The first-ever recipient 
of the James B. Hudak 
Professorship 
of 
Health 
Policy, Paula Lantz, gave 
her 
inaugural 
lecture 
to 
about 
150 
students 
and 
faculty on Thursday night. 
The event focused on the 
history and current policies 
surrounding 
population 
health disparities. 
The Ford School of Public 
Policy established the James 
B. Hudak Professorship of 
Health Policy in the spring 
of 2019 to be awarded to 
a faculty member at the 
University 
of 
Michigan 
who is engaging in research 
focused on both investigating 
and addressing of problems 

within the United States 
healthcare system. 
In 
her 
introduction 
of 
Lantz, economics professor 
Susan M. Collins said Lantz 
is one of her close colleagues 
and someone with significant 
impact in the Public Policy 
School.
“There 
isn’t 
much 
happening 
at 
the 
Ford 
School that Paula hasn’t had 
a positive influence on in a 
variety of different ways,” 
Collins said.
Collins said Lantz is very 
knowledgeable in the field of 
population health and was the 
director for the University of 
Michigan Policies for Action 
Research Hub. 
In an interview with The 
Daily prior to the lecture, 
Public 
Policy 
graduate 

student Andrew Krantz said 
he wanted to hear some of 
Lantz’s knowledge about her 
field, specifically that of the 
history of health disparities. 
“I’m interested in hearing 
her explain some of the 
history of the population 
health disparities,” Krantz 
said. “I’m not as familiar 
with the literature on that, 
and from what I understand, 
she’s kind of an expert in that 
area.” 
In 
her 
lecture, 
Lantz 
described the current state of 
population health in the U.S., 
pointing to certain statistics 
such 
as 
life 
expectancy, 
which has declined in the 
past few years. She also spoke 
about the differences in life 
expectancy 
according 
to 
varying social determinants 
of health, such as race and 
socioeconomic status. 
“Any health topic we 
want to talk about — any 
disease, any health issue 
— is going to be patterned 
by social class and by 
race, ethnicity, gender, 
place; it goes on and on,” 
Lantz said.
Lantz 
voiced 
her 
concerns about the new 
definition and movement 
of 
Population 
Health 
Management. 
Though 
she 
said 
she 
is 
glad 
there are conversations 
about health disparities, 
Lantz said she fears the 
issues 
are 
becoming 
“medicalized” 
— 
the 
characterization 
of 
certain health outcomes 
as 
medical 
conditions 
to be treated when they 
could simply be symptoms 
of a health disparity. 
The difference between 
health policy and health 
care policy was another 
focus of Lantz’s lecture.
“We 
have 
a 
hard 

time thinking about health 
without 
thinking 
about 
health care,” Lantz said. “But 
they’re not the same thing, 
and health disparities are 
not the same thing as health 
care access, quality, outcome 
disparities. Health equity is 
not the same thing as health 
care equity.” 
Public 
Health 
junior 
Catherine Marudo told The 
Daily she was interested 
to 
learn 
about 
Lantz’s 
distinctions between health 
policy and health care policy, 
especially as an aspiring 
physician. 
“I didn’t really realize 
there was a distinction where 
one was more downstream, 
which was health care policy, 
or one was more upstream, 
which was health policy,” 
Marudo said. “And I thought 
that was really interesting 
for somebody who is going 
to go into that field to come 
to that realization, because 
I thought it was just all 
upstream.” 
In 
an 
interview 
with 
The Daily, Public Health 
junior 
Bianca 
Ghita 
said 
she 
believed 
the 
content 
that Lantz was delivering 
was important, but would 
perhaps have more impact 
on an audience less familiar 
with the information. 
“There are things in our 
society that most people 
expect to function flawlessly, 
and these are things that, 
when they do, kind of get off 
track or there are issues with 
it, it angers a lot of people,” 
Ghita said. “I feel like her 
talk is really informative, 
and it was really great, but 
it would be really great for 
people that aren’t already 
super excited about this type 
of work.”

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