William P. Brandon

Curriculum Vita

Education
Employment
Grants & Fellowships (1980-1997)
Honors & Activities
Professional Associations
Publications in Peer Review Journals
Publications-Book Chapters
Publications-Technical Reporting and Proceedings
Publications-Newspaper & Trade Op-Eds, Book Reviews, Miscellaneous Essays, etc.:
Papers & Conferences

EDUCATION:

Ph.D., 1975, Political Science
Duke University

M.P.H., Health Policy and Administration
School of Public Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

M.Sc., Politics
London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London)

B.A. (General Honors & Phi Beta Kappa), Philosophy & Political Science
The Johns Hopkins University

EMPLOYMENT:

University of North Carolina at Charlotte, 1994-
Metrolina Medical Foundation Distinguished Professor of Public Policy on Health
GlaxoSmithKline Fellow, Institute for Emerging Issues, N.C. State University, 2004-5

Seton Hall University, 1984-93
Professor Public Administration '93, Prof. Political Science '88, Assoc. Prof. '84
Essex and Union Advisory Board for Health Planning, Inc.
Director of Research and Financial Officer 1992-93

Bernard M. Baruch College, City University of New York
Visiting Professor of Health Care Administration, Spring 1990

US, Office of Assistant Secretary of Health & Human Services for Planning & Evaluation Robert Wood Johnson Fellow in Health Care Finance, 1986

The Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Center for Hospital Finance and Management
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Faculty Fellow in Health Care Finance, 1985-86

The Hastings Center, Institute of Society, Ethics and the Life Sciences
National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow, 1982-83

University of Rochester, 1976-82
Assistant Professor of Preventive Medicine & of Political Science

School of Public Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Post-Doctoral Study, 1975-6

Orange-Chatham Comprehensive Health Services, Carrboro NC, 1971-75
Special Asst. to Project Director, '73-5; Director, Planning and Evaluation, '72-3;
Director, Information Services, 1971-2

Durham Technical Institute, Durham NC, 1971
Teacher (English & General Studies in anti-poverty program)

North Carolina State University, Ft. Bragg Branch, Ft. Bragg NC
Instructor in Political Science (Teaching Political Theory), 1970

GRANTS, FELLOWSHIPS, AND OTHER FUNDED ACTIVITIES (1980-1997):

Duke Endowment, Subcontract/Collaboration with Mecklenburg County Medical Society, “Evaluation of Physicians Reach Out/Medlink of Mecklenburg,” 2004-2006 ($101,522) (with Dr. Lutchmie Narine); active participant in securing the overall grant of $520,000 to support efforts by the County Medical Society to provide health care to residents of the County in families with incomes below 200% of the federal poverty level who lack health care.

GlaxoSmithKline Fellowship at the Institute for Emerging Issues, N.C. State University, 2004-5 ($18,000)

U.S., Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Collaboration with Harvard University School of Medicine and University of Massachusetts, "A Head-to-Head Test of Diagnostic Questions Identifying Persons with Special Needs," 1999-2001 ($77,864+$5,000 in-kind), (with Dr. Nancy Schoeps)

North Carolina Department of Human Resources, Contract, "Statewide Assessment of Patient Experience of North Carolina Health Programs for Low-Income Populations: Children and Adults in ACCESS I and II, Health Care Connection (and Possibly CHIP)," 1999-2000 ($200,000), (with Dr. Nancy Schoeps)

Rockefeller Institute (Albany NY), Research on State Medicaid Capacity, 1999-2000 ($7,200), (with Hunter Bacot)

North Carolina Department of Human Resources, Contract to evaluate Health Care Connection, the Mecklenburg Medicaid Mandatory Managed Care Project, 1996-1999 ($401,820), (with Dr. Nancy Schoeps)

UNC Charlotte Curriculum and Instructional Development Grant, "Helping Faculty Incorporate Nonprofit Materials Into Existing MPA Courses," 1996 (Co-Principal Investigator with C.R. Thompson)

City of Newark, Contract for 4-County HIV/AIDS Needs Assessment ($77,158), 1993 (PI with G. Cable)

New Jersey Department of Health, Grant to establish Region III Local Advisory Board for Health Planning ($462,500), 1992 (PI); ($465,089), 1993 (PI); ($471,000), 1994 (PI)

Seton Hall University Research Council, Stipend to study "Crisis in Health Care Finance in New Jersey," 1991 (PI)

Assoc. of Am. Colleges, Grant to teach "American Philanthropy: Historical and Political Perspectives," 1987-90 (PI)

National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Fellowship for "Medicine and Western Civilization," Center for the Study of Society and Medicine, Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons, 1990 (PI)

Blue Cross-Blue Shield of New Jersey, In-kind support for Conference, "Paying Physicians in the 1990s: Quality, Costs, Access and New Reimbursement Systems," 1889 (Conference Codirector who obtained the gift)

Seton Hall University Research Council, Stipend to study hospital reimbursement, 1988 (PI)

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Grant to study the financing of uncompensated care in Maryland Hospitals, 1986-87 (PI)

Fund for New Jersey, Grant to disseminate the symposium issue of the Bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine that contains the Seton Hall University DRG conference: "The All-Payers DRG System: Has New Jersey Found an Efficient and Ethical Way to Provide Indigent Care?", 1986 (PI)

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Faculty Fellowship in Health Care Finance, 1985-86 (PI)

Seton Hall University Research Council, Stipend to study justice in funding health care, 1985 (PI)

National Endowment for the Humanities, Fellowship at the Hastings Center, 1982-83 (PI)

National Endowment for the Humanities, Summer Seminar Fellowship for "Rights To and In Health Care," Kennedy Institute of Ethics, Georgetown University, 1980 (PI)

Institute for Administrative Research and Academy of Management, Merit Prize for research proposal to study Blue Cross and the political economy of health, 1977 (PI)

Symposium support from the New Jersey Department of Higher Education (for the Seton Hall DRG Conference), 1985

Research support from Henry S. Kaiser Foundation (to study health maintenance organizations) and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (to study primary care in Rochester NY), 1978-80

Teaching support from the Commonwealth Fund (for inter-disciplinary undergraduate & graduate courses in health policy at the University of Rochester), 1978-81

U.S. Public Health Service, Traineeship for Post-Doctoral Study, Sch. of Public Health, U.N.C., 1975-6

OTHER HONORS AND ACTIVITIES:

Who's Who in America, 2002 Edition to present. Also featured in Worldview, publication of the National Peace Corps Association.

GlaxoSmithKline Fellow, Institute for Emerging Issues, NC State University, 2004-5

Vice-Chair, Medlink of Mecklenburg, 2004-2005

President, Charlotte Area Peace Corps Association, 2003; Board Member, 2002-4, 1999-2001

Member, Health Policy Delegation to China led by David Blumenthal, MD MPP, Director, Institute for Health Policy, Massachusetts General Hospital/Partners HealthCare System and Professor of Medicine and Healthcare Policy, Harvard Medical School, 2003.

Leadership Charlotte, Class XXII, 2000-2001; also Community Intern, Mecklenburg County Medical Society

Director, UNCC Health Services Research Academy 1997-1998, 1998-1999, 1999-2001, 2004-2006, Steering Committee 1995-2002, 2004-2007

Co-Director, Conference on "Eliminating Inequalities in Health: Global Problems, Local Solutions," April 9, 2001, Hilton University Plaza, Charlotte NC (with Dr. Rosie Tong)

Co-Director, Conference on Eliminating Racial and Ethnic Inequalities in Health: A Challenge for the New Millennium (with Dr. Rosemarie Tong), February 2000 and "Youth Violence: Risk Behaviors, Impact and Prevention," May 1999.

Led Delegation of Returned Peace Corps Volunteers to Iran to promote Iran-US reconciliation, 1999; Project Officer, Peace Corps Friends of Iran, 2004

Member, Miss Hall's School Board of Visitors, Pittsfield MA, 2000-2002

Member, Editorial Advisory Board, Politics and the Life Sciences, since 1991

Co-Chair, Health Commission (major strategic planning initiative), UNCC, 1999-2000

Committee to Plan the PhD in Policy Analysis, 1999-2001; Chair, Health Policy Specialization in PhD in Policy Analysis, 2001; Chair, Committee to Review the Office for Statistics and Applied Mathematics (2000); Member, Staff and Faculty Insurance and Fringe Benefits Committee, 1998-2004

Elected to Phi Beta Delta, Honor Society for International Scholars, 1994
President, 1996-1997; Secretary, 1995-1996, Exec. Com. 1995-1998

Member of Proposal Review Panel for U.S., Department of Health and Human Services, Health Resources and Services Administration, 1996

Elected to Sigma Xi, Honor Society for Scientific Research, 1995

Member, New Jersey State Health Planning Board, 1992
Member, Policy and Plan Development Committee, State of New Jersey Health Coordinating Committee, 1990-1 and NJDOH Benchmarks Project Advisory Group (Hospital Reimbursement), 1992

Member, Board of Trustees, Rom International Association (non-profit Romany [gypsy] social action organization), 1990-93

Merit Award, Seton Hall, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1989 (Merit System discontinued after 1989 bonuses)

New Jersey Master Faculty Program for Teaching Excellence, SHU Center for College Teaching, 1988-9

Conference Co-Director, "Paying Physicians in the 1990s: Quality, Costs, Access and New Reimbursement Systems," Seton Hall, June 9-10, 1989

Conference Director, "The All-Payers DRG System: Has New Jersey Found an Efficient and Ethical Way to Provide Indigent Care?" Seton Hall, June 20-21, 1985, published in Bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine, July-August, 1986

First faculty member chosen to serve a rotation in SHU Office of Grants and Research Service, 1988-9

Featured in Independent College Fund of NJ Annual Report 1986

Member, Governing Council of American Public Health Association (APHA) 1984-86;
Chair, SPIG on Bioethics (APHA), 1981-82;
Program Chair, SPIG on Bioethics (APHA), 1980-81

Columbia University Seminar Associate, 1982-present

National Coordinator, Committee on Health Politics, 1985-86;
Contact Person, Am. Pol. Sci. Assoc. activities of COHP, 82-5;
Contact Person, APHA activities of COHP, 1980-81, 1987

Merit Prize, 1977 Research Proposal Award Contest,
Institute for Administrative Research and Academy of Management

Expert Witness invited by the Task Force on Catastrophic and Long-Term Health Care, New Jersey General Assembly, 1987

Member, Rochester City Planning Commission, 1979-82

Representative, Medical Faculty Council, University of Rochester, 1977-81;
Executive Committee of Medical Faculty Council, 1978-9;
Chair, Department of Preventive Medicine Long-Term Planning Committee, 1977;
Co-Chair, Department Curriculum and Educational Policy Committee, 1978

Member, Finger Lakes Health Systems Agency Task Force on Expansion of St. Mary's Hospital, Rochester NY, 1981

First V-P., 19th. Ward Community Assoc., Rochester NY, 1984

Elected to four academic honor societies at JHU--Phi Beta Kappa, Pi Sigma Alpha (Pol. Sci.), Delta Phi Alpha (German), & the economics honor society; V-P and Sec.-Treasurer of JHU Student Body; JHU Student Council (3 yrs.); Awarded JHU Varsity Seal for student activities

Peace Corps Volunteer, Shiraz Iran; AIESEC Intern, Tours France; Governor's Intern, North Carolina State Board of Health, Raleigh NC

PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS:

American Political Science Association (Life Member)
American Public Health Association
AcademyHealth (formerly Association for Health Services Research)
American Society for Political and Legal Philosophy
Association for Politics and the Life Sciences
Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management
Columbia University Seminar on Political and Social Thought
Committee on Health Politics

PUBLICATIONS--In Peer-Reviewed Journals:

W. Brandon, "In the Age of Bioterrorism, An Affair to Remember: The Silver Anniversary of the Swine Flu Epidemic," Politics and the Life Sciences 20 (1), forthcoming.

W. Brandon, R.V. Chaudry, N.B. Schoeps, B.J. Walsh, "Where Have All the Medicaid recipients Gone? A Cohort Study of Former Medicaid Recipients and Those Continuing in Medicaid in Two North Carolina Counties, 1996-1999," Journal of Health and Human Services Administration 27 (No. 1, Summer 2004), forthcoming.

G. Greenberg, W. Brandon, N.B. Schoeps, L.R. Tingle, and L.D. Shull, “Medicaid Managed Care and Ethnic Differences in Satisfaction and Access,” Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved 14 (No. 3, August 2003): 351-371.

R.V. Chaudry, W. Brandon, C.R. Thompson, R.S. Clayton, and N.B. Schoeps, “Caring for Patients Under Mandatory Managed Care: Perspectives of Primary Care Physicians,” Qualitative Health Research 13 (No. 1, January 2003): 37-56.

R.V. Chaudry, W. Brandon and N.B. Schoeps, "Medicaid Recipients' Experience Under Managed Care," American Journal of Managed Care 5 (April 1999): 413-426.

W. Brandon, "Social Insurance Financing For Long-Term Care: Creative Public Policy to Halt Pauperization of the Elderly in Nursing Homes," International Journal of Public Administration 20 (February 1997): 309-337.

W. Brandon, "Large Scale Social Science Experiment in Health Finance: Findings, Significance and Value," Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law 20 (Winter 1995): 1051-1061 (review essay).

Neil Nevitte, W. Brandon, and Lori Davis, "The American Abortion Controversy: Lessons From Cross-National Evidence," Politics and the Life Sciences 12 (February 1993): 19-30.

W. Brandon, "Cut Off at the Impasse Without Real Catastrophic Health Insurance: Three Approaches to Financing Long-Term Care," Policy Studies Review 8 (Winter 1989): 441-454.

W. Brandon, "Can DRG Systems Substitute for National Health Insurance? Paying for Uncompensated Care Under All-Payers DRG's," Bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine, 62 (July-August 1986): 663-673.

W. Brandon, "Public Policy as the Continuation of Moral Philosophy by Other Means," Policy Studies Review 4 (August 1984): 60-70.

W. Brandon and E. Lee, "Evaluating Health Planning: Empirical Evidence on HSA Regulation of Prepaid Group Practices," Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law 9 (Spring 1984): 103-124.

W. Brandon, "Health Related Tax Subsidies: Government Handouts for the Affluent," New England Journal of Medicine 307 (7 October 1982): 947-950.

W. Brandon, "'Fact' and 'Value' in the Thought of Peter Winch: Linguistic Analysis Broaches Metaphysical Questions," Political Theory 10 (May 1982): 215-44.

W. Brandon, M. Segal, and E. Lee, "Testing the Anti-Regulatory Arguments of the Market Reformers: New Data on the HMO/HSA Relationship," Journal of Health and Human Resources Administration 2 (May 1980): 391-428.

W. Brandon, "Politics, Administration, and Conflict in Neighborhood Health Centers," Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law 2 (Spring 1977): 79-99.

PUBLICATIONS—Book Chapters:

W. Brandon, R.V. Chaudry and Alice Sardell, "Launching SCHIP: The States and Children's Health Insurance," New Controversies in State Health Policy, edited by Robert Hackey & David A. Rochefort (Lawrence KS: University Press of Kansas, 2001), pp. 142-185.

W. Brandon, "Using Healthcare Data in Advertising" and "Publicizing Superior Care" in Paul B. Hofmann and William A. Nelson, eds, Managing Ethically: An Executive's Guide (Chicago: Health Administration Press, 2001), pp. 31-37 (reprinted from Healthcare Executive).

W. Brandon and Dana Burr Bradley, "The Elderly and Health Politics: The 'Coming of Age' of Aging," in Theodor J. Litman and Leonard S. Robins, eds., Health Politics and Policy, Third Edition (Albany NY: Delmar Publishers, 1997), pp. 323-351.

W. Brandon, "Foreword," in Health Services Research Methods by Leiyu Shi (Albany NY: Delmar Publishers, 1997), xiii-xvi.

W. Brandon, "The Hastings Center, Institute of Society, Ethics and the Life Sciences," in Craig Ramsay, ed., U. S. Health Policy Groups: Institutional Profiles (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1995), pp. 223-226.

W. Brandon, "Fulfilling the Promise of Medicare," in Miriam K. Mills and Robert H. Blank, eds., Health Insurance and Public Policy: Risk, Allocation, and Equity (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1992), pp. 105-121.

W. Brandon, "Two Kinds of Conservatism in US Health Policy: The Reagan Record," in Christa Altenstetter and Stuart C. Haywood, eds., From Rhetoric to Reality: Comparative Health Policy and the New Right (London: MacMillan, 1991), pp. 165-206.

W. Brandon, "Politics, Health and the Elderly: Inventing the Next Century--the Age of Aging," in Theodor J. Litman and Leonard S. Robins, eds., Health Politics and Policy, Second Edition (New York: Delmar Publishers, 1991), pp. 335-55.

W. Brandon, "Why Government Cannot Contain Health Care Costs: An Interpretation of the U.S. Health Care System," in Rita Mae Kelly, ed., Promoting Productivity in the Public Sector: Problems, Strategies, and Prospects (London: MacMillan, 1988; New York: St. Martin's, 1988), pp. 141-159.

W. Brandon, "Rochester: Flower City and Flexnerian Seedling," in Stephen J. Kunitz, ed., The Training of Primary Care Physicians, (Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1986), pp. 59-103, 389-396.

PUBLICATIONS—Technical Reports and Proceedings:

W. Brandon, N. Schoeps, B. Walsh and L. Shull, "Statewide Assessment of Patient Experience in North Carolina Programs for Low-Income Populations: Evaluation of NC Health Choice for Children," Policy Report No. 9, UNC Charlotte, 6 June 2001.

W. Brandon, N. Schoeps, B. Walsh, and L. Shull, "Statewide Assessment of Patient Experience in North Carolina Programs for Low-Income Populations," Policy Report No. 8, UNC Charlotte, 8 May 2001.

W. Brandon, Hunter Bacot and Greg Greenberg, Mandatory Medicaid Managed Care in North Carolina, final report fulfilling a research contract to study State Medicaid Capacity with the Research Foundation of SUNY, March 2000.

R.V. Chaudry, W. Brandon and N.B. Schoeps, "Exploring Medicaid Recipients' Perceptions of Access, Quality, and Satisfaction with Care in a Mandatory Managed Care Program Using Focus Groups," Policy Research Report No. 7, April 1998.

R.V. Chaudry, N.B. Schoeps, and W. Brandon, "Satisfaction, and Health Service Use: Baseline Data for the Evaluation of a Mandatory Managed Care Program," Policy Research Report No. 6, April 1998.

N. B. Schoeps, R. V. Chaudry, and W. Brandon, Interim Evaluation of Health Care Connection: Access, Satisfaction, Utilization, and Cost in a Mandatory Managed Care Demonstration Project in Mecklenburg County, NC, Policy Report No. 5, UNC Charlotte, July 1998, (xiii + 174 pp.).

W. Brandon, N.B. Schoeps, and R.V. Chaudry, "Evaluation of Health Care Connection: Results of Medicaid/HMO Surveys in Mecklenburg and New Hanover Counties," Policy Report No. 4, UNC Charlotte, September 1997.

W. Brandon, R.V. Chaudry, and N.B. Schoeps, "Evaluating Medicaid Recipients' Satisfaction, Access and Utilization Under Mandatory HMO Enrollment in Mecklenburg County: Evaluation Design and Survey Documentation," Policy House Research Report No. 3, UNCC, June 1997.

W. Brandon, "Understanding Community Health Status: A Commentary on the Health and Demographic Data in 1993 Charlotte/Mecklenburg Quality of Life Indicators," Policy House Research Report No. 1, UNCC, February 1995.

W. Brandon, "Implementing Health Insurance Reform: Assuring Fair and Effective Competition by Oversight of Insurers," Issue Brief No. 3 (South Orange, NJ: Essex and Union Advisory Board for Health Planning, Inc., 1993).

W. Brandon, "Interim Report on Focus Group Research on Minority Diabetics in Essex and Union Counties," Research Report No. 2, (South Orange, NJ: Essex and Union Advisory Board for Health Planning, Inc., 1993).

W. Brandon, "Using Focus Groups to Evaluate Access to Care: Testing the Methodology in a Study of Minority Adults with Diabetes," Technical Note No. 3, (South Orange, NJ: Essex and Union Advisory Board for Health Planning, Inc., 1992).

W. Brandon, "Non-Rationality and Supra-Individual Ethics: Problems of Ethical Evaluation of Public Policy," Papers Presented at the Fifty-Fourth Annual Meeting of the Canadian Political Science Association (Ottawa: Canadian Pol. Sci. Assoc., 1982).

W. Brandon and T. Brown, "The City, The Medical School and Primary Care in Four Residency Training Programs," A Study of Four Primary Care Training Programs at the University of Rochester School of Medicine, Final Report Submitted to the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, July 1980, Chapter 2.

W. Brandon and S. Price, "Decision-Making for the Health Care System: Integrating Consumer Representation Into Three Modes of Health Planning," Proceedings of the First International Symposium on Policy Analysis and Information Systems (Taiwan, 1979), 429-453.

W. Brandon, "'Fact' and 'Value' in the Thought of Peter Winch: Linguistic Analysis Broaches Metaphysical Questions," Papers Presented at the Fifty-First Annual Meeting of the Canadian Political Science Association, 1979 (Ottawa: Canadian Pol. Sci. Assoc., 1979).

W. Brandon, "The Concept Feedback as an Explanation of Teleology: An Apposite Candidate for Therapeutic Linguistic Analysis," Papers Presented at the Fiftieth Annual Meeting of the Canadian Political Science Association, 1978 (Ottawa: Canadian Pol. Sci. Assoc., 1978).

W. Brandon and S. Seidel, "Health Planning, Pluralism and the Consumer," Papers Presented at the Fiftieth Annual Meeting of the Canadian Political Science Association, 1978 (Ottawa: Canadian Pol. Sci. Assoc., 1978).

Authored and directed over 30 research and statistical reports, as well as numerous miscellaneous papers and reports, while employed at OCCHS (1971-75). Illustrative titles: "Prospect Hill and Other OEO Health Centers: A Statistical Comparison"; "Population, Registration, and Economic Circumstances in Townships Included in OCCHS Target Areas"; "Self-Evaluation of the Planning and Evaluation Component"; Information System's Procedures Manual.

PUBLICATIONS—Newspaper & Trade Op-Eds, Book Reviews, Miscellaneous Essays, etc.:

W. Brandon, “U.S. Needs Health Care for All,” Charlotte Observer, 23 March 2004, p. 10A.

W. Brandon, “The PCV, the Mullah and the Secret Police—Remembrances of Iran,” memoire in CAPCA Currents [Newsletter of the Charlotte Area Peace Corps Association] Winter 2003, pp. 5-7.

W. Brandon, "Publicizing Superior Care," Healthcare Executive 14 (No. 5, September/October 1999): 45.

W. Brandon, "U.S. Ought to Change Its Policy Toward Iran," Op-ed column in the Charlotte Observer, 1 September 1998, p. 9A.

W. Brandon, “Iran-30 Years Later,” CAPCA Currents [Newsletter of the Charlotte Area Peace Corps Association], Issue 3, 1 July 1998.

W. Brandon, "Healthcare Management Ethics: Using Healthcare Data in Advertising," Healthcare Executive 12 (January/February 1997): 45.

W. Brandon, "Employer Mandate Misconceptions," Op-ed column in The Charlotte Observer, 24 August 1994, p. A11.

W. Brandon, "Our Fragmented Health-Care System," Op-ed column in The Charlotte Observer, 6 May 1994, p. A13.

W. Brandon, review of Free To Be Foolish: Politics and Health Promotion in the United States and Canada, by Howard M. Leichter in Politics and the Life Sciences 11 (August 1992): 290-93.

W. Brandon, “A Political Science Lecturer at Wuhan University,” Asia Center Newsletter [Seton Hall University] 1 (November 1992): 2-4.

W. Brandon, "Analysis of APLS Membership," Politics and the Life Sciences 9 (February 1991): 326-32.

W. Brandon, "Congress, Pool Your Tips!" Op-ed column in Sunday Washington Post, 6 August 1989, p. B7. (Reprinted in Hartford Courant, Louisville (KY) Courier-Journal, Indianapolis News, Kentucky Enquirer, and Ann Arbor News. Total circulation over 1.5 million.)

W. Brandon, "How Will We Care: Paying for Health Care for the Aged," Endeavors 5 (Summer 1988): 2-4.

W. Brandon, review of Making Cancer Policy, by Mark E. Rushefsky in New England Journal of Human Services 8, no. 2 (1988): 38-39.

W. Brandon and W. T. Bluhm, "Teaching Ethics in a Not-So-Ivory Tower of Babel: Using Health Politics as a Text," American Political Science Association's News for Teachers of Political Science (Fall 1984): 8-10.

W. T. Bluhm and W. Brandon, "Ethics and Public Policy: Issues in the Politics of Health," in Public Policy and Policy Analysis (Durham, NC: Eno River Press, 1981), pp. 28-37. (Vol. II in Political Science Reading Lists and Course Outlines.)

W. Brandon, abstract of “Politics, Administration, and Conflict in Neighborhood Health Centers,” s.v. Facilities: Health Centers, in Medical Care Review 35 (No. 8, August 1978): 888.

W. Brandon, "Evaluation of a Neighborhood Health Center's Planning and Evaluation Component: The First Nineteen Months" (M.P.H. major paper, UNC-CH School of Public Health, 1976).

W. Brandon, "Linguistic Analysis, Political Science and Political Theory" (Ph.D. dissertation, Duke University, 1975).

PRESENTATIONS AT NATIONAL & INTERNATIONAL MEETINGS:

"Feedback: A Case Study in Conceptual Confusion," paper presented to the Foundations of Political Theory Group, at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Washington DC, August 31, 1977.

"Governance of Health Systems Agencies: The Rationales for Consumer Involvement," paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Public Health Association, Washington DC, October 31, 1977 (with Susan Seidel).

"The Concept Feedback As An Explanation of Teleology: An Apposite Candidate for Therapeutic Linguistic Analysis," paper presented at the annual meeting of the Canadian Political Science Association, London Ontario, May 28-31, 1978.

"Health Planning, Pluralism and the Consumer," paper presented at the annual meeting of the Canadian Political Science Association, London Ontario, May 28-31, 1978 (with Susan Seidel).

"Three Modes of Health Planning," paper presented at the annual meeting of the Academy of Management, San Francisco, August 1978 (with Susan Seidel).

"Peter Winch and the Fact/Value Dichotomy," paper presented to the Foundations of Political Theory Group, at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, New York City, August 31, 1978.

"The Health Front and the War on Poverty," paper presented at the New York Political Science Association, Liberty NY, April 1979 (with Carol McPhee).

"'Fact' and 'Value' in the Thought of Peter Winch: Linguistic Analysis Broaches Metaphysical Questions," paper presented at the annual meeting of the Canadian Political Science Association, Saskatoon Saskatchewan, May 30-June 1, 1979.

"Rationales for Consumer Representation in Health Planning: Congress Subscribes to the Pluralist Model of Politics," presented at the annual meeting of the Academy of Management, Atlanta, August 10, 1979 (with Susan Seidel).

"Decision-Making for the Health Care System: Integrating Consumer Representation Into Three Modes of Health Planning," paper presented to the First International Symposium on Policy Analysis and Information Systems, Durham NC, June 29, 1979 (with Susan Seidel).

"Planning for Prepaid Group Practice Hospitalization Services: The Preliminary Analysis of Data on the Decision to Affiliate," paper presented at the annual meeting of the American public Health Association, New York City, November 8, 1979 (with Emma Lee and Mark Segal).

"Health Planning and HMO Growth: How Capital Investment Regulation of Hospitals Affects Prepaid Group Practices," presentation at the annual meeting of the American Public Health Association, New York City, November 1979 (with Emma Lee and Mark Segal).

"The Federal Assumption of Responsibility for Health Policy, 1953-1966," paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Washington DC, September 2, 1979 (with Carol McPhee).

"Assessing Health Planning Under PL 93-641: A Critical Review of the Evaluation Literature---Process, Outcome, and Import," paper presented at the annual meeting of the Academy of Management, Detroit, August 11, 1980.

"Health Planning/Regulation and Market Competition: An Empirical Analysis of the HSA-HMO Relationship," paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Society of Public Administration, Detroit, April 13, 1981.

"The Dark Side: Dealing with Non-Rational Allocations in Political Science and Ethics," paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Public Health Association, Los Angeles CA, November 3, 1981.

"Health Policy as the Continuation of Moral Philosophy By Other Means," paper presented at the annual meeting of the Midwestern Political Science Association, Milwaukee WI, April, 1982.

"Non-Rationality and Supra-Individual Ethics: Problems of Ethical Evaluation of Public Policy," paper presented at the annual meeting of the Canadian Political Science Association, Ottawa, June 7-9, 1982.

"Teaching Ethics in a Not-So-Ivory Tower of Babel: A Course in Ethics and Public Policy Using Health Policy as a 'Text'," paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Public Health Association, Montreal, November 14-15, 1982 (with William T. Bluhm).

"Paying for Extended Care: Social Insurance Versus Means-Tested Welfare," paper presented at the meeting of the project on Ethics and the Care of the Aging, Harvard Medical School, Boston MA, February 10, 1983.

"Ethical Controversies in Occupational Safety and Health,” panel participant at the annual meeting of the American Public Health Association, Dallas, November 16, 1983.

"Paying for Long-Term Institutional Care: Social Insurance Versus Means-Tested Welfare," paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Public Health Association, Dallas, November 16, 1983.

Invited discussant, "Political Linguistics: Precursors and Prospects," conference at York University, Downsview Ontario, Canada, April 14-16, 1984.

"Equity in Paying for Health Care: Is It Ethical to Subsidize Health Insurance for the Affluent?" paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Public Health Association, Anaheim CA, November 13, 1984.

"Paying for Long-Term Institutional Care--Social Insurance vs. Means-Tested Welfare," paper presented at the tenth annual CUNY/Political Science Conference, New York City, December 8, 1984.

"National Health Insurance and All-Payers DRG's that Reimburse Hospitals for Uncompensated Care," paper presented at the "All-Payers DRG System" conference, Seton Hall University, June 21, 1985.

"Justice and Health Care Finance: Can Public Subsidies for Health Insurance Be Justified," paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, New Orleans LA, August 29-September 1, 1985.

"Paying for Long-Term Institutional Care: Social Insurance versus Means-Tested Welfare," paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, New Orleans LA, August 29-September 1, 1985.

"Can DRG Systems Substitute for National Health Insurance: Paying for Uncompensated Care Under All-Payers DRG's," paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Public Health Association, Washington DC, November 19-21, 1985.

Politics of Medicare Waivers: The New Jersey Prospective Reimbursement Experience--The Widening Gyre: Can the Centre Hold?" paper presented at the annual meeting of the Southwestern Social Science Association, Dallas, March 19, 1987 (with Philip DiSalvio).

"What's in a Name?: Medicare Capitation Smells Sweeter than 'Vouchers,'" paper presented at the annual meeting of the Southwestern Social Science Assoc., Dallas, March 21, 1987.

"Social Health Insurance: From Catatonic to Catastrophic?" address to annual alumni meeting of Seton Hall School of Nursing, March 28, 1987.

"New Economic Realties and Psychiatric Care," invited panel presentation at the meeting of the American Psychiatric Association Ethics Committee, The Hastings Center, Briarcliff Manor NY, April 16-7, 1987.

"The Effects of All-Payer Rate Regulation on Patterns of Hospitalization: Maryland's Reimbursement for 'Uncompensated' Care," paper presented at the annual meeting of the Operations Research Society of America, New Orleans LA, May 5, 1987 (with Philip DiSalvio).

"The Future of All-Payer Hospital Rate Regulation in New Jersey: The Politics of the Medicare Waiver", paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Public Health Association, New Orleans LA, October 19, 1987.

"The 'Worth of Things': Reflections on the Importance of Health and Its Provision in the Modern World," Professorial Inaugural Lecture, Seton Hall, November 2, 1988.

"Potential Revolution in the Medical World: Part B Medicare Reform and the Physician," Distinguished Lecturer, St. Joseph's Hospital and Medical Center, Paterson NJ, Fall 1988.

"RVS and Physician Reimbursement: Politics and Policy," paper presented at Baruch College/Mt. Sinai School of Medicine, New York City, March 2, 1989.

"A Policy Perspective on AIDS," paper presented at the Global Studies Consortium of New Jersey Colleges and Universities, Montclair State College, NJ, April 13, 1989.

"Politics, Health and the Elderly: Inventing the Next Century--the Age of Aging," paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Study Group on Comparative Health Policy, International Political Science Association, Birmingham Eng., June 26-28, 1989.

"The Rand Health Insurance Experiment: A Proposal," paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Study Group on Comparative Health Policy, International Political Science Association, Birmingham Eng., June 26-28, 1989.

Chair, Participant and Organizer, "Roundtable on Health Care: Finance in the 1990s," at the annual TIMS/ORSA (Operations Research Society of America) meeting, Philadelphia, October 29-31, 1990.

Invited Presenter, "Public Policy" and "Nonprofit Institutions and the Public Interest," Conference on Collegiate Education and the Cultivation of Civic Consciousness, sponsored by the Association of American Colleges, cosponsored by Campus Compact and the Indiana University Center on Philanthropy, Chicago, April 11-13, 1991.

"Paying for Health Care of the Uninsured in the U.S.: Public Financing of a National Health Program," paper presented at the triennial meeting of the International Political Science Association, Buenos Aires Argentina, July 22-25, 1991.

"The Crisis in Health Care Finance in New Jersey: Politics, Corporatism and Hospital Care for the Uninsured," paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Washington DC, August 29-September 1, 1991.

"Paying for Uncompensated Care in New Jersey: Sticking to Community Principles in Hard Times," paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Public Health Association, Atlanta, November 12, 1991.

"Closing Remarks: Where Do We Go From Here?", wrap-up speaker at the Conference "Planning for the Year 2000: Responsive Decision Making to Reach the Vision," sponsored by the National Academy for State Health Policy and Rutgers Faculty of Planning of New Jersey, Piscataway NJ, March 7, 1992.

"Governing a Continental Superpower: Locality, State and Nation in the United States," six public lectures, and "The Development of Policy Analysis and Traditional Public Administration," address to the Political Science Faculty, Wuhan University, Wuhan China, May-June 1992.

"Managing Deregulation and Competition in New Jersey," paper presented at the research meeting of the Robert Wood Johnson Faculty Fellows in Health Care Finance, Salt Lake City, March 4, 1993.

"Deregulation, Competition and Politics in New Jersey: Reforming Health Care, Controlling Costs and Surviving Elections," paper presented at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, March 24, 1993.

"Reforming the New Jersey Health Care System and Its Financing," paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Public Health Association, San Francisco, October 27, 1993.

"Realistic Priorities, Political Power and Ethical Policy in the Newt Era: Catastrophic Long-Term Care Insurance to Protect the Elderly, Control Medicaid Costs and Promote Welfare Reform," paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Public Health Association, San Diego, October 29-November 2, 1995.

"LOOK MA, NO NEW TAXES!: Creative Public Policy to Finance Part C Medicare--Social Insurance for Nursing Home Care of Social Security Beneficiaries," paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, San Francisco, August 29-September 1, 1996.

"Is Mandatory HMO Enrollment For Dependent Populations Acceptable? Public Opinion and Its Evolution Since the Backlash Against Managed Care," paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Washington DC, August 28-31, 1997 (with T.S. Arrington and N. Schoeps).

"Public Opinion About Mandatory HMO Enrollment Under Medicaid, Medicare, Veterans and Employer Payment Programs: The Trade-Off Between Controlling Medical Costs and Freedom to Choose One's Doctors," paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Public Health Association, Indianapolis IN, November 11, 1997 (with N. Schoeps and T.S. Arrington).

"Using Focus Groups to Explore Medicaid Recipients' Perceptions of Access, Quality and Satisfaction With Health Care and Satisfaction With an Enrollment Broker Under Mandatory Managed Care," poster session presented at the annual meeting of the Association for Health Services Research, Washington DC, June 21-23, 1998 (with Rosemary Chaudry and Nancy Schoeps).

"Evaluating Medicaid Recipients' Access and Satisfaction with Mandatory Managed Care Using Focus Groups," paper presented to the American Evaluation Association, Chicago, November 6, 1998 (with Rosemary Chaudry and Nancy Schoeps).

"Using Focus Groups to Explore Medicaid Recipients' Perceptions in an Evaluation of a Mandatory Managed Care Program," paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Public Health Association, Washington DC, November 18, 1998 (with Rosemary Chaudry and Nancy Schoeps).

"The Politics of Poverty, Public Health and Managed Care," paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Public Health Association, Washington DC, November 15-19, 1998 (with Rosemary Chaudry and Nancy Schoeps).

"Public Health Nurses' Perceptions of Role Identity and Job Satisfaction in Three Different Models of Public Health Departments," paper to be presented at the Midwest Nursing Research Society, Indianapolis, April 1999 (with Rosemary Chaudry and Nancy Schoeps).

"The Politics of Poverty and Health: Issues of Concern for Women in a Mandatory Medicaid Managed Care Program," paper presented at the Midwest Nursing Research Society, Indianapolis, April 1999 (with Rosemary Chaudry and Nancy Schoeps).

"What Happens to the Health Care of Former Medicaid Recipients? A Longitudinal Study of Managed Care and Fee-For-Service Populations in Two Urban Counties in North Carolina" poster presented at the Association for Health Services Research Meetings, Chicago, June 1999. (with RV Chaudry and NS Schoeps).

"Measuring Patient Satisfaction for Medicaid Recipients," poster presented at the annual meeting of the Association for Health Services Research, June 1999, Chicago (with NB Schoeps, CV Chaudry).

"Comparison of Patient Satisfaction, Utilization, and Cost for Medicaid Recipients by Attrition Status," poster presented at the annual meeting of the Association for Health Services Research, Chicago, June 1999 (with Rosemary Chaudry and Nancy Schoeps).

"Is Health Care Better After Leaving Medicaid: A Cohort Study of a Poverty Population in Two North Carolina Counties," paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Association for Politics and the Life Sciences (held concurrently with the American Political Science Association), Atlanta, September 1999.

"Linking Health Care Utilization and State Expenditures With Survey Data: Exploring Differences Between Continuing and Discontinuing Medicaid Recipients in Two North Carolina Counties," paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Public Health Association, Chicago, November 1999 (with NB Schoeps & RV Chaudry).

"Where Have All the Medicaid Recipients Gone? Sources of Health Care Coverage, Access, Satisfaction, Quality of Care, and Health Status in 1999 for Former Medicaid Recipients", paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Public Health Association, Chicago, November 1999 (RV Chaudry & NB Schoeps).

"Making a Choice: Plan Selection, Tenure and Satisfaction in a Medicaid Mandatory Managed Care Program with an Independent Enrollment Broker," paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Public Health Association, November 1999, Chicago (with RV Chaudry, NB Schoeps, Y. Sun, X Zhang, RS Clayton).

"Evaluating Mandatory Medicaid Managed Care from the Patient's Perspective: Survey Results from a Quasi-Experimental Design," paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Public Health Association, November 1999, Chicago (with RV Chaudry, NB Schoeps).

"Evaluating Mothers' Perception of Health Care for Their Children in a Mandatory Medicaid Managed Care Program," poster session presented at the annual meeting of the American Public Health Association, November 1999, Chicago (with RS Clayton, RV Chaudry).

"Is Measuring Patient Satisfaction Different for Medicaid Recipients than for the General Public?" paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Public Health Association, November 1999, Chicago (with NB Schoeps, RV Chaudry).

"Public Health Nurses' Perceptions of Role Identity and Job Satisfaction in Three Different Models of County Health Departments," paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Public Health Association, November 1999, Chicago (with RV Chaudry, CR Thompson, DR Langford).

"Does Satisfaction With, and Access to Health Care Differ for Low-Income Children by Mode of Delivery and Financing and by Health Needs?: A Cross-Sectional Study of Medicaid and CHIP in North Carolina," Presentation at the annual meetings of the Association for Health Services Research, Los Angeles CA, June 2000 (with Lynne Tingle, Nancy Schoeps and Greg Greenberg).

"Patient Satisfaction: Comparing Responses of Medicaid Recipients Under Managed Care with Those Under Fee for Service at Two Different Time Periods Using Confirmatory Factor Analysis," Presentation at the annual meeting of the Association for Health Services Research, Los Angeles, June 2000 (with Nancy Schoeps, Laure DeBow, Lynne Tingle, Greg Greenberg, RV Chaudry).

"Children with Special Needs: Matching CAHPS Questions with Eligibility Category," Presentation at the annual meeting of the Association for Health Services Research, Los Angeles, June 2000 (with Nancy Schoeps, Lynne Tingle, and Greg Greenberg).

"Caring for Medicaid Recipients Under Mandatory Managed Care: The Primary Care Provider's Perspective," presentation at the annual meeting of the Association for Health Services Research, Los Angeles, June 2000 (with CV Chaudry, RS Clayton, CR Thompson, Nancy Schoeps).

"Teaching Poster: 'Introduction to the U.S. Health Care system," poster presentation at the Annual Meeting of the Association for Politics and the Life Sciences, Washington DC, 31 August 2000.

"The Child Health Insurance Program: A New Kind of Entitlement for the Age of Devolution?" paper presented at the annual meeting of the Association for Politics and the Life Sciences, Washington DC, 31 August 2000 (with RV Chaudry and A Sardell).

"Managed Care versus Fee for Service on Health Care Quality in 2 North Carolina Counties," paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Public Health Association, Boston MA, November 2000 (with LR Tingle, G Greenberg, N Schoeps, RV Chaudry).

"Comparison of Patient Satisfaction for Medicaid Recipients in Two North Carolina Counties," presentation at the annual meeting of the American Public Health Association, Boston MA, November 2000 (with N Schoeps, Laure DeBow, LR Tingle, RV Chaudry).

"Strengthening the Public Health Infrastructure in a Changing Environment: Challenges and Opportunities for Public Health Nursing Supervisors," paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Public Health Association, Boston MA, November 2000 (with RV Chaudry, CR Thompson, David R. Langford, CL Jurkiewicz).

"Validating Medicaid Recipients' Self-Reports of Health Service Use and Managed Care Plan Membership Using Claims Data," presentation at the annual meeting of the American Public Health Association, Boston MA, November 2000 (N Schoeps, RV Chaudry, Laure DeBow).

"Caring for Medicaid Recipients Under Mandatory Managed Care: The Primary Care Physicians' Perspectives," paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Public Health Association, Boston MA, November 2000 (with RV Chaudry, RS Clayton, CR Thompson, NB Schoeps).

"Protecting Medicaid Mental Health Safety-Net Providers: Analysis of 29 State's Contracting Practices," paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Public Health Association, Boston MA, November 2000 (with Greg Greenberg, Jeanine Mount).

“Enrollment and Disenrollment in Medicaid Managed Care,” presentation at the annual meeting of the Academy of Health Services Research and Health Policy, Washington DC, June 25, 2002 (with N. Schoeps).

“HMO or Indemnity Care: Which Produces Greater Satisfaction and Access in Caring for Children in Low-Income Families,” presented at the annual meeting of the Association for Politics and the Life Sciences, Montreal Canada, August 2002 (with T.C. Nicholson).

Panelist on a Roundtable on Bioterrorism, annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Boston MA, August 2002.

“Medicaid Enrollee Switching among Managed Care Plans,” paper presented at the annual meeting of the Southeastern Economics Association, November 2002 (with J. Troyer, R. Sundaram, N. Schoeps, Y. Sun and B. Walsh).

“New Roasting for Old Chestnuts: Innovative Financing for Universal Health Coverage,” paper presented at the annual meeting of the Association for Politics and the Life Sciences, Philadelphia, August 2003.

“From Mao to Modernity: Changing Perceptions of the Chinese Health Care System and the ‘Progress’ of Privatization,” paper to be presented at the annual meeting of the Association for Politics and the Life Sciences, Chicago, September 2, 2004.

“Where Have All the Medicaid Recipients Gone? A Cohort Study of Former Medicaid Recipients and Those Continuing in Medicaid in Two North Carolina Counties, 1996-1999,” paper to be delivered at the annual meeting of the Southeastern Conference of Public Administration, Charlotte NC, October 3, 2004.