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THE 2007 ESSAY CONTEST WINNERS
| Congratulations to the following students who were awarded prizes in the KaiserEDU.org 2007 Student Essay Contest. Nearly 250 students submitted essays to the contest, and after careful consideration, our panel of judges selected these students’ essays as the top graduate and undergraduate entries. |
Graduate Students: 1st Place -Brad Wright
University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill,
Health Policy and Administration
Expected Graduation: 2010
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| | 2nd Place -Ian Randall
University of Michigan School of Public Health,
Health Management & Policy
Expected Graduation: April 2008
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Undergraduate Students: 1st Place Tie -Robert Nelb
Yale University
Major: Ethics, Politics, and Economics
Expected Graduation: May 2008
Read the essay | | 1st Place Tie - Shane Spencer
University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Major: Political Science
Expected Graduation: May 2009
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2nd Place -Shwetha Chagala
University of Texas at Austin
Major: Government
Expected Graduation: May 2008
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You have just accepted a job as a senior advisor to a Presidential candidate* for the 2008 election. Your first task is to prepare a memo for the candidate outlining your recommendation for the candidate's health plan. Your memo should discuss what the centerpiece of the candidate's health plan should be, why this issue is important to the voters, the potential challenges that your candidate may face in promoting the plan, and how it would be communicated to the public. Your candidate can have any political affiliation you choose. Please be original. This memo should describe what you would recommend to your ideal candidate. Remember, the candidate is extremely busy so brevity and conciseness are important.
*does not have to be based on an actual candidate
The entries were judged by a panel of professionals with experience in health policy and politics from inside and outside the Kaiser Family Foundation, including Michael McCurry and Scott McClellan, former White House Press Secretaries, and Judy Feder, Dean of the Georgetown Public Policy Institute. Judges evaluated essays on originality, expression of ideas, strength of argument, and clarity.
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