Vortrag: Dr. C. Knapp, The American Health System under President Trump

Professor Caprice Knapp from Pennsylvania State University is a Health Policy and Administration expert, FRIAS External Senior Fellow, Alexander von Humboldt Fellow and also Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health Policy Fellow. As a part of the latter position, in 2017/18 she spent a year in Washington, D.C. working on health-related legislative and regulatory issues with members of Congress and the executive branch.

Prof. Knapp has worked in politics, state government and academics. Throughout her career she has been focused on the health of women and children. Her applied research uses mixed methods to investigate outcomes such as cost, utilisation, satisfaction, quality of care, and outcomes. An area of her specific interest is children with special health care needs, including children with life-limiting illnesses. She has been involved in a number of national and international bodies aimed at children's palliative care and pediatric oncology.

When
14:00-15:30
Monday, 22 October 2018

Location
Pathology Lecture Hall
Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies (FRIAS)
Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg
Albertstr. 19, 79104 Freiburg

Contact
The Centre for Medicine and Society (ZMG)
mscguh@zmg.uni-freiburg.de