Feb. 3, 1998
						Contact: Bob Brickhouse
                                                         (804) 924-6856

                               MEDIA ADVISORY
          U.S. SECRETARY OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES WILL 
	  SPEAK AT U.VA. ON FEB. 6

	U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Donna E. Shalala will 
speak at the University of Virginia at 7 p.m. Friday, Feb. 6.  Her talk, 
sponsored by the Jefferson Literary and Debating Society in 402 Wilson Hall, 
is open to the public.
	Shalala, who has served in her cabinet post in the Clinton 
administration since 1993, heads the government's principal agency for 
protecting the health of all Americans and providing essential human services. 
With a 1997 budget of approximately $354 billion and 59,000 employees, her 
department administers a wide variety of programs including Medicare, 
Medicaid and almost all of the federal welfare and children's programs. 
	Shalala has been a scholar and educational administrator as well as 
public servant during her career. As chancellor of the University of 
Wisconsin-Madison from 1988-1993, she was the first woman to head a Big Ten 
university and administered the nation's largest public research university.  
Prior to that, she served as president of Hunter College at the City 
University of New York for eight years, and as assistant secretary for 
policy development and research at the Department of Housing and Urban 
Development during the Carter Administration. 
	A leading scholar on the political economy of state and local 
governments, Shalala has held professorships at Columbia, CUNY and Wisconsin.  
From 1962-1964, she served in the Peace Corps in Iran. 
	In 1992 Business Week named her one of the top five managers in 
higher education. An expert on total quality management (TQM), she is 
considered one of the most experienced and successful public managers in the 
country.  She is currently a leader in the administration's efforts to reform 
the nation's welfare system and improve health care while containing health 
costs.

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