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Happenings from HQ
APPAM elections are underway! For contested positions, APPAM members in good standing received ballots and voting instructions via a separate e-mail on Dec. 15th. Nominee headshots and statements, were also accessible in that message. Electronic voting will continue until January 14th. Once the votes are counted, the winners will be named to the Policy Council and the Executive Committee. For more information about the candidates, check out the dedicated webpage.
Thank you to everyone who nominated a Student Member to the Policy Council. The appointed Student Member will be announced soon.
The next Institutional Representatives meeting will be held on March 31 at The Brookings Institution in Washington, DC. More information is forthcoming.
Missed December's Update? Check it out here.
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Call for Submissions
Submissions for the 2017 International Research Conference in Brussels will be accepted until January 31, 2017. The event, themed "Public Policy and Governance Beyond Borders,” will be held July 13 - 14. Find more information here.
Submissions for both the CA and DC Regional Student Conferences are currently being accepted. Please pass along this notice to both Masters and Ph.D. students. For information on the submission process, please direct students to visit the webpage. Submissions will be accepted until January 18, 2017.
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APPAM/Sanford School Institutional
Member Forum
On February 17, APPAM and the Sanford School at Duke University will host an institutional forum exploring the role of practitioners in making policy, researcher/policymaker partnerships, and some strategies to bridge the gap between policy and practice.
This event,
entitled "Bridging Research and Policy: What Universities Can and Should Do"
, will bring
together distinguished experts from academia and the government to share their work and provide insight on next steps for research, practice, and policy. The preliminary agenda can be found here. More information, including registration and a full agenda, will be available later this month.
If you are interested in co-hosting an Institutional Forum, please check out the webpage for guidelines and previous forum themes.
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APPAM 2017 Institutional Membership Renewals
Thank you to all APPAM Institutional Members who have renewed through 2017. If you have done so, you should have received a message from Meghan Grenda, Membership & Administration Manager, with instructions on how to redeem your complimentary memberships.
All APPAM academic Institutional Members receive 20 complimentary student memberships and all APPAM non-academic Institutional Members receive 5 complimentary professional memberships with their renewal.
If you have not yet renewed and would like to, or if you have a question regarding your membership, please contact Meghan Grenda.
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Help APPAM grow with the Member Referral Program! Every time you recruit a member, you strengthen APPAM. Through member growth, APPAM can develop new and enhanced programs to support you. A growing APPAM means greater recognition for the policy analysis profession, more resources and support for members, and a louder voice in Washington, DC, across the county, and throughout the world. Get more information about the program and reward incentives here.
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JPAM Featured Article
"The Impact of Health Insurance on Preventive Care and Health Behaviors: Evidence from the First Two Years of the ACA Medicaid Expansions"
By: Kosali Simon, Ph.D.; Aparna Soni; and John Cawley, Ph.D.
In this paper, the authors estimate how the Medicaid expansions of 2014 affected preventive care and health behaviors.
As part of our ongoing effort to promote JPAM authors to the APPAM membership and the public policy field at large, we have asked the author to answer a few questions. See the authors' interview responses here.
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