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Tom
Oliver is Visiting Associate Professor of Population Health Sciences at the
University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health. He also serves as
director of the Health Policy Program at the
University
of Wisconsin Population Health Institute. Professor Oliver attended
Stanford University and received his bachelor’s degree there in Human Biology.
He received a master’s degree in health administration from Duke University and
received master’s and doctoral degrees in political science from the University
of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He completed a postdoctoral fellowship in the
Pew Health Policy Program at the University of California, San Francisco.
Professor
Oliver’s published research includes articles in the New England Journal of
Medicine, Political Science Quarterly, Stanford Law & Policy
Review, Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law, Health Affairs,
Milbank Quarterly, Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, and
Annual Review of Public Health. Prior to coming to the University of
Wisconsin, he held faculty positions at the University of Maryland Baltimore
County and at Johns Hopkins University, where he is Adjunct Professor of Health
Policy and Management. He previously served as a member of the study panel on
Medicare Management and Governance convened by the National Academy of Social
Insurance. He currently serves on the advisory panel on New Science and
Technology for U.S. Pharmacopeia and on the technical advisory committee for the
Maryland Citizens’ Health Initiative, a grass-roots coalition of over 1200
groups that seeks universal health insurance in the state of
Maryland.
Research Interests
Professor Oliver's research draws upon theories of political
behavior and policy making to examine critical issues in health care politics
and system reform. It has two general goals. The first goal is to identify and
assess the forces that bring about change in public policy and complex systems
of health and social services. The second goal is to understand the substantive
design of formal policies and, in particular, how issues of technical, economic,
and political feasibility combine to shape initial proposals and final
decisions.
Professor Oliver’s written work covers a number of areas in
health policy, among them hospital financing and planning, technology
assessment, the provision of dental services through HMOs, congressional policy
making on health issues, and models of comprehensive health care reform in
states and communities. His most recent work includes studies of state health
insurance reforms; the evolution of Medicare policy;
the role
of policy entrepreneurs in the emergence of managed care and managed competition
in the U.S. health care system; strategies used by foundations to influence
health policy; and, more generally, the role of leadership in health policy
innovation.
Professional
Affiliations
American Political Science
AssociationAssociation for Public Policy Analysis and Management
Committee on Health Politics
AcademyHealth
Honors and Awards
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation—Investigator Award in Health
Policy Research, 1993
Selected
Publications
Oliver,
Thomas R., Philip R. Lee, and Tanisha Cariño. 2007. “Interests, Ideology, and
Institutional Dynamics in the Creation of the Medicare Prescription Drug
Benefit.” In Diana Mason, Judy Leavitt, and Mary Chafee, eds. Policy and
Politics in Nursing and Health Care, 5th edition, W.B. Saunders/Elsevier,
pp. 421-35.
Waters,
Hugh, Laura Steinhardt, Thomas Oliver, Alice Burton, and Susan Milner. 2007.
“The Costs of Non-insurance in Maryland.” Journal of Health Care for the
Poor and Underserved 18 (1): 139-51.
Rutkow,
Lainie, Brad Maggy, Joanna Zablotsky, and Thomas R. Oliver. 2007. “Balancing
Consumer and Industry Interests in Public Health: The National Vaccine Injury
Compensation Program and Its Influence During the Last Two Decades.”
Penn
State Law Review 111: 681-738.
Oliver, Thomas R. and Rachel Friedman Singer. 2006. “Health
Services Research as a Source of Legislative Analysis and Input: The
California Health Benefits Review Program.” Health Services Research 41 (June):
1124-58.
Lee, Philip R., Thomas R. Oliver, A.E. Benjamin, and Dorothy Lee.
2006. “Politics, Health Policy, and the American Character.” Stanford Law &
Policy Review 17 (1) (April).
Oliver, Thomas R. 2006. “The Politics of Public Health Policy.”
Annual Review of Public Health 27: 195-233.
Oliver, Thomas R. 2004. "Policy Entrepreneurship in the Social
Transformation of American Medicine: The Rise of Managed Care and Managed
Competition." Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law 29 (August 2004):
701-33.
Oliver, Thomas R., Philip R. Lee, and Helene L. Lipton. 2004. "A
History of Medicare and Prescription Drug Coverage." Milbank Quarterly 82
(June): 283-354.
Oliver, Thomas R. 2004. "Holding Back the Tide: Policies to
Preserve and Reconstruct Health Insurance Coverage in
Maryland." Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law 29 (April): 203-36.
Dubay, Lisa, Christina Moylan, and Thomas R. Oliver. 2004.
"Advancing Toward Universal Coverage: Are States Able to Take the Lead?" Journal
of Health Care Law and Policy 7(1): 1-41.
Oliver, Thomas R. and Jason Gerson. 2003. The Role of Foundations
in Shaping Health Policy: Lessons from Efforts to Expand and Protect Health
Insurance Coverage.
Los Angeles,
CA:
Center on Philanthropy and Public Policy, University of Southern California.
Oliver, Thomas R. 2001. "State Health Politics and Policy:
Rhetoric, Reality, and the Challenges Ahead." In Robert B. Hackey and David A.
Rochefort, eds. The New Politics of State Health Policy.
Lawrence, KS: University Press of
Kansas,
pp. 273-91.
Shi, Leiyu, Thomas R. Oliver, and Virginia Huang. 2000. "The
State Children's Health Insurance Program: Expanding the Framework for
Evaluating State Goals and Performance." Milbank Quarterly 78 (3): 403-46.
Oliver, Thomas R. 1999. "The Dilemmas of Incrementalism: Logical
and Political Constraints in the Design of Health Insurance Reforms." Journal of
Policy Analysis and Management 18 (Fall): 652-83.
Oliver, Thomas R. 1998. "The Collision of Economics and Politics
in Medicaid Managed Care: Reflections on the Course of Reform in
Maryland." Milbank Quarterly 76 (1): 59-101.
Oliver, Thomas R. and Pamela Paul-Shaheen. 1997. "Translating
Ideas into Actions: Entrepreneurial Leadership in State Health Care Reforms."
Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law 22 (June): 721-88.
Oliver, Thomas R. and Emery B. Dowell. 1994. "Interest Groups and
Health Reform: Lessons from
California." Health Affairs 13 (Spring II): 123-41.
Oliver, Thomas R. 1993. "Analysis, Advice, and Congressional
Leadership: The Physician Payment Review Commission and the Politics of
Medicare." Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law 18 (Spring): 113-74.
Oliver, Thomas R. 1991. "Ideas, Entrepreneurship, and the
Politics of Health Care Reform." Stanford Law & Policy Review 3 (Fall): 160-80.
Oliver, Thomas R. 1991. "Health Care Market Reform in Congress:
The Uncertain Path from Proposal to Policy." Political Science Quarterly 106
(Fall): 453-77.
Teaching
Experience
Undergraduate Courses
American Government
Health Politics and Policy
Public Policy Analysis
State and Local Politics
Graduate Courses
Doctoral Seminar in Health and Public Policy
The Role of Government in Health Policy
Current Issues in Medicare Policy
Current Issues in Medicaid, SCHIP, and State Health Coverage
Case Studies in Health Policy and Financing
The Political and Social Context of the Policy Process
Health Politics and Policy
Policy Implementation
Public Entrepreneurship and Policy Innovation
Contact Information:
Thomas R. Oliver, PhD., MHA
Department of Population Health Sciences
610 Walnut Street,
Room 760 WARF
Madison,
WI 53726-2397
Phone: 608-262-6731
Fax: 608-262-6404
Email:
troliver@wisc.edu
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