Students Invited to Submit Original Essays on Health Policy by March 17
Undergraduate and graduate students are invited to participate in the KaiserEDU.org Second Annual Student Essay Contest on a major health policy. The health policy issue areas are: controlling health care costs; eliminating racial and ethnic health disparities; expanding health promotion and disease prevention efforts; improving women's health; and improving the quality of health care. Deadline for submission is March 17, 2008. Last year, Brad Wright, CHPPD newsletter editor, won first place in the essay contest.
The context for the 2008 essay is: The date is November 24th, 2008. You have just started a job as an analyst working on the president elect's health care transition team. The director of the transition team has asked you to draft a memo to flesh out the health priorities for the new administration on a major health policy issue. Select a candidate and an issue area (from the list below) and identify the major policies or strategies that the next administration could develop to advance this issue. Make sure to include evidence and analysis to support your recommendations. Your priorities and strategies should be consistent with the proposals forwarded by the candidates in the campaign. You should also address the challenges in implementing your recommendations, such as budgetary and political considerations, delivery system issues, and how different stakeholders and constituencies would perceive the proposals.
The first place winner will be awarded $1,000, and the second place winner $500. The essays must not exceed 800 words and must be original work, prepared by one author only. Entries must be submitted online only at http://www.kaiseredu.org/essay/essaycontest2008.asp. No e-mails will be accepted. Entries will be judged by a panel of professionals with experience in health policy and politics from inside and outside the Kaiser Family Foundation. Winners will be notified by May 1, 2008. For more information about rules and requirements, visit http://cme.kff.org/Key=13707.HTm.C.C.Lz9LSp.
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