Home  About  In the News  Publications  Blog  Join  Donate  > Inside Northwestern  The University of Michigan's first dream.DETROIT installment, Art and Urban Development in Detroit. dream.DETROIT is a year-long community development project. Announcements National Expo: July 11th Hyde Park Summit: August 14-17 Essay Winners Announced in The Nation On Campus Iowa Chapter Holds Forum Zach Hindin in the GW Hatchet Coverage of the Johns Hopkins Chapter Launch > More "It behooves every man to remember that the work of the critic is of altogether secondary importance, and that, in the end, progress is accomplished by the man who does things." — Teddy Roosevelt    Chicago Workshop on Health Policy > Roosevelt Home > Northwestern > Chicago Workshop on Health Policy Learn about the leading issue in the 2008 election and have a chance to write and present your own ideas for policy reform. Thanks to all the participants and speakers that made the workshop a success! A video of the conference, along with copies of the presentation, will be available shortly. The Chicago Health Policy Workshop at Northwestern University (May 24th, 2008) will bring together students from across the Midwest to hear from leading health policy experts at the state, and national level. Students will have the opportunity to work on their own policy ideas and present them for feedback from their peers and the day's speakers. Click here to view a full schedule for the conference. The ideas and dialogue don’t have to end with the workshop. We will work with all interested participants to help them submit their policy ideas to the Roosevelt Rx Health Policy Publication. Click here to read more about Roosevelt’s first health policy publication. The workshop has been made possible by generous support from Northwestern University's Institute for Policy Research, American Studies Program, and Global Public Health Studies Program. Student partners include Americans for an Informed Democracy and GlobeMed. The workshop will be held in the Lake Room, on the second floor of the Norris University Center at  Northwestern University. Click here for a map of campus with the Norris Center highlighted. Confirmed speakers for the conference include: Dr. Quentin Young, health policy expert and Executive Director of Physicians for a National Health Program Heidi Nelson, Executive Director of Heartland Health Outreach, and an adjunct professor of health policy at Northwestern University Dr. Harold Pollack, Associate Professor at the School of Social Service Administration, and faculty chair of the Center for Health Administration Studies at the University of Chicago Rep. Mary E. Flowers, Chairperson of the Health Care Availability Access Committee in the Illinois House of Representatives; represents the 31st District in Chicago Rishi Rattan, Medical Student, University of Illinois - Chicago If you are interested in helping to plan the Chicago Workshop, join the group using the link in the upper-right hand corner or send an email to ahertel (at) northwestern (dot) edu. Group members: Aretha Chakraborti Matthew D Fischler Stephanie A Gross Alexander W Hertel-Fernandez Katie Ranney Shipra Roy Sid S Salvi   The Roosevelt Institution is a nonpartisan, nonprofit national think tank devoted to bringing students' policy ideas to the policy process. The opinions expressed on this site are exclusively those of its members. DC Headquarters: Roosevelt Institution / 2100 M St NW Suite 610 / Washington, DC 20037 || (202) 833-1359