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Distributed: March 27, 1996
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Former Health, Education, and Welfare Secretary Joseph Califano Addresses the Future of Health Care
Princeton, N.J.--Joseph Califano, former secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare (HEW, now known as Health and Human Services), will speak on "Radical Surgery: A Look at the Future of Health Care" at Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs on Tuesday, April 9, at 4:30 p.m. in Bowl 2, Robertson Hall.
During his years as secretary of HEW (1977-1979), Califano reorganized the department, initiated major health promotion and disease prevention programs, including childhood immunization, an anti-smoking campaign, and an alcoholism prevention initiative, and issued the first Surgeon General's Report on Health Promotion and Disease Prevention. He also began the collection of hundreds of millions of dollars of student loans in default, and instituted computerized techniques to monitor welfare, Medicare, and Medicaid programs.
Califano, who is currently the chairman and president of the Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University, an independent non-profit research center affiliated with Columbia University in New York City, is an expert in health care delivery and cost-containment, and has lectured extensively about America's health care system. He is an adjunct professor of public health at Columbia University's Medical School and School of Public Health, and a member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences.
He is the author of nine books, including Governing America (Simon and Schuster, 1981), about his years as secretary of HEW; America's Health Care Revolution: Who Lives? Who Dies? Who Pays? (Random House, 1986); The Triumph and Tragedy of Lyndon Johnson: The White House Years (Simon and Schuster, 1991); and Radical Surgery: What's Next for America's Health Care (Random House, 1995). He has written articles for The New York Times , The Washington Post , Readers Digest , New Republic , Journal of the American Medical Association , The New England Journal of Medicine , and numerous other publications.
His talk is being sponsored by the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs and the Center for Health Care Strategies, with support from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.