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Opinion: Now is the time to prioritize mental health

WEBRohingya volunteers discuss COVID-19-related concerns at a women's center in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh. Photo by: Marie Sophie Pettersson / UN Women / …

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The Opioid Crisis, Health, Healthcare, and Crime: A Review Of …

WEBOpioid use is one of the most substantial and long-lasting public health crises faced by the United States. This crisis, which began by the mid-1990s and …

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Breaking Gridlock: The Determinants of Health Policy Change in …

WEBScholars have often commented that health policymaking in Congress is mired in political gridlock, that reforms are far more likely to fail than to succeed, and the path forward is unclear. To reach such conclusions, scholars of health politics have tended to analyze individual major reform proposals to determine why they succeeded or failed and what …

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Batten Professors Focus on Community Well-Being

WEBAs of Fall 2023, Kyle Dobson is an assistant professor of leadership and public policy at the Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy at the …

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Prioritizing Youth Mental Health Frank Batten School of …

WEBBrooke Lehmann is a lecturer at the Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy. A national expert on the design, development, and reform of pediatric …

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Black People’s Pain Has Long Been Underestimated. It’s Time For …

WEBSophie Trawalter, Batten Family Bicentennial Teacher-Scholar Leadership Professor of Public Policy at the Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy …

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Essentials Of Public Health Ethics Frank Batten School of …

WEBObjective: This study examined interventions by colleges in 2008–2009 to respond to students during mental health crises. Methods: Public (N=15) and private …

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Faculty Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy

[email protected]. 434-297-9463. Ridley Hall 274. Allison Atteberry is an associate professor of education and public policy and director of EdPolicyWorks, a collaboration …

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MPP Graduates Parlay Applied Policy Projects into Careers

WEBKelly Connors (MPP ’13) APP: Infrastructure to Promote Agriculture Development and Reduce Poverty in Rwanda and Swaziland (Deloitte Consulting LLP, Emerging Markets …

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Brooke Lehmann Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public …

WEBBrooke Lehmann is a lecturer at the Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy. A national expert on the design, development, and reform of pediatric health/mental …

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Health Insurance for Whom

WEBA rich literature documents the benefits of social safety net programs for children. This paper focuses on an unexplored margin: how children’s programs impact …

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Christopher J. Ruhm

WEBChristopher J. Ruhm is a professor of public policy and economics at the Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy. Ruhm’s recent research has focused on the role …

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MPH/MPP Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy

WEBThe University of Virginia’s School of Medicine’s Department of Public Health Sciences, and the Batten School offer a dual degree program that leads to the completion of the …

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Losing public health insurance: TennCare reform and personal …

WEBSebastian Tello-Trillo is an assistant professor of public policy and economics at the Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy. He studies health policy in the U.S and …

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States as Policy Laboratories: Emulating Success in the Children’s

WEBThis article illustrates the use of the directed dyad-year event history analysis to study policy diffusion, with an application to policy changes in the Children’s Health …

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Michael D. Williams Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public

WEBAreas of focus. With more than 20 years of experience in health care delivery and systems design, Dr. Michael D. Williams is passionate about health care equity issues. Dr. …

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New Case: Losses (and Gains) from Health Reform for Non …

WEBThis article examines how the Affordable Care Act (ACA) would change financial resources for and transfers to the previously uninsured if they were to purchase coverage in the ACA insurance exchanges (marketplaces) in 2014. The results suggest that the law provides gains to some, relative to their spending in the pre-ACA period, particularly those in poor …

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The Economics of Risky Behaviors Frank Batten School of …

WEBRisky health behaviors such as smoking, drinking alcohol, drug use, unprotected sex, and poor diets and sedentary lifestyles (leading to obesity) are a major …

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How Might the COVID-19 Recession Affect Your Health

WEBRecessions may be good for overall physical health, but this one could be different. Batten professor Chris Ruhm presented an online talk Wednesday offering an …

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A Global Approach to Improving Outcomes for Teen Mothers and …

WEBBatten professor Lucy Bassett brings researchers from around the world together to tackle an issue that spiked during the COVID-19 pandemic. In 2002, Lucy …

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