Susan Dentzer is the Editor-in-Chief of Health Affairs, the nation’s leading journal of health policy, and an on-air analyst on health issues with The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer on the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS).
Dentzer assumed the job of Editor-in-Chief on May 1, 2008, after a decade as the on-air health correspondent for The NewsHour. Health Affairs, which has been called the nation’s health policy “Bible,” is a peer-reviewed journal published by Project HOPE that appears bimonthly in print with additional online entries published weekly at www.healthaffairs.org.
Prior to joining The NewsHour in 1998, Dentzer was chief economics correspondent and economics columnist for U.S. News & World Report, where she served from 1987 to 1997. Before joining U.S. News, Dentzer was at Newsweek, where she was a senior writer covering business news until 1987. Dentzer’s work in television has included appearances as a regular analyst or commentator on CNN and The McLaughlin Group.
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Susan Dentzer is the Editor-in-Chief of Health Affairs, the nation’s leading journal of health policy, and an on-air analyst on health issues with The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer on the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS).
Dentzer assumed the job of Editor-in-Chief on May 1, 2008, after a decade as the on-air health correspondent for The NewsHour. Health Affairs, which has been called the nation’s health policy “Bible,” is a peer-reviewed journal published by Project HOPE that appears bimonthly in print with additional online entries published weekly at www.healthaffairs.org.
Prior to joining The NewsHour in 1998, Dentzer was chief economics correspondent and economics columnist for U.S. News & World Report, where she served from 1987 to 1997. Before joining U.S. News, Dentzer was at Newsweek, where she was a senior writer covering business news until 1987. Dentzer’s work in television has included appearances as a regular analyst or commentator on CNN and The McLaughlin Group.
Global Health Care
Susan Dentzer offers a unique perspective and vision on global health care. She was recently named chair of the Board of Directors of the Global Health Council, the world’s largest membership alliance of public health organizations and professionals working throughout the developing world. She also serves on the Board of Directors of the International Rescue Committee (IRC), the nonprofit organization that works in relief, rehabilitation, protection, post-conflict development and resettlement services for those uprooted or affected by violent conflict and oppression worldwide. At IRC, Susan heads the Board’s Health Committee, which oversees the organization’s health programs in 25 countries. In February 2008, she traveled to Syria and Jordan as part of an IRC delegation reviewing the situation of Iraqi refugees who have fled to these countries.
Health Policy
Susan Dentzer is a member of the Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured, as well as the advisory board of the California Health Benefits Review Committee. She also serves as member of the National Advisory Committee for the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Investigator Awards in Health Policy Research. Susan’s presentation promises to provide new perspectives and vision on U.S. health policy and how it affects you and your profession.
