Home  About  In the News  Publications  Blog  Join  Donate  > Inside Northwestern  Students at Roosevelt's Summer 2005 Conference in Hyde Park, NY Announcements Africa Policy Conference @ UNC Perfect Presidential Platform crafted @ UGA Essay Winners Announced in The Nation On Campus Iowa Chapter Holds Forum Zach Hindin in the GW Hatchet Coverage of the Johns Hopkins Chapter Launch > More National Press Chronicle of Higher Education The Nation LA Times New York Times > More "Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds." — Franklin Roosevelt    Chicago Workshop on Health Policy > Roosevelt Home > Northwestern > Chicago Workshop on Health Policy Learn about the leading issue in the 2008 election and have a chance to write and present your own ideas for policy reform. The Chicago Health Policy Workshop at Northwestern University (May 24th, 2008) will bring together students from across the Midwest to hear from leading health policy experts at the state, and national level. Students will have the opportunity to work on their own policy ideas and present them for feedback from their peers and the day's speakers. Click here to view a full schedule for the conference. Click here to RSVP for free for the conference. If you can’t make it to Chicago, we encourage you to participate remotely with our live webcast and chat on the day of the workshop. You should RSVP if you plan to participate remotely. The ideas and dialogue don’t have to end with the workshop. We will work with all interested participants to help them submit their policy ideas to the Roosevelt Rx Health Policy Publication. Click here to read more about Roosevelt’s first health policy publication. The workshop has been made possible by generous support from Northwestern University's Institute for Policy Research, American Studies Program, and Global Public Health Studies Program. Student partners include Americans for an Informed Democracy and GlobeMed. The workshop will be held in the Lake Room, on the second floor of the Norris University Center at  Northwestern University. Click here for a map of campus with the Norris Center highlighted. Confirmed speakers for the conference include: Dr. Quentin Young, health policy expert and Executive Director of Physicians for a National Health Program Aranthan Jones, Director of Policy and Research for the Majority Whip in the US House of Representatives Heidi Nelson, Executive Director of Heartland Health Outreach, and an adjunct professor of health policy at Northwestern University Dr. Harold Pollack, Associate Professor at the School of Social Service Administration, and faculty chair of the Center for Health Administration Studies at the University of Chicago Rep. Mary E. Flowers, Chairperson of the Health Care Availability Access Committee in the Illinois House of Representatives; represents the 31st District in Chicago Rep. Mike Boland, Chairperson of the Financial Institutions Committee in the Illinois House of Representatives; represents the  71st District in Moline If you are interested in helping to plan the Chicago Workshop, join the group using the link in the upper-right hand corner or send an email to ahertel (at) northwestern (dot) edu. Group members: Aretha Chakraborti Matthew D Fischler Stephanie A Gross Alexander W Hertel-Fernandez Katie Ranney Shipra Roy   The Roosevelt Institution is a nonpartisan, nonprofit national think tank devoted to bringing students' policy ideas to the policy process. The opinions expressed on this site are exclusively those of its members. DC Headquarters: Roosevelt Institution / 1527 New Hampshire Avenue NW, 4th Floor / Washington, DC 20036 || Fax: (202) 483-2657