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Tun, P.A., Miller-Martinez, D., Lachman, M.E., and Seeman T. Acevedo-Garcia, D. and Almeida, J. Special Issue introduction: Social Strain and Executive Function across the Lifespan: The Place, Migration and Health. Social Science and Medicine 75(12), Dark (and Light) Sides of Social Engagement. Aging, Neuropsy- pp. 2055-2059. (2012). http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/ chology, and Cognition. Published online August 9, 2012. (2012). article/pii/S0277953612006715 http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/ full/10.1080/13825585.2012.707173 Acevedo-Garcia, D., Sanchez-Vaznaugh, E., Viruell-Fuentes, E., and Almeida, J. Integrating Social Epidemiology into Immigrant BEHAVIORAL HEALTH Health Research: A Cross-national Framework. Social Science and Medicine 75(12), pp. 2060-2068. (2012).

Clark, T., Eadie, J., Kreiner, P., and Strickler, G. Prescription Drug Osypuk, T., Joshi, P., and Acevedo-Garcia, D. Do Social Policies Monitoring Programs: An Assessment of the Evidence for Best Influence the Health of Women and Their Children? A Summary Practices. Prescription Drug Monitoring Program Center of Ex- of Strong Evidence and Implications for Designing Future Policies cellence. Prepared for the Pew Charitable Trusts. (2012). http:// Using a ‘Social Determinants of Health’ Lens. In Goldman, M.B., www.pewhealth.org/uploadedFiles/PHG/Content_Level_Pages/ Troisi, R., and Rexrode, K.M. (Eds.), Women and Health. Second Reports/PDMP_Full%20and%20Final.pdf Edition. Amsterdam: Elsevier Publishing. (2012).

Gurewich, D., Sirkin, J.T., and Shepard, D.S. On-site Provision of COEXISTENCE AND CONFLICT Substance Abuse Treatment Services at Community Health

Centers. Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment 42(4), pp. 339- 45. (2012). Ben-Josef Hirsch, M., Mackenzie, M., and Sesay, M. Measuring the Impacts of Truth and Reconciliation Commissions: Placing Larson, M.J., Amodeo, M., LoCastro, J.S., Muroff, J., Smith, L., and the Global ‘Success’ of TRCs in Local Perspective. Cooperation Gerstenberger, E. Randomized Trial of Web-based Training to and Conflict 47(3), pp. 386–403. (2012). Promote Counselor Use of CBT Skills in Client Sessions. Sub- stance Abuse. Published online December 6, 2012. (2012). http:// DISABILITIES dx.doi.org/10.1080/08897077.2012.746255

Shepard, D.S., Zeng, W., Strickler, G.K., Lwin, A., Cros, M.J., and Ghosh, S., Greenberg, J.S., and Seltzer, M.M. Adaptation to a Garner, B. The Brief Treatment Cost Analysis Tool (TCAT-Lite) Spouse’s Disability by Parents of Adult Children with Mental Ill- for Substance Abuse Treatment: Reliability and Application. Al- ness or Developmental Disability. Psychiatric Services 63(11), pp. coholism Treatment Quarterly 30(4), pp. 377-396. (2012). 1118-1124. (2012).

Parish, S.L., Rose, R.A., Swaine, J.G., Dababnah, S., and Marya, E.T. Financial Wellbeing of Single, Working-age Mothers of Chil- dren with Developmental Disabilities. American Journal on Intel- lectual and Developmental Disabilities 117(5), pp. 400-412. (2012).

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Parish, S.L., Thomas, K.C., Rose, R., Kilany, M., and Shattuck, P.T. Anderson, M.B., Brown, D., and Jean, I. Time to Listen: Hearing State Medicaid Spending and Financial Burden of Families Raising People on the Receiving End of International Aid. Cambridge, Children with Autism. Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities MA: CDA Collaborative Learning Projects. (2012). 50(6), pp. 441-451. (2012). Kimkung, P. and Espinosa, C. The Gender Dimensions of Vio- lence and Conflict: The Case of Inter-Ethnic Land Conflict in Mt. Parish, S.L., Ghosh, S., and Swaine, J. Deprivation in Families of Elgon, Kenya. International Journal of Development and Conflict Disabled Children that Receive Child Supplemental Security In- 2(3). (2012). http://www.worldscientific.com/worldscinet/ijdc come Payments. Waltham, MA. Lurie Institute for Disability Pol- icy, Brandeis University. (2012). http://lurie.brandeis.edu/pdfs/ Sampath, R. Review of Economic Policy and Human Rights: Policy%20brief%20for%20SSI%20Presentation%20v%204% Holding Governments to Account, by Balakrishnan, R. and Diane 2009.08.2012-3.pdf Elson, D. (Eds.). Development in Practice 22(8), pp. 1149-1151. Parish, S.L., Thomas, K., Rose, R., Kilany, M., McConville, R., and (2012). Igdalsky, L. State Insurance Parity Legislation Reduces Financial INTERNATIONAL HEALTH Burden of Families with Children with Autism. Waltham, MA. Lurie Institute for Disability Policy, Brandeis University. (2012). Halasa, Y.A., Shepard, D.S., Wittenberg, E., Fonseca, D.M., Farajol- HEALTH lahi, A., Healy, S., Gaugler, R., Strickman, D., and Clark, G.G. Will- ingness-to-pay for an Area-wide Integrated Pest Management Altman, S.H. The Lessons of Medicare’s Prospective Payment Program to Control the Asian Tiger Mosquito in New Jersey. Jour- System Show that the Bundled Payment Program Faces Chal- nal of the American Mosquito Control Association 28(3), pp. 225– lenges. Health Affairs 31(9), pp. 1923-1930. (2012). http:// 236. (2012). content.healthaffairs.org/content/31/9/1923.abstract Liang, K., Meyers, K., Zeng, W., and Gui, X. Predictors of Elective Pregnancy Termination among Women Diagnosed with HIV Mechanic, R.E., Altman, S.H., and McDonough, J.E. The New Era during Pregnancy in Two Regions of China, 2004-2010. BJOG: of Payment Reform, Spending Targets, and Cost Containment in An International Journal of Obstetrics & Gynaecology. Published Massachusetts: Early Lessons for the Nation. Health Affairs 31(10). online November 2, 2012. (2012). http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1471- Published online September 17, 2012. (2012). http:// 0528.12012 content.healthaffairs.org/content/early/2012/09/17/ hlthaff.2012.0338 Lozano, R., Naghavi, M., Foreman, K., Lim, S., Shibuya, K., Halasa, Y., Shepard, D.S., et al. Global and Regional Mortality from 235 Mechanic, R.E. and Tompkins, C. Lessons Learned Preparing for Causes of Death for 20 Age Groups in 1990 and 2010: A Sys- Medicare Bundled Payments. New England Journal of Medicine tematic Analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010. 367(20), pp. 1873-1875. (2012). http://www.nejm.org/doi/ The Lancet 380(9859), pp. 2095-2128. (2012). http:// full/10.1056/NEJMp1210823. download.thelancet.com/pdfs/journals/lancet/ Mechanic, R.E. and Zinner, D.E. Many Large Medical Groups Will PIIS0140673612617280.pdf?id=40bade4753939e7f:- Need to Acquire New Skills and Tools to be Ready for Payment 75469f07:13bbd37e2c5:-9891356091175979 Reform. Health Affairs 31(9), pp. 1984-1992. (2012). http:// Murray, C.J.L., Vos, T., Lozano, R., Naghavi, M., Flaxman, A.D., content.healthaffairs.org/content/31/9/1984.full Michaud, C., Ezzati, M., Shibuya, K., Halasa, Y., Shepard, D.S., et al. Disability-adjusted Life Years (DALYS) for 291 Diseases and Injuries in 21 Regions, 1990-2010: A Systematic Analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010. The Lancet 380(9859), pp. 2197-2223. (2012). http://download.thelancet.com/pdfs/journals/ lancet/PIIS0140673612616894.pdf?id=40bade4753939e7f:- 75469f07:13bbd37e2c5:-9891356091175979 Shepard, D.S., Undurraga, E., Lees, R., Halasa, Y.A., Lum, L.C.S., and Ng, C. Use of Multiple Data Sources to Estimate the Economic Cost of Dengue Illness in Malaysia. American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene 87(5), pp. 796–805. (2012). http:// 2 www.ajtmh.org/content/87/5/796.full.pdf

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Vos, T., Flaxman, A.D., Naghavi, M., Lozano, R., Michaud, C., Lynch, L.M. The Evolving Nature of High Performance Work- Ezzati, M., Shibuya, K., Salomon, J.A., Halasa, Y., Shepard, D.S., et place Practices in the . Advances in the Economic al. Years Lived with Disability (YLDS) for 1160 Sequelae of 289 Analysis of Participatory and Labor-Managed Firms 13, pp. 207- Diseases and Injuries 1990-2010: A Systematic Analysis for the 235. (2012). Global Burden of Disease Study 2010. The Lancet 380(9859), pp. 2163–2196. (2012). http://download.thelancet.com/pdfs/journals/ MANAGEMENT lancet/PIIS0140673612617292.pdf?id=40bade4753939e7f:- 75469f07:13bbd37e2c5:-9891356091175979 McLaughlin, T.A. Time, Task, Turf – Board Culture. NonProfit Zeng, W., Cros, M., Wright, K.D., and Times 26(12), p. 11. (2012). Shepard, D.S. Impact of Performance-based McLaughlin, T.A. Sell Systems, Not Programs. NonProfit Times 26 Financing on Primary Health Care Services in (14). (2012). Haiti. Health Policy and Planning. Published online October 28, 2012. (2012). http:// McLaughlin, T.A. Why It’s Hard to Grow. NonProfit Times 26(16), dx.doi.org/10.1093/heapol/czs099 p. 14. (2012). Zeng, W., Undurraga, A.E., Nyberg, C., McLaughlin, T.A. Budget Watch. NonProfit Times 26(17), p. 13. Eisenberg, D., Parida, S., Zycherman, A., Mag- (2012). vanjav, O., Reyes-Garcia, V., Tanner, S., and Godoy, R. Sibling Composition during Child- hood and Adult Blood Pressure among Native Amazonians in Bolivia. Economics and Human Biology. (2012). Published online September 11, 2012. http:// dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ehb.2012.08.002

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Janet Boguslaw (PI) Peter Kreiner (PI), Robert Dunigan “Asset Field and Funders” “Evaluation of Worcester Initiative for Supported Reentry Funder: Asset Funders Network (WISR)” The Institute on Assets and Social Policy (IASP) will develop a 3- Funder: Health Foundation of Central Massachusetts; subcon- to 5-page document to articulate the purpose and intended tract to Brandeis from Advocates, Inc. outcomes of the asset-building field to funders who do not cur- After a planning year and pilot project year, WISR is carrying rently identify their work as an asset-building strategy and will out full implementation of system-level changes to provide co- reinforce the value and purpose of the current work for those ordinated services for prisoners reentering the greater Worces- funders that do identify themselves as asset funders. ter community. The researchers will evaluate this implementa- tion, tracking participants and a comparison group for up to 3 Thomas Shapiro (PI), Janet Boguslaw, Tatjana Meschede, Han- years and assessing system-level changes. nah Thomas “Closing the Racial Wealth Gap and Building Economic Security” Peter Kreiner and Cindy Thomas (Co-PIs) Funder: The Ford Foundation “Intergovernmental Personnel Assignment (IPA)” This grant enables IASP to continue to build its ongoing work of Funder: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) research and policy development on the racial wealth gap and SAMHSA has funded nine state prescription drug monitoring economic security. This funds a third year of work on this pro- programs (PDMPs) to develop or improve the interoperability of ject, focused on the production of written work, including re- PDMP data with other PDMPs, with in-state health information search briefs and a Color of Assets Forum that will impact pro- exchanges and electronic health record systems, and/or with in- gram and policy development to close the racial wealth gap state pharmacy dispensing software. The CDC is evaluating this and build economic security for vulnerable families. project and has hired the researchers to lead the evaluation BEHAVIORAL HEALTH team. Mary Jo Larson (PI), Margot Davis, Robert Dunigan, Deborah Mary Brolin (PI) Garnick, Margaret Lee, Laura S. Lorenz, Jennifer Perloff, Grant “Evaluation of the Trauma- Informed Care Enhancement to the Ritter Ayer Concord Drug Court Program” “Department of Defense TEAMS IDIQ” Funder: Center for Substance Abuse Treatment, Substance Funder: DOD/TRICARE Management Activity; subcontract to Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) Brandeis from AXIOM Resource Management The PI will evaluate the Trauma-Informed Care Enhancement The researchers will respond to task orders that request policy to the Ayer Concord Drug Court Program to assess the impact analysis and research support on pressing deployment-related of evidence-based, gender-responsive and trauma-informed and other health system problems. care on drug court clients’ behaviors and outcomes. CHILDREN, YOUTH AND FAMILIES Researchers within the Institute for Behavioral Health will con- duct a process evaluation to assess implementation and fidelity and an outcomes evaluation to assess substance use and crimi- Cathy Burack (PI), Alan Melchior, Larry Bailis nal justice outcomes. “The GreenLight Fund Social Innovation Fund Evaluation Assis- tance/Support” Mary Brolin (PI), Margot Davis, Robert Dunigan Funder: Corporation for National and Community Service, Social “Evaluation of the Treatment Enhancement for Adolescents in Innovation Fund (SIF); subcontract to Brandeis from the Massachusetts (TEAM)” GreenLight Fund Funder: Center for Substance Abuse Treatment, SAMHSA; sub- The GreenLight Fund works with local communities to proac- contract to Brandeis from Massachusetts Department of Public tively attract and support relevant national programs to close Health, Bureau of Substance Abuse Services the achievement and opportunity gap for youth. In , Phila- The researchers will evaluate the Treatment Enhancement for delphia, and the San Francisco Bay area, the GreenLight Fund SIF Adolescents in Massachusetts project to assess whether the initiative will impact the lives of 20,000 low-income children by initiative increases access to and quality of treatment for adoles- improving school persistence and academic achievement, in- cents ages 12-18 with substance use and co-occurring substance creasing high school graduation and GED attainment, and in- use and mental health disorders. creasing college access, credit accumulation and degree com- pletion. The Center for Youth and Communities (CYC) will pro- 4 vide evaluation support and technical assistance to GreenLight and its subgrantees over the course of the 5-year project.

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Alan Melchior (PI) Robert Mechanic (PI), Jeffrey Prottas, Darren Zinner “Evaluation of the 2012-13 FIRST® LEGO® League (FLL) Program” “Evaluation of Carefirst Patient-Centered Medical Home Pro- Funder: US FIRST, Inc. gram” CYC will evaluate the FIRST® LEGO® League (FLL) program, an Funder: Carefirst Blue Cross Blue Shield of Maryland after-school robotics competition for middle school-aged youth. In this evaluation the researchers are working with a team from FIRST is a national nonprofit that operates four after-school ro- Harvard Medical School to assess the impact of a new program botics competitions for elementary, middle and high school aged that aims to reduce the rate of health care spending by offering youth. The FLL study is intended to update similar FLL evaluations new financial incentives and care management support to conducted by CYC in 2003 and 2008. groups of primary care physicians. The research team will con- duct a series of site visits and interviews with practices partici- DISABILITIES pating in the program as well as a statistical analysis of Carefirst Blue Cross Blue Shield claims data.

Lindsay Demers (PI), Marji Erickson Warfield Palmira Santos (PI) “Impact of Early Intervention on Development Pathways from “Safety Culture and Patient Outcomes” Preschool to Adulthood” Funder: Ascension Health System Funder: Noonan Memorial Research Fund This project will evaluate the culture of safety at seventy diverse The Early Intervention Collaborative Study (EICS) is a longitudinal hospitals to determine the role in patient outcomes specific to investigation of children with early identified developmental dis- hospital-acquired conditions and avoidable readmissions. abilities (Down syndrome, motor impairment, or developmental delay) and their families from the time they entered EI services, INTERNATIONAL HEALTH through the end of EI service participation at age 3, and from age 3 through age 23. The specific aims of the proposed study are to (1) utilize the EICS data to assess the impact of EI services Diana Bowser (PI), Danielle Fuller, Adeyemi Okunogbe on child development and parent adaptation pathways from “Caribbean Results-based Financing Program” Funder: World Bank preschool to early adulthood; (2) conduct focus groups with EI The aim of the project is to conduct an in-depth review of the providers and families to review the pathways findings and build health systems in Dominica and Saint Lucia to identify areas for consensus around establishing evidence-based guidelines for EI piloting a results-based program of financing in these countries. service delivery; and (3) interview state EI officials to discuss the Country visits were made to Dominica and Saint Lucia in No- implications of the pathways findings on reviewing eligibility vember and a final report is being submitted to the World Bank standards, assessing the use of different system management in 2013. tools, and developing greater integration with other service de- livery systems. Diana Bowser (PI), Wu Zeng, Donald Shepard, Joanne Beswick, Gary Gaumer, Marion Cros HEALTH “Bangladesh NGO Health Service Delivery Project” Funder: USAID/Pathfinder Jennifer Gaudet (PI), Andrea Acevedo, Laurie Nsiah-Jefferson, The Institute for Global Health and Development will be assisting Christine Bishop, Grant Ritter, Candi Ramos, Yasmin Abbas, Hen- Pathfinder/USAID in assessing the financial stability of 26 NGOs rietta Awo Osei-Anto under the Smiling Sun Franchise Program in Bangladesh in order “Improving Nursing Home Compare to Meet the Needs of Mi- to set up performance-based contracts that focus on equity, nority Populations” efficiency, quality and access to care. Funder: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) This project will identify differences in nursing home information Donald Shepard (PI), Wu Zeng preferences across race/ethnicity. The team will also develop “Capacity Development for Monitoring and Evaluation Unit of the Ukrainian AIDS Center to Improve PEPFAR (President’s Emer- population-specific indicators of nursing home quality and test gency Plan for AIDS Relief) Planning” them for statistical feasibility and stability, as well as value and Funder: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; subcontract relevance among potential users of Nursing Home Compare. to Brandeis from Westat The overall goal of the project is to identify ways in which the The project team, working with Heller graduate Oleksandr Po- content of the Nursing Home Compare report cards can be kanevych, will plan and run training sessions on spreadsheets for improved to ensure it meets the needs of members of racial and the staff of the AIDS program in the Ukraine. ethnic minority groups. 5

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Agrigoroaei, S. and Lachman, M.E. “Stress Less and Remember Dunigan, R., Ritter, G., Panas, L, Lee, M., Huber, A., Horgan, C., More: Anxiety Gets under the Skull.” Poster presented at the Garnick, D., Campbell, K. and Acevedo, A. “Engagement in Out- Gerontological Society of America Sixty-Fifth Annual Scientific patient Substance Abuse Treatment and Employment Out- Meeting, San Diego, CA, November 2012. comes.” Presented at Addiction Health Services Research (AHSR) 2012 Conference, New York, NY, October 2012. Agrigoroaei, S., Lee, A., and Lachman, M.E. “Looking as Young as You Feel: Financial Stress Can Make You Look and Feel Older.” Eadie, J. and Kreiner, P. “Uses of Prescription Drug Monitoring Poster presented at the Gerontological Society of America Sixty Program (PDMP) Data and PDMP Best Practices: With Surveil- -Fifth Annual Scientific Meeting, San Diego, CA, November 2012. lance, Prevention, and Evaluation Examples.” Presented at Asso- ciation of State and Tribal Health Officials (ASTHO) webinar for Bookman, A. “Reducing Food and Economic Insecurity among states participating with ASTHO to address prescription drug Elders: Assessing Community-based Models for Change.” Pre- abuse. sented at the Georontological Society of America Sixty-Fifth Annual Scientific Meeting, San Diego, CA, November 2012. Garnick, D. Symposium chair, “Using Process Performance Measures For Substance Use Disorders: Linkage to Outcomes, Bookman, A. “Innovative Models for ‘Aging-in-Community’: Re- Unintended Consequences and Specification Issues.” AHSR 2012 thinking Design and Planning for an Aging Population.” Presented Conference, New York, NY, October 2012. at “The Good Old Days: Design for the Age-Friendly Environ- ment,” conference sponsored by the Harvard Graduate School Garnick, G., Horgan, C., Acevedo, A., Campbell, K., Dunigan, R., of Design, Cambridge, MA, September 2012. Huber, A., Lambert-Wacey, D., Lee, M., Panas, L.., Reynolds, M., Ritter, G., and Wright, D. “The Association of a Performance Gruenewald, T.L., Lachman, M.E., and Seeman, T. “Lifetime Measure for Alcohol and Other Drug Treatment Engagement Socioeconomic Adversity and Allostatic Load: Exploring with Subsequent Criminal Justice Outcomes.” Presented at Vulnerability in the Off-diagonals.” Presented at the AHSR 2012 Conference, New York, NY, October 2012. Gerontological Society of America Sixty-Fifth Annual Scientific Meeting, San Diego, CA, November 2012. Hodgkin, D. Symposium chair, “Substance Abuse Services and the Federal Parity Law.” AHSR 2012 Conference, New York, NY, Leutz, W. and Schneider, N. “Massachusetts Healthy Aging Col- October 2012. laborative - Update and Vision.” Presented at “Healthy Aging in Massachusetts,” conference sponsored by the Massachusetts Hodgkin, D., Garnick, D., Stewart, M., Reif, S., Merrick, E., Hor- Health Policy Forum, Newton, MA, December 2012. gan, C., Quinn, A., and Creedon, T. “Parity Legislation and Health Plans’ Management of Substance Abuse and Mental Health Polito, M.J. and Lachman, M.E. “Older Drivers: Road Threat or Treatment.” Presented at AHSR 2012 Conference, New York, Stereotype Threat?” Poster presented at the Gerontological So- NY, October 2012. ciety of America Sixty-Fifth Annual Scientific Meeting, San Horgan, C. “Improving the Quality of Addiction Treatment Diego, CA, November 2012. through Provider Pay-for-Performance.” Presented at Health ASSETS AND INEQUALITIES Policy and Management Seminar Series, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, MA, November 2012. Boguslaw, J. and Santos, J. “The Public Value of Economic Op- Horgan, C. “Substance Abuse Issues in the United States.” In- portunity: An Inter-Sectoral Approach through Diversity Work- vited presentation, Tokyo University of Social Welfare, Tokyo, force Development.” Presented at “Creating Public Value in a Japan, September 2012. Multi-Sector, Shared-Power World,” conference sponsored by the Center for Integrative Leadership, University of Minnesota, Horgan, C., Garnick, D., Hodgkin, D., Merrick, E., Reif, S., Stewart, Minneapolis, MN, September 2012. M., Creedon, T., and Quinn, A. “Screening for Alcohol Problems in U.S. Private Health Plans.” Presented at International Society Shapiro, T. “Going Deeper: Grassroots Responses to the Racial for Biomedical Research on Alcoholism, Sapporo, Japan, Sep- Wealth Gap.” Presented at “Assets Matter: A Bridge to Eco- tember 2012. nomic Security,” conference sponsored by the Illinois Asset Kreiner, P. “Prescription Monitoring Programs: An Important Building Group, Champaign, IL, November 2012. New Area for Evaluation and a Vastly Underutilized Data Re- source.” Presented at American Evaluation Association Annual 6 Conference, Minneapolis, MN, October 2012.

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Larson, M.J., Mohr, B., Lorenz, L.S., Adams, R.S., Wooten, N.R., Acevedo-Garcia, D. “The Health of Hispanic Populations in the Funk, W., Merrick, E.L., Jeffery, D.D., and Williams, T.V. “Can We United States: Opportunities for Improving Health Equity.” Pre- Improve Linkage of Soldiers to Post Deployment Alcohol Use sented at the Aetna Foundation convening of national Hispanic Assessment and Treatment Services?” health organizations, Hartford, CT, October 2012.  Poster presented at AHSR 2012 Conference, New York, NY, October 2012. Acevedo-Garcia, D. “MacArthur Foundation Research Network  Poster presented at Association for Medical Education and on How Housing Matters for Families with Children.” Presented Research in Substance Abuse (AMERSA) 36th Annual Na- at the How Housing Matters Research Convening, sponsored tional Conference, Bethesda, MD, November 2012. by the MacArthur Foundation, Chicago, IL, October 2012.

Merrick, E.L., Garnick, D., Hodgkin, D., Horgan, C., Panas, L., Burack, C., Gelmon, S.B., Jordan, C., and Gust, S.A. “Innovative Ritter, G., Ryan, M., Saitz, R., and Blow, F. “Alcohol Consumption Practices in Peer Review: Expanding the Boundaries of Commu- Among Older Adults with Chronic Medical Conditions.” Pre- nity Engaged Scholarship.” Presented at the International Asso- sented at AHSR 2012 Conference, New York, NY, October ciation for Research on Service Learning and Community En- 2012. gagement 2012 Annual Conference, Baltimore, MD, September 2012. Merrick, E.L., Horgan, C., Garnick, D., Hodgkin, D., Reif, S., Stew- art, M., Matteucci, A.M., Zolotusky, G., Quinn, A., and Creedon, Burack, C., Melchior, A., Furco, A., and Saltmarsh, J. “Exploring T. “Managing and Coordinating Substance Abuse Treatment in Secondary Data Sources for Research on Community Engage- Private Health Plans.” Poster presented at AHSR 2012 Confer- ment in K-12 and Higher Education.” Presented at the Interna- ence, New York, NY, October 2012. tional Association for Research on Service-Learning and Com- munity Engagement 2012 Annual Conference, Baltimore, MD, Reif, S. Symposium chair, “Addiction Pharmacotherapy: What do September 2012. We Know about Access?” AHSR 2012 Conference, New York, NY, October 2012. Joshi, P.K. “The Health Impact of Subsidized Housing: A System- atic Review of the Section 8 Voucher Program.” Presented at Reif, S., Horgan, C., Garnick, D., Hodgkin, D., Merrick, E.L., Stew- the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management 2012 art, M., Quinn, A., and Matteucci, A.M. “Access to Addiction Fall Research Conference, Baltimore, MD, November 2012. Pharmacotherapy in Private Health Plans: Preliminary Results from a National Survey.” Melchior, A., Piñeros Shields, A., and Lanspery, S. “The PSE Re-  Presented at AHSR 2012 Conference, New York, NY, Oc- porting System: Using Data to Perform Program Practice.” Pre- tober 2012. sented at the 2012 National Schools Initiative Postsecondary  Presented at AMERSA 36th Annual National Conference, Education Fall Conference, sponsored by YouthBuild USA, Den- Bethesda, MD, November 2012. ver, CO, October 2012.

Reif, S., Horgan, C., and Quinn, A. “Health Plan Screening.” DISABILITIES Poster presented at AMERSA 36th Annual National Conference, Bethesda, MD, November 2012. Parish, S. “Deprivation in Families of Disabled Children that Re- Torres, M. “Understanding Counselors’ Perceptions of the Work ceive Child Supplemental Security Income Payments.” Presented Environment: Detecting Variation between and within Facilities.” at “Increasing Economic Security and Opportunity for Low- Poster presented at AHSR 2012 Conference, New York, NY, Income Children with Disabilities,” conference sponsored by the October 2012. Center for American Progress, Washington, DC, September 2012. CHILDREN, YOUTH AND FAMILIES Parish, S. “Hardship and Deprivation among Children with Dis- abilities Receiving Supplemental Security Income.” Presented at Acevedo-Garcia, D. “Child Health: Social Determinants of the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management 2012 Health and Rights.” Presented at the Institute on Human Rights Fall Research Conference, Baltimore, MD, November 2012. and the Social Determinants of Health, Program on Human Rights and the Global Economy and the Program on Health Pol- icy and Law, , Boston, MA, November 2012. 7

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Altman, S. “The Future of the U.S. Health Care System.” Santos, P. “Healing without Harm.” Preliminary results of five site  Presented at Clinical Scholars Symposium, , labor and delivery unexpected outcomes and malpractice reso- Medford, MA, October 2012. lution AHRQ study. Presented at Healing without Harm Study  Presented at the annual Health Policy and the Practice of All Sites Meeting, sponsored by Ascension Health, Dallas, TX, Medicine Interclerkship, University of Massachusetts Medi- December 2012. cal School, Worcester, MA, October 2012. INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT  Presented at Clinical Scholars Program, University of Penn-

sylvania, Philadelphia, PA, October 2012.  Presented at the Robert Wood Johnson Program, Yale Uni- Espinosa, C. “Gender Equity, Health and Cultural Tension in the versity, New Haven, CT, October 2012. Amazon.” Invited presentation at the Woodrow Wilson Center, co-sponsored by the Global Sustainability and Resilience Pro- Altman, S. “The Future U.S. Health Care System: How Will It gram, USAID, Washington DC, October 2012. Presentation avail- Respond to New Fiscal Pressures?” able at http://www.wilsoncenter.org/event/gender-equity-health  Presented at the Colorado Hospital Association Annual -and-cultural-tensions-the-amazon#field_speakers Meeting, Vail, CO, September 2012. Holcombe, S. “Aid Effectiveness and Non-Traditional Donors in  Presented at the Huron Healthcare Conference, sponsored Africa: The Chinese Example.” Presented at the Development by the Huron Consulting Group, Las Vegas, NV, September Management Network meeting, American University, Washing- 2012. ton, DC, October 2012. Altman, S. “The Lessons of Medicare’s Prospective Payment System Show that the Bundled Payment System Faces Chal- Sampath, R. “A Comparison of the Hermeneutic Strategies of lenges.” Presented at Health Affairs Press Conference for its Ricoeur and Rawls on Global Justice.” Presented at the Society September 2012 Cost Containment Issue, Washington, DC, Sep- for Ricoeur Studies Conference, Rochester, NY, November 2012. tember 2012. Sampath, R. “Morality, Ethics and Justice in Hegel's Phenomenol- Altman, S. “Obama’s Health Reform Plan.” Presented at the ogy of Spirit as an Antipode to Rawls's A Theory of Justice.” MaineHealth Board of Trustees 2012 Board Education Forum, Presented at the Northern New England Philosophical Associa- Portland, ME, September 2012. tion Annual Conference, Department of Philosophy, University of Massachusetts, Lowell, MA, October 2012. Carrow, G.M. and Thomas, C.P. “Enabling E-prescribing and En- hanced Management of Controlled Medications.” Presented at INTERNATIONAL HEALTH “A National Web Conference on E-prescribing: Overcoming Barriers with Successful Implementation Techniques,” webinar Bowser, D. “Pay for Performance in the Belize Health Reform.” sponsored by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Poster presented at the Association for Public Policy Analysis September 2012. and Management Fall 2012 Research Conference, Baltimore, Mechanic, R. “Large Medical Groups Will Need to Acquire New MD, November 2012. Skills and Tools to be Ready for Payment Reform.” Presented at Fonseca, D.M., Farajollahi, A., Heary, S., Unlu, I., Crepeau, T., Bart- “Payment Reform to Achieve Better Health Care,” conference lett-Healy, K., Gaugler, R., Shepard, D.S., Halasa, Y.A., Strickman, sponsored by Health Affairs, Washington, DC, September 2012. D., and Clark, G.G. “Area-wide Management of the Asian Tiger Mechanic, R. “The New Era of Payment Reform, Spending Tar- Mosquito, Adedes Albopictus: Lessons Learned.” Poster pre- gets and Cost Containment in Massachusetts: Early Lessons for sented at the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hy- the Nation.” Presented at “Money Changes Everything: Creating giene (ASTMH) 61st Annual Meeting. Atlanta, GA, November Payment Reform in New York State,” conference sponsored by 2012. the New York State Health Foundation, New York, NY, Novem- Ghosh, S. “Social Ecological Model of Physical Activity among ber 2012. Middle- and Older-age Adults in India.” Presented at the Geron- Mechanic, R. “Risk Contracting and Operating Strategies in Or- tological Society of America Sixty-Fifth Annual Scientific Meet- ganized Delivery System.” Presented at the National Account- ing, San Diego, CA, November 2012. able Care Organization Congress, sponsored by Integrated Healthcare Association, Los Angeles, CA, October 2012. 8

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Halasa, Y.A., Shepard, D.S., et al. “Effectiveness of the Area-wide Undurraga, E.A., Halasa, Y.A., and Shepard, D.S. “Burden of Den- Pest Management Program to Control the Asian Tiger Mosquito gue in Southeast Asia: Estimates from a Systematic Analysis Us- in New Jersey: Evidence from Household Surveys.” Poster pre- ing Expansion Factors.” Poster presented at the ASTMH 61st sented at the ASTMH 61st Annual Meeting, Atlanta, GA, No- Annual Meeting, Atlanta, GA, November 2012. vember 2012. Zeng, W., Shepard, D.S., Cros, M., and Wright, K.D. “The Impact Shepard, D.S. “Dengue in Asia: Cost of Illness and Cost- of the Performance-based Financing on Primary Health Care effectiveness of Vaccination and Vector Control.” Presented via Delivery in Haiti.” Presented at the ASTMH 61st Annual Meeting, videoconference at Regional Meeting on Dengue Prevention Atlanta, GA, November 2012. and Control, National Institute of Immunology, New Delhi, India, September 2012. LABOR MARKETS Shepard, D.S. “Under-reporting Initiative: Status Update and Next Steps.” Presented at the 4th Dengue v2V (vaccine to Vaccina- Lynch, L.M. Chair and Discussant, Conference to Celebrate the tion) Steering Committee Meeting sponsored by Dengue v2V Centennial of the U.S. Department of Labor, Washington, DC, Group, Paris, France, September 2012. November 2012.

Shepard, D.S., Betancourt-Cravioto, M., Gubler, D.J., Guzman, Lynch, L.M. “Training in Business Enterprises and Workforce M.G., Halstead, S.B., Harris, E., Kuri-Morales, P., Mudin, R-N., Competencies.” Presented at the Inter-American Development Siqueira, J.G., Tapia-Conyer, R., and Undurraga, E.A. “Economic Bank, Washington, DC, September 2012. Cost and Disease Burden of Dengue in Mexico: Adjusting for Under-reporting.” Presented at the ASTMH 61st Annual Meeting, Lynch, L.M. and Hill, A. “Election 2012: The Role of Race, Gender Atlanta, GA, November 2012. and Economics.” Presented at Brandeis House, New York, NY, October 2012. Shepard, D.S., Glaser, E., Olang, G., Bayoh, N., Desai, M., Ki- hombo, A., Odhambo, F., Gimnig, J., Hamel, M.J., Were, V., MANAGEMENT Otieno, P., Laserson, K., and Kariuki, S. “Cost-effectiveness of Insecticide Treated Wall Liner for Malaria Prevention in Rural Gittell, J.H. “The Southwest Airlines Way for European Airlines.” Western Kenya.” Keynote address presented at Flanders Synergy’s Congress 2012, st  Presented at the ASTMH 61 Annual Meeting, Atlanta, GA, Brussels, Belgium, October 2012. November 2012.  Presented at “The Efficacy of Insecticide-treated Durable McLaughlin, T.A. “The CFO of the Future.” Presented at JMT Wall Liners (ITWL) as a Method for Malaria Control in En- Consulting’s Innovate Conference, Philadelphia, PA, October demic Rural Tanzania,” start-up workshop, Dar es Salaam, 2012. Tanzania, December 2012. McLaughlin, T.A. “Considerations in Building or Strengthening Shepard, D.S., Halasa, Y.A., Wittenberg, E., Fonseca, D., Farajol- Organizational Strategic Alliances.” Presented at Southern New lahi, A., Healy, S., Gaugler, R., Bartlett-Healy, K., Strickman, D., England Community Action Conference, Providence, RI, Sep- and Clark, G.G. “Economic Evaluation of Area-wide Pest Man- tember 2012. agement Program to Control Asian Tiger Mosquito in New Jer- sey.” Presented at the ASTMH 61st Annual Meeting, Atlanta, GA, McLaughlin, T.A. “Practical Collaboration Options for Nonprof- November 2012. its.” Presented at the Massachusetts Providers’ Council, Boston, MA, November 2012. Shepard, D.S., Undurraga, E.A., Gutierrez, J.M., and Saturno, P.J. “Value and Impact of International Hospital Accreditation in McLaughlin, T.A. “U-Turn at the Cliff: Turnaround Strategies for Spain.” Presented at the International Society for Quality in Nonprofits.” Presented at Connecticut Nonprofits’ Nonprofit Health Care Annual Conference, Geneva, Switzerland, October Financial Summit, Norwalk, CT, November 2012. 2012. PUBLIC FINANCE Shepard, D.S., Undurraga, E.A., and Halasa, Y.A. “The Economic and Disease Burden of Dengue in Southeast Asia.” Poster pre- Tannenwald, R. “How Do State and Local Policy Makers and sented at the ASTMH 61st Annual Meeting, Atlanta, GA, No- the Media Get ‘Objective’ Tax Policy Analysis?” Moderator, vember 2012. 9 National Tax Association Annual Conference on Taxation, Providence, RI, November 2012.

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Ann Bookman was invited by the Mayor’s Office of Strategic Subharati Ghosh and her paper, “Adaptation to a Spouse’s Dis- Planning and Community Development in Somerville, MA, to be ability by Parents of Adult Children with Mental Illness or Devel- the keynote speaker at a public symposium on housing and opmental Disability” (Psychiatric Services Vol. 63, No. 11, 2012), planning for the aging population. She presented “Housing De- were the subject of a December 14, 2012 BrandeisNOW article, sign Principles for Healthy Aging: Placing Home in a Community “Impact of caring for adult child with disability studied.” Context” in Somerville on October 18, 2012. Susan Parish presented a briefing for House Ways & Means ASSETS AND INEQUALITIES Committee professional staff on Supplemental Security Income for children with disabilities in September 2012. The Institute on Assets and Social Policy’s (IASP) work on Senior HEALTH Economic Security was cited in an October 1, 2012 article, “Federal Report Calls for Cuts, Ignores Americans’ Retirement- On December 13, 2012, Stuart Altman participated in Massachu- Security Crisis,” by New America Media. http:// setts State Representative Jay Kaufman’s public policy forum, news.newamericamedia.org/news/view_article.html? article_id=022e0212c11aa842b627350af87c090f Open House, entitled, “Health Care Reform: What’s Happening? What’s Next?” The event took place in Lexington and also fea- Tatjana Meschede was interviewed and IASP’s work on the U.S. tured Aron Boros, Executive Director of the Center for Health middle class was cited in a September 6, 2012 BBC News article, Information and Analysis. During the forum, Altman addressed “Democratic convention: A question of inequality.” http:// the work of agencies, the role of new cost containment legisla- www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-19494471 tion, and the implementation of federal health care reform as affecting the health care system. BEHAVIORAL HEALTH “Stuart Altman’s Huge Challenge: Bring Down Mass. Health Costs,” an interview conducted by WBUR’s Martha Bebinger, Mary Jo Larson was a member of the Institute of Medicine working in partnership with Kaiser Health News and NPR, was Committee that published the 2012 report, “Substance Use Dis- published on November 18, 2012. The interview focused on orders in the U.S. Armed Forces.” Washington, DC: The National health care cost containment and Altman’s new role as chair- Academies Press, http://www.nap.edu/openbook.php? man of the board of Massachusetts’ Health Policy Commission. record_id=13441 http://www.kaiserhealthnews.org/Stories/2012/November/19/ Mary Jo Larson spoke at Brandeis’ Graduate School of Arts and stuart-altman-massachusetts-health-costs.aspx Sciences Career Panel For Humanities on October 24, 2012. On October 11, 2012, Stuart Altman commented on the myths and facts of health care reform discussed in the Massachusetts Laura Lorenz spoke on brain injury rehabilitation policy at senatorial debate on WBUR’s “Brown-Warren Debate Fact “Understanding Brain Injury: Neuroscience, Rehabilitation Policy, Check.” and Lived Experience,” an educational program sponsored by the Brandeis Neuroscience Club in September 2012. Other WBUR’s CommonHealth blog of September 27, 2012, “Snapshot speakers included Arthur Wingfield, Nancy Lurie Marks Profes- of Obama, Romney Care From Guys Who Were There,” fea- sor of Neuroscience and Chair of the Neuroscience Program at tured Stuart Altman’s comments on health care reform and the Brandeis; and Peggi Sue Lebba, Waltham resident, who dis- 2012 election. cussed lived experience with traumatic brain injury. The pro- gram was also presented at Brookhaven, a lifecare living facility Stuart Altman was quoted in The (Cleveland) Plain Dealer’s Sep- in Lexington, MA, in November 2012. Professor Emeritus David tember 22, 2012 article regarding changes in health care delivery Gil welcomed and introduced the program at Brookhaven. systems, “Medical Billing, a World of Hurt: Costs Rise for Pa- tients on High Deductible Insurance Plans as Hospital Health Centers Replace Private Practice Doctors.” Robert Mechanic presented “Payment Reform and Cost Con- tainment in Massachusetts” to the Rhode Island Health Care Reform Commission on December 20, 2012.

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On November 15, 2012, Robert Mechanic was interviewed by Lisa Lynch was one of four economists from local universities New England Journal of Medicine Managing Editor Steven Mor- who wrote op-eds for a November 11, 2012, feature in the Bos- rissey about the challenges and potential benefits of Medicare's ton Globe, “If We Were in Charge.” The pieces offered advice new bundled-payment program. The interview (listen here) coin- to newly-reelected President Obama on how to get the econ- cided with the release of Mechanic’s November 15, 2012, per- omy moving. Lynch wrote, “Any effort to tackle the fiscal deficit spective paper in the New England Journal of Medicine, entitled that does not...address the opportunity deficit will undermine the “Lessons Learned Preparing for Medicare Bundled Payments.” long-term potential of our economy.”

Robert Mechanic was the featured guest on WNPR Radio’s MANAGEMENT October 21, 2012 Conversations on Health Care show about the recent Massachusetts health care cost control legislation. http:// Jody Hoffer Gittell traveled to Denmark in www.chcradio.com/wnprepisodes.php September 2012 and met with colleagues in On September 9, 2012, Robert Mechanic spoke with the the Capital Region and the Zealand Region Worcester Telegram and Gazette about hospital financial incen- who are using relational coordination to tives to invest in robotic surgery programs. streamline work and create networks of care that center around the patient. The Danish Cindy Thomas wrote a column for the New York Times’ Room Regions—entities that deliver health and hu- for Debate, “A Better Path than Undertreatment,” on September man services throughout Denmark—are the 17, 2012. http://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2012/09/16/ newest partners in the Relational Coordina- getting-your-prescriptions-without-a-prescription/nonprescription tion Research Collaborative, of which Gittell is -drugs-could-address-chronic-conditions the executive director.

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Donald Shepard, Wu Zeng, and colleagues presented “Mise à Claudia Jacobs published a blog post, “Twas the Night After jour sur l’évaluation et l’assistance technique” (Updates on Eva- Christmas—and Before the New Year,” on the Huffington Post luation and Technical Assistance) to the Ministry of Health and on December 20, 2012. In the post, she pondered the future of Population, Brazzaville, Republic of Congo, December 2012. tax deductions for charitable giving. http:// www.huffingtonpost.com/claudia-jacobs/charitable-tax- Wu Zeng was interviewed by LiveScience about his study in deductions_b_2341475.html Economics and Human Biology that linked having a younger sibling and higher adult blood pressure. The story was reported PUBLIC FINANCE in media around the world, including Fox News, the Daily Mail, the Daily Telegraph, the Huffington Post, News Australia, and the Korea Herald. http://www.foxnews.com/health/2012/11/19/ Robert Tannenwald was quoted in an October 5, 2012, Variety how-siblings-affect-your-heart-health/ Magazine article by Todd Longwell, on the pros and cons of film tax credits.

Robert Tannenwald was quoted in a December 12, 2012 article in State Tax Notes Today, “Massachusetts Misclassification Task Force Finds $11 Million in Unreported Wages,” on the extent of the misclassification.

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HONORS / AWARDS March 2013

On November 1, 2012, Stuart Altman was appointed by Gover- Constance Horgan was named to the nor Deval Patrick to chair the Board of the Health Policy Com- Managed Behavioral Healthcare Organi- mission as part of Massachusetts’ implementation of a health zation Advisory Committee of the Na- care cost containment law passed in July 2012. The new agency tional Committee on Quality Assurance, is charged with monitoring the reform of health care delivery in Washington, DC. the Commonwealth as well as improving payment systems, Constance Horgan is a member of the quality, and transparency in health care. Stakeholder Measure Selection Work- http://www.mass.gov/governor/pressoffice/ group, National Behavior Health Quality pressreleases/2012/20121101-altman-to-chair-health-policy- Framework, of the Substance Abuse and commission-board.html Mental Health Services Administration, Larry Bailis welcomed about 1100 youth and adults to the Ameri- Rockville, MD. Corps Opening Day “swearing in ceremonies” on November 9, Sajed Kamal received the “Rachel Carson Award” from Massa- 2012, in his role as Chair of the Board of the Massachusetts Ser- chusetts Interfaith Power & Light (www.mipandl.org), for over 25 vice Alliance, at the Reggie Lewis Track and Athletic Center in years of working to educate the world about the importance of Boston. transitioning from nuclear-fossil fuels to renewable energy sources. The award was given on October 31, 2012, at the 10th Constance Horgan was appointed to the workgroup on quality anniversary celebration of MIP&L, held at First Church Unitarian measure development of care coordination for children with Universalist, Jamaica Plain, MA. behavioral health needs, part of the Children's Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act (CHIPRA) demonstration grant to Sharon Reif has been named a member of the C4 Recovery the Massachusetts Child Health Quality Coalition (CHQC). Solutions Substance Abuse Outcomes Planning Group.

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HONORS / AWARDS PRESENTATIONS

Rachel Sayko Adams was selected for a 2012 New Investigator Benenson, J. and Moldow, E. “Pay it Forward: Engaging College Travel Award from the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Students through Experiential Philanthropy Courses.” Presented Alcoholism to attend the 2012 Addiction Health Services Re- at the Association for Research on Nonprofit Organization and search Conference (AHSR) in October in . At the Voluntary Action (ARNOVA) conference, “Re-examining Philan- conference she gave an oral presentation based on her disserta- thropy: Exploring Root Concepts for Our Field(s),” Indianapolis, tion findings, entitled “Frequent Binge Drinking After Combat- IN, November 2012. Acquired Traumatic Brain Injury among Active Duty Personnel with a Past Year Combat Deployment.” Benenson, J. and Moldow, E. “Pay it Forward: A Hands-On Ap- proach to Student Philanthropy.” Presented at the International Taletha Derrington was selected as the winner of the 2011-2012 Association for Research on Service-learning and Community Straussner/Journal of Social Work Practice in the Addictions Engagement (IARSLCE) conference, “Connected Knowing,” Bal- Doctoral Dissertation Award for her dissertation, titled “Drug- timore, MD, September 2012. Exposed Young Children and Early Intervention: What Influences Croft, B. “Self-directed Services and Supports in the Addictions Service Engagement?” The members of the Award Committee Context.” Poster presented at the Addiction Health Services felt that this dissertation has the “potential for significant public Research (AHSR) 2012 Conference, New York, NY, October health impact” and that the “author did an excellent job of ex- 2012. plaining the rationale, procedures and results of the research in a manner that makes it accessible to others for future policy im- Kimbrel, D. “An Evaluation of the Compass Financial Stability and plementation and research.” Savings Program: Early Results from the Process and Outcome Study.” Presented at the Assets Learning Conference, sponsored Danielle Fuller received dissertation support from the Conrad N. by the Corporation for Enterprise Development (CFED), Wash- Hilton Foundation for her research on the aid effectiveness of ington, DC, September 2012. NGOs providing services in Haiti. Shain, M. “From Fantasy to Family: Understanding American Thomas Mackie received an Agency for Healthcare Research Jewish Young Adults’ Decisions about Fertility.” Presented at the and Quality grant for his dissertation, which proposes a national International Conference on New Understandings of Gender, examination of state psychotropic medication oversight pro- Love and the Jewish Family, Van Leer Institute, Jerusalem, Israel, grams, both the policies adopted and organizational resources December 2012. deployed. The goal is to understand better whether these pro- grams improve the safe use of psychotropic medications. Sullivan, L. “Nest Egg for Retirement? The Realities of Asset Holdings for Older Adults.” Presented at the Assets Learning Anna Perlmutter’s paper, “Shared Space as a Tool for Relational Conference, sponsored by CFED, Washington, DC, September Coordination in Multi-Organizational Networks,” was one of 2012. two student papers selected by the Organizational Develop- ment Network to be presented at its national conference in Phoenix, Arizona in October 2012. The paper will be published in the Organizational Development Networks journal in 2013. Tom Sannicandro (D-Ashland) was reelected to the Massachu- setts State Legislature in November. He joined a Heller School panel of faculty in November 2012 to discuss the implications of the election results.

Caroline Shanti received funding for research on her dissertation, “Understanding Parental Engagement: Investigating the Home Visitor Experience,” from the Administration for Children and Families, Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation.

Angela Wangari Walter was approved for 2 years of funding from the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAA) for her dissertation, “A Mixed Method Analysis of Alco- hol Use and HIV Risk Behaviors among Women.” 13

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PUBLICATIONS PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT

Derrington, T.M. “Development of the Drug Exposed Identifica- MA-SID student Grace Majiakusi was the subject of a feature tion Algorithm (DEIIA) and Its Application to Measuring Part C story, ”Girl Child in the Promised Land,” in the Fall 2012/Winter Early Intervention Referral and Eligibility in Massachusetts, 1998- 2013 issue of Brandeis Magazine. 2005.” Maternal and Child Health Journal. (2012). Published online October 13, 2012. http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10995- spotlighted Camp Aranu’tiq, founded and 012-1157-x/fulltext.html directed by Heller PhD student Nick Teich, in its September 2, 2012 article, “Camp for transgender kids builds trust.” http:// Ryan, O., Macom, J., and Moses-Eisenstein, M. Demand for Pro- www.bostonglobe.com/arts/2012/09/01/camp-for-transgender- grams for Key Populations in Africa from Countries Receiving kids-builds-trust/7ziUvJtS6gAjKnSAiycKYJ/story.html International Donor Assistance. Journal of Social Aspects of HIV/AIDS 9(3), pages 131-136. Published online November 28, 2012. (2012). http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/ full/10.1080/17290376.2012.744190

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The Center for Youth and Communities (CYC) hosted the “2012 The Heller School held its second Poster Session in October Smart Summer Jobs: Community of Practice Convening” at the 2012. Held in conjunction with the fall meeting of the Heller Heller School in October 2012. CYC faculty, researchers, and Board of Overseers, the poster session gave each of Heller’s 9 staff Susan P. Curnan, Susan Lanspery, Christopher Kingsley, and research institutes and centers the chance to share their research Matthew Hoover presented. CYC is the National Program Of- with the larger Heller community. fice for Smart Summer Jobs, the Walmart Foundation’s $5 million The Prescription Drug Monitoring Program (PDMP) Training and investment in summer youth employment. Technical Assistance Center hosted the Western Regional Pre- In fall 2012, the Programs in Coexistence and Conflict (COEX) scription Drug Monitoring Program meeting in Boise, ID, in Sep- sponsored film series on “Whether to Negotiate or to Fight” and tember 2012. The meeting was led by Peter Kreiner, Principal on peaceful coexistence in medieval Spain, as well as a resi- Investigator for the PDMP. dency by Michel Noureddine Kassa, Country Team Leader for Peter Kreiner also led “Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs the Initiative for a Cohesive Leadership in the Democratic Re- and Third Party Payers,” the first organized discussion of how public of Congo. COEX also presented a discussion with Farhat PDMPs and public and private third party payers can collaborate Agbaria, Dialogue Facilitator with Seeds of Peace, on the effec- to address prescription drug abuse and reduce associated costs. tiveness of peace education in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict. The meeting was hosted by the PDMP Center of Excellence in Washington, DC, in December 2012. Heller’s Executive Education Program, under the leadership of executive director Jon Chilingerian, launched a partnership with Nearly 80 participants from around the U.S. and beyond met in Maine’s statewide Physician Executive Leadership Institute (PELI) November 2012 for the second annual Relational Coordination in the summer and fall of 2012. The Heller School is working Research Collaborative (RCRC) Roundtable, “Delivering Ac- with the Hanley Center in Portland, ME, to provide executive countable Care through Patient Engagement, Relational Coordi- leadership training to help transform Maine’s healthcare delivery nation and System Redesign,” at the Dartmouth Institute for system at both the local and state levels. Health Policy. Presenters from the eastern, midwestern and western U.S., Canada and Denmark shared their innovations and On October 22, 2012, the Health Industry Forum, led by execu- insights. Jody Hoffer Gittell is executive director of RCRC. tive director Robert Mechanic, held a forum in Washington, DC, entitled “Building the Components of Accountable Care: What The first Heller Eli J. Segal Seminar in Citizen Leadership and Ser- Do Physicians, Hospitals and Insurers Need to Do Differently?” vice course module focused on engaging students in a rigorous This forum examined strategies for optimizing performance examination of the concepts of citizen leadership and citizen through program design and development of organizational service as they have evolved in the United States. Speakers in- capacity, in the face of predetermined budgets to help control cluded Shirley Sagawa, Alan Khazei, Gloria Johnson-Cusack, health care spending. Mary Curley, Peter Levine, as well as Phyllis and Mora Segal.

“Intersectionality: Innovations in Research, Policy and Teaching,” 40 fellows from 10 states across the Segal Network, including a two-day symposium coordinated by Heller faculty member Heller MPP students and MPP graduates, came together for a Laurie Nsiah-Jefferson, was held at Brandeis in November 2012. powerful weekend retreat in November which included leader- Keynote speaker Kimberle Crenshaw is credited as the founder ship development, community building, roundtables with Segal of intersectionality, a concept which describes the simultaneous Program Founders David Belluck, Deb DeLee, Nancy Gertner intersection between aspects of social difference and identity, and Mark Feldman, and inspirational discussions about continuing such as race/ethnicity, gender and class. to participate as citizen leaders across the nation.

The annual Lurie Distinguished Lecture was held on October 4, Guest speaker Priyanka Borpujari spoke to students in Cristina 2012. Aaron Bishop, MSSW, spoke on “Disability Policy beyond Espinosa’s Sustainable International Development (SID) course, Politics: Building for a Better Future.” Mr. Bishop is the executive “Indigenous Peoples and Development.” The 2012-2013 Interna- director of the National Council on Disability, an independent tional Women’s Media Foundation Elizabeth Neuffer Fellow at federal agency that advises the U.S. Congress and the president MIT, Ms. Borpujari is an Indian photojournalist and human rights on disability policy. activist who discussed the situation faced by indigenous peoples in the tribal areas, which are quite rich in natural resources. Sys- The Massachusetts Health Policy Forum, under the direction of tematic violence targeting tribal communities has escalated into Michael Doonan, held two policy forums during the fall. In No- genocide and displacement, aimed at clearing the areas from vember 2012, over 300 health policy leaders in the state at- their ancestral occupants and opening them up for investors. tended “The Impact of the Presidential Election on Health Policy 2012.” In December, over 400 leaders attended “Healthy Aging in Massachusetts: Where Do We Go From here?” Walter Leutz 15 presented the main research paper and Michael Doonan moder- ated a discussion of key stakeholders.