Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University. He has a Ph.D. in political science from Brandeis University and a law degree from Rutgers School of Law (Newark). Professor Sparer studies and writes about the politics of health care with an emphasis on the role of state and local governments in the American health care system. He is the author of Medicaid and the Limits of State Health Reform (Temple University Press, 1996) as well as numerous articles and book chapters.