The Weekend Program

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Keynote

MARIAN WRIGHT EDELMAN

Mrs. Edelman, a passionate advocate for disadvantaged Americans, is founder and president of the Children's Defense Fund, the nation's strongest advocate for children and families.

Reception and program honoring Professor David Gil

Download the Festschrift:  Essays in Honor of Professor David Gil

Past and Current Deans Panel and Breakfast

Chaired by the Brandeis provost, the deans will reflect on social policy impact that originated at the Heller School during the past fifty years and challenges that will shape the future of social policy.

• CHAIR
• Marty Wyngaarden Krauss, PhD '81, Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs and John Stein Professor of Disability Research
• PANEL
• Stuart Altman, Sol C. Chaikin Professor of National Health Policy
• Lisa M. Lynch, Dean and Professor of Economics
• Jack P. Shonkoff, Julius B. Richmond FAMRI Professor of Child Health and Development and Director, Center on the Developing Child, Harvard University

Concurrent Workshops - Morning Sessions

Building Assets and Communities across the Life Course

This workshop explores the theory and practice of poverty alleviation from one of the freshest perspectives and strategies in the field - asset- and community-building.

• MODERATOR
• Joseph D. Warren, MSW '72, PhD '83, Special Assistant to Director, Government Relations and Community Affairs, Northeastern University
• PANEL
• Thomas Shapiro, Pokross Professor of Law and Social Policy and Director, Institute on Assets and Social Policy
• Fernando Torres-Gil, MSW '72, PhD '76, Associate Dean, UCLA School of Public Affairs
• William Traynor, MMHS '84, Executive Director, Lawrence Community Works

Leveraging Human Capital for Economic Recovery:
A Social Justice Agenda

What role should human capital play in the foundation for inclusive economic growth? This panel will consider workplace designs that accommodate work/life balance, more equitable pay policies, and greater worker voice through unions and solutions that level the playing field.

• MODERATOR
• Jody Hoffer Gittell, Associate Professor and MBA Program Director
• PANEL
• Deborah L. Friedman, Co-Director, Labor Management Project, 1199SEIU United Healthcare Workers East
• David Gil, Professor of Social Policy
• Anita Hill, Professor of Social Policy, Law, and Women's Studies
• Paula Hong, MBA '07, HR Manager, LG CNS America, Inc.
• Freada Kapor Klein, PhD '84, Chairman, Level Playing Field Institute
• Thomas Kochan, Professor, Sloan School of Management, MIT
• Rob Seidner '98, MBA '03, U.S. Office of Personnel Management

Living Till We Die: Social Justice in Aging

Twenty-five of the thirty-year gain in life expectancy in the last century has been attributed to social policy measures. How can we formulate policies and programs that reconcile the biomedical, technical, psychosocial, and economic aspects of aging? Join our learning circle to explore these issues.

• PANEL
• Sarita Bhalotra, PhD '99, Associate Professor
• James Callahan Jr., PhD '68, Professor Emeritus
• Lillian Glickman, MSW '71, PhD '81, Codirector, Management of Aging Services Program,  University of Massachusetts, Boston
• Eric Kingson, PhD '79, Professor of Social Work and Public Administration and Senior Research Associate, Center for Policy Research, Syracuse University
• Walter Leutz, PhD '81, Associate Professor
• Vincent Mor, PhD '79, Professor of Medical Science and Chair, Department of Community Health, Brown University School of Medicine
• Ruth Palombo, PhD '03, Assistant Secretary, Office of Program Planning and Management, Massachusetts Executive Office of Elder Affairs
• Nina Silverstein, PhD '80, Professor of Gerontology, College of Public and Community Service, University of Massachusetts, Boston

The Role of the States in Health Reform: Past Lessons and Future Hope

National health reform is--and will continue to be--a moving target. But it is clear that states will be key actors as well as being significantly impacted by the legislation. This session will highlight the major health insurance reforms being discussed in Washington, with an emphasis on the importance of state Medicaid programs in expanding eligibility. While insurance reform needs to occur on a national basis, this expert panel (who come from different areas of the country) will discuss the likelihood and potential for states to take the lead in bringing the growth in health care costs under control.

• MODERATOR
• Stanley Wallack, Professor and Executive Director, Schneider Institutes for Health Policy
• PANEL
• Stuart Altman, Sol C. Chaikin Professor of National Health Policy
• Eric Cahow, PhD '04, Vice President, Product Development, WellCare Health Plans, Inc.
• Karen Wolk Feinstein, PhD '83, President and CEO, Jewish Healthcare Foundation
• Thomas Glynn, MSW '72, PhD '77, Chief Operating Officer, Partners HealthCare Systems, Inc.

Luncheon Keynote:  A Better Health-Care System

DR. ATUL GAWANDE

Dr. Gawande is a general and endocrine surgeon at Brigham and Women's Hospital and the Dana Farber Cancer Institute and an Associate Professor at Harvard Medical School. He served as senior health policy advisor to the Clinton White House and is currently director of the World Health Organization's global campaign to reduce surgical deaths. Dr. Gawande is also a frequent contributor to The New Yorker magazine.

Networking and Video Booth

Come to the "Heller Story Booth" to record your commentary about fifty years of Heller and its impact on you (for posterity)!

Concurrent Workshops - Afternoon Sessions

Making Knowledge Productive: Influencing Policy and Practice through Heller Community Partnerships

Collaborating with community-based agencies and state and local governments, Heller's Institute for Child, Youth and Family Policy works to improve the well-being of children and youth. The audience will help analyze these partnerships and discuss how they can be improved and expanded.

• PANEL
• Susan P. Curnan, Associate Professor and Director, Center for Youth and Communities
• Cariann Harsh, MBA '04, Director, Autism Division, Massachusetts Department of Developmental Services
• Della M. Hughes, Senior Fellow, Center for Youth and Communities
• Lorraine V. Klerman, Professor and Director, Institute for Child, Youth and Family Policy
• John Lippitt, MMHS '96, PhD '03, Executive Director, Thrive in 5
• Marji Erickson Warfield, PhD '91, Senior Scientist and Interim Director, Nathan and Toby Starr Center for Mental Retardation and the Lurie Institute for Disability Policy

Transforming the Practice of Development: A Human Rights and Capabilities Approach to Social Exclusion

The panel will address the dilemma of how to reconcile a human development and capabilities approach to poverty reduction, which is focused on individual agency and expansion of human choices, with an analysis of structural forces, hierarchies, and ideologies that prevent many millions of people access to the conditions and entitlements needed for sustained and equitable development.

• PANEL
• Cristina Espinosa, Assistant Professor and Associate Director of Academics, MA in Sustainable International Development Program
• Susan Holcombe, Professor of the Practice, Sustainable International Development Programs
• Heath Prince, PhD Student
• Laurence R. Simon, Professor and Director, Sustainable International Development Programs

Beyond Parity: The Future of Behavioral Health

The passage of federal parity legislation is a major step forward in equitable treatment for persons with substance use and mental conditions. This panel will examine the historical context for this milestone, the implications and limits of parity for health care reform, and why parity is a necessary but not sufficient step in treatment for persons with behavioral health needs.

• MODERATOR
• Constance Horgan, Professor and Director, Institute for Behavioral Health, and Associate Dean for Research
• PANEL
• James Callahan Jr., PhD '68, Professor Emeritus
• Victor Capoccia, PhD '78, Program Director, Closing the Addiction Treatment Gap, Open Society Institute
• Howard Goldman '70, PhD '78, Professor of Psychiatry, University of Maryland School of Medicine
• Gail Robinson, PhD '80, Vice President, Health Services Research Evaluation, Abt Associates, Inc.

Philanthropy, Social Justice and the Recession

Philanthropy is being stretched in the current economy. Panelists from the private- and corporate-foundation perspectives grapple with working toward social justice against a backdrop of escalating human need.

• MODERATOR
• Ricardo Millett '68, MSW '70, PhD '74, Principal, Ricardo Millett & Associates
• PANEL
• Karen Wolk Feinstein, PhD '83, President and CEO, Jewish Healthcare Foundation
• Andrew Hahn, PhD '78, Professor and Director, Sillerman Center for the Advancement of Philanthropy
• Margaret McKenna, President, The Wal-Mart Foundation

Reception hosted by Heller Board of Overseers and Heller Alumni Association Board

50th Anniversary Gala Dinner

Come watch the 50th anniversary video and dance to Young@Heart. If you haven't seen their movie, rent it so you can be prepared to rock to this octogenarian sensation.

Breakfast

Career Networking and Career-Building Session
Well Rounded in a Flat World: The Secret to Successful Career Development
in the Global Economy

Those wishing to succeed in our rapidly changing and increasingly uncertain "flat world" must be innovative, opportunistic, and have the ability to create their future, not merely cope with it. This session will offer some insights into what it takes to succeed in the new world of work.

• Tom Broussard, PhD '06, Associate Dean for Admissions and
  Career Services
• Denise Riebman, Assistant Dean, Career Services

The Ascent to Leadership Responsibility and the Challenges of Leading:  Lessons from President Obama and Teams that Summit Mount Everest

This session will describe the underlying competencies of leadership by focusing on two unrelated events: the ascent of President Barack Obama and the 1996 Mount Everest disaster. Important lessons can be learned from these cases about leading in a changing and uncertain world.

• Jon Chilingerian, Associate Professor and Program Director, Executive Education Program

Encore Careers

Thinking of Reinventing Yourself after a Long Career? Explore the Possibilities

"Encore careers" occur during a new stage of work and provide personal meaning, continued income, and an opportunity to address society's most pressing problems. Panelists will talk about their career transitions.

• MODERATOR
• Phyllis Segal, Vice President, Civic Ventures
• PANEL
• Tom Broussard, PhD '06, Associate Dean for Admissions, Recruitment, and Career Services
• Barbara Nobles Crawford, PhD '84, President, Nobles Crawford & Partners
• Margot Davis, PhD '08, Senior Research Associate, Schneider Institutes for Health Policy
• Thomas Glynn, MSW '72, PhD '77, Chief Operating Officer, Partners HealthCare Systems, Inc.