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CHRISTA ALTENSTETTER May2009

PLACE OF BIRTH: Haslach i.K. LANGUAGES: English, German, French, Spanish

EDUCATION: ABITUR (1960) Hölderlingymnasium, Heidelberg, Germany M. A. (1965) Duke University, NC, USA: Major: Comparative Thesis: Federalism in Nigeria, 1961-1965 Ph.D. (1967) Heidelberg University, Germany: Major: Political Science Major: Political Science; Minors: Modern History and Constitutional Law. Dissertation: Federalism in Austria, 1945-1966. Urban Studies Harvard University, 1968-1969, postdoctoral fellowship Licensed French Interpreter (1956), Chambre de Paris, France Licensed English Translator (1957), Cambridge University, Licensed English Interpreter (1957) Cambridge University, Proficiency Certificate, Englisches Institut, Heidelberg, Germany, Licensed Spanish Translator (1958), University of , . and Englisches Institut, Heidelberg, Germany,

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

1982-date of Political Science, CUNY Graduate School and Queens College, The City University of New York; previously Associate Professor, 1972-1982 1994-1999; Deputy Executive Officer, Ph.D. Program in Political Science, CUNY Graduate School & 1991-1994 2008 & 2007 Visiting Research Scholar, The University of Tokyo, Graduate School of Politics and Law. 2007 Visiting Research Professor. Geschwister-Scholl-Institut, Ludwig-Maximilans-Universität. 1999-2000 Chercheur Scientifique, La Fondation Nationale des Sciences Politiques de Paris and Institut d’Études Politiques de Paris, France 2000 Visiting Research Professor. National Research Center for Environment and Health (GSF - MEDIS-Institute), Munich, Germany (and 1999, 1998, 1997, 1996, 1995, 1993-1991, 1989, 1985) 1999 Inaugural Brian Abel-Smith Fellow, LSE Health, London School of & Political Science 1997-1998 Research Consultant, Administraçã de Saúde do Norte, Oporto, Portugal 2008 1982-2006- Founder, Convenor, President, and Author, Research Committee 25 Comparative Health Policy (previously Study Group 19 within the International Political Science Association (IPSA) 1995 Visiting Professor, National Institute for Health Systems and , Bucharest, Romania 1993 Visiting Scholar, Max-Planck-Institute for the Study of Societies - Max-Planck-Institut für Gesellschaftsforschung, Cologne, Germany (and 1990, 1987) 1992 Visiting Professor, Mannheim Centre for European Social Science Research, Mannheim, Germany 1976-1993 Consultant, WHO Regional Office for (EURO), Copenhagen, Denmark 1982-1988 Consultant, World Health Organization (headquarter), Geneva, Switzerland 1986 Visiting Professor, Max-Planck-Institut für Ausländisches und Internationales Sozialrecht (Comparative and International Social Law), Munich, Germany 1985 Visiting Research Professor, National Health Services (NHS) Training Authority, NHS, and The Health Services Management Centre, University of Birmingham, England 1982-date Associate, Columbia University Seminar on Health and Society, Columbia University, New York 1977-1979 Senior Research Fellow, Science Center (Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin), Germany (and summers of 1980, 1981,1982) 1976 Visiting Associate Professor, American University, Washington, D.C. 1975-1976 Visiting Research Professor, National Institutes of Health (NIH), NIH-Fogarty International Center, Bethesda, Maryland. 2

1972-1976 Research Consultant, Yale University Medical School, Health Policy Project, Department of Epidemiology and 1974 Visiting Professor, Kiel University, Germany 1972-1973 Associate Professor, Syracuse University 1969-1972 Research Staff, The Urban Institute, Washington, D.C. 1967-1968 Assistant Professor, Heidelberg University, Germany

BOOKS 2008 Medical Devices: Policymaking and the Implementation of Health and Patient Safety. Health and Patient Safety in France. New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers. 1998 Health Policy (co-edited by J.W. Börkman and C. Altenstetter), Volume 7 of The International Library of Comparative Public Policy edited by Guy B. Peters. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd., including Introduction, pp.1-22. 1997 Health Policy Reform, National Variations and Globalization co-edited with J.W. Björkman London: Macmillan. Advances of Political Science series of the International Political Science Association, including chapter 1, pp.1-14, and chapter 7, pp.130-154. 345 pp 1991 Comparative Health Policy and the New Right. From Rhetoric to Reality (co-edited with S.C. Haywood) London: Macmillan, New York: St. Martin's Press, 332 pp. 1985 Krankenhausbedarfsplanung: Was brachte sie wirklich? (Hospital planning: What was really achieved?) München: Oldenbourg Verlag, 172 pp. (Soziologie und Sozialpolitik herausgegeben von B. Badura, Chr. von Ferber, F.-X. Kaufmann, E. Pankoke, Th. Thiemeyer, Volume 6). 172 pp. 1981 Innovation in Health Policy and Service Delivery: A Cross-National Perspective edited by C. Altenstetter, Cambridge, Mass.: Oelgeschlager, Gunn and Hain, Inc., 304 pp., including Introduction, pp-1-7, chapter 14, pp.227-263, section introductions, pp.9-10, pp. 55-56, pp. 141-144, p.265. 1979 Federal-State Health Policies and Impacts: The Politics of Implementation (co-authored by J.W. Björkman) University Press of America, 116 pp. Washington, D.C.: 1978 National-Subnational Relations in Health:Opportunities and Constraints edited by C.Altenstetter, Bethesda, Md. US/DHEW,Public Health Service, National Institutes of Health, DHEW Publication No. (NIH) 78-182, 454 pp., including foreword pp. xiii-xv, ch.2, pp.5-33., ch.12, pp. 217-231. 1974 Health Policy Making and Administration in West Germany and the United States, Beverly Hills: Sage Publications, 94 pp. 1969 Der Föderalismus in Österreich: l945-l968 (Federalism in Austria: 1945-1968) Heidelberg: Quelle und Meyer, 168 pp.

MONOGRAPHS 1993 European Community-wide Efforts to Address AIDS. Mannheim Centre for European Social Sciences Research (MZES). University of Mannheim. 142 pp. 1979 Organizations of Managing Hospital Planning Programs in France and the Federal Republic of Germany. Bethesda, Md., US/DHEW Public Health Service, National Institutes of Health, DHEW Publication No.(NIH)79-1494. 75 pp. 1976 Impact of Federal Health Policies in the States of Connecticut and Vermont by C Altenstetter, J. W. Björkman, M. Chen, A-M. Foltz and G. Silver, Publications PB-262-959, Springfield (National Technical Information Service, Springfield, Va., PB 262 959).

MANUAL FOR HANDS-ON-EXPERIENCE AND TRAINING 1987 Intersectoral Action to Aid Maternal and Child Health: Understanding the Policy Process. Regional Office for Europe of the World Health Organization, Copenhagen (EUR/HFA Target 33 - HPP/December 1987 (ICP/MPN 016) 123 pp.

ARTICLES & CHAPTERS 2007 EU Regulation of Medical Devices and Pharmaceuticals in Comparative Perspective. Review of Policy Research. Vol. 24, No. 5, pp:385-405. 2005 International Collaboration in Medical Devices. Issues, Problems, and Stakeholders. In: Commercialization of Health Care: Global and Local Dynamics and Policy Responses edited by Maureen Mackintosh and Meri Koivusalo. London: Palgrave, pp. 170-186. 3

2005 (with Reinhard Busse). Healthcare Reform in Germany: Patchwork Change within Established Structures. Journal of Health Policy, Politics, Law. Special Issue Legacies and Latitude in European Health Policy. Vol. 30, No. 1-2, February-April, 2005: 121-142. 2005 Bridging EU and Member State Implementation: The Case of Medical Goods, In Vitro Diagnostics and Equipment.. In: M. Steffen. Europeanisation of Health Policies. London: Routledge, pp. 81-112. 2004 (with Govin Permanand). Politics of pharmaceutical regulation. In: Regulating the cost and use of pharmaceuticals in Europe. Containing costs while improving efficiency, quality and equity edited by Elias Mossialos, Monique Mrazek and Tom Walley. Buckingham: Open University Press (in press). 2003 EU and Member State Regulation. International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care , Vol. 18, # 4, December, pp.1035-1055. 2003 Insights on Health Care from Germany. American Journal of Public Health. January 2003, Vol 93, No.1, pp.38-44. 2002 Regulation of Medical Devices in the EU. Chapter 9 in EU Law and Health Care Systems edited by Elias Mossialos, Martin McKee and Renate Baeten, Brussels: P.I.E.-Peter Lang-European Academic Publishers, pp.287-313. 2000 EU Regulatory regime on medical devices and national policy adaptation: Work in Progress.The 7th International Conference on System Science in Health Care. Budapest, Hungary, 29 May - 2 June, 2000. Proceedings II, pp.121-126.

Courses taught Queens College *Contemporary Western Europe *Western Europe in World Politics

Ph.D./M.A. Program at the Graduate School/CUNY Interdisciplinary *The European Union and Public Policy * Interests, Institutions, and Public Policy in the European Union Public Policy * Introduction to the Policy Process * Policy Implementation: Concepts, Theories and Methods * Comparative Public Policy (Western Europe and North America) Health Policy * American Health Policy in Comparative Perspective * Health Policy Reforms in Advanced Industrial Societies * Qualitative Methods

RESEARCH INTERESTS:

Substantive field: health and social policy: equity, inclusion/exclusion, the regulation of medical technologies and patient safety

Public policy processes (domestic): policy implementation, social and economic regulation

Public policy processes (transnational): policymaking within a multi-level governance system, enforcement and implementation of EU policies in the member states, regulatory policy, Impact of EU policies on national policymaking

European integration: economic and political forces driving regional integration, internal and external factors, understanding the EU multi-level governance system,

Socio-political systems: comparative health care delivery systems: control, finance, organization, professionalism, state/society relations, values 4

Transnational relations: the drivers of transnational regulatory cooperation and governance