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Batten Student Draws National Attention to Pay-For-Success Affordable Housing Solutions"We need to understand affordable housing as nothing less than a human and civil rights issue." — Stefano Rumi, fourth-year student minoring in Social Entrepreneurship and a Senior Research Fellow at Batten's Pay for Success Innovation Lab.
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Did Americans Turn to Opioids Out of Despair—or Just Because They Were There?Batten's Chris Ruhm shows that the opioid epidemic in the United States more likely has been driven by drug availability than by the despair of people using the drugs. (map courtesy U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
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On the Eve of Gov.-Elect Northam’s Inauguration, Batten Students Assist in the TransitionBatten students helped Gov.-Elect Dr. Ralph Northam in his transition to Virginia's highest office. "...that work from the time (when a candidate is) elected to the time that they’re inaugurated…is critical to getting off on the right foot," said Ray Scheppach, Professor of Public Policy.
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Can Washington Be Automated?Batten's Jennifer Doleac "is one of the handful of social scientists in the United States closely studying the practical and ethical questions of extending automation into public decision-making." (photo illustration courtesy of Justin Metz)
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Volden’s Work Has Washington Wondering: Will Orrin Hatch’s Retirement Mean Further Decline in Senate Effectiveness?Batten's Craig Volden, co-director of the Center for Effective Lawmaking, has shown a significant drop in the number of truly effective Senate lawmakers. The departure of Senator Orrin Hatch furthers that decline. (photo courtesy of office of Sen. Hatch)
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First Batten/Curry Double-Major to Graduate This SpringDiane D’Costa will graduate in the spring as the first student to double-major in the Batten School and the Curry School of Education, studying both Leadership and Public Policy and Youth and Social Innovation.
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Scaling Mt. Everest: Resilience as a Team Exercise"Resilience is an essential element of leadership, and it’s a critical skill for students to develop at UVA." — UVA President Teresa Sullivan
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Batten’s Williams to CNN: How the CVS-Aetna Merger Could Change Your Health Care"I think that we're going to see the growth of more and more clinics where health services are being provided in the CVS footprint geographically." — Dr. Michael Williams, Director of the UVA Center for Health Policy, a joint program of the Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy and the University of Virginia School of Medicine, Department of Public Health Sciences.
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Batten Alumna Named One of Southern Living’s Southerners of the YearBatten's School alumna Natalie Roper (MPP ’14) is one of Southern Living magazine's 2017 Southerners of the Year. (photo courtesy of Perry Bennett Photography)
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Middle-Class Families Confront Soaring Health Insurance Costs
Professor Carolyn L. Engelhard was featured in an article discussing soaring health insurance cost.
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Caught in the coverage gap: Premiums spike in Central Virginia
Carolyn Engelhard, Associate Professor at UVA and director of the Health Policy Program featured in article posted on the daily progress website
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Unnecessary Medicine – The Trump administration isn’t taking on the medical system’s culture of waste
Carolyn Engelhard, M.P.A, co-wrote Unnecessary Medicine with Andrew Parsons that was featured in US News