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Campaign 1992 was dubbed “The Year of the Woman” because more female candidates ran that year than any other in U.S. history. In 1996, “Soccer Moms” grabbed headlines as the group that candidates needed to win. What role will women have in 2000? How will Election 2000 be remembered? Who is the “woman voter?” What issues does “she” care about? How will women affect the 2000 campaign?
A panel of experts, including Kellyanne Fitzpatrick, President, The Polling Company, Anna Greenberg, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Public Policy, Harvard University John F. Kennedy School of Government, Kelli M. Conlin, Executive Director, New York State affiliate of the National Abortion and Reproductive Rights Action League, Timothy F. Mooney, Vice President, Political Affairs, Voter.com, and Mollyann Brodie, Ph.D., Vice President and Director for Public Opinion & Media Research, Kaiser Family Foundation, discussed Election 2000 predictions, “women’s issues,” and how women can become “informed” voters at an Emerging Issues in Reproductive Health Briefing on April 18, 2000.
Mollyann Brodie is Vice President, Director of Public Opinion and Media Research at the Kaiser Family Foundation. She directs a variety of public knowledge and survey-related projects. Prior to joining the Foundation, Dr. Brodie was a Health Policy Fellow and Assistant Director of the Program on Public Opinion and Health at the Harvard School of Public Health, where she co-edited Volume IV of the series on The Future of American Health Care. Her research efforts focus on public opinion and knowledge and the roleof political institutions in health policy. She has recently been published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, Health Affairs, and the Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law.
Dr. Brodie received her Ph.D. in Health Policy from Harvard University, holds a Master of Science degree in Health Policy and Management from Harvard’s School of Public Health, and a Bachelor’s degree in Kinesiology from the University of California, Los Angeles. Previously, Dr. Brodie worked as a health policy analyst for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services in the Office of Evaluation and Inspection, and performed research at the RAND Corporation.
Kellyanne Fitzpatrick is CEO and President of the polling company
,a political consulting and public affairs research firm founded in 1995, with offices in Washington, D.C., and San Francisco, California.The polling company
specializes in quantitative and qualitative research and analysis, and provides strategic counsel for political, corporate and public affairs clients. During her 12-year polling career, she has advised clients in nearly all 50 states, including Jack Kemp, former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich, Senator Fred Thompson (R-TN) and former Vice President Dan Quayle. She has directed hundreds of demographic and attitudinal survey projects for statewide and congressional political races, trade associations, and Fortune 100 companies, measuring voter attitudes, client satisfaction, and consumer opinions.
Ms. Fitzpatrick began her polling career as Political Research Assistant at The Wirthlin Group, pollster to President Ronald Reagan. Prior to forming the polling company
, she was Corporate Counsel and Senior Account Executive at The Luntz Research Companies, a firm known for its work on the Republican Contract With America. Ms. Fitzpatrick is a magna cum laude graduate of Trinity College in Washington, D.C., where she earned a B.A. in political science, studied at Oxford University, and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. In 1992, Ms. Fitzpatrick was awarded a law degree with honors from the George Washington University Law Center, and for four years taught there as Adjunct Professor of Legal Research and Oral Advocacy.
Anna Greenberg, Ph.D. is Assistant Professor of Public Policy at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government. Dr. Greenberg is also Director of Opinion Research for interSurvey, a Web-based survey research firm based in Menlo Park, California. Working with interSurvey, she is the director of polling for the women’s electorate project for iVillage.com, a women’s internet network. Additionally, Dr. Greenberg is a visiting scholar at the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press, located in Washington, D.C., where she is working on a project on gender and politics.
Dr. Greenberg received her B.A., cum laude, from Cornell University, Department of Government, and her Ph.D. from the University of Chicago, Department of Political Science. She is currently working on a book called Divine Inspiration: Faith, Congregations and American Politics.
Tina Hoff is Director of Public Health Information and Communication for the Media and Public Education Program at the Kaiser Family Foundation. She oversees the release of Foundation-commissioned research and several communications-related programs, including an ongoing media briefing series on reproductive health issues and the Talking with Kids campaign. She is involved with many of the Foundation’s special partnerships focusing on public education, including several joint collaborations with leading women’s and teen magazines and other media, including Glamour, Seventeen, YM, Family Circle, Essence, Latina, and the Los Angeles Times. At the Foundation, Ms. Hoff also has worked on several studies of media coverage of health and reproductive health issues, including content analyses of the sexual and reproductive health coverage in women’s, men’s, teen, and other specialty magazines; a 10-year study of news coverage of HIV/AIDS; the sexual content on television’s family hour; and the sexual content on television soap operas and talk shows. Ms. Hoff joined the Foundation in 1994.
Previously, Ms. Hoff worked for a Washington, D.C.-based public affairs firm, The Widmeyer-Baker Group, representing primarily non-profit organizations focused on health care and women’s and children’s issues. She received a B.S. in Commerce from the University of Virginia.
Timothy F. Mooney serves as Vice President of Political Affairs of Voter.com. He is a national political consultant who has worked in 200 electoral campaigns in 37 states. He is a former political director for the National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB), the nation’s largest and top-ranked business organization. Mr. Mooney was a founding partner of the Southwest Policy Group, a political consulting firm specializing in ballot initiative and referendum campaigns and grassroots lobbying. He was educated at Pepperdine University and at Harvard University.
Kelli Conlin has served as the Executive Director of the New York Stateaffiliate of the National Abortion and Reproductive Rights Action League fornine years. During her tenure, Ms. Conlin has become one of the mostinfluential political voices in the state. NARAL/New York is widely viewed asa powerful political organization, both electorally and legislatively. Ms. Conlinhas also developed critically important programs to address teh lack of accessto reproductive health access in underserved areas, through the organization’sInstitute for Reproductive Health Access.
Ms. Conlin holds a Master of Science in Journalism from NorthwesternUniversity, and a Bachelor’s degree from Saint Mary’s College of Notre Dame,Indiana. Before Joining the staff of NARAL/New York, she worked as aneditor for Outside Magazine, served as President of NOW in New York City,and was Director of Public Information at the New York City CampaignFinance Board.
This issue brief, prepared for the Kaiser Family Foundation’s Capitol Hill Briefing Series on HIV/AIDS, provides an overview of AIDS cases and trends in the United States since the beginning of the epidemic, with particular attention to the impact of the epidemic on racial and ethnic minority Americans, women, and young people. In addition, the issue brief presents an overview of the federal response to the HIV/AIDS epidemic, including federal spending and major HIV/AIDS-related laws and initiatives.
In June, 1999, the Supreme Court rule in Olmstead v L.C. that states were required to provide services to persons with disabilities in community settings rather than institutions, if certain conditions were met. This Policy Brief provides an overview of the Olmstead case, including the facts, the court ruling, and the disposition of the case. In addition, the brief describes the issues surrounding implementation and the implications this ruling could have for state Medicaid programs.
In December, the President signed into law the Ticket to Work and Work Incentives Improvement Act of 1999, which includes provisions that will give states additional options for extending Medicaid coverage to working disabled individuals. This memo presents an overview of the eligibility options offered under the new legislation (Publication #2187). A related publication, Medicaid Eligiblity for Individuals with Disabilities (Publication #2150), provides a general overview of federal Medicaid eligibility policy for the low-income disabled population.
This report, the fourth in an annual series, provides an overview of the status of state-administered AIDS Drug Assistance Programs (ADAPs). ADAPs, authorized under Title II of the Ryan White Comprehensive AIDS Resources Emergency (CARE) Act, provide HIV/AIDS-related prescription drugs to low income, uninsured and underinsured individuals living with HIV/AIDS in the 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, Guam and the Virgin Islands. For more information on the series see the National ADAP Monitoring Project page.
: A Comparative Analysis of Key Provisions of the House and Senate Versions of H.R. 2990 was prepared for the Kaiser Family Foundation by Phyllis Borzi and Sara Rosenbaum of the Center for Health Services Research and Policy, The George Washington University Medical Center. The report provides a side-by-side comparison of the patient protection provisions in the differing versions of H.R. 2990 passed by the Senate and the House of Representatives in 1999, which are being considered by the Conference Committee in 2000. The report includes a discussion highlighting the similarities and differences between the bills; a detailed side-by-side comparison of the bills including their scope, patient protections, benefit claims and appeals procedures, and ERISA preemption and plan liability provisions; and definitions of the terms used in the report.
“Here’s Looking at You, Kid”: Alcohol, Tobacco and Drugs in Entertainment Media
A comprehensive review of research that analyzes alcohol, tobacco and drugs in entertainment media and their impact on the behavior of American youth. The report reviews portrayals of substance use on television, in movies and in popular music; looks at trends in substance portrayals; and makes recommendations for future research in these areas. The report was prepared for The National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University.
