Lynn Sanders

Associate Professor of Politics

The New Politics of American Health Care
October 29, 2004
Fairfax, VA

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The University of Virginia serves over one million people every year through more than 400 public service and outreach programs. For more information about outreach at UVa, visit http://www.virginia.edu/outreachvirginia/, an interactive web-based listing of public service programs searchable by region, interest, audience, or type of program.
Some programs you can find in OutreachVirginia database include the following:

American Democracy Conference
The American Democracy Conference is an annual conference that focus on a wide variety of issues concerning past, present, and future elections. Analysis and commentary of elections by noted politicians and pundits are trademarks of these conferences.

Live Government and Public Policy Forums
Miller Center of Public Affairs brings scholars, public officials and journalists to UVA to speak on topics of government and public policy.

National Symposium Series
The Center for Politics convenes the nation's leading political thinkers and practitioners in a series of national symposia that address topics of significant and immediate political interest.

Sorensen Institute for Political Leadership
The Sorensen Institute offers a variety of educational programs combining public policy, campaign skills and ethics to emerging leaders and potential candidates for elected office as they prepare for public service. All Institute programs are bipartisan.

Virginia Governors Project
Each summer, the Center for Politics focuses its attention on one of Virginia's modern governors, bringing together the former governor, his top staffers and administrators, notable historians, senior journalists and key legislators.

Youth Leadership Initiative
The Youth Leadership Initiative is a national civic education program designed to involve all K-12 school students in the fundamentals of the American political process, and instill a greater sense of civic responsibility as adults.

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About the speaker

Professor Sanders teaches classes on American politics, race, gender, public opinion and political psychology. Her current research focuses on two areas: the relationship between survey methodology and our understanding of public opinion on race, and the connections between political involvement and mental health. Previously, she taught at the University of Chicago.

Between 1998 and 2000, she was a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Scholar in Health Policy Research at the University of California, Berkeley and San Francisco, which allowed her to start her research on politics and psychological health.

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