The Health, Institutions and Policy Initiative (HIPI) aims to bring together scholars from multiple disciplines to promote and facilitate research on the interactions among health, behavior, public policy and social institutions.

Upcoming Events

• HIPI is co-sponsoring the following external speaker this semester:
  • Roderick Little from University of Michigan, Friday, Jan. 19th. Rod is giving two talks on this day, see the External Speaker Series page for more information.
  • Sok Chul Hong from University of Chicago, Wednesday, Jan. 24th.
  • José M. Fernández from University of Virginia, Friday, Jan. 26th.
  • Lucie Schmidt from Williams College, Friday, March 16th.
  • Jonathan Skinner from Dartmouth University, Tuesday, March 20th.

• The following HIPI Brownbag seminars are scheduled for this semester:
  • Beth Olson from the department of Food Science and Human Nutrition, Friday, April 13th.
  • Cristian Meghea from the Institute for Health Care Studies, Friday, April 27th.

• HIPI has some funds to assist researchers in purchasing data. Priority for these funds will be given to graduate students and researchers that can demonstrate the data will likely lead to grant submissions. Contact the directors (Stacy Dickert-Conlin or Steven Haider) if you are interested in applying for these funds. These requests are considered on a rolling basis.

Last Modified: 01/18/2007 2:45 PM