Republicans Abroad France is pleased to announce that Mr Theodore R. Marmor, Professor Emeritus of Public Policy and Management & Professor Emeritus of Political Science at Yale School of Management, and a former Special Assistant to Wilbur Cohen, Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare will be the featured speaker at our upcoming Healthcare Symposium to be held in Paris on November 20, 2009.

Professor Marmor’s scholarship primarily concerns welfare state politics and policy in North America and Western Europe. He particularly emphasizes the major spending and entitlement programs.

His detailed profile follows…

THEODORE R. MARMOR

Theodore R. Marmor, Ph.D. is Professor Emeritus of Yale University in three units: the School of Management, the School of Law, and the Department of Political Science. Since 2008 he has been an Adjunct Professor in Public Policy at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government. Marmor was educated at Harvard University (B.A. and PhD) and was a graduate fellow at Wadham College, Oxford. From 1992 to 2003 he was the Director of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s post-doctoral program in health policy, and in 2001 the Foundation also awarded him an Investigator Award in Health Policy.

Professor Marmor is primarily a scholar of the modern welfare state, with special emphasis on health and pension issues.  The author (or co-author) of eleven books, he has published over 150 articles in a wide range of scholarly journals. His opinion essays have appeared in major US newspapers—including the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Washington Post,  Los Angeles and Boston Globe.  The second edition of The Politics of Medicare appeared in 2000; the first edition of this book became something of a political science classic and launched his career in health politics, policy and law.  His best known other works include Understanding Health Care Reform (Yale Press, 1994), Why Are Some People Healthy and Others Not? (Aldine de Gruyter, 1994), and America’s Misunderstood Welfare State (Basic Books, 1992) co-authored with Yale colleagues Jerry Mashaw and Philip Harvey.  A collection of his recent articles appeared in 2007: Fads Fallacies and Foolishness in Medical Management and Policy (World Scientific Publishing).  In 2005, the Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis chose his jointly authored article “Comparative Perspectives and Policy Learning in the World of Health Care,” with Richard Freeman and Kieke Okma, as its best article of the year. Yale University Press will in 2009 publish a co-edited book, Comparative Studies and the Politics of Modern Medical Care, and also a collection of essays—by Rudolf Klein and Ted—on politics, health and health care.

Marmor began his public career as a special assistant to Wilbur Cohen (Secretary of HEW) in the mid-1960s.  He has been an associate dean of Minnesota’s School of Public Affairs, a faculty member at the University of Chicago, the head of Yale’s Center for Health Studies, a member of President Carter’s Commission on the 1980s Agenda, and a senior social policy advisor to Walter Mondale in the Presidential campaign of 1984.  He has testified before Congress about medical care reform, social security, and welfare issues and has been a consultant to governmental and non-profit agencies as well as private firms.  He has served recently as an expert witness in cases involving asbestos liability, pharmaceutical pricing fraud cases, and health financing controversies.  He lectures on policy and management issues and has been a commentator on television and radio networks.  Marmor, an emeritus fellow of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, is a member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences and the National Academy of Social Insurance and since 2009 a corresponding fellow of the British Academy.  He now divides his time among executive teaching, trial testimony as an expert, and public speaking and writing.

Marmor is a nationally-ranked squash player (in 2009 national champion in the 70+ age division), an avid fly-fisherman, and a committed oenophile. He lives in New York City now, with grandchildren nearby, and is a board member of On Demand Books, a fledgling but innovative firm headed by one of his former students.

03/05/2009