Dr. Paula Lantz, a social epidemiologist, is the S.J. Axelrod Collegiate Professor of Health Management and Policy, and is Chair of the Department of Health Management and Policy. She is also a Research Professor at the Institute for Social Research. Prior positions include working as an epidemiologist for the Wisconsin Division of Health and as a senior researcher for Marshfield Clinic. She is the director of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Scholars in Health Policy Research at the University of Michigan. Her main areas of research interest are policy issues in women’s health and child health, clinical preventive services (such as cancer screening and prenatal care), and social inequalities in health. She teaches courses on public health policy and policy analysis methods. At this year’s Outlook Conference, she presented “Health Care Reform: Policies, Politics, and Progress.”