Rosenbaum is best known for her work on the expansion of Medicaid, the expansion of community health centers, patients’ rights in managed care, civil rights and health care, and national health reform.
University of Alabama at Birmingham Ann Dial McMillan Endowed Lectureship in Family and Child Health hosts Sara Rosenbaum, J.D., who presents her lecture on The Search for a National Child Health Policy: Progress, Opportunities and Challenges.
Rosenbaum, professor of health policy at George Washington University’s Milken Institute School of Public Health, will present at the UAB Hill Student Center ballroom Thursday, March 3, from 11 a.m.-12:30 p.m. The lecture is open to the public, with seating limited to the first 180 participants.
A graduate of Wesleyan University and Boston University Law School, Rosenbaum has devoted her professional career to issues of health justice for populations who are medically underserved as a result of race, poverty, disability or cultural exclusion. An honored teacher and scholar, a highly popular speaker, and a widely read writer on many aspects of health law and policy, Rosenbaum has emphasized public engagement as a core element of her professional life, providing public service to six presidential administrations and 15 sessions of congress since 1977.
Rosenbaum is best known for her work on the expansion of Medicaid, the expansion of community health centers, patients’ rights in managed care, civil rights and health care, and national health reform. Between 1993 and 1994, she worked for President Bill Clinton, directing the drafting of the Health Security Act and designing the Vaccines for Children program, which offers near-universal coverage of vaccines for low-income and medically underserved children.
Rosenbaum also regularly advises state governments on health policy matters and has served as a testifying expert in legal actions involving the rights of children under Medicaid. She is the leading author of “Law and the American Health Care System,” 2d ed., published by Foundation Press, May 2012, a landmark textbook that provides an in-depth exploration of the interaction of American law and the U.S. health care system.
She has received national awards for her work, serves on governmental advisory committees and private organizational and foundation boards, and is a past chair of AcademyHealth. She is a member of the Centers for Disease Control Director’s Advisory Committee and the CDC Advisory Committee on Immunization Practice, and a commissioner on the Medicaid and CHIP Payment and Access Commission, which advises Congress on federal Medicaid policy.