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Angela Snyder has been selected to chair the State Health Research and Policy Interest Group of AcademyHealth for the next two years. The national group provides a forum for health policy analysts, researchers and policymakers to interact and discuss state-level research, research related to state health policy and health services research through a state health policy perspective.
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The following working paper was cited in President Barack Obama’s article on the Affordable Care Act in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA):
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David Sjoquist (pictured) & Robert Buschman. An Exploration of Discretionary Tax Changes in Fiscal Conditions. Public Budgeting and Finance, forthcoming.
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Bruce Kaufman presented a paper, “The Impossibility of a Perfectly Competitive Labor Market: The Role of Sympathy in Adam Smith's Economics,†at the International Association for Research on Economic Psychology (IAREP) in Wageningen, The Netherlands, July 9, 2016. Kaufman is pictured visiting the birthplace of Karl Marx in Trier, Germany.
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Bill Rencher presented “The ACA: Where Are We Now?†at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Policy Academy in Atlanta on June 30, 2016.
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Michelle Rushing presented "Health Impact Assessment. What? Why? How?" in a Healthy Communities session at the Georgia Municipal Association annual conference in Savannah, Ga., June 26, 2016. Rushing’s co-presenters included Mayor Vince Williams from Union City, Ga., and Mayor Annette Mormon from Baconton, Ga.
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John O’Kane was a guest speaker for the Masters of Art in Philanthropy and Development inaugural class at LaGrange College in LaGrange, Ga., July 19, 2016.
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The Center for State and Local Finance’s report on Georgia’s Community Improvement Districts was featured in the Saporta Report column, “GSU Report Outlines Wide Autonomy, Authority in Popular Tool to Fund Urban Renewal ,†July 11, 2016. Download a copy of the report at http://goo.gl/roqEpv
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The Georgia International Law Enforcement Exchange (GILEE) and the delegates who were part of its annual counterterrorism training in Israel were featured in the following media:
- Gwinnett Daily Post, “Gwinnett Police Official Trains in Middle East,†June 30, 2016
- Wn.com, “Gwinnett County Assistant Police Chief Returns from Counterterrorism Training in Israel (Gwinnett County, GA),†June 30, 2016
- Newton County Sheriff’s Office Facebook page, “Newton County Sheriff Returns from Counterterrorism Training in Israel,†June 30, 2016
- Patch.com, “Sheriff’s Major Completes Counterterrorism Training in Israel,†July 1, 2016
- City of Brookhaven newsletter, “Brookhaven Police Deputy Chief Returns from Counterterrorism Training in Israel,†July 1, 2016
- The Brookhaven Post, “Brookhaven’s Deputy Police Chief Receives Two Weeks of Counterterrorism Training in Israel,†July 1, 2016
- WDUN-Radio, “Clermont Resident, DJJ Commissioner Returns from Israel Trip,†July 4, 2016
- Reporter Newspapers, “Brookhaven Police Deputy Chief Completes Counterterrorism Training in Israel,†July 4, 2016
- Southeast Georgia Today, “GBI Agent's Counter-Terrorism Training,†July 5, 2016
- Patch.com, “Police Captain Completes Counterterrorism Training in Israel,†July 8, 2016
- Jewish Federation of Greater Atlanta newsletter, “Postcard from Israel,†July 12, 2016.
- Atlanta Jewish Times, “GILEE Trains 11 Atlanta-Area Officials in Israel,†July 12, 2016.
- DeKalb Neighbor, “DeKalb Assistant Police Chief Brings Back Lessons from Training
Experience in Israel,†July 14, 2016
- Heard Citizen, “Franklin Police Chief Returns from Counterterrorism Training in Israel,†July 18, 2016
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Congratulations to Shiferaw Gurmu, who was appointed chair of the Department of Economics effective June 21, 2016. An econometrics expert and former World Bank consultant who joined the Andrew Young School in 1998, Gurmu’s applied research focuses on welfare-to-work transition, health care utilization, fertility, human capital, and the economics of innovation and technology. He has served on the Board of Editors of the Atlantic Economic Journal since 2003 and The Open Economics Journal, and as referee for over 40 academic journals. He has previously taught at Addis Ababa University and the University of Virginia. A Fulbright Scholar, Gurmu holds a Ph.D. in Economics from Indiana University-Bloomington, an M.A. in Econometrics from the University of Manchester and a B.Sc. in Statistics from Addis Ababa University.
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