Please join us for our next Rutgers Institute for Health ‘Brown Bag Seminar’ in-person at IFH. We are excited to be joined by Colleen M. Grogan, PhD, Deborah R. and Edgar D. Jannotta Professor at the University of Chicago Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy and Practice. Dr. Grogan will discuss her new book Grow and Hide: The History of America’s Health Care State – “a sweeping history of the American health care state that reveals the public has been intentionally misled about the true role of government.”

Please email Nicole nswenarton@ifh.rutgers.edu if you plan to attend via Zoom.  

Colleen M. Grogan, PhD is the Deborah R. and Edgar D. Jannotta Professor at the University of Chicago and Deputy Dean of Curriculum in the Crown Family School. Grogan’s new book (August 2023 with Oxford University Press) is titled Grow and Hide: The History of America’s Health Care State reveals the true extent of public financing behind a system which is intentionally and repeatedly presented as predominantly private. She documents the consequences of Grow and Hide: fragmentation and lack of health care planning; profiteering and the rise of the capital markets in health care; and extreme inequality. Her new research project focuses on the role of financialization in the U.S. health care system and its implications for health policies and health equity. She is PI and Co-Investigator respectively for in two NIH-funded grants to study the impact of Medicaid Managed Care coverage policies on access to care and health outcomes for persons with substance use disorder.

Read more about Grow and Hide.