on current issues such as candidates in the search. Liz and Marc, while pointment in Duke’s economics department. reauthorization of the Ryan White newly minted PhDs, are extremely bright and She is completing a PhD in economics at the CARE Act, insurance premium assis- well qualified and will make excellent col- Massachusetts Institute of Technology. tance under the N.C. Medicaid pro- leagues who, right off the bat, will make signifi- She has conducted research on the effect of gram and improved health care for cant contributions to our program. Tom and racial segregation on city out- (Please see page 10) uninsured Durham residents. The projects gave students opportunities to YORK WILSON affect significant Graduation 2006 policies, as well as to prepare for a real working environ- ment, said Kathryn Whetten, associate professor of PPS and director of Duke’s Center for Health Policy. Sixteen undergrads in Whetten’s health policy class traveled to Washington, D.C., on March 6 to make a 15-minute presentation to the U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Educa- tion, Labor and Pensions (HELP) about the Ryan White Act, which was created to assist low-income people with HIV. The students gave the committee, led by Chairman Sen. Michael Enzi (R-Wyo.) and ranking member Sen. Edward Kennedy (D-Mass.), an over- view of the act,made recommenda- tions on how to allocate future funding, Lanier McRee, left, and Liz Clasen were congratulated by Professor Sunny Ladd for winning the 2006 MPP and responded to (Please see page 10) Outstanding Student Award. For more graduation news and photos, please see pages 6-7. InstituteUpdates

Long-time PPS faculty member Sanford News Briefs Carville stops at Sanford • Political Payne takes position in New York consultant James Carville answered questions from an audience of about 200

MEGAN MORR people in Rubenstein Hall March 4, in an ublic Policy Lecturer Bruce Payne, a informal session organized by the founding member of the Sanford Institute’s DeWitt Wallace Center for P Institute faculty, concluded his 35- Media and Democracy. DeWitt Director year Duke University teaching career this Ellen Mickiewicz moderated. spring to accept the position of executive Carville was Bill Clinton’s campaign director of the Shelley and Donald Rubin manager during the 1992 presidential Foundation in New York City. election. Today,he is a political commen- “Bruce has been a valuable colleague to tator providing insight “from the left” on us for many years and we deeply appreciate CNN programs, including “The Situation his inspired and far-reaching contributions as Room.” He was formerly co-host of Cross- a teacher, mentor and program director,” said fire, CNN’s political debate program. Alma Blount, director of the Institute’s Hart Carville has also used his expertise at the Leadership Program (HLP). “He has been a international level, consulting for a num- formative influence on untold numbers of ber of foreign leaders. undergraduates, many of whom have formed lifelong friendships with him. At Duke, Student research published • Papers Bruce Payne is a legend.” written by graduating MPP students Laura Current and former students and col- Duke,Adam Karson and Justin Wheeler leagues attended a farewell roast/toast event and JD-MA candidate Matthew Wolfe in Payne’s honor on May 11. Many spoke of were among the 10 selected for publica- his influence on their lives and his ability to tion in the 2006 edition of the Journal of connect with and inspire students. Professor of PPS and Law Joel Fleishman pres- Public and International Affairs (JPIA). JPIA In his new position, Payne will work close- ents a parting gift to Professor of the Practice is a scholarly journal sponsored by the ly with the Rubin Museum of Art, which is Bruce Payne, whom he recruited to the Institute Association of Professional Schools of principally focused on the art of the Hima- in 1971 to teach ethics courses. International Affairs (APSIA) and Princeton’s layas. He plans to develop collaborative ini- Woodrow Wilson School. It exclusively tiatives with colleges and universities and will long program combined a full academic publishes the work of graduate students. be involved in the foundation’s work on civil course load and intense discussions with The Sanford Institute’s Contributing liberties, at-risk children, AIDS and educa- attendance at dozens of plays, operas, dance JPIA Editor Art Seavey, a first-year MPP tion. The foundation also will sponsor his performances and gallery exhibits, as well as student, solicited 15 papers from Sanford ongoing seminar exploring the ethical and conversations with artists, philanthropists authors and submitted four for consider- political dimensions of theater in New York. and others. Since its inception, 173 Duke ation during the annual JPIA Reading “We heartily congratulate Bruce on his undergraduates have participated in LANY. Weekend at Princeton Feb.10-12. Nine- new job,” said Institute Director Bruce “For all the eager anticipation I feel about teen peer institutions participated in Kuniholm. “This position seems to be an these new tasks,” Payne said, “I know that no Reading Weekend. The topics of the win- excellent fit for Bruce’s talents and skills.” work is likely to match the satisfaction I’ve ning Sanford articles focused on domes- Payne was recruited to Duke in 1971 by had in so many close teaching relationships tic policy issues in education and mater- Joel Fleishman, then director of the Institute, over these past 35 years. Phone calls and nal and infant health care. to introduce ethics into the public policy cur- e-mails from former students are a constant riculum. Payne was interested in broad part of my life, and so are meetings with Global health • Graduating MPP stu- themes of leadership development, and want- them over meals, or during intermissions, or, dents Sarah Scheening, Loren Becker ed to attract students from across disciplines. these days, for tea at the museum.” and Maggie Korgoren, along with David Since 1972, Payne has taught “Policy Choice “But my appointment at the Rubin Foun- Edwards from Duke Medical School, as Value Conflict (PPS 116),” which remains dation will give me the opportunity to extend presented a poster on their experiences the core ethics course for the PPS major. the work of Leadership and the Arts far in Geneva in the Institute’s Global Health Payne was the founding director of HLP beyond the confines of Duke. I look forward Fellows Program during the Global and served three years in that role, remaining to putting into practice some of what I have Health Symposium and 75th anniversary a core member of the HLP faculty thereafter. been teaching about ethics, leadership and celebration of the Medical School April In 1996, Payne launched an HLP experi- the importance of the arts in American life.” 17-18. ential learning program, Leadership and the Arts in New York (LANY). The semester-

2 Sanford Institute’s Public Policy Focus UPDATES Majors Union building community Two join Sanford by Kirran Syed development office PS Majors Union Co-presidents David “CareerTalk” discussions where students The Sanford Institute now Gastwirth and Sarah Thorpe spent heard alumni and professors speak about has its own development P their year in office working to create how to break into certain fields. office,headed by Robert an identity and sense of community for pub- “David’s enthusiasm and planning helped Wright. Wright had been lic policy undergraduates. The Majors Union, bring students together with policymakers working on the Institute’s the official representative voice of under- and professors,” said Jay Hamilton, professor behalf since October 2004 graduates at the Institute, has organized of PPS and director of undergraduate studies. in his position as a senior an array of events and interactions intend- “I was particularly impressed by the events in major gifts officer with the Arts & Sciences ed to connect students with the Institute’s Washington that David organized in the sum- development office. He began working full- resources. mer of 2005. He arranged student dinners time on Institute fundraising this spring. “The nature of public policy is such that with Rep. David Price and FCC Commis- Previously, Wright was vice president students can do more together than they sioner Kevin Martin.” Price is a PPS adjunct for institutional planning and develop- ever could on their own,” Gastwirth said. faculty member, and Martin is an alumnus of ment at the National Humanities Center in “By creating a sense of community, you the Sanford master’s degree program. Research Triangle Park and associate direc- allow students to link up with each other The union also used Institute events to tor of Duke’s Capital Campaign for the Arts and leverage the resources of the Sanford reinforce the independent identity of the & Sciences and Engineering from 1986- Institute.” undergraduate major. During the Ruben- 1991. Wright majored in English at Duke Gastwirth said the PPS major is struc- stein Hall dedication last fall, the union (BA, ’77; PhD, ’86),and earned a master’s tured for maximum flexibility and there are gave out free ice cream in cups printed with degree at Indiana University (’78). only a few core classes and requirements. “PPS Majors Union.” Co-president Thorpe David Rice also joined While that allows students to pursue their said that once students arrived for the ice the Institute in April as academic and professional interests, it makes cream, many stayed to mingle and talk to director of development it more challenging for majors to feel they each other, and to attend the Rubenstein communications and belong to a community, he said. dedication. donor relations. Rice previ- “Unless you go out of your way, you won’t “Academic discourse in and out of the ously was director of com- know who’s in your year and you don’t even classroom is more likely to occur when stu- munications at the know who is a public policy major because dents are able to bond with each other,” National Humanities Center, where he also we have people from different majors taking Thorpe said. “If you know people more per- served as acting director of development classes here,” Gastwirth said. sonally, there is greater comfort in speaking from 2004-2005. While at the center, he To improve that situation, the union (in class).” Thorpe said the union’s efforts worked on a successful endowment cam- organized more frequent small-group dinners helped PPS majors recognize each other and paign. Prior to his arrival there in 1998, he with faculty to encourage discussions outside bond with faculty, and also set the ground- worked for four years at the Duke Compre- the classroom and hosted Friday afternoon work for more activities in future years. hensive Cancer Center. EA OR(NVRIYPHOTOGRAPHY) MEGAN MORR (UNIVERSITY

David Gergen, editor-at-large for U.S. News & World Report, talks with Institute visitors after giving the 2006 James D. Ewing Lecture on Ethics in Journalism, on the topic, “The Press versus Government in a Time of War.” John Harwood, chief Washington correspondent for CNBC and a senior con- Gergen is a professor of public service at Harvard's John F. Kennedy School tributing writer at The Wall Street Journal, discusses “Reporting Red and Blue: of Government and director of its Center for Public Leadership. Previously, Journalism in a Polarized America” on March 27 at the Institute. Harwood he served as a White House advisor to presidents Nixon, Ford, Reagan and is this year’s recipient of the Futrell Award, presented to a Duke alumnus by Clinton. The Institute's DeWitt Wallace Center for Media and Democracy an- the DeWitt Wallace Center for Media and Democracy in recognition of out- nually invites respected media leaders to present the James D. Ewing Lecture. standing achievement in the field of communications and journalism.

Spring 2006 3 UPDATES CHRIS HILDRETH A conversation with Art Spengler

rofessor of the Practice of PPS Art Spengler wrapped up his final semes- P ter at Duke this spring, after guiding MPP students through spring consulting projects and courses in Policy Analysis and Public Management since 1999. Master’s students counted on Spengler to focus on the practical, professional applications of policy research. Before coming to Duke, Spengler provid- ed policy analysis and administrative support for 19 years for the Montgomery County (Maryland) Council, as a budget and fiscal analyst, deputy staff director and then staff director. He also was a visiting professor of government and politics at George Mason University (1992-97), and an economic and policy analyst for the U.S. Department of Transportation. He is the author of Collective Bargaining and Increased Competition for Resources in Local Government. Here are some of his parting thoughts. How many students have you taught in your years at the Institute? There have been 303 students in my MPP policy analysis class. What struck me is that the number of the course is PPS 303. The first class had 32 students and last year we had 57. It’s been steadily on the incline. Have you seen any changes in students You’ve taught in the MPP program for over the years? Not really. They are still as they learn from the rewrite. If you can’t say it seven years. Does that make you “an insti- motivated and dedicated as ever. They still short, you’re going to be dead in this business; tution”at the Sanford Institute? It seems don’t come to public policy school to get you’re writing for people who are very busy. like yesterday in some ways, and in other ways rich. The difference is that the focus of earli- Writing short also fosters stronger analysis. it seems like I have always been here. I believe er students was far more general. Today stu- it’s not length of time that makes one “an How has the Institute changed? It’s no- dents are much more interested in specializ- institution,” but your degree of engagement ticeably larger, and as a result, less individ- ing, or narrowcasting themselves. My role — your ability to demonstrate commitment. ual. For example, the Center for Child and was not to fall into that—to help them see Family Policy was in its infancy in 1999 and there’s a lot more to public policy than their So, (smiling) your classes are the glue was, for so long, mostly off-campus. Now it narrow interest, and to give them a general- that holds the program together? Ac- takes up half of Rubenstein Hall. I’ve always ized set of skills to use in a variety of profes- tually, I think my role has been minimal. It’s worked in relatively small organizations. The sions because in many instances, 10 years the totality of the experience at the Institute Institute is now the largest I’ve worked for. from now, they are not going to be doing that helps the students grow—21 months, what they think they’re going to be doing. 17 courses, internships, friends… What’s the story behind that large,pink, Energizer bunny in your office? I give each What’s different about the world they What have you enjoyed about teaching class a nickname (although I don’t always tell enter after graduation? With the increase in the MPP program? I really enjoy teaching them what it is), and last year’s class was “the in privatization of public services, there are and working with students. I enjoy keeping in Energizer bunnies.” They kept coming at me, more avenues for people interested in public touch with many of them. I go to the alumni kept asking questions. When I was named the service, beyond public sector employment. reception every summer in Washington and first recipient of the Richard Stubbing Grad- You’re trying to help people solve problems, it’s a good time to catch up. It’s always very uate Teaching and Mentoring Award last and you can do that in a law firm, or a non- gratifying to see how well they’re doing. year, the students gave me the stuffed bunny. profit, or elsewhere. What’s been the hardest part? Reading What will you do next? I plan to continue the 114th version of a policy memo (57 stu- teaching. There are a number of policy pro- dents x 2 drafts each). It’s grueling for me, but grams in the D.C. area. 4 Sanford Institute’s Public Policy Focus UPDATES

Two Hart Fellows selected DOUG MCCLARY

he Hart Fellows Program selected two As a Howard Hughes graduating Duke seniors as 2006-07 Research Fellow, Shungu T Hart Fellows. The program offers 10- conducted research at month fellowships with nongovernmental the Duke University Pri- organizations in developing countries. The mate Center and pre- fellows are: sented his findings at Nicholas Shungu, a Reginaldo Howard the Levine Science Re- Memorial Scholar who majored in cultural search Center. As a stu- anthropology with a minor in chemistry, and dent in Professor Sherryl Yazan Kopty, an international comparative Broverman’s “AIDS studies major with minors in English and and Emerging Diseases” religion. course, he explored Kopty will work in Battambang, Cambodia, AIDS and gender con- with Homeland, which works to improve the cerns in Kenya along standard of living and wellbeing of vulnera- with 14 other classmates ble children and families. and is a co-author of a Shungu will work in Addis Ababa, manual on gender issues Nicholas Shungu, left, will work in Ethiopia, while Yazan Kopty, right, Ethiopia, with Save Lives Ethiopia Develop- to be used by college will work in Cambodia as the 2006-07 Hart Fellows. ment Organization, which provides medical students at Kenya’s care, health education and social and emo- Egerton University. Nations Relief and Works Agency’s Center tional support to women and children living Kopty was selected as the student speaker for Physically and Mentally Handicapped with HIV/AIDS. for Duke’s 2006 commencement exercis- in the Baqa’a Refugee Camp in Amman, Shungu previously conducted research in es. Last summer he conducted research in Jordan. His documentary photographs from Dakar, Senegal, to examine the levels of col- 10 Palestinian refugee camps in Jordan, his time in the Middle East have been show- laboration between traditional healers and Lebanon, Syria, Israel and the West Bank , cased around Duke. other medical practitioners. He also volun- work that was the basis for his senior thesis, Kopty is fluent in English, French and teered in four health care facilities in Cape “The Diasporic Implications of Palestinian Arabic and has taken up Italian and modern Town, South Africa. Nationalism.” Kopty interned at the United Hebrew in the past two years.

Sanford welcomes seven new BOV members

even new members joined the San- associate vice president for human resources • Deborah and William Harlan, native ford Institute Board of Visitors this and acting vice president for public affairs Californians who attended UCLA and UC- S spring, while Peter Knight concluded and communication. Cullinan earned a doc- Berkeley, respectively. Bill and Deborah are his service. The new members are: torate in history and a bachelor’s degree at the proprietors of Harlan Estate, a wine- • William R. Araskog, managing member the University of Notre Dame. growing property overlooking Oakville, and investment manager for WRA Invest- Reilly has been involved with a number of Napa Valley. Most recently, Bill founded The ments LLC since 2003. Previously, Araskog nonprofits in South Bend and launched a Napa Valley Reserve, a private winegrowing was a managing director with Lazard Frères & restaurant, Lula’s Café. Previously, Reilly estate. Bill also is co-founder and chairman Co., LLC specializing in investment banking worked for the William T. Grant Foundation of Pacific Union Co., a diversified real estate and sales and trading over his 20-year career Commission on Children and the Ashoka firm in San Francisco. The Harlans live in at the firm. He earned a BA in public policy at Foundation, and was a founding member of Napa Valley with their daughter, Amanda. Duke (’82) and an MBA from Duke’s Fuqua the Commission on National and Their son, Will, attends school on the East School of Business (’83). Community Service, the precursor to Coast. • Matthew S. Cullinan and Anna Reilly, AmeriCorps. Anna earned a BA in political • Lee Harriss Roberts, a partner of who both earned MPP degrees at Duke in science at Emory University. Cullinan and Cherokee Investment Partners, a real estate 1990. In his new position as vice president Reilly have three children, Grace, 13, private equity fund based in Raleigh, N.C. for administration at Wake Forest University Walker, 11, and Julia, 7. Before joining Cherokee in 2006, Roberts in Winston-Salem, N.C., Cullinan will over- • Bob Fleischer, managing director of Banc spent nine years with Morgan Stanley & Co. see areas including human resources, infor- of America Securities since March 2005. in London and New York, focused on real mation systems and facilities management. Prior to joining the firm, Fleischer served as estate investment banking. Prior to joining a managing director at Credit Suisse First Morgan Stanley in 1997, he practiced law in Previously, Cullinan was executive assistant Washington, D.C. He earned a law degree at to the president at the University of Notre Boston in its Financial Institutions Group with a focus on the insurance sector. He Georgetown University and a BA in political Dame. He also served at various times as science from Duke University (’90). director of government relations, assistant began his career at PriceWaterhouse. He secretary of the board of trustees, acting earned a bachelor’s degree in accounting at Duke in 1964. Spring 2006 5 Graduation 2006 PHOTOS BY MEGAN MORR AND YORK WILSON MORR AND YORK MEGAN PHOTOS BY

Graduate Erica Lee, above, the MPP student speaker, enjoys the graduation reception with her parents, U.S. Rep. Shelia Jackson Lee and Elwyn C. Lee, vice chancellor of the University of Houston System. At left, Santhoshkumar Thiruthimana makes remarks on behalf of PIDP graduates during the morning cere- mony, while at right, faculty lead undergraduates into Wilson Gym for the afternoon exercises.

At left, Professor of PPS Joel Fleishman congratulates David Gastwirth, winner of the 2006 Joel Fleishman Distinguished Scholar Award. Nazaneen Homaifar, Hirsh Sandesara, and Marcia Eisenstein, from left above, were selected for the Terry Sanford Leadership Award. 6 Sanford Institute’s Public Policy Focus he Institute’s 2006 graduation cere- monies honored 156 undergraduates, T 54 MPP and 36 PIDP students. Institute Director Bruce Kuniholm called upon graduates to find meaning in their lives by thinking “out- side of our individual self interest, to make the world a better place, to do what we can to better the lot of mankind … ” Yaolin Zhou, selected as the undergraduate student speaker, told the moving story of her effort to complete her studies while undergo- ing treatment for a brain tumor. Master’s stu- dents chose Erica Lee, daughter of U.S.Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, D-Texas, as their student speaker, while Santhoshkumar Thiruthimana of India represented PIDP students. Three undergrads were selected this year for the Terry Sanford Leadership Award: Marcia Eisenstein, Nazaneen Homaifar and Hirsh Sandesara. Eisenstein created College Connection, through which mentors help ease the college application process for low-income Durham students. Sandesara conduced health policy research in New Mexico and India. Homaifar has researched AIDS transmission in Senegal and helped lead a team that presented findings on HIV aid funding to a U.S.Senate committee. Homaifar also earned a Fulbright grant for a year’s study in Morocco. David Gastwirth earned the Joel Fleishman Distinguished Scholar award in recognition of highest academic achievement. Co-winners of the 2006 MPP Outstanding Student award were Lanier McRee and Liz Clasen. Professor Helen “Sunny” Ladd received the Richard Stubbing Graduate Teaching/ Mentoring Award. Other honors include: • Five MPP graduates were selected for presti- gious Presidential Management Fellowships: Katie Behr, Laura Duke, Lanier McRee, Drew Pounds and Jeremy Williams. • Jessica Campese, MPP ’06, earned a Fulbright grant to work in Geneva developing human- rights-based guidelines for international con- servation NGOs • Dan Love, PPS ’06, earned a Fulbright grant to study in Chile. • Anu Gurung, MPP ’06, was selected as a Global Leadership Fellow of the World Econom- ic Forum in Geneva, Switzerland. The three- year program is designed to create future inter- national leaders and will result in the award of a Master’s in Global Leadership at completion. • Erica Lee, MPP ’06, was selected as a Carey Fellow and will work with the N.Y. State Divi- sion of the Budget to develop state fiscal policy. Graduates and their families gather at the Institute, top • Seema Kakad, PPS ’06, won a Edward H. photo. Yaolin Zhou, left, addressed the audience on behalf of the undergraduates. Marcus Peterson, bottom Benenson Award to go to Mexico to work with left, shakes hands with Professor Bruce Kuniholm. the Mayan population on a documentary film, Graduating PIDP Rotary Peace Fellow Josephus as well as the Julia Harper Day Award from the Tenga and his wife, Elizabeth, above, pose in tradition- Duke Center for Documentary Studies. al clothing of their country, Sierra Leone. Spring 2006 7 Issues PHOTO COURTESY OF RICHARD GEE changed much in the past decade, more than Listen to the poor to find out one-third of families either have fallen into or escaped poverty over the same period. Some families have escaped poverty; others best ways to reduce poverty have fallen in. Clearly two sorts of policies are called for: ones that prevent families By ANIRUDH KRISHNA and LESLIE BONEY from falling into poverty, and others that help people escape from poverty. Four main factors form the pathways into The news that North Carolina’s poverty rate falling into poverty, or which factors were or out of poverty: is up again this year—despite the improved most successful in helping them escape? economy—and that North Carolina This past summer, with funding from The Job status—losing a job is the most com- remains in the bottom 10 states in the coun- Duke Endowment’s Program for the Rural mon factor cited among families falling try for poverty, has led to an explosion of Carolinas and the Terry Sanford Institute of into poverty; getting a good new job is the yawns across the state. “We’ve thrown a lot Public Policy, Duke students and community most-often cited reason for an escape from of money at the problem,” the attitude seems researchers from four rural counties— poverty. “I just want a decent job,” one to be, “and it hasn’t gone away.” But what if Beaufort, Burke, Gates and Vance—talked Burke County man told us. “We like to there was another way of looking at poverty, to 312 disadvantaged families. work.” (Unfortunately, decent jobs are based not on how much we have spent, but Here’s what we found: harder and harder to find, particularly for those with less education.) on which factors poor people thought were Poverty isn’t static, even if poverty rates Health-related issues—disabilities, extend- most effective in preventing them from are. While the overall poverty rates haven’t

FEMA out of Homeland Security would rep- Despite problems, FEMA resent an abandonment of the concept that our government must be organized to handle the threats of the 21st century. belongs in Homeland Security The decades to come may well bring more frequent and stronger hurricanes, pan- By DAVID H. SCHANZER demic outbreaks of disease and, potentially, attacks involving weapons of mass destruc- tion. To deal with these threats, we need to As hurricane season approaches, proposals A myriad of post-Katrina investigations identify what went wrong during Katrina to reform, reinvent or eliminate the Federal have found, however, that the FEMA we have and improve the performance of our post- Emergency Management Agency are blow- today is not the FEMA that was considered a 9/11 governmental structures. Trying to ing through Congress with gale force model agency during much of the 1990s. undo the reorganization from three years ago strength. Congress must take care, however, Many, including the respected former will diminish, not improve, our capabilities. that in satisfying the need to respond to the FEMA Director James Lee Witt, have con- Hurricane Katrina debacle, it refrains from cluded that FEMA’s inclusion in Homeland “While this might seem an taking action that actually damages our abil- Security, together with a series of policy ity to deal with future disasters, whether changes, have diminished FEMA’s authority esoteric debate that has little caused by nature or man. and stature and are to blame for its poor per- meaning for those who will The debate over FEMA reform takes us formance during Katrina. back four years to discussions over how to Endorsing this reasoning, proposals have become hurricane victims best organize the government following the been introduced in the Senate and House to over the coming months, attacks of 9/11. In July 2002, President Bush restore FEMA’s independent status and reversed his earlier position and endorsed a enable its director to report directly to the much more is at stake.” large-scale reorganization of the government president. Members of congressional home- to bring together disparate agencies with core land security committees, however, have pro- Mistakes were clearly made when FEMA responsibilities for preventing and responding posed to strengthen and reform FEMA (as was moved. First, political appointees with- to terrorist attacks. As the lead federal agency well as rename and reorganize the agency), out emergency management experience were for preparing communities for disasters and but to leave it within Homeland Security. put in charge of the agency. Second, respon- responding once disaster struck, FEMA was While this might seem an esoteric debate sibility for preparing communities for disas- included in the reorganization plan and ulti- that has little meaning for those who will ters was separated from responsibility for mately transferred to the new Department become hurricane victims over the coming response and recovery. This organizational of Homeland Security in 2003. months, much more is at stake. Ripping divide ignored the reality that relationships

8 Sanford Institute’s Public Policy Focus HEALTH INEQUALITIES PROGRAM ELIANA PAUCA ed illnesses and loss of health insurance and most families moving out of poverty or vent divorce, but we can provide more pub- the resulting medical debt were cited by falling into poverty cited two or more of lic and private support to struggling families. about a third of those falling into poverty as these factors in explaining their change of We can do more to control predatory lending one of the principal causes. In many cases, status. In most cases, it was the combination practices and we can teach struggling fami- the swirl of medical debt drains equity from of loss of job and loss of insurance, or getting lies budgeting skills. homes and often forces families to borrow sick with no insurance or other family sup- Not all investments in poverty reduction money at dangerously poor terms. port, that pushed families into poverty. are created equal—some are more equal Family factors—divorce or lack of family We still need the supports already in than others. The results of this study suggest support often helped propel families into place, but since resources for fighting pover- that we can get smarter about what those poverty; marriage or the presence of a sup- ty are limited, our study suggests that some “more equal” investments are—if we make portive family helped people escape. As investments are more helpful than others. it our official policy to talk to the people we one Beaufort County resident noted, “you We should invest in initiatives designed to are trying to help. need a wife and husband team to make it keep poverty-related factors from piling up around here.” on families. We must not only continue to Krishna is an assistant professor of public poli- look for new work opportunities that pay cy and political science at the Institute. Boney Budgeting—Several of the families escap- is a senior associate at MDC Inc., a Chapel Hill- ing poverty reported that forming and meaningful wages, but also we must find ways to sustain insurance coverage for those based nonprofit that conducts research and sticking with a budget was a significant fac- works on issues of expanding opportunity and tor in helping them move out of poverty. who have lost jobs. Here’s how one Gates advancing equity throughout the South. He County resident put it: “Health insurance is No single factor can transport a family was a Fleishman Fellow at the Institute in 2004. something you can’t afford, but you can’t This column was first published March 6 in the into or out of poverty. It is significant that afford not to have it.” Similarly, we can’t pre- Raleigh News and Observer.

effort, will remain at Homeland Security. Readjusting these programs toward an all- hazards approach will be possible with FEMA in the department, but it is far less likely if FEMA leaves. An independent FEMA would also require state and local disaster officials, char- itable organizations like the Red Cross and the private sector to deal with two federal agencies instead of one. The post-9/11 world requires that we better integrate and coordi- nate government functions, not head in the opposite direction. It would be ideal if we could return to decades past, when our main domestic secu- rity concerns were hurricanes and earth- quakes. But the complex challenges of the 21st century, including a potential WMD attack, require that FEMA be woven into the fabric of our national program for prepar- developed while preparing communities for and got the entire agency off track. ing communities to deal with disasters. With disasters can determine the effectiveness of These mistakes can all be remedied, but some effort, this can be accomplished in the the response when disaster strikes. not by separating FEMA from Homeland Department of Homeland Security. It can- Third, billions in grant funds issued to Security. Removing FEMA would distance it not if, in a pique of Katrina-induced anger, states and localities emphasized terrorism from the department’s resources and sub- Congress begins to unravel the new depart- preparedness and response, instead of an stantial budget, including assets critical to its ment and sets FEMA off on its own. “all-hazards” approach encompassing the mission, such as the Coast Guard, the planning, procedures and training common National Communications System and Schanzer is director of the Triangle Center on to dealing with both natural disasters and Homeland Security’s huge cadre of law Terrorism and Homeland Security at Duke terrorist attacks. The Homeland Security enforcement personnel. University and UNC-Chapel Hill and a visiting department truly intended to maintain the Even if FEMA is made independent, the associate professor of the practice of PPS. This commentary was first published May 12 in the all-hazards approach, but the grant pro- large preparedness grant programs, which Raleigh News and Observer. grams’ terrorism focus skewed this principle shape the entire national preparedness

Spring 2006 9 Economists, management profs to join PPS faculty in fall ’06 (continued from page 1) comes, the effects of he spent eight months collecting data in since 1979. In that capacity, he has been the abortion legalization Madagascar with support from the National key legal and policy advisor to every recent on lifecycle fertility Science Foundation, the Social Science Secretary of the Army and has played a major and the effect of mari- Research Council and the U.S. Agency for role in management decisions. Taylor gradu- tal breakup on the in- International Development. ated from Guilford College in 1966 and from come and poverty of “I am very excited about coming to Duke the UNC-Chapel Hill School of Law in 1969. women with children. University and joining the Sanford faculty,” From 1975-79 he was an associate professor at Her broader research he said. “For an applied economist, a policy the U.S. Military Academy. interests include the school is a natural and obvious fit … Johnson has directed the Fiscal Research intergenerational dy- Elizabeth O. Ananat “I want to develop a research agenda Division of the N.C. General Assembly for namics of inequality. that focuses on exploring, both in theory and the last six years. In that capacity he man- Ananat earned a BA in political economy in practice, the consequences of market fail- aged a staff of approximately 40 professionals and mathematics from Williams College and ures on the welfare of the poor in developing with responsibility for preparing the annual an MPP from the University of Michigan. countries. I would like to show students that state budget, making state revenue forecasts “I’m very excited to be coming to the there is more to development than overarch- and dealing with all tax and finance legisla- Sanford Institute,” Ananat said. “I am really ing macro projects and structural adjustment tion. Prior to becoming the director he was a looking forward to returning to the interdis- programs, and that the key to successful principal fiscal analyst in the division, with ciplinary, policy-oriented environment that macroeconomic policy often lies in imple- much of his work focused on health care and public policy studies offers.” menting sound microeconomic policies.” education policy. Bellemare also will join the PPS faculty as Professor of the Practice Thomas Taylor “He brings to the position tremendous an assistant professor, with a secondary ap- will focus primarily on management and lead- knowledge of state and local government, pointment in the department of economics. ership, while Visiting Professor of the Prac- not only in North Carolina but throughout Bellemare is completing his PhD in applied tice James Johnson will focus on policy analy- the country,” Ladd said. “His many North economics at Cornell University, and con- sis. Both bring to the program many years of Carolina contacts and his intimate knowl- ducts research in the fields of development professional experience, Taylor at the federal edge of the North Carolina policy environ- economics, applied econometrics and applied level and Johnson at the state level. Both will ment should prove very useful for the spring contract theory. He earned a BSc and an be involved with the fall policy analysis consulting projects, clients for master’s proj- MSc in economics from the Université de course, in order to provide all first-year MPP ects and professional opportunities for grad- Montréal. students an opportunity to interact with both uates of the MPP program.” Bellemare has conducted research on the of them during the fall term, and to provide Johnson earned a BA in political science market participation of herder households in smaller sections and more opportunities for from UNC-Chapel Hill and a master’s Kenya and Ethiopia, on price risk aversion student presentations, said Professor of PPS degree in public affairs from NC State. He and the welfare effects of price fluctuations, Sunny Ladd, director of graduate studies. also participated in the program for senior and on share tenancy agreements and grow- Taylor has been the senior deputy general executives in state and local government at er-processor contracts in Madagascar. In 2004 counsel for the U.S. Department of the Army Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government.

Students present health research sured residents of Durham County,present- (continued from page 1) ed to the Duke University Health System. Rotary Fellows gather In addition,graduate students worked The Duke-UNC Rotary Center for Interna- questions.With Senate recommenda- on two projects for the North Carolina tional Studies in Peace and Conflict Resolu- tions to the White House due later that Progress Board.The Progress Board,head- tion addressed the theme “The Human Face month,the students’work was timely ed by Gov.Mike Easley,wanted a critique of Conflict” during its third annual spring con- and highly relevant. of the strategic scorecard system it uses to ference on April 8. William Ascher, who Whetten has previous- measure the “state of the state.”One group helped launch the Duke-UNC Rotary Center, ly assigned client-based analyzed measures of access to health care delivered the keynote address “Pre-empting projects to her students, in North Carolina,while another made sug- Conflict: Our Common Challenge.” while Chris Conover, gestions for measuring healthy lifestyles. Nine Rotary World Peace Fellows present- assistant research profes- Bob Melville, consultant and project ed their research to an audience of 140, com- sor of PPS and director of manager for the Progress Board,said he prised of Rotarians, students, and community the health policy certifi- was “very pleased”with his first experience members, including a group of local Burmese Conover cate program,did so for working with Duke policy students. refugees. Their topics ranged from nation the first time this spring.In April his under- “For each ‘dashboard’indicator,they building in Liberia and Sierra, to displacement graduate students made their presentations suggested four or five diagnostic indica- of indigenous people due to the Chiapas con- to clients: An analysis of premium assistance tors and gave recommendations about flict in Mexico, and female genital cutting. under N.C.’s Medicaid program,presented ways to make agencies or entities respon- Center co-directors James Peacock of to the N.C.House Select Committee on sible for achieving progress on those UNC and Francis Lethem of the Duke Cen- Health;and research on the benefits of obe- measures.It was a level of thoroughness ter for International Development, as well as sity-related prospective health for unin- that I hadn’t expected,”Melville said. center coordinator Susan Carroll, were hon- ored with Paul Harris Fellow Awards.

10 Sanford Institute’s Public Policy Focus Social & Health Policy

Retained students negatively affect classmates’ behavior

iddle school students who dents so schools can meet perform- share their classrooms with ance targets in the following year. M older students or children Policies also encourage delayed entry who have been retained are more like- to school. However, these researchers ly to have discipline problems such as say little consideration has been given substance use, fighting and classroom to the long-term effects of retention or disruptions than students in class- delayed school entries on student rooms without older or retained stu- behavior or to the influence older or dents, according to a recent study by retained children have on their class- Duke Center for Child and Family mates. Policy researchers. In the 2000-2001 school year, 18 Sociologists Clara Muschkin, Eliza- percent of North Carolina seventh beth Glennie and Audrey Beck stud- graders had been previously retained ied discipline records or were “old-for-grade,” which this of nearly 80,000 seventh chance that other students will commit an study defined as older than 75 percent graders in 334 North Caro- infraction or be suspended increased by 200 of their peers. Old-for-grade students are on lina middle schools. In one percent compared to students without older average one year older than their classmates; of the largest studies of its peers. most old-for-grade seventh graders are 13 to kind, they included rural, “Until now, retention research hasn’t 14.5 years old at the start of the school year. urban and socially diverse looked at the effect of retention on other The study concludes that educators Glennie schools. children,” Glennie said. “We find that re- should take additional steps to minimize the They found that the tained and older children have a significant academic struggles of older and retained likelihood of discipline problems and the effect on the behavior of all children. This children. The researchers suggest that poli- chances of being suspended are significantly disruptive behavior can ultimately influence cymakers consider retention as a last resort, higher among students attending schools how much a child learns.” and place more emphasis on interventions with many retained and older students. For School accountability policies linked to such as tutoring, summer school and peer example, if 20 percent of children in the sev- the federal No Child Left Behind legislation mentoring. enth grade are older than their peers, the encourage retention of low-performing stu-

Children’s mental health heads agenda for lawmakers’ seminar On May 17, state lawmakers and agency • Kenneth A. Dodge, director, Center for approximately 69,000 children in 2005. leaders examined potential strategies for pro- Child and Family Policy; Approximately 12 percent of children in viding high quality, cost-effective care to the • William O. Donnelly, interim director and North Carolina suffer from a serious emo- more than 240,000 children in North Caro- clinical director, Children’s Resource tional disorder, such as depression, anxiety, lina who suffer from a mental illness. They Center, Bowling Green, Ohio; eating disorders or Attention-Deficit/Hyper- heard from national mental health experts as activity Disorder. Experts estimate that 66 part of the second Family Impact Seminar • Robert M. Friedman, director, Research percent of children with a serious mental sponsored by the Duke Center for Child and and Training Center for Children’s Mental disorder do not receive any mental health Family Policy. Health, Louis de la Parte Florida Mental services. The seminars aim to provide policymak- Health Institute. The N.C. Family Impact Seminars are ers with objective, nonpartisan, solution-ori- Among the topics for discussion were guided by a bipartisan legislative advisory ented research pertaining to problems that lessons learned from the Great Smoky committee led by N.C. Reps. Jeff Barnhart affect the nation’s families. Scheduled speak- Mountains Study detailing children’s mental and Rick Glazier. The N.C. seminars are ers were: health status in western North Carolina, and modeled on seminars pioneered by the • Leslie Brower, deputy director of the Divi- a method to measure mental health out- University of Wisconsin and now taking sion of Program and Policy Development, comes based on Ohio’s Mental Health Con- place in 21 states. North Carolina’s first Ohio Department of Mental Health; sumer Outcomes System. Family Impact Seminar in 2005 covered North Carolina spent more than $504 Medicaid cost containment strategies. • E. Jane Costello, Duke professor of Child million in federal and state funds on chil- and Adolescent Psychiatry; dren’s mental health services and served

Spring 2006 11 Faculty News

John Ahearne, visiting professor of PPS, was YORK WILSON appointed co-chair of the Non-Proliferation Panel of the National Academies Committee on International Security and Arms Control and chairman of the National Research Council Committee to Review the Office of Management and Budget Risk Assessment Bulletin. Charles Clotfelter, Z. Smith Reynolds Professor of PPS (on sabbatical at the Russell Sage Foundation in New York) gave talks on a paper titled, “The Academic Achievement Gap in Grades 3 to 8,” at Russell Sage, the New School for Social Research, the City University of New York, Amherst College and Columbia University. The paper was co-authored with PPS professors Jake Vigdor and Sunny Ladd. Philip J. Cook, ITT/Terry Sanford Professor of PPS, gave the annual Hochbaum Distinguished Lecture at the UNC-Chapel Hill School of Public Health on April 10. He also was an expert source for numerous media covering the March launch of the new North Carolina lottery, including the Charlotte Observer. Robert Cook-Deegan, research professor of PPS, gave the Picard Lecture at the University of Alberta Law School in Edmonton on March 22; gave a plenary talk at the National Breast Cancer Coalition annual advocacy conference in Washington, D.C., on May 1; and gave a plenary talk at the annual Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Professor of PPS and Director of Graduate Studies accepts the 2006 Richard Stubbing meeting on genomics on May 12. Sunny Ladd Graduate Teaching and Mentoring Award from Professor Fritz Mayer during graduation ceremonies. Below left, Professor of PPS and Institute Director Bruce Kuniholm makes opening remarks.

Reid Fontaine, research scientist at the Center 2 diabetes among African Americans in Durham for Child and Family Policy, in March presented County. The grant continues through June 2008.

YORK WILSON YORK co-authored research titled “Peer rejection and Bruce W. Jentleson, professor of PPS, served as loneliness as predictors of internalizing problems chair and discussant for a panel on “Public in early adolescence” at the biennial meeting of Opinion and U.S. Military Intervention,” and pre- the Society for Research on Adolescence in San sented a paper at the annual conference of the Francisco, Calif. International Studies Association, San Diego, Joel Fleishman, professor of PPS, spoke to the Calif., March 23-26. He gave a paper titled “Yet annual meeting of Grantmakers for Effective Again: Humanitarian Intervention and the Organizations in Atlanta on March 10. He also Challenges of ‘Never Again’ ”at the Middle East participated in a panel on Governance of Regional Security Project in Athens, Greece, on Foundation and Nonprofit Investment Policy for Feb. 20. Jentleson also was named to the board of the Commonfund Institute in Fort Lauderdale, directors of the Close Up Foundation, and to a Fla., on March 13. Rockefeller Brothers Fund task force, “U.S. in the Kristin Goss, assistant professor of PPS, delivered World: Talking Global Issues with Americans.” the keynote address to the annual meeting of He also delivered a paper at the Delegating North Carolinians Against Gun Violence in Sovereignty Conference, Duke Law School and January; delivered an invited talk at Georgetown Sanford Institute, March 3-4, and chaired a panel University in November about her research on at the Duke National Security Conference April the narrowing of women’s organizations’ policy 20-21. interests over the past century; and chaired a Judith Kelley, assistant professor of PPS, organ- panel and gave a paper at the Southern Political ized with Duke law school professor Curtis Science Association meeting in Atlanta. Bradley a March 3-4 conference on the implica- Sherman A. James, Susan B. King Professor of tions of nations delegating authority to interna- PPS, was appointed to serve on the National tional institutions. The conference drew experts Scientific Advisory Board of the National from universities across the country, and their Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health. He also conference papers are now available on the law received a research grant from the NIH/National school web site. Center for Minority Health and Health Bruce Kuniholm, Institute director and professor Disparities to develop culturally competent and of PPS, chaired a panel discussion titled “Iraq effective approaches to improving control of Type 2006: Where to From Here” during the annual

12 Sanford Institute’s Public Policy Focus Ladd, Helen, and R. Bifulco. “The Impact of Faculty Publications Charter Schools on Student Achievement: Evidence from North Carolina.” Journal of Cook, Philip J., and S.B. Sorenson. “The Education Finance and Policy 1 (1): 50-90 Gender Gap Among Teen Survey Respon- (Winter 2006). dents: Why are Boys more Likely to Report a Disarmed: The Missing Movement Gun in the Home than Girls?” Journal of Mickiewicz, Ellen. “The Election News Story for Gun Control in America Quantitative Criminology 22 (1): 61-76 on Russian Television: A World Apart from (March 2006). Viewers.” Slavic Review 65 (1): 1-23 (Spring By Kristin A.Goss, 2006). Assistant Professor of PPS Cook, Philip J., and J. Ludwig. “The social cost of gun ownership.” Journal of Public Economics Mickiewicz, Ellen. “Does ‘Trust’ Mean Princeton University Press 90 (1-2): 379-391 (January 2006). Attention, Comprehension and Acceptance? (June 2006, 304 pp.) Paradoxes of Russian Viewers’ News Cook, Philip J., and N. Khmilevska. “Cross- Processing.” In Mass Media and New More than any other National Patterns in Crime Rates.” In Crime Democracies, Katrin Voltmer, ed. New York, advanced industrial and Punishment in Western Countries, 1980- N.Y.: Routledge, 2006. democracy,the United 1999, M. Tonry and D.P. Farrington, eds. States is besieged by Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005. Mickiewicz, Ellen. “Excavating Concealed Tradeoffs.” Political Communication 22 (3): 355- firearms violence.The Wintemute, G.J., Philip J. Cook, and M. Wright. 380 (July-Sept. 2005). nation has witnessed the “Risk Factors among Handgun Retailers for murders of beloved public figures;mas- Frequent and Disproportionate Sales of Guns Tifft, Susan, and A.S. Jones. “Newspaper sacres in workplaces and schools;and epi- Used in Violent and Firearm-Related Crimes.” Ethicist of a Bygone Era,” an op-ed in The demics of gun violence that terrorize Injury Prevention 11: 357-363. (December 2005). Boston Globe on April 7 about the passing of former Louisville Courier-Journal publisher neighborhoods and claim tens of thou- Goss, Kristin A., and T. Skocpol. “Changing Barry Bingham Jr. sands of lives.Yet Americans have never Agendas: The Impact of Feminism on mounted a true national movement for American Politics.” In Gender and Social Whetten, Kathryn, J. Leserman, R. Whetten, gun control.Why? Disarmed unravels this Capital, B. O’Neill and E. Gidengill, eds. New J. Ostermann, N. Thielman, M. Swartz and York: Routledge, 2005. D. Stangl. “Exploring Lack of Trust in Care paradox. Providers and the Government as a Barrier to Based on historical archives,interviews James, Sherman A., J. VanHoewyk, R.F. Belli, Health Service Use.” American Journal of Public and original survey evidence,Goss sug- D.S. Strogatz, and D. R.Williams. “Life-course Health 96 (4): 716-721 (April 2006). gests that the gun con- Socioeconomic Position and Risk for trol campaign has been Hypertension in African American Men: The Whetten, Kathryn, J. Leserman, K.L. Pitt County Study.” American Journal of Public Geonnotti, D. Stangl, N. Thielman, M.S. stymied by a combina- Health 96(5): 812-817 (May 2006). Swartz, L. Hanisch and L. VanScoyoc. tion of factors,includ- “Prevalence of Childhood Sexual Abuse and ing the inability to Jentleson, Bruce W., and C.A. Whytock. Physical Trauma in an HIV-Positive Sample secure patronage “Who ‘Won’ Libya? The Force-Diplomacy From the Deep South.” American Journal of resources,difficulties Debate and Its Implications for Theory and Public Health 96 (6): 1028-1030. (June 2006). Policy.” International Security 30 (3): 67-86 in articulating a mes- (Winter 2005-06). Leserman, J., Kathryn Whetten, K. Lowe, sage that would res- D. Stangl, M.S. Swartz and N.M. Thielman. onate with support- Kuniholm, Bruce R. “Die Nahostkriege, der “How Trauma, Recent Stressful Events, and ers and strategic Palastinakonflikt und der Kalte Krieg.” In: PTSD Affect Functional Health Status and Heisse Kriege im Kalten Krieg, Bernd Greiner, decisions made in Health Utilization in HIV-Infected Patients in the name of effective policy. Christian Th. Muller, and Dierk Walter, eds. the South.” Psychosomatic Medicine 67: (“The Middle East Wars, the Palestinian 500–507 (2005). Disarmed illuminates the organization- Conflict and the Cold War.” In Hot Wars al,historical and policy-related factors that During the Cold War). Hamburg, Germany: constrain mass mobilization. Institut fur Sozialforschung, 2006.

Duke National Security Conference on April 20, international conference titled “The Mass Media by media including the San Francisco Chronicle, sponsored by the Law School’s Center on Law, in Post-Soviet Russia,” April 6-8, University of The Washington Post and Information Week. Ethics and National Security and Program in Surrey, England. Mickiewicz also organized and William Raspberry, Knight Professor of the Public Law. will teach a two-week seminar on “The Practice of Journalism, visited China in mid May Sunny Ladd, Edgar T. Thompson Professor of Challenges of International Media Technology where he was journalist-in-residence at Fudan PPS, spoke April 28 at Princeton University and Policy” for the Olympia Summer Seminars in University of Shanghai and conducted master on “Teacher Labor Markets in Developed Olympia, Greece, June 26-July 10. classes, led seminars and gave public lectures. Countries,” and on March 24 at the American Noah Pickus, associate director of the Kenan Susan Tifft, Eugene C. Patterson Professor of the Education Finance Association Meetings in Institute for Ethics and adjunct associate profes- Practice of Journalism and PPS, will be on leave Denver, Colo., she presented a paper co-authored sor of PPS, briefed Senate Judiciary Committee during the 2006-07 year while she writes a book with Charles Clotfelter and Jacob Vigdor, titled staff on immigration reform and gave talks on his about women’s unique role in the longevity revo- “How and Why Do Teacher Credentials Matter book, True Faith and Allegiance: Immigration and lution and what that may portend for policy, insti- for Student Achievement?” On Feb. 10 she gave American Civic Nationalism, in cities across the tutions and individuals. The book is under con- an invited lecture on race and charter schools at country to groups including the Department of tract to Penguin Press. Tifft also was scheduled to Brown University. Homeland Security, the Heritage Foundation and participate in the Duke in Napa Valley Seminar Ellen Mickiewicz, James R. Shepley Professor of the National Immigration Forum. As immigration on May 25-26. She was a panelist for “Just the PPS and director of the DeWitt Wallace Center reform rose to the top of the national agenda this Facts: Truth and the Internet,” as part of the PEN for Media and Democracy, presented the keynote spring, Pickus published op-eds in Newsday and World Voices Festival April 28 in New York City. address, “The Conundrum of Memory” at an the Raleigh News and Observer, and was quoted

Spring 2006 13 Anthony So, senior research fellow in public Philip J.Cook, ITT/Terry Sanford Improvement Partnership aims to devel- policy, presented on “Intellectual Property Rights Professor of PPS,was invited to deliver op effective approaches to controlling and Technology Transfer: Enabling Access for Kudos the UNC-Chapel Hill School of Public Type 2 diabetes.James’research part- Developing Countries” at the Michigan State Health’s Hochbaum Lecture on April 10. ners include a 15-member community College of Law’s Third Annual Intellectual Property & Communications Law Program Cook’s lecture was titled “The Un-Happy advisory board;Susan Yaggy and Mina Symposium on April 7. He also presented on Hour:New Evidence on Alcohol Policy Silberberg from the Division of Commun- “Information Technology and Networks in and the Consequences of Cheap,Widely ity Health within Duke’s Department of Health” at the Open Society Institute’s Available Alcohol.”The Hochbaum Community and Family Medicine;and “Monitoring for Health: A Dialogue on Current Distinguished Lecture was established in Elaine Hart-Brothers, a Durham Practices and Perspectives” meeting on Feb. 9 in 1988 to honor Godfrey M.Hochbaum, internist.Hart-Brothers is the founding Istanbul, Turkey, and participated in the Salzburg Seminar on the governance of health in health behavior and health education chair of the nonprofit Community December. He participated in discussions about professor emeritus. Health Coalition. leadership April 29 at the University of Oklahoma with other members of the Millennium Joel L.Fleishman, Ambassador James Joseph, professor Class of the Henry Crown Fellows Program of the professor of PPS and of the practice of PPS,was honored Aspen Institute. So worked with Duke colleagues director of the April 27 as a “Louisiana Legend”during Susan Yaggy and Nikki Vangsnes to create a Samuel & Ronnie a gala sponsored by the Friends of Global Health Poster Session during the Global Heyman Center for Louisiana Public Broadcasting.The annu- Health Symposium and 75th anniversary celebra- Ethics,Public Policy tion of the Medical School, April 17-18. In al event honors outstanding Louisiana December, So participated in the Salzburg and the Professions, citizens who have distinguished them- Seminar on Governance of Health. has been appointed selves in a variety of disciplines includ- co-chair of a new Jacob Vigdor, professor of PPS, co-presented ing writing,art,entertainment,politics, a paper “Race- Conscious Admissions and committee to advise public service and athletics. Inter-Racial Contact: Does Homophily Matter?” the Panel on the Nonprofit Sector on Former President Bill Clinton,in co-authored with Duke economist P. Arcidiacono Self-Regulation.Co-chair is Rebecca W. whose administration Joseph served as and S. Khan (University of Rochester) at the Rimel, president and CEO of The Pew Ambassador to South Africa,speaks in a Higher Education Working Group Meeting at the Charitable Trusts. National Bureau of Economic Research in video clip of Joseph’s contributions to The Panel on the Nonprofit Sector is the nation’s progress out of an apartheid Cambridge, Mass. on April 28. He presented his comprised of leaders from charities and paper “The New Promised Land: Black-White system.The clip can be seen on the Convergence in the American South 1960-2000” foundations across the country.Last Institute’s Web site. at the University of Chicago Workshop on Black- June the panel released a major report Joseph heads the United States- White Inequality on April 21. Also in April, to Congress consisting of more than 120 South Africa Center for Leadership and Vigdor participated in a panel discussion on peer recommendations to strengthen the Public Values at the Institute and at the influences in education at the Eric M. Mindich transparency,governance and account- University of Cape Town.He now serves Conference on Designing Choice at Harvard ability of the charitable sector. University, and presented a paper, “Should Sixth as chairman of the Louisiana Disaster Grade be in Elementary or Middle School?”, James T.Hamilton, Charles S.Sydnor Recovery Foundation. co-authored with Phil Cook, Clara Muschkin Professor of Public Policy and director of and R. MacCoun (UC-Berkeley) at UC- Duke’s Trinity College of Arts and Berkeley’s Goldman School of Public Policy. In undergraduate studies,is one of three Sciences honored Gunther Peck, Fred W. March he presented his paper “Fifty Million 2006-07 recipients of a Fellowship in Shaffer Associate Professor of History Voters Can’t Be Wrong” in workshops at Indiana Environmental Regulatory Implementa- and associate professor of PPS,for excel- University-Bloomington and Purdue University at tion from Resources for the Future.The lence in undergraduate teaching and Indianapolis. Vigdor also spoke to the Swansboro, fellowship provides a stipend and pro- research at the annual faculty awards N.C., Rotary Club in late January on education gram support.Hamilton intends to doc- policy in North Carolina and addressed a town dinner on May 4.Peck was inducted into hall meeting in Raleigh on the subject of neigh- ument the origins and outcomes of the the Bass Society of Fellows. borhood revitalization and gentrification. U.S.Department of Agriculture’s Conservation Reserve Program estab- The National Forum for Black Public lished by the Farm Security Act of 1985. Administrators honored Art Spengler, This is the second time Hamilton has professor of the practice of PPS,with its For Institute Faculty In the News please won the fellowship;the first resulted in Educator of the Year Award. visit the Sanford Institute Web site at his most recent book,Regulation through Revelation. Jacob Vigdor earned promotion to www.pubpol.duke.edu Associate Professor of Public Policy and select the News Media tab. Susan B.King Professor of PPS Sherman effective July 1.Vigdor is also an associ- A.James has been named principal ate professor of economics and a faculty investigator for a three-year,$1.5 million research fellow with the National Bureau study funded by the NIH/National of Economic Research. Center for Minority Health and Health Disparities.The African-American Health

14 Sanford Institute’s Public Policy Focus Alumni News

MPP Notes YORK WILSON

Alicia Groh (MPP ’05) is the new executive director of Voice for Adop- tion, a national adoption advocacy coalition based in Minneapolis, Minn. She still will travel frequent- ly to Washington, D.C., to advance the agenda of the organization. Katie McClurg (MPP ’04) and Dave Anderson (MPP ’04) were married on April 25, in Seattle, Wash. They were joined in their celebrations by classmates Tim Greeff, Lesley Woodburn, Janna Matlack, Jennifer Schiess, Kevin Bishop, and Susan Brown Asam. Katie works at the U.S. Department of Labor and Dave is a project leader at the Council for Excellence in Government in Washington, D.C. Jonathan Morancy (MPP ’04) Celebrating after graduation on May 13 are some of the Sanford Institute's newest MPP alumni, from left, has accepted a new position at the Stefan Lhachimi, Kurt Wise and Jesse Hastings. Kelvin Inn, in shirt and tie, will graduate in 2007 with a Congressional Budget Office in joint MPP/MBA degree. Washington, D.C. Nick Cornelisse (MPP ’03) has Services with a four-month detail in head of strategy and planning for boy, Gabriel Thomas, born and a new position on the Defense the FDA Commissioner’s Office of Securities and Funds Service in adopted on Feb. 27. Gina works for Capabilities and Management Policy and Planning working on Citigroup’s Corporate Investment the City of Charlotte, N.C. Team at the U.S. Government issues related to minimizing the Bank. He and his family live in Matt Mitchell (MPP ’90) and his Accountability Office. Nick was impact of counterfeit drugs and Greenwich, Conn. previously a legislative assistant wife, Kara, announce the birth of other projects. He’ll return to Heidi Recksiek (MPP ’97), who Olivia Meita Mitchell on Jan. 26. covering defense and security issues ASPE in June. for Sen. Russell Feingold (D-Wisc.). works at NOAA in Charleston, Matt works on water quality issues Melanie Kadlic (MPP ’02) has a S.C., spent the first quarter of 2006 for EPA’s San Francisco Regional Craig Harper (MPP/MEM ’03) new position with the government on a mission assignment to FEMA Office. has left the U.S. Office of Manage- of Fairfax County, Va., as a manage- to help with community engage- Mark Messura (MPP ’87) was ment and Budget for a new position ment analyst with the Department ment and coastal management at the Natural Resources Defense promoted to executive vice presi- of Procurement and Supply Man- aspects of the recovery planning dent at Cotton Inc., with responsi- Council. He and his family live in agement. Melanie will analyze and process in Louisiana. Washington, D.C. bility for management of the corpo- audit the county’s procurement Dave Sheldon (MPP ’96) left his rate research programs in economics, Ilse Wiechers (MPP ’03) and her procedures and create recommen- position at the Council for Excel- market and consumer behavior and husband, Mike Choma, will leave dations for improvement. lence in Government after 10-plus textiles, as well as global supply Durham to pursue residency pro- Elizabeth Pika (MPP ’02) has years to embark on a trip around the chain operations, which include the grams in Boston, Mass., with Ilse been promoted to legislative direc- world and to plan for his next adven- company’s offices and staff in entering the McLean psychiatry tor for Rep. Tammy Baldwin (D- ture. You can view his travel blog at China, Japan, Singapore, Mexico program at Massachusetts General Wisc.). She has been in Baldwin’s www.GetJealous.com/Davestrip. City, Turkey and Europe. Hospital. office since 2003. Her appointment Rebecca Rund (MPP ’96) and her Michael Bee (MPP ‘86) will Michael Yankovich (MPP ’03) was announced in Capitol Hill husband, Roger Placer, announce assume new duties this summer as will leave his position at the U.S. newspapers The Hill and Roll Call. the arrival of their third daughter, chief of current intelligence at the Military Academy in West Point D.J. Vogt (MPP/MBA ’02) is leav- Eden Macy Placer, on Feb. 10. Eden U.S. Coast Guard Intelligence this summer to join the Director’s ing his position at the U. S. joins sisters Sienna, 7, and Sage, 2, Coordination Center in Washington, Strategic Initiatives Group of the Department of the Treasury to pur- and their family who live in D.C. Michael has also been promoted Deputy Chief of the Army Staff sue a new business opportunity in Franklin Lakes, N.J. to commander, effective in July. (G8) at the Pentagon. The G8 is Portland, Ore. He and his wife wel- responsible for the future Army Jill Hyland (MPP ’95) has a new Scott Litch (MPP ’86), general comed a baby girl, Courtney Ruth, position as program development counsel and deputy executive through programming, material on Oct. 25, 2005. integration and management of associate at the School of director for the American Academy Department of the Army studies Kirsten Petrocine Pennington Professional Studies of the City of Pediatric Dentistry, published an and analyses. (MPP/MEM ’00) recently was University of New York, where she article in the January/February appointed by the mayor of Seattle will help create new programs and 2006 issue of Forum magazine titled Scott Douglas (MPP ’02), is to the city of Seattle planning com- expand operations of the school, “The In-House Counsel Perspective” complementing his current posi- mission. which serves the needs of New in which he discusses the responsi- tion in the Office of the Assistant York’s working professionals and bilities facing in-house association Secretary for Planning and Sekou Kaalund (MPP ’99) and his wife, Jennifer, welcomed their son, industry sectors. attorneys, including intellectual Evaluation (ASPE) at the U.S. property, regulatory and legislative Department of Health and Human Caleb H. Kaalund, on March 10. Gina Triplett Shell (MPP ’92) and Sekou has a new position as global her husband, Greg, adopted a baby issues. Spring 2006 15 “Terry Sanford and the New South” JON GARDINER

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Institute Director: Bruce Kuniholm Focus Editor: Karen Kemp Movie-goers listen to a panel discussion after the April 9 premiere For more information, of the documentary “Terry Sanford and the New South” at the please contact Carolina Theatre in downtown Durham. Panelists included former [email protected] Gov. Jim Hunt, left, and former N.C. Rep. Dan Blue, above, talk- ing with moderator Judy Woodruff. Other panelists were former journalist and presidential spokesman Hodding Carter III, writer/ director Tom Lennon and journalist Al Hunt. The screening was sponsored by WNET/Thirteen New York, UNC-TV, Sanford Institute, Duke University and The Center for Documentary Studies. The documentary will have its broadcast premiere this fall.

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