On September 22-23, 2022, the Center for Health Administration Studies co-hosted, with the Sciences Po Laboratory for Interdisciplinary Evaluation of Public Policies (LIEPP), a multi-day conference in Paris, France at the University of Chicago’s Center in Paris campus. The 2022 Sciences Po-University of Chicago Workshop on Health Policy Innovation and Reform conference reunited health policy researchers and scholars from the U.S. and France to continue exchanging their most recent work in a deliberately comparative and collaborative context.
In this fourth workshop, of an ongoing series hosted alternately in Paris and Chicago, participants presented aspects of their work relevant to the COVID-19 pandemic. Comparisons between the United States and Europe, especially France, provided insight on similar patterns, parallels, and national specificities. Poor preparedness, lack of leadership, radicalization of public health debates, rapid mobilization of hospitals and health care professionals, exacerbation of health disparities, and vulnerability of nursing homes, among others, were discussed as being observed concomitantly in both regions. In parallel, the importance of state interventions, role of science in policy making, revaluation of local public health capacities, and social and racial inequalities, along with a huge economic, social, and even political tribute paid by populations, were discussed as well.
This workshop’s unprecedented context shed light on existing health systems and social contexts and their management and inclusion in a wider society. There are sizeable potential gains in knowledge growth and policy innovation that can result from such a systematic, scientific exchange of ideas. Research and evaluation in both countries has contributed to reforms in health and social service policy. Additionally, several researchers are coordinating journal publications for workshop white papers and one team is presenting at an upcoming international social sciences conference.
Participants
| Daniel Benamouzig, PhD CNRS Research Professor, Sciences Po (Centre de Sociologie des Organisations); Deputy Director of the Institute of Public Health of INSERM-AVIESAN |
Henri Bergeron, PhD CNRS Research Fellow, Sciences Po (Centre de Sociologie des Organisations); Co-Director, Health Department of the Interdisciplinary Centre for the Evaluation of Public Policies (Centre of Excellence – LABEX); Scientific Coordinator of the Chair in Health Studies, Sciences Po-FNSP; Director of the Master, Organizational Behavior and Human Resources |
| Marshall Chin, PhD, MPH Richard Parrillo Family Distinguished Service Professor of Healthcare Ethics at the University of Chicago; Co-Director, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Advancing Health Equity: Leading Care, Payment, and Systems Transformation National Program Office |
Colleen M. Grogan, PhD, MSW Deborah R. and Edgar D. Jannotta University Professor at the University of Chicago in the Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy and Practice; Academic Director, Graduate Program in Health Administration and Policy (GPHAP); Co-Director, Center for Health Administration Studies (CHAS) |
| Patrick Hassenteufel Professor in political science at the University of Paris-Saclay; Director, Doctoral school for social sciences and humanities and the Master’s program in political science |
Elbert Huang, PhD, MPH Professor, General Internal Medicine at the University of Chicago; Director, Center for Chronic Disease Research and Policy; Associate Director, Chicago Center for Diabetes Translation Research at the University of Chicago |
| Jeanne C. Marsh, PhD, MSW George Herbert Jones Distinguished Service Professor, School of Social Service Administration; Director, Center for Health Administration Studies (CHAS) |
Anne Moyal Associate Researcher, the Center for the Sociology of Organizations and the Laboratory for Interdisciplinary Evaluation of Public Policies of Sciences Po |
| Naoko Muramatsu, PhD, MHSA, FGSA Professor, Division of Community Health Sciences at the School of Public Health at UIC; Fellow at the Institute for Health Research and Policy at the University of Illinois Chicago |
Robert Nocon, PhD, MHS Assistant Professor at the Kaiser Permanente Bernard J. Tyson School of Medicine |
| Etienne Nouguez CNRS Researcher at the Center for the Sociology of Organizations (Sciences Po/CNRS) |
Harold Pollack, PhD Helen Ross Professor at the Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice; Affiliate Professor in the Biological Sciences Collegiate Division and Department of Public Health Sciences; Co-Director of The University of Chicago Crime Lab; Co-Director, Center for Health Administration Studies (CHAS) |