Keynote Speaker
John E. McDonough, DrPH, MPA is Senior Advisor to Senator Edward M. Kennedy on National Health Reform. Mr. McDonough, known as a lively and engaging speaker, will deliver a keynote address on "Policy Prescriptions: Forging Connections between Primary Care and Health Policy" from 9:00-10:00 a.m. in the Domenici Auditorium of the UNM Health Sciences Center. His address is open to the public.
Between
2003 and 2008, he served as Executive Director of Health Care For All,
Massachusetts’ leading consumer health advocacy organization. From
1998 through 2003, he was an Associate Professor at the Heller School at
Brandeis University. From 1985 to 1997, he served as a member of the
Massachusetts House of Representatives where he co-chaired the Joint
Committee on Health Care.
He
is an adjunct lecturer at the Harvard School of Public Health. His articles
have appeared in the New England Journal of Medicine, Health
Affairs and other journals. He has written two books,
Experiencing Politics: A Legislator’s Stories of Government and Health Care
by the University of California Press and the Milbank Fund in
2000, and
Interests,
Ideas, and Deregulation: The Fate of Hospital Rate Setting by the
University of Michigan Press in 1998. 
He received a
doctorate in public health from the School of Public Health at the
University of Michigan in 1996 and a master’s in public administration from
the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard in 1990. He lives in
Brookline with his wife, Janice Furlong.
