A search committee chaired by Professor Michael J. Dougher, associate dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at UNM, has selected four finalists for the position of executive director of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Center for Health Policy at UNM. They are: Deborah R. McFarlane, José A. Pagán, Kathleen A. Staudt and Robert Otto Valdez.
Each candidate has been invited to UNM for a campus visit and to make a public presentation. Anyone with an interest in health policy is encouraged to attend the candidates’ presentations and to provide feedback to the committee.
Parking passes are available for off-campus visitors. Please call 277-0130 for more information.
Deborah McFarlane
Public presentation - Monday, Oct. 15, 12-1:30 p.m., Location: Student Union Building, Lobo A & B
McFarlane is currently interim executive director of the RWJF Center and a professor with appointments in Political Science and Women’s Studies at UNM. She has served as a visiting professor in the Department of Population & Family Health Sciences in the Bloomberg School of Public Health at Johns Hopkins University and as a professor in the School of Public Administration at UNM. McFarlane received her Ph.D. in public health from the University of Texas, a Master of Public Administration from Harvard University, and a Master of Public Health, Population Planning from the University of Michigan.
Robert Valdez
Public presentation - Thursday, Oct. 18, 3-4:30 p.m., UNM Student Union Building, Fiesta A & B
Valdez is the president of Valdez & Associates in Vienna, Va. and adjunct senior health scientist at the RAND Health Sciences Program. He has served as the lead health consultant for a health promotion and disease prevention campaign for Univision, and has been a senior fellow at the Leonard Davis Institute for Health Economics at the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania. Valdez received his Ph.D. in Policy Analysis from the RAND Graduate School, and his master’s in Health Planning and Administration from the University of Michigan.
José Pagán
Public presentation - Monday, Oct. 22, 2:30-4 p.m., UNM Student Union Building, Acoma A & B
Pagán is a professor of economics in the Department of Economics and Finance at the University of Texas-Pan American. He is also director of the Institute for Population Health Policy at UT-Pan American. He has been a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health & Society Scholar at the Wharton School of Business and School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, and he has served as the director of the Center for Border Economic Studies at UT-Pan American. Professor Pagán received his Ph.D. in economics from UNM, and a master’s in economics from Ohio State University.
Kathleen Staudt
Public presentation - Friday, Oct. 26, 12-1:30 p.m., UNM Student Union Building, Sub Theatre (Plaza Level)
Staudt is a Political Science professor and director of the Center for Civic Engagement at the University of Texas at El Paso. She has served as chair of the Department of Political Science and coordinator of the Women’s Studies Program. She has also been a visiting associate professor of Political Science at Scripps College in Claremont, Calif. Staudt received her Ph.D. and master’s degrees in Political Science from the University of Wisconsin.
Media Contact: Carolyn Gonzales, (505) 277-5920; e-mail: cgonzal@unm.edu
Posted by scarr at October 15, 2007 04:46 PM