SciencesPo and Center for Health Administration Studies : Health Policy Innovation an Reform Workshop, 22 Sep 2022

On September 22-23, 2022, University of Chicago faculty to met with French researchers from Sciences Po, at the Center in Paris, to share their most recent and cutting edge work in a deliberately comparative and collaborative context toward the goal of knowledge growth and policy innovation. Originally planned as a workshop in Paris 2020, the COVID-19 global shutdown and pandemic delayed the event until Autumn 2022. Support for this workshop came from The College at the University of Chicago and the Center in Paris. The focus of the CHAS & Sciences Po Workshops on Health Policy Innovation and Reform is to bring together on a regular basis health policy researchers and scholars from the U.S. and France to share — in a comparative and collaborative context – their most recent work in areas central to understanding health innovation and reform across political contexts.

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.

This ongoing series of scientific exchanges was designed in 2016 to bring together on a regular basis health policy researchers and scholars from US and France. The health and social service sectors in both the US and France are dynamic and characterized by high levels of research and evaluation with potential to catalyze innovation and reform in health policy and service delivery. The process of translating emerging social science research and evaluation into effective policy and service delivery requires opportunities for analysis and exchange such as this Workshop was designed to provide.

 

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
Marshall Chin, MD, PhD
Richard Parrillo Family Distinguished Service Professor of Medicine; Associate Chief and Director, General Internal Medicine Research;
Director, Chicago Center for Diabetes Translation Research; Director, MacLean Center for Clinical Ethics
Colleen M. Grogan, PhD, MSW
Professor, 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, PhD
Professor of Political science, University of Versailles- Paris-Saclay; Director of the doctoral school for social sciences at the University of Versailles- Paris-Saclay 

Elbert Huang, MD
Professor of Medicine, University of Chicago Medicine; Director of the Center for Chronic Disease Research and Policy, University of Chicago.

Jeanne C. Marsh, PhD, MSW
George Herbert Jones Distinguished Service Professor, Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy and Practice; Director, Center for Health Administration Studies (CHAS)

Robert Nocon, PhD, MHS
Senior Health Services Researcher in the Department of Medicine and PhD candidate in the Department of Public Health Sciences at the University of Chicago.

Naoko Muramatsu, PhD, MHSA, FGSA
Professor, Division of Community Health Sciences, UIC School of Public Health; Affiliated Faculty Member in the Department of Sociology in the UIC College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.

Etienne Nouguez, PhD
CNRS Research Fellow at the Center for the Sociology of Organizations (Sciences Po / CSO)

Harold Pollack, PhD
Helen Ross Distinguished Service Professor, Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy and Practice; Affiliate Professor in the Biological Sciences Collegiate Division and the Department of Public Health Sciences; Co-Director of The University of Chicago Crime Lab; Co-Director of the Center for Health Administration Studies (CHAS).