Welcome Welcome to the Committee on Health Politics home page. We are a group of social scientists with a strong professional interest in health policy issues. We are an related organization of the American Political Science Association and sponsor three or four panels each year at the APSA Annual Meeting.
Membership is free, and anyone with an interest in health policy is invited to be a member .
There are currently about two hundred people on the mailing list. In 1969 a conference was held at the Harvard School of Public Health. The focus of the conference was the neglect of health care issues in the political science community, especially in the light of recent works on the subject by economists. Included in the group were Ralph Straetz, Ted Marmor, and Mathew Holden. Ralph Straetz at New York University had a federal mental health grant that trained political scientists.