Spring 2004 NEWS ‘The United States rediscovers the world’ Sen. Richard Lugar delivers 2004 Terry Sanford Distinguished Lecture Despite continued difficulties faced in rebuilding Iraq, Sen. Richard Lugar (R-Ind.), chairman of the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said there are rea- sons to be optimistic for a more peaceful Middle East. Lugar delivered the 2004 Terry Sanford Distinguished Lecture, titled “The United States Rediscovers the World,” on Jan. 14. Displaying a nimble and wide-ranging analysis of the pre- and post-Sept. 11 political landscapes, Lugar addressed a capacity crowd in the Institute’s Fleishman Commons. Since Sept. 11, 2001, both the Bush administration and average U.S. citizens have become increasingly Karen Tam Please see Lugar, p.4 Sen. Lugar addresses a full house in Fleishman Commons. Soros assails U.S. foreign policy Institute co-hosts D.C. health policy forums U.S. involvement in The Institute is co-sponsoring a new series of cross- Iraq has actually weak- sectoral health policy forums for policymakers in ened the United States, Washington, D.C., to offer timely insights into complex according to billionaire topics for policymakers, agency personnel, and NGOs. international investor, “Duke is blessed with a wealth of resources in philanthropist and health services and health policy,”said Frank Sloan, direc- author George Soros, tor of the Institute’s Center for Health Policy,Law who led a wide-ranging & Management, and professor of public policy studies discussion of U.S. for- and economics.“These forums provide an opportunity eign policy and the for scholars at Duke to share information with practi- presidential campaign tioners in the policy world, as well as with other before an audience of researchers who are located in the D.C. area.” Sen. Elizabeth Dole, R-N.C., and Rep. David Price, D- more than 700 people Karen Tam on Feb. 17. George Soros responds to a question N.C., co-hosted the most recent Duke forum,“Intellectual Soros’ daylong to Duke visit was co-sponsored by Please see D.C. Forums, p. 6 the Institute and the Duke Center for International Development (DCID), along with the Office of the Provost, the Center for International Studies’ Program on Inside Globalization, Equity and Democratic Governance, and Joel Fleishman’s 70th birthday ....................pp. 8-9 the Kenan Institute for Ethics.The visit was initiated by New faculty ..............................................pp. 2-3 Robert Conrad, associate professor of public policy studies and economics and DCID director. Through his Hartman lecture ........................................pp. 4-5 tax policy work in Russia and a number of other coun- Faculty books ............................................pp. 10-11 tries, Conrad has worked closely with Soros. Please see Soros, p. 5 Alum with Dean campaign ..........................p. 15 Institute Updates New Faculty and Research Fellows Join Sanford Institute Dr. Anthony So,a 2003 Before joining the Rockefeller professor of public policy studies Fleishman Fellow in Civil Society, Foundation, Dr. So served as a senior and distinguished research fellow joined the advisor in HHS’s Agency for Health in the Duke Center for International Institute in Care Policy and Research, as a White Development. Gillis joins the March as House fellow under HHS Secretary Institute for the 2004-05 academic director of the Donna Shalala, and as senior medical year, his first sabbatical in 35 years new Program research associate for the American as a faculty member at three institu- on Global College of Physicians. He earned an tions. Gillis, whose research and Health and M.D. at the University of Michigan teaching activities fall generally into Technology (Ann Arbor) and a master’s in public the areas of fiscal reform and envi- Access and affairs at Princeton’s Woodrow ronmental policy,also plans to work Dr.Anthony So a senior Wilson School. closely with the Nicholas School research fellow in public policy Rice University President of the Environment and Earth and law. Malcolm Sciences. The new program is a joint Gillis,who His first faculty post was as an venture among the Institute’s Cross- is stepping assistant professor of economics Sectoral Public Policy Program, the down at the at Duke, followed by 15 years at Law School’s Center for the Study end of the Harvard. He returned to Duke in of the Public Domain, and the Duke academic 1984 as a professor of economics Institute for Genome Sciences & year, plans to and public policy studies, and in Policy’s Center for Genome Ethics, return to the 1990 was named Z. Smith Reynolds Institute as Distinguished Professor in Public Law and Policy. Malcolm Gillis “I am delighted to join the Duke visiting Policy. He held several Duke admin- University community and look forward to working with students and faculty,”Dr. So said. Dr. So’s appointment is being supported by a major grant from the Rockefeller Foundation, where he was associate director for health equity since 1998. The Program on Global Health and Technology Access will support research, policy meetings and teaching on issues of intellectual property and the owner- ship and control of knowledge and how it is harnessed to improve the health of the poor. Karen Tam Students catch up on reading between classes at the Institute. 2 Spring 2004 Terry Sanford Institute of Public Policy News Duke University istrative posts before becoming Noah Pickus was named Service Program Selects 16 president at Rice in 1993. associate director of the Kenan Bernard Avishai joins the Institute for Ethics in March and Hart Leadership Program selected 16 Institute in the fall as a senior will begin serving as an adjunct participants for its 2004 yearlong research fellow in the Cross- faculty member in public policy Service Opportunities in Leadership Sectoral Public Policy Program studies beginning this fall. Pickus, Program.The group of eight women and as a visiting faculty member a former Institute faculty member, and eight men includes a Duke in the Institute and Fuqua School most recently was founding direc- Chronicle columnist, three Eagle of Business. Avishai currently tor of the Institute for Emerging Scouts, a sexual health peer educator, a is professor of business and gov- Issues at N.C. State University. fraternity president, a playwright, two ernment at The Interdisciplinary Among other responsibilities, A.B. Duke Scholars, a University Scholar Center, Herzliya, Israel, with he is an advisory board member and a Robertson Scholar. prior faculty appointments at for the Institute’s Program in MIT,University of Toronto and Cross-Sectoral Public Policy. During their high school and college elsewhere. Through his work with the careers, they’ve been involved with death He also has served as the tech- Emerging Issues Forum Pickus penalty litigation, antiwar campaigns, nology and strategy editor for the has developed expertise on a HIV/AIDS awareness and education, liter- Harvard Business Review.Avishai wide range of ethical and policy acy training, and research on health holds a Ph.D. in political economy issues concerning biotechnology, inequalities.Their written work has been from the University of Toronto. His economic innovation and the published in The Talking Drum, The research and writing focus on creative economy,as well as an Chronicle, Saturday Night,and Thread, public-private partnerships, corpo- interest in issues of ethical and with articles pending publication in the rate social responsibility,and busi- civic leadership in the 21st Journal of Infectious Diseases and the ness and society.He will hold a Century economy. Journal of Clinical Microbiology. two-year appointment. Combined the group speaks eleven languages, including Tamil, Portuguese, Malayalan, and Cantonese, and is com- Social policy attracts master’s applicants prised of people with hometowns as close as Greensboro, N.C., and as far The Institute’s new social policy concentra- away as Brazil, Hong Kong, and tion helped attract the highest number of U.S. Singapore. applicants to the MPP program this year, said Fritz Mayer, director of graduate studies. “This is the first year that we’ve advertised TV News Executive the social policy concentration” and a large to Lecture number of applicants expressed interest in it, among them some Teach for America partici- Rick Kaplan, who oversaw pants, Mayer said.The number of social policy coverage of the Iraq War as senior students is expected to equal the number in vice president at ABC News, was Fritz Mayer the global policy track that was launched two scheduled to give the Ewing Lecture years ago.The admitted class averaged 3.5 years of work experience. on Ethics in Communications, The total number of applicants declined to 303 from last year’s titled “Journalism and the War on record high of 351, driven by a precipitous drop in international Terrorism,”on March 23 at the applications, Mayer said. Similar declines have been experienced at Institute. Kaplan has been a promi- graduate and policy schools nationwide, in part due to new barriers nent figure in television news as that make it harder for international students to obtain visas. president of CNN, an executive As a measure of the quality of the accepted students, Mayer said, producer at ABC News, and a four were offered James B. Duke Fellowships.This is the first year producer at CBS. He has won MPP students have been eligible for these awards administered by numerous awards including 34 the Graduate School. Emmys, Peabodys and Polks. He is currently president of MSNBC. 3 Spring 2004 Terry Sanford Institute of Public Policy News Duke University Institute Events Hartman accepts Futrell Award for Excellence in Communications David Hartman, founding host of 12,000 interviews with people from all ABC’s “Good Morning America” and walks of life, and the show became the currently a documentary producer nation’s top-rated morning news and for PBS, accepted the Futrell Award information program.