Opportunity for Residents/"Grad" level students/Post docs/Fellows - Win $1000 - Essay Contest: Presidential Health Priorities

KaiserEDU.org announces its Second Annual Student Essay Contest. Submit an original essay on the topic below for a chance to win $1,000. Deadline for submission is March 17, 2008.

ESSAY TOPIC

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.

Presidential Candidates: (please refer to the contest website)

Issue Areas:

Controlling Health Care Costs
Eliminating Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities
Expanding Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Efforts
Improving Women's Health
Improving the Quality of Health Care
CONTEST DETAILS

Eligibility: Submissions will be accepted from undergraduate and graduate-level students enrolled in a degree-granting program at the time of submission.
Essay length: Essays must not exceed 800 words in length and must be original work, prepared by one author only.
Essay submission: Entries must be submitted online only. No emails will be accepted.
Deadline: All essays must be submitted by March 17, 2008, 5p.m. EST.
Judging: 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 kaiserEDU.org.



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