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1		-	ENROLLED ORIGINAL
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6		-	A RESOLUTION
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10		-	IN THE COUNCIL OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
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12		-	November 7, 2023
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15		-	To confirm the reappointment of Dr. Leighton Ku to the District of Columbia Health Benefit
16		-	Exchange Authority Executive Board.
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18		-	RESOLVED, BY THE COUNCIL OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, That this
19		-	resolution may be cited as the “Health Benefit Exchange Authority Executive Board Leighton
20		-	Ku Confirmation Resolution of 2023”.
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22		-	Sec. 2. The Council of the District of Columbia confirms the reappointment of:
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	1	+	MURIEL BOWSER
	2	+	MAYOR
	3	+	The Honorable Phil Mendelson
	4	+	Chairman
	5	+	Council of the District of Columbia
	6	+	John A. Wilson Building
	7	+	1350 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, Suite 504
	8	+	Washington, DC 20004 Dear Chairman Mendelson:
	9	+	In accordance with section 2 of the Confirmation Act of 1978, effective March 3, 1979 (D.C. Law
	10	+	2-142; D.C. Official Code § 1- 523.01), and pursuant to section 6 of the Health Benefit Exchange
	11	+	Authority Establishment Act of 2011, effective March 2, 2012 (D.C. Law 19- 94; D.C. Official
	12	+	Code § 31-3171.05), I am pleased to nominate the following person:
24	13		Dr. Leighton Ku
25	14		Ingleside Terrace, NW
26	15		Washington, DC 20010
27	16		(Ward 1)
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29		-	as a voting member of the District of Columbia Health Benefit Exchange Authority Executive
30		-	Board, pursuant to section 6 of the Health Benefit Exchange Authority Establishment Act of
31		-	2011, effective March 2, 2012 (D.C. Law 19-94; D.C. Official Code § 31-3171.05), for a term to
32		-	end July 6, 2025.
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34		-	Sec. 3. The Council shall transmit a copy of this resolution, upon its adoption, to the
35		-	nominee and to the Mayor.
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37		-	Sec. 4. This resolution shall take effect immediately.
	17	+	for reappointment as a voting member of the District of Columbia Health Benefit Exchange
	18	+	Authority Executive Board, for a term to end July 6, 2025.
	19	+	Enclosed you will find biographical information detailing the experience of the above-mentioned
	20	+	nominee, together with a proposed resolution to assist the Council during the confirmation process.
	21	+	I would appreciate the Council’s earliest consideration of this nomination for confirmation. Please
	22	+	do not hesitate to contact me, or Steven Walker, Director, Mayor’s Office of Talent and Appointments, should the Council require additional information.
	23	+	Sincerely,
	24	+	Muriel Bowser
	25	+	Mayor
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	39	+	Chairman Phil Mendelson
	40	+	at the request
	41	+	of the Mayor
	42	+	A PROPOSED RESOLUTION
	43	+	IN THE COUNCIL
	44	+	OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
	45	+	13 To confirm the reappointment of Dr. Leighton Ku to the District of Columbia Health Benefit
	46	+	14 Exchange Authority Executive Board.
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	48	+	16 RESOLVED, BY THE COUNCIL OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, that this
	49	+	17 resolution may be cited as the "Health Benefit Exchange Authority Executive Board Leighton
	50	+	18 Ku Confirmation Resolution of 2023".
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	52	+	20 Sec. 2. The Council of the District of Columbia confirms the reappointment of:
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	59	+	Dr. Leighton Ku
	60	+	Ingleside Terrace, NW
	61	+	Washington, DC 20010
	62	+	(Ward
	63	+	1)
	64	+	27 as a voting member of the District of Columbia Health Benefit Exchange Authority Executive
	65	+	28 Board, pursuant to section 6 of the Health Benefit Exchange Authority Establishment Act of
	66	+	29 2011, effective March 2, 2012 (D.C. Law 19-94; D.C. Official Code§ 31-3171.05), for a term to
	67	+	30 end July 6, 2025.
	68	+	31 Sec. 3. The Council of the District of Columbia shall transmit a copy of this resolution,
	69	+	32 upon its adoption, to the nominee and to the Office of the Mayor.
	70	+	33 Sec. 4. This resolution shall take effect immediately.
	71	+	34 1
	72	+	CURRICULUM VITAE
	73	+
	74	+	LEIGHTON KU
	75	+
	76	+	Professor of Health Policy and Management Telephone:
	77	+	Director, Center for Health Policy Research Mobile phone:
	78	+	Department of Health Policy and Management
	79	+	Milken Institute School of Public Health
	80	+	Professor of Public Policy and Public Administration
	81	+	The George Washington University E-mail:
	82	+
	83	+	Washington, DC 20052
	84	+
	85	+	Summary
	86	+
	87	+	Leighton Ku, PhD, MPH, is a professor of health policy and management at the George Washington
	88	+	University (GW). He is a nationally known health policy and health services scholar with more than 25
	89	+	years of experience. He has examined topics such as national and state health reforms, access to care for
	90	+	low-income populations, Medicaid, preventive services, the health care safety net, cost and benefits of
	91	+	health services, and immigrant health. He has authored or co-authored more than 100 peer-reviewed
	92	+	articles and 200 policy briefs and other translational reports. He directs the Center for Health Policy
	93	+	Research, a multidisciplinary research center, which includes physicians, attorneys, economists, health
	94	+	management and policy experts and others, with more than 20 faculty and dozens of staff; it has a
	95	+	research portfolio in excess of $25 million. He has been principal investigator for a large number of
	96	+	studies with support from the National Institutes of Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention,
	97	+	Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, the Commonwealth Fund and Robert Wood Johnson
	98	+	Foundation, and other sources. In the course of his career at GW, the Center on Budget and Policy
	99	+	Priorities and the Urban Institute, he has worked with federal and state executive and legislative agencies,
	100	+	health care organizations, advocates and others in research, technical assistance, strategic advice and
	101	+	advocacy. As a faculty, he has taught research methods and policy analysis at the graduate level for
	102	+	more than 25 years and guided numerous students through dissertations and other research. As a member
	103	+	of his community, he helped establish and guide the District of Columbia’s Health Benefits Exchange
	104	+	Authority as a founding member of its Executive Board.
	105	+
	106	+	Education
	107	+
	108	+	1990 Ph.D., Health Policy, Boston University (Pew Health Policy Fellow in a joint program of
	109	+	Boston University and Brandeis University)
	110	+	1979 M.P.H., Public Health, University of California, Berkeley
	111	+	1979 M.S., Nutritional Sciences, University of California, Berkeley
	112	+	1975 A.B. (honors), Biochemistry, Harvard College
	113	+
	114	+	Professional Background
	115	+
	116	+	2015 – present Co-Director, PhD Health Policy Program. First at GW Trachtenberg School of
	117	+	Public Policy and Administration, now at Milken Institute School of Public
	118	+	Health.
	119	+
	120	+	2012 - present Executive Board, District of Columbia Health Benefit Exchange Authority
	121	+	(voluntary position).
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	123	+	2008 - present Director, Center for Health Policy Research, The George Washington University
	124	+
	125	+	2008 - present Professor of Health Policy and Management (with tenure), Department of Health
	126	+	Policy and Management, Milken Institute School of Public Health, The George
	127	+	Washington University.
	128	+
	129	+	2015- 2016 Interim Chair, Department of Health Policy and Management
	130	+
	131	+	2000 - 2008 Senior Fellow, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, Washington, DC
	132	+
	133	+	1992 - present Professor in Public Policy and Public Administration, Trachtenberg School of
	134	+	Public Policy and Administration, The George Washington University.
	135	+	Secondary appointment. Began as Associate Professorial Lecturer.
	136	+
	137	+	1990 - 2000 Principal Research Associate. The Urban Institute, Washington, DC. Began as
	138	+	Research Associate I.
	139	+
	140	+	1989 - 1990 Research Manager, SysteMetrics/McGraw-Hill, Cambridge, MA.
	141	+
	142	+	1987 - 1989 Pew Health Policy Fellow, Health Policy Institute, Boston University and the
	143	+	Heller School, Brandeis University
	144	+
	145	+	1980 - 1987 Program Analyst, Office of Analysis and Evaluation and Supplemental Food
	146	+	Programs Division, Food and Nutrition Service, U.S. Dept. of Agriculture,
	147	+	Alexandria, VA and Washington, DC.
	148	+
	149	+	1975 - 1976 Registered Emergency Medical Technician, Dept. of Health and Hospitals,
	150	+	Boston, MA
	151	+
	152	+
	153	+	Publications Authored or Co-authored in Peer-Reviewed Journals
	154	+
	155	+	[Aggregate measures of scholarly productivity: H-index = 47, I10-index = 125 (according to Google
	156	+	Scholar as of July 29, 2020]
	157	+
	158	+	Ku L. The Association of Social Vulnerabilities and Health Insurance Coverage with COVID-19
	159	+	Vaccinations and Intentions, May 2021. Submitted for publication.
	160	+
	161	+	Ku L. Are Reductions in Immigrants’ Supplemental Security Income Participation Beneficial?
	162	+	It Is Not Completely Clear (invited editorial). American Journal of Public Health. 111(6): 1003-4, June
	163	+	2021.
	164	+
	165	+	Jewers M, Ku L. Noncitizen Children Face Higher Health Harms Compared With Their Siblings Who
	166	+	Have US Citizen Status. Health Affairs. Forthcoming, July 2021.
	167	+
	168	+	Brantley E, Ku L. Continuous Eligibility for Medicaid Is Associated with Improved Health Access.
	169	+	Medical Care Research and Review. Forthcoming, 2021.
	170	+
	171	+	Han X, Pittman P, Ku L. The Effect of National Health Service Corps Clinician Staffing on Medical and
	172	+	Mental Health Care Costs in Community Health Centers. Medical Care. Forthcoming, 2021.
	173	+
	174	+	Brantley E, Darden M, Ku L. Effects of Expanding Parental Medicaid Eligibility on Parental Health and 3
	175	+	Family Functioning, submitted for publication
	176	+
	177	+	Wang X, Babb S, Xu X, Ku L, Glover-Kudon R, Armour B. Receipt of Cessation Treatments Among
	178	+	Medicaid Enrollees Trying to Quit Smoking. Nicotine and Tobacco Research. Advance Access.
	179	+	Research, Feb. 2021, 1–5, doi:10.1093/ntr/ntaa213
	180	+
	181	+	Ku L, Han X, Chen C, Vujicic M. Dental Education and Other Factors Associated with Medicaid
	182	+	Pediatric Dental Participation. Journal of Dental Education. 2020 Sept. doi: 10.1002/jdd.12390
	183	+
	184	+	Ku L, Brantley E. Conducting Evaluation Research for Policy and Legal Analysis in a Turbulent Policy
	185	+	Environment: The Example of Medicaid and SNAP Work Requirements. Sage Research Methods Cases:
	186	+	Medicine and Health, June 25, 2020. doi.org/10.4135/9781529743746 [username srmc_240620 password
	187	+	cases2020]
	188	+
	189	+	Brantley E, Pillai D, Ku L. Associations of Work Requirements and Supplemental Nutrition Assistance
	190	+	Program Participation by Race/Ethnicity and Disability Status, 2013-2017. JAMA Network Open, Jun.
	191	+	26, 2020. 2020; 3(6):e205824. doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2020.5824,
	192	+
	193	+	Han X, Ku L. Enhancing Staffing in Rural Community Health Centers Can Improve Behavioral Health
	194	+	Care. Health Affairs. 2019 Dec.; 38(12): 2061-68.
	195	+
	196	+	Ku L, Brantley E, Pillai D. The Effect of Work Requirements on SNAP Enrollment and Benefits from
	197	+	2013 to 2017. American Journal of Public Health. 2019 Oct.; 109(10): 1446-1451.
	198	+	https://ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/pdf/10.2105/AJPH.2019.305232]
	199	+
	200	+	Behn M, Pace L, Ku L. The Trump Administration’s Final Regulations Limit Insurance Coverage of
	201	+	Contraception. Women’s Health Issues. 2019 Jan 7. p: S1049-3867.
	202	+	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.whi.2018.12.003
	203	+
	204	+	Han X, Pittman P, Erickson C, Mullan F, Ku L. Effect of the National Health Service Corps on Clinician
	205	+	Staffing and Patient Visits in Federally Qualified Health Centers. Medical Care. 2019 Dec, 57(12): 1002-
	206	+	7. 2019. DOI: 10.1097/MLR.0000000000001209.
	207	+
	208	+	Bruen BK, Ku L. The Effects of Community Health Center Care on Medical Expenditures for Children
	209	+	and Adults: Propensity Score Analyses. Journal of Ambulatory Care Management, 2019; 42(2): 128-37.
	210	+	https://journals.lww.com/ambulatorycaremanagement/Fulltext/2019/04000/The_Effects_of_Community_
	211	+	Health_Center_Care_on.8.aspx
	212	+
	213	+	Lantz P, Miller G, Ryhan C, Rosenbaum S, Ku L, Iovan S. “Pay for Success” Financing and Home-
	214	+	Based Multicomponent Childhood Asthma Interventions: Modeling Results from the Detroit Medicaid
	215	+	Population. Milbank Quarterly. 2018; 96(2): 272-99.
	216	+
	217	+	Brantley E, Greene J, Bruen B, Steinmetz E, Ku L. Policies Affecting Medicaid Beneficiaries’ Smoking
	218	+	Cessation Behaviors. Nicotine & Tobacco Research, 2018. 21(4): 197-204.
	219	+
	220	+	Holla N, Brantley E, Ku L. Physicians’ Recommendations to Medicaid Patients about Tobacco
	221	+	Cessation. American Journal of Preventive Medicine, Dec. 2018. 55(6): 762–769.
	222	+
	223	+	Ku L, Steinmetz E, Bysshe T, Bruen B. Crossing Boundaries: Medicaid and Public Health Collaborations
	224	+	to Help Smokers Quit, Public Health Reports, 2017 Feb, Vol. 132(2) 164-170.
	225	+	4
	226	+	Han X, Luo Q, Ku L. Medicaid Expansions and Increases in Grant Funding Increased the Capacity of
	227	+	Community Health Centers, Health Affairs, 2017 Jan.; 36 (1):49-56.
	228	+
	229	+	Frogner B, Pittman P, Masselink L, Ku L. Do Years of Experience with EHRs Matter for Productivity in
	230	+	Community Health Centers? Journal of Ambulatory Care Management. 2017 Jan/Mar; 40(1): 36-47.
	231	+
	232	+	Lantz P, Rosenbaum S, Ku L, Iovan S. Pay for Success Initiatives in the U.S.: Potential and Challenges
	233	+	as a Strategy for Population Health Improvement, Health Affairs, 2016 Nov; 35:2053-2061
	234	+
	235	+	Pittman P, Masselink L, Bade L, Frogner B, Ku L. Determining Medical Staff Configurations in
	236	+	Community Health Centers: CEO Perspectives. Journal of Healthcare Management, 61(5): 364-77,
	237	+	Sept./Oct 2016.
	238	+
	239	+	Ku L, Brantley E, Bysshe T, Steinmetz E, Bruen B. How Medicaid and Other Public Policies Affect
	240	+	Utilization of Tobacco Cessation. Preventing Chronic Diseases, 2016 Oct;13:160234. DOI:
	241	+	http://dx.doi.org/10.5888/pcd13.160234.2016.
	242	+
	243	+	Labarthe D. Goldstein L, Antman E, Arnett D, Fonarow G, Alberts M, Hayman L, Khera A, Sallis J,
	244	+	Daniels S, Sacco R, Li S, Ku L, Lantz P, Robinson J, Creager M, Van Horn L, Kris-Etherton P,
	245	+	Bhatnagar A, Whitsel L. Evidence-Based Policy Making: Assessment of the American Heart
	246	+	Association's Strategic Policy Portfolio. Circulation, 2016 May 3; 133(18):e615-53.
	247	+
	248	+	Ku L. Letter: Treating Unhealthy Behaviors: The Author Replies. Health Affairs, 35(3):551, March
	249	+	2016.
	250	+
	251	+	Bruen B, Steinmetz E, Bysshe T, Glassman P, Ku L. Care for Potentially Preventable Dental Conditions
	252	+	in Operating Rooms by Medicaid Children, Journal of the American Dental Association, 2016 Sept.
	253	+	:147(9):702-708 (cover story)
	254	+
	255	+	Ku L, Bysshe T, Steinmetz E, Bruen B. Health Reform, Medicaid Expansions and Women’s Cancer
	256	+	Screening, Women’s Health Issues, Feb. 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.whi.2016.01.0
	257	+
	258	+	August E, Steinmetz E, Gavin L, Rivera M, Pazol K, Moskosky S, Weik T, Ku L. Projecting the Unmet
	259	+	Need and Costs for Contraception Services after Health Care Reform, American Journal of Public Health.
	260	+	106(2): 334–341, Feb. 2016. doi:10.2105/AJPH.2015.302928
	261	+
	262	+	Ku L Bruen B, Steinmetz E, Bysshe T. Medicaid Tobacco Cessation: Big Gaps Remain In Efforts To Get
	263	+	Smokers To Quit, Health Affairs, 35:62-70, Jan. 2016; doi:10.1377/hlthaff.2015.0756
	264	+
	265	+	Ku L. Capsule Commentary: Unauthorized Immigrants: Contributing to Medicare, But Left Out, Journal
	266	+	of General Internal Medicine, 31(1):100, Jan. 2016.
	267	+
	268	+	Ku L. Immigrants Face Barriers Both as Health Care Patients and Providers, Harvard Health Policy
	269	+	Review, 15(1):22-24, Fall 2015.
	270	+
	271	+	Jones E, Ku L. Sharing a Playbook: Integrated Care in Community Health Centers, American Journal of
	272	+	Public Health. 105(1). 2028-2034, October 2015, doi: 10.2105/AJPH.2015.302710
	273	+
	274	+	Jones E, Zur J, Rosenbaum S, Ku L. Opting Out of Medicaid Expansion: Impact on Encounters With
	275	+	Behavioral Health Specialty Staff in Community Health Centers. Psychiatr Serv. 2015 Dec
	276	+	1;66(12):1277-82.
	277	+	5
	278	+	Zur J, Ku L. Factors Associated with Geographic Variation in Psychiatric Prescription Drug
	279	+	Expenditures among Medicaid Beneficiaries, Journal of Behavioral Health Services & Research, epub
	280	+	ahead of print July 24, 2015, doi: 10.1007/s11414-015-9471-x.
	281	+
	282	+	Ku L, Frogner B, Steinmetz E, Pittman P. Community Health Centers Use Diverse Staffing and Can
	283	+	Provide Lessons for Other Medical Practices, Health Affairs 34(1):95-103, Jan. 2015.
	284	+
	285	+	Jones E, Ku L, Smith S, Lardiere M. County Workforce, Reimbursement, and Organizational Factors
	286	+	Associated with Behavioral Health Capacity in Health Centers, Journal of Behavior and Health Services
	287	+	Research, 2014 Apr;41(2):125-39.
	288	+
	289	+	Bruen B, Ku L, Lu X, Shin P. No Evidence That Primary Care Physicians Offer Less Care To
	290	+	Medicaid, Community Health Center or Uninsured Patients, Health Affairs, 32(9): 1624-30, Sept. 2013.
	291	+
	292	+	Ku L, Steinmetz E, Bruen, B. Continuous Eligibility Policies Stabilize Medicaid Coverage for
	293	+	Children and Could Be Extended to Adults with Similar Results, Health Affairs, 32(9): 1576-82, Sept.
	294	+	2013.
	295	+
	296	+	Ku L, Sharac J, Bruen B, Thomas M, Norris L. Increased Use of Dental Services by Children Covered by
	297	+	Medicaid: 2000-2010 Medicare and Medicaid Research Review 3(3): E1-E12. July 2013.
	298	+	doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.5600/mmrr.003.03.b01
	299	+
	300	+	Levy A, Bruen B, Ku L. Health Care Reform and Women’s Insurance Coverage for Breast and Cervical
	301	+	Cancer Screening. Preventing Chronic Disease. 9: 120069. Oct. 25, 2012. DOI:
	302	+	http//dx.doi.org/10.5888/pcd9.120069.
	303	+
	304	+	Levy A, Bruen B, Ku L. The Potential Employment Impact of Health Reform on Working-Age Adults
	305	+	With Disabilities, Journal of Disability Studies. 30 May 2012. DOI: 10.1177/1044207312446225
	306	+
	307	+	Willard R, Shah G, Leep C, Ku L. Impact of the 2008-2010 Economic Recession on Local Health
	308	+	Departments, Journal of Public Health Management and Practice, 18(2):106-114, Mar/Apr. 2012.
	309	+
	310	+	Richard P, West K, Ku L. The Return on Investment of a Medicaid Tobacco Cessation Program in
	311	+	Massachusetts PLoS ONE, 7(1): e29665, January 2012. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0029665.
	312	+	Available at http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0029665
	313	+
	314	+	Rosenbaum S, Ku L, Lantz P, et al. Examining the Evidentiary Basis of Congress’s Commerce Clause
	315	+	Power to Address Individuals’ Health Insurance Status, BNA’s Health Care Policy Report, Feb. 6, 2012,
	316	+	p 1-9.
	317	+
	318	+	Richard P, Ku L, Dor A, Tan E, Shin P, Rosenbaum S. Cost Savings Associated with the Use of
	319	+	Community Health Centers. Journal of Ambulatory Care Management, 35(1): 50-59. Jan-Mar. 2012.
	320	+
	321	+	Ku L, Jones E, Shin P, Burke FR, Long S. Safety-net providers after health care reform: lessons from
	322	+	Massachusetts Archives of Internal Medicine, 171(15): 1379-84, Aug. 8, 2011.
	323	+
	324	+	Bruen B, Ku L, Burke M, Buntin M. More Than Four in Five Office-Based Physicians Could Quality for
	325	+	Federal Electronic Health Record Incentives. Health Affairs, 30(3): 472-80, Mar. 2011.
	326	+
	327	+	Ku L, Jones K, Shin P, Bruen B, Hayes K. The States’ Next Challenge — Securing Enough Primary
	328	+	Care for an Expanded Medicaid Population. New England Journal of Medicine 364(6):493-95, Feb. 10, 6
	329	+	2011. Also supplementary appendix available at
	330	+	http://www.nejm.org/doi/suppl/10.1056/NEJMp1011623/suppl file/nejmp1011623 appendix.pdf
	331	+
	332	+	Ku L Ready, Set, Plan, Implement. Executing Medicaid’s Expansion. Health Affairs, 29(6): 1173-77,
	333	+	June 2010.
	334	+
	335	+	Ku L, Pervez F. Documenting Citizenship in Medicaid: The Struggle Between Ideology and Evidence,
	336	+	Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law, 35(1): 5-28, February 2010.
	337	+
	338	+	Ku L. Medical and Dental Care Utilization and Expenditures Under Medicaid and Private Health
	339	+	Insurance, Medical Care Research and Review, 66(4):456-71, August 2009.
	340	+
	341	+	Ku L Health Insurance Coverage and Medical Expenditures for Immigrants and Native-Born Citizens in
	342	+	the United States, American Journal of Public Health, 99(7): 1322-28, July 2009.
	343	+
	344	+	Ku L, Broaddus M. Public and Private Health Insurance: Stacking Up the Costs, Health Affairs,
	345	+	27(4):w318-327, June 2008. Also, Technical Appendix: Public and Private Health Insurance: Stacking
	346	+	Up the Costs, at http://content.healthaffairs.org/cgi/content/full/hlthaff.27.4.w318/DC2.
	347	+
	348	+	[Note between 2000 and 2008, I was working at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities and was not
	349	+	principally working on refereed publications.]
	350	+
	351	+	Ku L Improving Health Insurance and Access to Care for Children in Immigrant Families, Ambulatory
	352	+	Pediatrics, 7(6):412-20, November 2007.
	353	+
	354	+	Ponce, N., Ku L, Cunningham W, Brown ER. Language Barriers to Health Care Access Among
	355	+	Medicare Beneficiaries, Inquiry, 43(1):66–76, Spring 2006.
	356	+
	357	+	Ku L, Flores G. Pay Now or Pay Later: Providing Interpreter Services In Health Care, Health Affairs,
	358	+	24(2) 435-44, March/April 2005.
	359	+
	360	+	Park E, Ku L, Broaddus M, More Than 900,000 Children Will Lose Health Insurance Due to Reductions
	361	+	in Federal SCHIP Funding, International Journal of Health Services, 33(2), 2003.
	362	+
	363	+	Ku L. The Number of Americans Without Health Insurance Rose in 2001 and Appears to Be Continuing
	364	+	to Rise in 2002, International Journal of Health Services, 33(2), 2003.
	365	+
	366	+	Lessard G, Ku L. Gaps in Coverage for Children in Immigrant Families, The Future of Children,
	367	+	13(1):101-115, Spring 2003.
	368	+
	369	+	Ku L, St. Louis M, Black C, Aral S, Turner C, Lindberg L, Sonenstein F. Risk Behaviors, Medical Care
	370	+	and Chlamydial Infection Among Young Men in the United States, American Journal of Public Health,
	371	+	92(7): 1140-42, July 2002.
	372	+
	373	+	Ku L, Matani S. Left Out: Immigrants’ Access to Health Care and Insurance, Health Affairs, 20(1):247-
	374	+	56, Jan./Feb. 2001.
	375	+
	376	+	Ku L, Ellwood M, Hoag S, Ormond B, Wooldridge J. The Evolution of Medicaid Managed Care Systems
	377	+	and Eligibility Expansions, Health Care Financing Review, 22(2):7-29, Winter 2000.
	378	+
	379	+	Coughlin T, Ku L, Kim J., Reforming the Medicaid Disproportionate Share Program in the 1990s, Health
	380	+	Care Financing Review, 22(2):137-58, Winter 2000. 7
	381	+
	382	+	Ku L, Coughlin T, Sliding Scale Premium Health Insurance Programs: Four States’ Experience, Inquiry,
	383	+	36(4):471-80, Winter 2000.
	384	+
	385	+	Lindberg L, Ku L, Sonenstein F, Adolescents' reports of reproductive health education, 1988 and 1995.
	386	+	Family Planning Perspectives, 32(5):220-6, Sept./Oct. 2000.
	387	+
	388	+	Porter L, Ku L. Use of Reproductive Health Services Among Young Men, 1995 Journal of Adolescent
	389	+	Health, 27(3):186-94, September 2000.
	390	+
	391	+	Bradner C, Ku L, Lindberg L. Older, but Not Wiser: How Do Men Get AIDS and Sexually Transmitted
	392	+	Disease Information after High School?, Family Planning Perspectives, 32(1):33-39, January/February
	393	+	2000.
	394	+
	395	+	Lindberg L, Ku L, Sonenstein F. Adolescent Males' Combined Use of Condoms with Partners' Use of
	396	+	Female Contraceptive Methods, Maternal and Child Health Journal, 2(4): 201-9, Spring 1999.
	397	+
	398	+	Ku L, Sonenstein F, Lindberg L, Bradner C, Boggess S, Pleck J. Understanding Changes in Sexual
	399	+	Activity Among Young Metropolitan Men: 1979 to 1995, Family Planning Perspectives, 30(6): 256-62,
	400	+	November/ December 1998.
	401	+
	402	+	Ku L, Hoag S. Medicaid Managed Care and the Marketplace, Inquiry, 35(3):332-45, Fall 1998.
	403	+
	404	+	Ellwood MR, Ku L. Welfare and Immigration Reforms: Unintended Side Effects for Medicaid, Health
	405	+	Affairs, 17(3):137-51, May/June 1998.
	406	+
	407	+	Sonenstein F, Pleck J, Ku L, Lindberg L, Turner C. Changes in Sexual Behavior and Condom Use
	408	+	Among Teenaged Males: 1988 to 1995, American Journal of Public Health, 88(6):956-959, June 1998.
	409	+
	410	+	Turner C, Ku L, Rogers S, Lindberg L Pleck J, Sonenstein F. Adolescent Sexual Behavior, Drug Use and
	411	+	Violence: New Survey Technology Detects Elevated Prevalence Among U.S. Males, Science, 280:867-
	412	+	73, May 8, 1998.
	413	+
	414	+	Ku L, Sonenstein F, Turner C, Aral S, Black C, The Potential of Integrated Representative Surveys about
	415	+	STDs and Risk Behaviors, Sexually Transmitted Diseases, 24(5):299-309, May 1997.
	416	+
	417	+	Lindberg L, Sonenstein F, Ku L , Levine G, Young Men's Experience with Condom Breakage, Family
	418	+	Planning Perspectives, 29(3): 132-36, May/June 1997.
	419	+
	420	+	Pleck JH, Sonenstein F, Ku L. Black-white Differences in Adolescent Males' Substance Use: Are They
	421	+	Explained by Underreporting in Blacks?, Journal of Gender, Culture, and Health, 2, 247-265, 1997
	422	+
	423	+	Lindberg L, Sonenstein F, Ku L, Martinez G. Age Differences Between Minors Who Give Birth and
	424	+	Their Adult Partners, Family Planning Perspectives, 29(2):52-60, March/April 1997.
	425	+
	426	+	Sonenstein F, Ku L, Schulte M, Reproductive Health Care -- Patterns in a Changing Health Care Market,
	427	+	Western Journal of Medicine, 163(3 Suppl):7-14, September 1995.
	428	+
	429	+	Ku L, Coughlin T. Medicaid Disproportionate Share and Other Special Financing Programs, Health Care
	430	+	Financing Review, 16(3): 27-54, Spring 1995.
	431	+	8
	432	+	Holahan J, Coughlin T, Ku L, Lipson D, Rajan S. Insuring the Poor through Medicaid 1115 Waivers,
	433	+	Health Affairs, 14(1): 200-17, Spring 1995.
	434	+
	435	+	Coughlin T, Ku L, Holahan J, Heslam D, Winterbottom C. State Responses to the Medicaid Spending
	436	+	Crisis: 1988 to 1992, Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law, 19(4):837-64, Winter 1994.
	437	+
	438	+	Ku L, Sonenstein F, Pleck J. The Dynamics of Young Men's Condom Use During and Between
	439	+	Relationships, Family Planning Perspectives, 26(6): 246-251, November/ December 1994.
	440	+
	441	+	Pleck J, Sonenstein F, Ku L. Attitudes Toward Male Roles: A Discriminant Validity Analysis, Sex Roles,
	442	+	30(7/8):481-501, 1994.
	443	+
	444	+	Ku L, Sonenstein F, Pleck J. Factors Affecting First Intercourse Among Young Men, Public Health
	445	+	Reports, 108(6):680-94, November/December 1993.
	446	+
	447	+	Ku L, Sonenstein F, Pleck J. Neighborhood, Work and Family: Influences on the Premarital Behaviors of
	448	+	Adolescent Men, Social Forces, 72(2):479-503, December 1993.
	449	+
	450	+	Ku L, Sonenstein F, Pleck J. Young Men's Risk Behaviors for HIV Infection and Sexually Transmitted
	451	+	Diseases, 1988 through 1991, American Journal of Public Health, 83(11):1609-15, November 1993.
	452	+
	453	+	Pleck J, Sonenstein F, Ku L. Changes in Adolescent Males' Use of and Attitudes Towards Condoms:
	454	+	1988-91, Family Planning Perspectives, 25(3):100-105, 117, May/June 1993.
	455	+
	456	+	Pleck J, Sonenstein F, Ku L. Masculine Ideology: Its Impact on Adolescent Males' Heterosexual
	457	+	Relationships, Journal of Social Issues, 49(3):11-30, 1993.
	458	+
	459	+	Ku L, Sonenstein F, Pleck J. The Association of AIDS Education and Sex Education with Sexual
	460	+	Behavior and Condom Use Among Teenage Men, Family Planning Perspectives, 24(3):100-106,
	461	+	May/June 1992 (erratum, Family Planning Perspectives, 25(1):36, January/February 1993).
	462	+
	463	+	Ku L, Sonenstein F, Pleck J, Patterns of HIV Risk and Preventive Behaviors Among Teenage Men,
	464	+	Public Health Reports, 107(2):131-38, March/April 1992.
	465	+
	466	+	Sonenstein F, Pleck J, Ku L, Levels of Sexual Activity Among Adolescent Males in the United States,
	467	+	Family Planning Perspectives, 23(4):162-67, July /August 1991.
	468	+
	469	+	Pleck J, Sonenstein F, Ku L, Adolescent Males' Condom Use: The Influence of Perceived Costs-Benefits
	470	+	on Consistency, Journal of Marriage and the Family, 53:733-45, August 1991.
	471	+
	472	+	Pleck J, Sonenstein F, Ku L, Contraceptive Attitudes and Intention to Use Condoms in Sexually
	473	+	Experienced and Inexperienced Adolescent Males, Journal of Family Issues, 11(3):294-312, Sept. 1990.
	474	+
	475	+	Ku L, Ellwood MR, Klemm J. Deciphering Medicaid Data: Issues and Needs, Health Care Financing
	476	+	Review, 1990 Annual Supplement, p. 35-45.
	477	+
	478	+	Ku L, Fisher D, Attitudes of Physicians Toward Health Care Cost Containment Policies, HSR: Health
	479	+	Services Research, 25(1):25-42, April 1990 (Part I).
	480	+
	481	+	Sonenstein F, Pleck J, Ku L. Sexual Activity, Condom Use and AIDS Awareness Among Adolescent
	482	+	Males, Family Planning Perspectives, 21(4):152-58, July/August 1989.
	483	+	9
	484	+	Branch L, Ku L. Transition Probabilities to Disability, Institutionalization and Death for the Elderly Over
	485	+	a Decade, Journal of Aging and Health, 1(3):370-408, August 1989.
	486	+
	487	+	Ku L. Early Prenatal Enrollment in the WIC Program, Public Health Reports, 104(3): 301-06, May/June
	488	+	1989.
	489	+
	490	+	Ku L, Shapiro L, Crawford P, Huenemann R. Body Composition and Physical Activity in Eight Year Old
	491	+	Children, American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, 34(12):2770-75, 1981.
	492	+
	493	+	Persellin R, Ku L. Effects of Steroid Hormones on Human Polymorphonuclear Leukocyte Lysosomes,
	494	+	Journal of Clinical Investigation, 54(4):919-25, 1974.
	495	+
	496	+	Books Authored or Co-authored
	497	+
	498	+	Ku L, Lin M, Broaddus M, Improving Children's Health: A Chartbook about the Roles of Medicaid and
	499	+	SCHIP: 2007 Edition, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, Jan. 2007.
	500	+
	501	+	Ku L, Nimalendran S. Improving Children’s Health: A Chartbook About the Roles of Medicaid and
	502	+	SCHIP, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, Jan. 15. 2004
	503	+
	504	+	Coughlin T, Ku L, Holahan J, Medicaid Since 1980: Costs, Coverage and the Shifting Alliance Between
	505	+	the Federal Government and the States, Washington, DC: Urban Institute Press, 1994. (Selected by
	506	+	Choice as one of ten outstanding academic books for 1994.)
	507	+
	508	+	Sorensen, E, Bean F, Ku L, Zimmerman W, Immigrant Categories and the U.S. Job Market: Do They
	509	+	Make a Difference?, Urban Institute Report 92-1, Washington, DC: Urban Institute Press, 1992.
	510	+
	511	+	Articles or Chapters in Books (Refereed)
	512	+
	513	+	Ku L (contributor), CCH;s Law, Explanation and Analysis of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care
	514	+	Act, Vol.1, Commerce Clearinghouse, Wolters Kluwer, 2010.
	515	+
	516	+	Ku L. Changes in Immigrants’ Use of Medicaid and Food Stamps: the Role of Eligibility and Other
	517	+	Factors, in Immigrants and Welfare, edited by Michael Fix, Russell Sage Foundation and Migration
	518	+	Policy Institute, 2009, p, 153-92.
	519	+
	520	+	Ku L, Papademetrios DG. Access to Health Care and Health Insurance: Immigrants and Immigration, in
	521	+	Securing America’s Future: U.S. Immigrant Integration Policy Reader, M. Fix, editor, Migration Policy
	522	+	Institute, Feb. 2007.
	523	+
	524	+	Ku L. Prepared Statement. Insurance Coverage and Health Care Access for Immigrant Families, Living
	525	+	Without Health Insurance. Hearings of the Senate Committee on Finance, United States Senate on Who’s
	526	+	Uninsured and Why? And Solutions to the Problem. March 13 and 15, 2001. S. Hrg 107-81. U.S. Govt
	527	+	Printing Office. Pg. 148-53.
	528	+	https://books.google.com/books?id=ysrYaJZAew0C&pg=PA112&lpg=PA112&dq=Hearing+on+Who%2
	529	+	7s+Uninsured+%26+Why?+%26+Solutions+to+the+Problem:+Charles+Grassley&source=bl&ots=l7enG
	530	+	HC7pB&sig=ACfU3U2m YwHwAYhqSNaVng1PWTFhFdgMQ&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjJ0 G5
	531	+	5pznAhXvmOAKHTH2BYIQ6AEwAHoECAkQAQ#v=onepage&q=Hearing%20on%20 Who's%20Unin
	532	+	sured%20%26%20Why%3F%20%26%20Solutions%20to%20the%20Problem%3A%20Charles%20Gras
	533	+	sley&f=false
	534	+
	535	+
	536	+
	537	+
	538	+	10
	539	+	Sonenstein FL., Ellen J, Pleck J, Ku L. Taking Risks: Understanding Adolescents’ Behavior, in STDs in
	540	+	Adolescents: Challenges for the 21st Century, edited by P. Hitchcock, et al. New York: Oxford
	541	+	University Press Inc.1999.
	542	+
	543	+	Ku L, Wooldridge J, Rajan S, Ellwood MR, Dubay L, Coughlin T, Hoag S, Wall S. The New
	544	+	Generation of Statewide Medicaid Managed Care Programs: State Health Reform Projects in Hawaii,
	545	+	Oklahoma, Rhode Island and Tennessee in Remaking Medicaid: Managed Care for the Public Good,
	546	+	edited by Steve Davidson and Steve Somers, San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, Inc., 1998, p. 147-78.
	547	+
	548	+	Wooldridge J, Ku L, Coughlin T, Dubay L., Ellwood MR, Rajan S, Hoag S, Reforming State Medicaid
	549	+	Programs: First Year Implementation Experiences from Three States, in Contemporary Managed Care,
	550	+	edited by Marsha Gold, Health Administration Press, pp. 211-26, 1998.
	551	+
	552	+	Sonenstein F, Ku L, Pleck J. Measuring Sexual Behavior Among Teenage Males in the U.S., in
	553	+	Researching Sexual Behavior: Methodological Issues, Bancroft, J., ed., Bloomington, IN: Indiana
	554	+	University Press, p. 87-105, 1997.
	555	+
	556	+	Turner, CF, Ku L, Sonenstein FL, Pleck JH, Impact of Audio-CASI on Reporting of Male-male Sexual
	557	+	Contacts: Preliminary Findings from the National Survey of Adolescent Males, in Health Survey
	558	+	Research Methods: Conference Proceedings, Warnecke, R.B., ed., Hyattsville, MD: National Center for
	559	+	Health Statistics, p. 171-76, 1995.
	560	+
	561	+	Pleck J, Sonenstein F, Ku L, Problem Behaviors and Masculinity Ideology in Adolescent Males, in
	562	+	Adolescent Problem Behaviors: Issues and Research, R. Ketterlinus and M. Lamb, eds., Hillsdale, NJ:
	563	+	Erlbaum, 1994, p. 165-186.
	564	+
	565	+	Holahan J, Coughlin T, Ku L, Heslam D, Winterbottom C, Understanding the Recent Growth in
	566	+	Medicaid Spending, in Medicaid Financing Crisis: Balancing Responsibilities, Priorities and Dollars, D.
	567	+	Rowland, J. Feder and A. Salganicoff, eds., Washington, DC: AAAS Press, 1993, p. 23-44.
	568	+
	569	+	Sonenstein F, Pleck J, Ku L. Paternity Risk Among Adolescent Males in Young Unwed Fathers:
	570	+	Changing Roles and Emerging Policies, R. Lerman and T. Ooms, eds., Philadelphia, PA: Temple Univ.
	571	+	Press, p. 99-116, 1993.
	572	+
	573	+	Pleck J, Sonenstein F, Ku L. Masculine Ideology and Its Correlates in Gender Issues in Contemporary
	574	+	Society, S. Oskamp and M. Constanzo, eds., Claremont Symposium on Applied Social Psychology,
	575	+	Newbury Park: Sage Publications, p. 85-110, 1993.
	576	+
	577	+	Translational and Other Reports, Briefs, Blogs and Publications
	578	+
	579	+	Health Policy
	580	+
	581	+	[Note: Reports marked with [PR] went through an external peer-review process prior to release.]
	582	+
	583	+	Ku L, Brantley E. The Economic and Employment Effects of Medicaid Expansions Under the American
	584	+	Rescue Plan. Commonwealth Fund. May 21, 2021.
	585	+	https://www.commonwealthfund.org/publications/issue-briefs/2021/may/economic-employment-effects-
	586	+	medicaid-expansion-under-arp?utm source=alert&utm medium=email&utm campaign=Medicaid.
	587	+	Technical appendix at https://www.commonwealthfund.org/sites/default/files/2021-
	588	+	05/Ku economic employment effects medicaid expansion ARP TECHNICAL APPENDIX.pdf.
	589	+	[There was substantial press coverage for this report, including both national and regional media,
	590	+	including public radio’s Marketplace.]
	591	+
	592	+
	593	+
	594	+	11
	595	+
	596	+	Ku L, Brantley E. Analysis of Montana SB 100 and Policies to Limit Medicaid 12-Month Continuous
	597	+	Eligibility. April 7, 2021. https://mthcf.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/analysis-of-SB-100-4-7-21.pdf
	598	+
	599	+	Sharac J, Shin P, Ku L, Jacobs F, Rosenbaum S. Community Health Centers Move to Frontline Providers
	600	+	of COVID-19 Immunization Services Under President Biden’s Health Center COVID-19 Vaccine
	601	+	Program. Geiger Gibson / RCHN Community Health Foundation Research Collaborative Data Note.
	602	+	Feb. 18, 2021. http://gwhpmmatters.com/community-health-centers-move-frontline-providers-covid-19-
	603	+	immunization-services-under-president
	604	+
	605	+	Brantley E, Ku L, Rosenbaum S, Handley M, Morris RE. As the Biden Administration Begins
	606	+	Unwinding Them, Medicaid Work Experiments Remain Unreasonable, Unnecessary and Harmful. Health
	607	+	Affairs Blog. Feb. 17, 2021. https://www.healthaffairs.org/do/10.1377/hblog20210216.717854/full/
	608	+
	609	+	Ku, L. Brantley E. Analysis of the Impact of Dental Assignment of Benefit Laws.
	610	+	Report to the American Dental Association and Fleishman Hillard. December 2, 2020.
	611	+
	612	+	Ku, L. Declaration in Support of Plaintiffs, State of New York, et a v Donald Trump, et al. (regarding
	613	+	health harm of postal service delays) in United States District Court for the District of Columbia,
	614	+	September 1, 2020.
	615	+
	616	+	Ku, L. Declaration in Support of Plaintiffs, Domingo A. Gomez, et al v. Donald J. Trump, et al.,
	617	+	(regarding Presidential Proclamations about limiting entry of immigrants in light of COVID-19
	618	+	pandemic) in United States District Court for the District of Columbia, July 29, 2020.
	619	+
	620	+	Ku L. Estimates of Insurance Coverage and Delays in Medical Care for the Nation and District of
	621	+	Columbia, May 21 – June 16, 2020. For DC Health Benefits Exchange Authority. July 5, 2020.
	622	+	https://hbx.dc.gov/sites/default/files/dc/sites/hbx/event content/attachments/Estimates%20of%20
	623	+	Insurance%20Coverage%20and%20Delays%20in%20Medical%20Care 1.pdf
	624	+
	625	+	Ku L, Brantley E. Continuous Medicaid Eligibility for Children and Their Health. Association of
	626	+	Community Affiliated Plans. May 2020. https://www.communityplans.net/wp-
	627	+	content/uploads/2020/06/GW-continuous-eligibility-paper.pdf
	628	+
	629	+	Ku L, Brantley E. Widening Social and Health Inequalities During the COVID-19 Pandemic. JAMA
	630	+	Health Forum. June 10, 2020. https://jamanetwork.com/channels/health-
	631	+	forum/fullarticle/2767253?utm source=silverchair&utm medium=email&utm campaign=article alert-
	632	+	jhf&utm content=olf&utm term=061120
	633	+	Ku, L. Declaration in Support of Plaintiffs, New York vs. Department of Labor, et al. (regarding
	634	+	regulations about paid sick and family leave under the Families First Coronavirus Response Act), United
	635	+	States District Court, Southern District of New York, May 4, 2020.
	636	+
	637	+	Ku L. Declaration in Support of Respondents, Department of Homeland Security v New York, et al.
	638	+	(regarding public charge rule and injunction). Supreme Court of the United States. April 10, 2020.
	639	+	(subsequently used again in U.S, District Court of Southern New York and cited in decisions.)
	640	+
	641	+	Ku L. Assessing the Presidential Proclamation on Visas and Health Insurance. Health Affairs Blog. Dec.
	642	+	17, 2019. https://www.healthaffairs.org/do/10.1377/hblog20191217.16090/full/
	643	+
	644	+
	645	+
	646	+
	647	+	12
	648	+	Ku L. Declaration in Support of Plaintiffs' Motion for a Preliminary Injunction (regarding Presidential
	649	+	Proclamation on Visas and Health Insurance), John Doe #1, et al. v Donald Trump, et al. United States
	650	+	District Court, District of Oregon, filed November 8, 2019. (Cited in November 26 court decision)
	651	+
	652	+	Ku L. Brantley E. Indiana’s Medicaid Work Requirements Program Is Expected to Cause Tens of
	653	+	Thousands to Lose Coverage. Oct. 28, 2019. https://www.commonwealthfund.org/blog/2019/indianas-
	654	+	medicaid-work-requirement-program-expected-cause-tens-thousands-lose-coverage
	655	+
	656	+	Ku L. Op-Ed: Medicaid Expansion Can and Does Expand Access to Care. Capitol Broadcasting
	657	+	Corporation. Oct. 16, 2019.
	658	+	https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/WhctKJVZrXGHBvSwwqpStCWklCtsCQcFsLvZxSHCLmtRjL
	659	+	gFWhRBwPhHqtBqjxsksKdGFxq Similar letter to the Editor, Raleigh News and Observer,. Oct. 16,
	660	+	2019. https://www.newsobserver.com/opinion/letters-to-the-editor/article236193038.html
	661	+
	662	+	Ku L. New Evidence Demonstrating That the Public Charge Rule Will Harm Immigrant Families and
	663	+	Others. Health Affairs Blog. October 9, 2019.
	664	+	https://www.healthaffairs.org/do/10.1377/hblog20191008.70483/full/
	665	+
	666	+	Ku L. Declaration in Support of Plaintiffs' Motion for a Preliminary Injunction (regarding public charge
	667	+	regulation), La Clinica de la Raza, et al. v. Donald Trump, et al. United States District Court, Northern
	668	+	District of California, September 1, 2019. https://healthlaw.org/resource/declaration-of-leighton-ku-in-la-
	669	+	clinica-de-la-raza-v-trump/. Similar declarations in Make the Road New York, et al v Ken Cucinelli, et al.
	670	+	United States District Court, Southern District of New York, Sept. 9, 2019. State of New York, et al. v.
	671	+	U.S. Department of Homeland Security, et al. United States District Court, Southern District of New
	672	+	York, Sept. 9, 2019. These declarations were filed again in subsequent appeals for these cases and in the
	673	+	District Court for the Southern District of New York decisions by George Daniels June 29, 2020).
	674	+
	675	+	Ku L, Bruen B, Brantley E. The Economic and Employment Benefits of Expanding Medicaid in North
	676	+	Carolina: A 2019 Update. Cone Health Foundation and Kate B Reynolds Charitable Trust. June 26,
	677	+	2019. Ncmedicaidexpansion.com
	678	+
	679	+	Ku L, Brantley E. Approved Medicaid Work Requirement Demonstration Projects in Nine States Could
	680	+	Cause About 600,000 to 800,000 Adults to Lose Medicaid Coverage. Commonwealth Fund. Blog. June
	681	+	21, 2019. https://www.commonwealthfund.org/blog/2019/medicaid-work-requirements-nine-
	682	+	states-could-cause-600000-800000-adults-lose-coverage
	683	+
	684	+	Rosenbaum S, Rothenberg S, Velasquez M, Ku L, Brantley E. Are 1115 Medicaid Work Requirement
	685	+	Demonstrations Experimental Initiatives or a Way to Side-Step Congress? June 6, 2019.
	686	+	http://gwhpmmatters.com/blog-are-1115-medicaid-work-requirement-demonstrations-experimental-
	687	+	initiatives-or-way-side-step
	688	+	Ku L, Brantley E. New Hampshire’s Medicaid Work Requirements Could Cause More than 15,000 to
	689	+	Lose Coverage. Commonwealth Fund Blog. May 9, 2019. [PR]
	690	+	https://www.commonwealthfund.org/blog/2019/new-hampshires-medicaid-work-requirements-
	691	+	could-cause-coverage-loss
	692	+
	693	+	Chen CP, Ku, L, Regenstein M, Mullan F. Examining the Cost Effectiveness of Teaching Health
	694	+	Centers. Geiger Gibson / RCHN Community Health Foundation Research Collaborative. Policy Brief
	695	+	#58. March 2019. http://gwhpmmatters.com/sites/default/files/2019-
	696	+	03/Examining%20the%20Cost%20Effectiveness%20of%20Teaching%20Health%20Centers%20%28Che
	697	+	n%2C%20Ku%2C%20Regenstein%2C%20Mullan%29%20Mar%2021%2C%202019.pdf
	698	+
	699	+
	700	+
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	702	+
	703	+	Ku L, Brantley E. Proposed Work Requirements in Montana’s Medicaid Program: An Update. Mar. 15,
	704	+	2019, revised. https://mthcf.org/resources/report-medicaid-work-requirements/
	705	+
	706	+	Ku L (primary author) and many co-signers. Comment Letter to Food and Nutrition Service, USDA on
	707	+	Proposed Rule: Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program: Requirements for Able-Bodied Adults
	708	+	without Dependents, RIN 0584-AE57, Submitted thru regulations.gov. March 15, 2019.
	709	+
	710	+	Ku L, Brantley E. Potential Effects of Work Requirements in Montana’s Medicaid Program. Montana
	711	+	Healthcare Foundation. Feb. 13, 2019. https://mthcf.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/Potential-Effects-
	712	+	of-Work-Requirements-in-Montana%E2%80%99s-Medicaid-Program-Ku-Brantley-2-13-19.pdf.
	713	+
	714	+	Ku L, Brantley E. Updated Estimates of the Effects of Medicaid Work Requirements in Kentucky. GW
	715	+	Health Policy Matters. Jan. 4, 2019. http://gwhealthpolicymatters.com/sites/default/files/2019-
	716	+	01/Updated%20Estimates%20of%20the%20Effects%20of%20Medicaid%20Work%20Requirements%20
	717	+	in%20Kentucky%20%28Ku%2C%20Brantley%29%20GWHPMMatters%201-4-19.pdf
	718	+
	719	+	Ku L (primary author) and many co-signers. Comment Letter to US Department of Homeland Security:
	720	+	RIN 1615-AA22 “Inadmissibility on Public Charge Grounds”. Dec. 9, 2018 Submitted thru
	721	+	regulations.gov.
	722	+
	723	+	Ku L, Sharac J, Gunsalus R, Shin P, Rosenbaum S. How Could the Public Charge Proposed Rule Affect
	724	+	Community Health Centers? Policy Brief # 55. Geiger Gibson RCHN Community Health Research
	725	+	Collaborative. Nov 2018.
	726	+	https://publichealth.gwu.edu/sites/default/files/downloads/GGRCHN/Public%20Charge%20Brief.pdf
	727	+
	728	+	Ku L, Pillai D. The Economic Mobility of Immigrants: Public Charge Rules Could Foreclose Future
	729	+	Opportunities. Nov. 15, 2018. Social Science Research Network. http://ssrn.com/abstract=3285546
	730	+	[This was in the top five downloaded reports about immigration for SSRN for late 2018.]
	731	+
	732	+	Ku L, Brantley E, Steinmetz E, Bruen B, Pillai D. Medicaid Work Requirements: Will They Help the
	733	+	Unemployed Get Jobs or Improve Health. Issue Brief. Commonwealth Fund. Nov. 2018
	734	+	https://www.commonwealthfund.org/publications/issue-briefs/2018/nov/medicaid-work-requirements-
	735	+	will-they-help-jobs-health
	736	+
	737	+	Brantley E, Ku L. Arkansas’ Early Experience with Work Requirements Signals Larger Losses to Come.
	738	+	Commonwealth Fund Blog. Oct. 31, 2018. https://www.commonwealthfund.org/blog/2018/arkansas-
	739	+	early-experience-work-requirements
	740	+
	741	+	Ku L (primary author). Brief of the Amici Curiae Public Health Scholars in Support of Plaintiff-Appellant
	742	+	the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Filed in Commonwealth of Massachusetts v. United States
	743	+	Department of Health and Human Services, et al. to the US Court of Appeals for the First
	744	+	Circuit, Sept. 24, 2018.
	745	+	Vyas A, Wood SF, Landry M, Masselink L, Mead H, Ku L. District of Columbia Family Planning
	746	+	Community Needs Assessment. Conducted by The George Washington University Milken Institute
	747	+	School of Public Health for Washington Area Women’s Foundation, DC Family Planning Project. Sept.
	748	+	2018. [PR] https://thewomensfoundation.org/2018/new-report-family-planning-community-needs-
	749	+	assessment/
	750	+
	751	+	Erikson C, Han X, Ku L, Pittman P. Contribution of the National Health Service Corps Providers and
	752	+	Alumni to Medicare Beneficiaries in 2015. GW Health Workforce Institute. Aug. 2018. https://user-
	753	+
	754	+
	755	+
	756	+	14
	757	+	niv7hdi.cld.bz/Contribution-of-the-NHSC-Providers-and-Recent-Alumni-to-Medicare-Beneficiaries-in-
	758	+	2015/2/
	759	+
	760	+	Brantley E, Ku L. A First Glance at Medicaid Work Requirements in Arkansas: More Than One-Quarter
	761	+	Did Not Meet Requirement. Health Affairs Blog. Aug. 13, 2018.
	762	+	https://www.healthaffairs.org/do/10.1377/hblog20180812.221535/full/
	763	+
	764	+	Ku L, Shin P, Sharac J, Rosenbaum S. Legacy Community Health Services v Smith: What are the
	765	+	National Implications for Community Health Centers and Their Communities? Geiger Gibson/RCHN
	766	+	Community Health Foundation Research Collaborative Policy Research Brief # 53. August 2018.
	767	+	https://www.rchnfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Legacy-GG-IB-53 FINAL 8.2.pdf
	768	+
	769	+	Ku L. Blog: The District of Columbia Is Trying to Preserve Health Insurance Coverage; Congress Is
	770	+	Trying to Interfere. Health Affairs Blog. July 23, 2018.
	771	+	https://www.healthaffairs.org/do/10.1377/hblog20180722.933880/full/
	772	+
	773	+	Ku L. Blog: The New District of Columbia Policy to Protect Insurance Coverage. July 5, 2018.
	774	+	http://gwhealthpolicymatters.com/blog-new-district-columbia-policy-protect-insurance-coverage.
	775	+	Ku L. Data About Contraceptive Needs in the U.S. After the Affordable Care Act. June 26, 2018. [PR]
	776	+	http://gwhealthpolicymatters.com/data-about-contraceptive-needs-us-after-affordable-care-act.
	777	+	Ku L. Declaration about Public Health and Employment Effects of Terminating the Deferred Action for
	778	+	Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program. Filed in support of the Mexican American Legal Defense and
	779	+	Educational Fund and the state of New Jersey, intervenors, in Texas v. United States in suit in Federal
	780	+	District Court of Southern District of Texas, June 14, 2018.
	781	+
	782	+	Brantley E, Ku L. Work Requirements: SNAP Data Show Medicaid Losses Could Be Much Faster and
	783	+	Deeper Than Projected. Health Affairs Blog. April 12, 2018.
	784	+	https://www.healthaffairs.org/do/10.1377/hblog20180412.310199/full/
	785	+
	786	+	Ku L. What is the Evidence of the Effects of the ACA’s Individual Mandate and of Its Repeal? DC
	787	+	Health Benefits Exchange Authority. Revised Feb. 12, 2018.
	788	+
	789	+	Ku L. It Makes More Sense to Strengthen SHOP Than to Expand Association Health Plans. Jan. 4,
	790	+	2018. http://gwhealthpolicymatters.com/blog-it-makes-more-sense-strengthen-shop-expand-association-
	791	+	health-plans
	792	+
	793	+	Ku L, Steinmetz E. State Economic and Employment Losses If Community Health Center Funding Is
	794	+	Not Restored. Geiger Gibson/RCHN Community Health Foundation Research Collaborative Policy
	795	+	Research Brief # 51. Dec. 4, 2017. [PR]
	796	+	https://publichealth.gwu.edu/sites/default/files/downloads/GGRCHN/State%20Economic%20and%20Em
	797	+	ployment%20Losses%20if%20CHC%20Funding%20is%20Not%20Restored%2051.pdf
	798	+
	799	+	Ku L. Declaration about Public Health Effects of Terminating the Deferred Action for Childhood
	800	+	Arrivals (DACA) program. Filed in support of the state of New York and other plaintiff states, New
	801	+	York, et al. v. Trump in suit in Federal District Court of Eastern New York, Nov. 22, 2017.
	802	+
	803	+
	804	+
	805	+
	806	+	15
	807	+	Ku L. May You Live in Interesting Times: The Challenges of Health Policy Analysis in a Turbulent
	808	+	Period. GW Health Policy Matters. Oct. 2, 2017. http://gwhealthpolicymatters.com/may-you-live-
	809	+	interesting-times-challenges-health-policy-analysis-turbulent-period-0
	810	+	Ku L, Steinmetz E, Brantley E, Pillai D. The Graham-Cassidy Proposal Would Eliminate a Third of a
	811	+	Million Jobs, To the Point, The Commonwealth Fund, Sept. 26, 2017, [PR] available at:
	812	+	http://www.commonwealthfund.org/publications/blog/2017/sep/graham-cassidy-job-loss. Methods
	813	+	appendix at http://www.commonwealthfund.org/~/media/files/publications/blog/2017/gc-methods-
	814	+	appendix final.pdf
	815	+
	816	+	Ku L, Seiler N. Medicaid Expansions Help States Cope with the Opioid Epidemic. GW Dept of Health
	817	+	Policy and Management. July 25, 2017.
	818	+	https://publichealth.gwu.edu/sites/default/files/images/Medicaid%20Expansions%20Help%20States%20
	819	+	Cope%20with%20the%20Opioid%20Epidemic%207-25-17%20report.pdf
	820	+
	821	+	Ku L. Cutting immigrants’ access to health insurance would drive up costs for many Americans.
	822	+	Washington Post, Letter to the Editor. July 18, 2017.
	823	+
	824	+	Ku L, Steinmetz E, Brantley E, Holla N, Bruen B. The Better Care Reconciliation Act: Economic and
	825	+	Employment Consequences for States. Commonwealth Fund, July 6, 2017.[PR]
	826	+	http://www.commonwealthfund.org/publications/issue-briefs/2017/jul/bcra-economic-employment-
	827	+	consequences-states
	828	+
	829	+	Bruen BK, Ku L. Community Health Centers Reduce the Costs of Children’s Health Care. Geiger
	830	+	Gibson / RCHN Community Health Foundation Research Collaborative Policy Research Brief # 48. June
	831	+	22, 2017.
	832	+	https://publichealth.gwu.edu/sites/default/files/downloads/GGRCHN/Brief%2048%20Child%20Cost%20
	833	+	Savings.pdf
	834	+
	835	+	Ku L, Steinmetz E, Brantley E, Holla N, Bruen B. The American Health Care Act: Economic and
	836	+	Employment Consequences for States. Commonwealth Fund, June 14, 2017. [PR]
	837	+	http://www.commonwealthfund.org/publications/issue-briefs/2017/jun/ahca-economic-and-employment-
	838	+	consequences
	839	+	[Like the January 6
	840	+	th
	841	+	report, the June 14 and July 6 reports gained considerable interest and were widely
	842	+	cited by the media and by federal and state policy officials. This series of reports were among the most
	843	+	often downloaded reports for the Commonwealth Fund.]
	844	+
	845	+	Ku L, Paradise J, Thompson V. Data Note: Medicaid’s Role in Providing Access to Preventive Care for
	846	+	Adults. Kaiser Commission for Medicaid and the Uninsured. May 17, 2017. [PR]
	847	+	http://kff.org/medicaid/issue-brief/data-note-medicaids-role-in-providing-access-to-preventive-care-for-
	848	+	adults/
	849	+
	850	+	Ku L In podcast: ACA Repeal Waves Goodbye to 3 Million Jobs and $1.5 Trillion. The Working Life.
	851	+	May 10, 2017. http://www.workinglife.org/politics/episode-29-aca-repeal-waves-goodbye-to-3-million-
	852	+	jobs-1-5-trillion/
	853	+
	854	+	Ku L, Brantley E. Medicaid Work Requirements: Who’s at Risk? Health Affairs Blog, April 12, 2017.
	855	+	http://healthaffairs.org/blog/2017/04/12/medicaid-work-requirements-whos-at-risk/
	856	+
	857	+	Ku L, Brantley E. Myths about the Medicaid Expansion and the “Able-Bodied.” Health Affairs Blog,
	858	+	March 6, 2017. http://healthaffairs.org/blog/2017/03/06/myths-about-the-medicaid-expansion-and-the-
	859	+	able-bodied/
	860	+
	861	+
	862	+
	863	+	16
	864	+
	865	+	Ku L In podcast: The Financial Consequences of ACA Repeal. The Commonwealth Fund. Feb. 15,
	866	+	2017. http://www.commonwealthfund.org/interactives-and-data/multimedia/podcasts/new-directions-in-
	867	+	health-care/the-impact-of-aca-repeal
	868	+
	869	+	Bennett J, Brown C, Ku L, Bruen B. The Economic, Fiscal and Employment Effects of Health Care
	870	+	Modernization in Oklahoma. State Chamber (of Commerce) Research Foundation. Feb. 1, 2017. [PR]
	871	+	http://www.okstatechamber.com/sites/www.okstatechamber.com/files/OK%20Study%20-
	872	+	%20REMI%20FINAL.pdf
	873	+
	874	+	Mitchell K. Interview with Leighton Ku. GW Expert: Repealing Obamacare Would Hurt Patients,
	875	+	Economy. GW Today. Jan. 17, 2017. https://gwtoday.gwu.edu/gw-expert-repealing-obamacare-would-
	876	+	hurt-patients-economy
	877	+
	878	+	Ku L Steinmetz E, Brantley E, Bruen B. Repealing Federal Health Reform: The Economic and
	879	+	Employment Consequences for States. Brief, Commonwealth Fund, Jan. 6, 2017.
	880	+	http://www.commonwealthfund.org/Publications/Issue-Briefs/2017/Jan/Repealing-Federal-Health-
	881	+	Reform [PR]
	882	+
	883	+	Ku L Steinmetz E, Brantley E, Bruen B. The Economic and Employment Consequences of Repealing
	884	+	Federal Health Reform: A 50 State Analysis. Milken Institute School of Public Health, George
	885	+	Washington University. Jan. 6, 2017.
	886	+	https://publichealth.gwu.edu/sites/default/files/downloads/HPM/Repealing Federal Health Reform.pdf
	887	+	[PR]
	888	+
	889	+	[Note: The Jan. 6 reports were reported widely in numerous media including CBS, NBC, NPR, Forbes,
	890	+	Fortune, the Atlantic, etc. Findings were frequently cited by Congressmen and Senators in Congressional
	891	+	floor debates about repeal of the Affordable Care Act. One of the most popular Commonwealth Fund
	892	+	reports in 2017]
	893	+
	894	+	Ku L, Steinmetz E, Bruen B. Changes in Insurance Coverage and Cardiovascular Risk for U.S. Adults in
	895	+	States Expanding and Not Expanding Medicaid. Dec. 2016 George Washington University and American
	896	+	Heart Association. [PR]
	897	+	https://publichealth.gwu.edu/sites/default/files/downloads/HPM/Americans%20Cardiovascular%20Risk
	898	+	%20and%20Changes%20in%20Health%20Insurance%20Coverage%20Dec%2016.pdf
	899	+
	900	+	Ku L. DC Health Link Has Expanded Health Insurance Coverage in the District. DC Health Benefits
	901	+	Exchange Authority, Sept. 29, 2016 [no author listed]
	902	+	http://hbx.dc.gov/sites/default/files/dc/sites/hbx/publication/attachments/SurveyReportGainedCoverage%
	903	+	20final.pdf
	904	+
	905	+	Ku L. Up in smoke: We’ll spend billions tomorrow for not helping poor people quit smoking today, The
	906	+	Conversation. July 12, 2016. https://theconversation.com/up-in-smoke-well-spend-billions-tomorrow-
	907	+	for-not-helping-poor-people-quit-smoking-today-60686
	908	+
	909	+	Ku L. The Role of Medicaid In Pay For Success Models For Supportive Housing For Chronically
	910	+	Homeless Individuals: Opportunities And Challenges, Report to Office of the Assistant Secretary for
	911	+	Planning and Evaluation, HHS, under review. [PR]
	912	+
	913	+
	914	+
	915	+
	916	+	17
	917	+	Regenstein M, Jewers M, Nocella K, Goldberg D, Strasser J, Ku L, Mullan F. Cost Estimates for
	918	+	Training a Resident in a Teaching Health Center. Report to HRSA. GW Dept. of Health Policy and
	919	+	Management, Feb. 2016. [PR]
	920	+
	921	+	Lantz,P, Rosenbaum S., Ku L et al. Opportunities for Pay for Success Demonstrations in HHS Programs,
	922	+	Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, HHS, forthcoming. [PR]
	923	+
	924	+	Ku L, Steinmetz E, Bruen B., Bysshe T. Effects of the Affordable Care Act on Health Insurance
	925	+	Coverage of Americans at Risk of Cardiovascular Disease, Washington, DC: American Heart
	926	+	Association. Jan. 2016.
	927	+
	928	+	Ku L, Steinmetz, E, Bysshe T. Continuity of Medicaid Coverage in an Era of Transition, Washington,
	929	+	DC: Association of Community Affiliated Plans, Nov. 1, 2015. [PR]
	930	+
	931	+	Ku L, Bysshe T, Steinmetz E, Bruen B. Health Reform and the Implications for Cancer Screening.
	932	+	Report to American Cancer Society, Sept. 2015
	933	+
	934	+	Ku L, Bysshe T, Wu. X. The Changing Community Health Center Workforce: 2007-13, GW Health
	935	+	Workforce Research Center, Sept. 22, 2015. [PR]
	936	+	https://www.gwhwi.org/uploads/4/3/3/5/43358451/report_the_changing_community_health_cent
	937	+	er__8-10-15_.pdf
	938	+
	939	+	Ku L, Mullan F, Serrano C, Barber Z, Shin P. Teaching Health Centers: A Promising Approach for
	940	+	Building Primary Care Workforce for the 21st Century. Geiger Gibson / RCHN Community Health
	941	+	Foundation Research Collaborative Policy Research Brief # 40, March 10, 2015.
	942	+	http://www.rchnfoundation.org/?p=4651
	943	+
	944	+	Rosenbaum S, Ku l, et al. (unnamed authors). Amici Curiae Brief Of Public Health Deans, Chairs, And
	945	+	Faculty And The American Public Health Association In Support Of Respondents to the Supreme
	946	+	Court of the United States re: King v Burwell. Jan. 28, 2015. [PR]
	947	+
	948	+	Ku L. Covering the Uninsured Through DC Health Link: Report on the First Year. DC Health Benefits
	949	+	Exchange Authority, Dec. 26, 2014. http://hbx.dc.gov/node/978322 [PR]
	950	+
	951	+	Ku L, Bruen B, Steinmetz E, Bysshe T. The Economic and Employment Costs of Not Expanding
	952	+	Medicaid in North Carolina: A County-Level Analysis. Dec. 2014. Cone Health Foundation and Kate B.
	953	+	Reynolds Charitable Trust. At www.ncmedicaidexpansion.com {PR]
	954	+
	955	+	Ku L, Bruen B, Steinmetz E, Brown C., Motamedi R, Stottlemyer C. Economic and Employment Effects
	956	+	of Expanding KanCare. Kansas Hospital Association, Nov. 2014 at http://www.kha-net.org/.
	957	+
	958	+	Steinmetz E, Bruen, B, Ku L. Children’s Use of Dental Care in Medicaid: Federal Fiscal Years 2000 –
	959	+	2012. Report to CMS, Oct. 2014. Posted at http://www.medicaid.gov/medicaid-chip-program-
	960	+	information/by-topics/benefits/dental-trends-2000-to-2012.pdf. [PR]
	961	+
	962	+	Stewart A, Cox M, Ku L. Health Insurance Benefits Advisors: Understanding Responsibilities,
	963	+	Regulations, Restrictions and Relevance in Implementing the Affordable Care Act. GW Dept of Health
	964	+	Policy, Sept. 2014. [PR]
	965	+
	966	+	Ku L Zur, J. Jones E, Shin P, Rosenbaum S. How Medicaid Expansions and Future Community Health
	967	+	Center Funding Will Shape Capacity to Meet the Nation’s Primary Care Needs: A 2014 Update Geiger
	968	+
	969	+
	970	+
	971	+	18
	972	+	Gibson / RCHN Community Health Foundation Research Collaborative Policy Research Brief # 37, June
	973	+	18, 2014. [PR]
	974	+
	975	+	Miller V, Ku L. The Impact of Government Transfer Programs on State and Regional Personal Incomes,
	976	+	Department of Health Policy Issue Brief, April 30, 2014.
	977	+
	978	+	Ku L. Strengthening Immigrants’ Health Access: Current Opportunities. GW Department of Health
	979	+	Policy Issue Brief, Dec. 13, 2013. http://hsrc.himmelfarb.gwu.edu/sphhs_policy_briefs/29/
	980	+
	981	+	Ku L Zur, J. Jones E, Shin P, Rosenbaum S. How Medicaid Expansions and Future Community Health
	982	+	Center Funding Will Shape Capacity to Meet the Nation’s Primary Care Needs Geiger Gibson /
	983	+	RCHN Community Health Foundation Research Collaborative Policy Research Brief # 34, Nov. 18. 2013
	984	+
	985	+	Paradise J, Rosenbaum S, Shin P, Sharac J, Alvarez C, Zur J, Ku L. Providing outreach and enrollment
	986	+	assistance: lessons learned from community health centers in Massachusetts. The Henry J. Kaiser Family
	987	+	Foundation. September 24, 2013. Available at: http://kff.org/health-reform/issue-brief/providing-
	988	+	outreach-and-enrollment-assistance-lessons-learned-from-community-health-centers-in-massachusetts/
	989	+
	990	+	Ku L, Steinmetz E. Bridging the Gap: Continuity and Quality of Coverage in Medicaid, Washington DC:
	991	+	Association of Community Affiliated Plans. Sept. 2013. [PR]
	992	+
	993	+	Ku L. The Bipartisan Senate Immigration Bill: Implications for Health Coverage and Health Access, GW
	994	+	Department of Health Policy, Aug. 8, 2013
	995	+
	996	+	Ku L. The Senate Immigration Bill’s Impact on Health Care, blog posted at www.cmwf.org, Aug. 8,
	997	+	2013. [PR]
	998	+
	999	+	Ku L. Comprehensive Immigration Reform and Health Care: CBO’s Analysis of S. 744, Dept of Health
	1000	+	Policy report, June 20, 2013. Also posted on HealthReformGPS.org.
	1001	+
	1002	+	Ku L. Explaining Recent Changes in CBO Projections of Health Insurance Coverage and Costs under the
	1003	+	Affordable Care Act, Implementation Brief posted on www.HealthReformGPS.org, June 5, 2013.
	1004	+
	1005	+	Ku L. Medicaid Expansions Using Private Plans: The Role of Premium Assistance and Cost-Sharing,
	1006	+	commentary in www.HealthReformGPS.org April 2013.
	1007	+	http://www.healthreformgps.org/resources/medicaid-expansions-using-private-plans-the-role-of-
	1008	+	premium-assistance-and-cost-sharing-2/
	1009	+
	1010	+	Ku L, Bruen B. Poor Immigrants Use Public Benefits At a Lower Rate than Poor Native-Born Citizens,
	1011	+	Economic Development Bulletin No. 17, Washington, DC: Cato Institute. March 4, 2013
	1012	+	http://www.cato.org/sites/cato.org/files/pubs/pdf/edb17.pdf [PR]
	1013	+
	1014	+	Brown C, Motamedi R, Stottlemeyer C, Bruen B, Ku L. Economic and Employment Effects of
	1015	+	Expanding Medicaid in Iowa, Regional Economic Models, Inc. and George Washington University.
	1016	+	Prepared for Iowa Hospital Association. Mar. 2013.
	1017	+	http://blog.iowahospital.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/IA-Medicaid-Expansion-Econ-Full-Report.pdf
	1018	+
	1019	+	Brown C, Motamedi R, Stottlemeyer C, Bruen B, Ku L. Economic and Employment Effects of
	1020	+	Expanding Medicaid in Arizona, Regional Economic Models, Inc. and George Washington University.
	1021	+	Prepared for Arizona Hospital and Healthcare Association. Feb. 2013.
	1022	+	http://www.azhha.org/member and media resources/documents/ArizonaMedicaidExpansionReportREM
	1023	+	I2-28-13 000.pdf
	1024	+
	1025	+
	1026	+
	1027	+	19
	1028	+
	1029	+	Brown C, Motamedi R, Stottlemeyer C, Bruen B, Ku L. Economic and Employment Effects of
	1030	+	Expanding Medicaid in Arkansas, Regional Economic Models, Inc. and George Washington University.
	1031	+	Prepared for Arkansas Hospital Association. Feb. 2013.
	1032	+	http://www.arkhospitals.org/Misc.%20Files/ReportBriefAppendix.pdf
	1033	+
	1034	+	Brown, C., Motamedi, R., Stottlemeyer, C., Bruen B and Ku L. Economic and Employment Effects of
	1035	+	Expanding Medicaid in Kansas, Regional Economic Models, Inc. and George Washington University.
	1036	+	Prepared for Kansas Hospital Association. Feb. 2013.
	1037	+	http://m.kha-net.org/communications/mediareleases/102615.aspx
	1038	+
	1039	+	Ku L, Bruen B. The Use of Public Assistance Benefits by Citizens and Non-citizen Immigrants in the
	1040	+	United States. Working Paper, Cato Institute, Feb. 2013. [PR]
	1041	+
	1042	+	Ku L, Jewers M. Health Care for Immigrants: Policies and Current Issues. Migration Policy Institute,
	1043	+	June 2013. www.migrationpolicy.org [PR]
	1044	+
	1045	+	Ku L, Bruen B, and Steinmetz E. Task 9: Medicaid DSH Simulation: Final Report to the Office of the
	1046	+	Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation. Jan. 2013. [PR]
	1047	+
	1048	+	Ku L, Bruen B, Steinmetz E Beeson T. Task 7: Medicaid DSH Analytic Report to the Office of the
	1049	+	Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation. Oct. 2012. [PR]
	1050	+
	1051	+	Ku L Cartwright-Smith L, Sharac J, Steinmetz E, Lewis J, Shin P. Deteriorating Access to Women's
	1052	+	Health Services in Texas: Potential Effects of the Women's Health Program Affiliate Rule, Geiger
	1053	+	Gibson/RCHN CHF Research Collaborative Brief, Issue No. 31. October 11, 2012
	1054	+
	1055	+	Ku L, Regenstein M, Shin P, Mead H, Levy A, Buchanan K, Byrne, F.. Coordinating and Integrating
	1056	+	Care for Safety Net Patients: Lessons from Six Communities. George Washington University Dept. of
	1057	+	Health Policy, May 21, 2012.
	1058	+
	1059	+	Ku L, Levy A, Bruen B. The Potential Primary Care Crisis in Texas: A County-Based Analysis Report
	1060	+	for Methodist Healthcare Ministries, April 2012.
	1061	+
	1062	+	Ku L, Cunningham M, Goetz-Goldberg D., Darnell J, Hiller M.. Quality Incentives for Federally
	1063	+	Qualified Health Centers, Rural Health Clinics and Free Clinics: A Report To Congress, report prepared
	1064	+	for U.S. Department of Health and Human Services for submission to Congress, January 23, 2012. [PR]
	1065	+
	1066	+	Ku L. Saving Money: The Massachusetts Medicaid Tobacco Cessation Benefit: A Policy Paper.
	1067	+	Partnership for Prevention. Jan. 2012.
	1068	+	http://www.prevent.org//data/images/roi%20policy%20paper a.pdf
	1069	+
	1070	+	Ku L, Levy A, Lantz P, Pierre-Matthieu R. Options for CDC’s Cancer Screening Programs: Implications
	1071	+	of the Affordable Care Act. Report to the American Cancer Society and Centers for Disease Control and
	1072	+	Prevention, Nov. 15, 2011. [PR]
	1073	+
	1074	+	Ku L, Regenstein M., Shin P, Mead H, Levy A, Buchanan K, Byrne F. Coordinating and Integrating Care
	1075	+	for Safety Net Patients: Lessons from Six Communities, Draft Report to the Commonwealth Fund, Sept.
	1076	+	2011. [PR]
	1077	+
	1078	+	Ku L, Regenstein M., Shin P, Bruen B, Byrne FR. Improving the Integration and Coordination of Safety
	1079	+	Net Health Providers Under Health Reform: Key Issues, Commonwealth Fund Pub 1552, Oct. 2011.
	1080	+
	1081	+
	1082	+
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	1084	+	Posted at http://www.commonwealthfund.org/~/media/Files/Publications/Issue%20Brief/2011/Oct/
	1085	+	1552_Ku_promoting_integration_safetynet_providers_under_reform_ib.pdf [PR]
	1086	+
	1087	+	Ku L, Shin P, Jones E, Bruen B. Transforming Community Health Centers into Patient-Centered Medical
	1088	+	Homes: The Role of Payment Reform, Report to the Commonwealth Fund, Sept. 28, 2011. Posted at
	1089	+	http://www.commonwealthfund.org/Publications/Fund-Reports/2011/Sep/Transforming-Community-
	1090	+	Health-Centers.aspx. [PR]
	1091	+
	1092	+	Ku L, Ferguson C. Medicaid Works: A Review of How Public Insurance Protects the Health and
	1093	+	Finances of Low-Income Families and Individuals. First Focus and George Washington Univ. Dept. of
	1094	+	Health Policy, June 2011.
	1095	+
	1096	+	Ku L. Medicaid in the Bull’s Eye.: Blog posted at Health Affairs blog website. April 15, 2011.
	1097	+	http://healthaffairs.org/blog/2011/04/15/medicaid-in-the-bulls-eye.
	1098	+
	1099	+	Rosenbaum S, Shin P, Ku L. Who Are the Health Center Patients Who Risk Losing Care Under the
	1100	+	House of Representatives Proposed FY 2011 Spending Reductions?. Issue No. 20. Geiger Gibson/RCHN
	1101	+	Community Health Foundation Research Collaborative Feb 24, 2011.
	1102	+
	1103	+	Ku L, Richard P, Dor A, Tan E, Shin P, Rosenbaum S. Strengthening Primary Care to Bend the Cost
	1104	+	Curve: The Expansion of Community Health Centers Through Health Reform, Brief No. 19. Geiger
	1105	+	Gibson/RCHN Community Health Foundation Research Collaborative, June 30, 2010.
	1106	+
	1107	+	Ku L, Shin P, Bruen B. Can Health Care Investments Stimulate the Economy?. Blog posted at Health
	1108	+	Affairs blog website, March 16, 2010.
	1109	+	http://healthaffairs.org/blog/2010/03/16/can-health-care-investments-stimulate-the-economy/
	1110	+
	1111	+	Shin P, Bruen B, Jones E, Ku L, Rosenbaum S. The Economic Stimulus: Gauging the Early Effects of
	1112	+	ARRA Funding on Health Centers and Medically Underserved Populations and Communities, Brief No.
	1113	+	17. Geiger Gibson/RCHN Community Health Foundation Research Collaborative, Feb. 2010.
	1114	+
	1115	+	Shin P, Bruen B, Ku L, Mead KH, Regenstein M, Rosenbaum S, Buchanan K, Smith K. The
	1116	+	Early Impact of ARRA on Community Health Centers: Analysis of HCQR2. Report to Health Resources
	1117	+	and Services Administration, Rockville, MD. February 2010.
	1118	+
	1119	+	Ku L, Rosenbaum S, Shin P. Using Primary Care to Bend the Cost Curve: The Potential Impact of
	1120	+	Health Center Expansion in Senate Reforms. Brief No. 16. Geiger Gibson/RCHN Community Health
	1121	+	Foundation Research Collaborative, Oct 14, 2009.
	1122	+
	1123	+	Shin P, Ku L, Mauery R, Finnegan B, Rosenbaum S. Estimating the Economic Gains for States as a
	1124	+	Result of Medicaid Coverage Expansions for Adults, Brief No. 15. Geiger Gibson/RCHN Community
	1125	+	Health Foundation Research Collaborative, Oct 7, 2009.
	1126	+
	1127	+	Ku L, Richard P, Dor A, Tan E, Shin P, Rosenbaum S. Using Primary Care to Bend the Curve:
	1128	+	Estimating the Impact of a Health Center Expansion on Health Care Costs. Brief No. 14. Geiger
	1129	+	Gibson/RCHN Community Health Foundation Research Collaborative, Sep 1, 2009.
	1130	+
	1131	+	Ku L. Do Medicaid and CHIP Measure Errors Correctly?. Dept. of Health Policy, George Washington
	1132	+	Univ. Aug. 4, 2009.
	1133	+
	1134	+
	1135	+
	1136	+
	1137	+	21
	1138	+	Ku L, Shin P, Rosenbaum S. Estimating the Effects of Health Reform on Health Centers’ Capacity to
	1139	+	Expand to New Medically Underserved Communities and Populations. Issue No. 11. Geiger
	1140	+	Gibson/RCHN Community Health Foundation Research Collaborative, Washington, DC. Jul 23, 2009.
	1141	+	Rosenbaum S, Jones E, Shin P and Ku L National Health Reform: How Will Medically Underserved
	1142	+	Communities Fare? Geiger Gibson / RCHN Community Health Foundation Research Collaborative,
	1143	+	Washington, DC. July 9, 2009.
	1144	+
	1145	+	Ku L, MacTaggart P, Pervez F, Rosenbaum S. Improving Medicaid’s Continuity and Quality of Care,
	1146	+	Association for Community Affiliated Plans, July 2009. [PR]
	1147	+
	1148	+	Finnegan B, Ku L, Shin P, Rosenbaum S. Boosting Health Information Technology in Medicaid: The
	1149	+	Potential Effect of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. Geiger Gibson / RCHN Community
	1150	+	Health Foundation Research Collaborative, Washington, DC. July 7, 2009.
	1151	+
	1152	+	Ku L. Expanding Coverage for Low-income Americans: Medicaid or Health Insurance Exchanges? Blog
	1153	+	posted at Health Affairs blog website, June 23, 2009. http://healthaffairs.org/blog/2009/06/23/expanding-
	1154	+	coverage-for-low-income-americans-medicaid-of-health-insurance-exchanges/
	1155	+
	1156	+	Shin P Ku L, Jones E, Finnegan B, Rosenbaum S. Financing Community Health Centers
	1157	+	As Patient- And Community-Centered Medical Homes: A Primer, George Washington Univ., May 27,
	1158	+	2009. [PR]
	1159	+
	1160	+	Ku L, Jones E, Finnegan B, Shin P, Rosenbaum S. Community Health Centers in the Midst of
	1161	+	Massachusetts’ Health Reform: How Is the Primary Care Safety Net Faring? Kaiser Commission on
	1162	+	Medicaid and the Uninsured and Geiger Gibson Community Health Program. March 2009. [PR]
	1163	+
	1164	+	Ku L. Restoring Medicaid and SCHIP Coverage to Legal Immigrant Children and Pregnant Women:
	1165	+	Implications for Community Health and Health Care for Tomorrow’s Citizens, Geiger Gibson/RCHN
	1166	+	Community Health Foundation Research Brief #7, Jan. 13, 2009. https://www.rchnfoundation.org/wp-
	1167	+	content/uploads/2013/02/GG-RCHN_No7.pdf
	1168	+
	1169	+	Ku L, Feiden K. Examining the Health Consequences of the 2008-09 Recession, Rapid Public Health
	1170	+	Policy Response Project, GW School of Public Health and Health Services, January 2009.
	1171	+
	1172	+	Ku L. The Dial and the Dashboard: The Child Well-Being Index and Public Policy, prepared for the
	1173	+	Foundation for Child Development, Jan. 2009.
	1174	+
	1175	+	Jones E, Ku L, Lippi J, Whittington R, Rosenbaum S. Designation of Medically Underserved and Health
	1176	+	Professional Shortage Areas: Analysis of the Public Comments on the Withdrawn Proposed Regulation.
	1177	+	Geiger Gibson/RCHN Community Health Foundation Research Brief #5. September 2008.
	1178	+
	1179	+	Shin P, Ku L, Jones E, Rosenbaum S. Grantee-Level Estimates Show that 31 Percent of All Health
	1180	+	Centers would Fail to Meet Tier Two Status under HRSA’s Proposed MUA/MUP/HPSA Designation
	1181	+	Regulations. Geiger Gibson/RCHN Community Health Foundation Research Brief #3. May 2008.
	1182	+
	1183	+	Shin P, Ku L, Jones E, Rosenbaum S. Analysis of the Proposed Rule on Designation of Medically
	1184	+	Underserved Populations and Health Professional Shortage Areas, (report and highlights) Geiger
	1185	+	Gibson/RCHN Community Health Foundation Research Collaborative, Department of Health Policy, The
	1186	+	George Washington University, revised May 1, 2008.
	1187	+
	1188	+
	1189	+
	1190	+
	1191	+	22
	1192	+	Ku L, Lindblom E. (authors not named) Expanding Children’s Health Insurance and Raising Federal
	1193	+	Tobacco Taxes Helps Low-Income Families, Joint Paper of the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
	1194	+	and the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids, Oct. 16, 2007.
	1195	+	Ku L. ’Crowd-Out’ Is Not the Same as Voluntarily Dropping Private Health Insurance for Public
	1196	+	Program Coverage, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, Sept. 27, 2007
	1197	+
	1198	+	Greenstein R, Ku L (authors not named) Charge That Bipartisan SCHIP Compromise Bill Aids
	1199	+	Undocumented Immigrants Is False, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, Sept. 25, 2007.
	1200	+
	1201	+	Ku L. Collateral Damage: Children Can Lose Coverage When Their Parents Lose Health Insurance,
	1202	+	Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, Sept. 17, 2007.
	1203	+
	1204	+	Ku L (author not named), More Americans, Including More Children, Now Lack Health Insurance,
	1205	+	Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, Aug. 31, 2007.
	1206	+
	1207	+	Ku L, New Research Shows Simplifying Medicaid Can Reduce Children's Hospitalizations, Center on
	1208	+	Budget and Policy Priorities, June 11, 2007.
	1209	+
	1210	+	Ku L, Comparing Public and Private Health Insurance for Children, Center on Budget and Policy
	1211	+	Priorities, May 11, 2007.
	1212	+
	1213	+	Ku L, Reducing Disparities in Health Coverage for Legal Immigrant Children and Pregnant Women,
	1214	+	Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, April 20, 2007.
	1215	+
	1216	+	Ku L, Census Revises Estimates of the Number of Uninsured People, Center on Budget and Policy
	1217	+	Priorities, April 5, 2007.
	1218	+
	1219	+	Ku L, Schneider A, Solomon J, The Administration Again Proposes to Shift Federal Medicaid Costs to
	1220	+	States, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, Feb.14, 2007.
	1221	+
	1222	+	Ku L. Medicaid Costs Are Growing More Slowly Than Costs For Medicare or Private Insurance, Center
	1223	+	on Budget and Policy Priorities, Nov. 13, 2006.
	1224	+
	1225	+	Ku L, Broaddus M. Coverage of Parents Helps Children, Too, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities,
	1226	+	Oct. 20, 2006.
	1227	+
	1228	+	Ku L Paying for Language Services in Medicare: Preliminary Options & Recommendations, National
	1229	+	Health Law Program and Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, Oct. 2006.
	1230	+	(www.healthlaw.org/library.cfm?fa=detail&id=118637&appView=folder)
	1231	+
	1232	+	Ku L, Broaddus M. Is Medicaid Responsible for the Erosion of Employer-Based Health Coverage?,
	1233	+	Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, Sept. 22, 2006.
	1234	+
	1235	+	Greenstein, R., Ku L and Dean, S. Survey Indicates House Bill Could Deny Voting Rights To Millions Of
	1236	+	U.S. Citizens, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, Sept. 22, 2006.
	1237	+
	1238	+	Ku L, Cohen Ross D, Broaddus M. Documenting Citizenship and Identity Using Data Matches: A
	1239	+	Promising Strategy for State Medicaid Programs, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, Sept. 1, 2006.
	1240	+
	1241	+	Ku L. Why Immigrants Lack Adequate Access to Health Care and Health Insurance, Migration
	1242	+	Information Source, Migration Policy Institute, Sept. 2006.
	1243	+	[PR](www.migrationinformation.org/Feature/display.cfm?id=417)
	1244	+
	1245	+
	1246	+
	1247	+	23
	1248	+
	1249	+	Kogan R, Ku L, et al. Budget Process Bill Would Result in Deep Cuts in Medicare and Medicaid, Center
	1250	+	on Budget and Policy Priorities, Aug. 9, 2006.
	1251	+
	1252	+	Ku L. Revised Medicaid Documentation Requirement Jeopardizes Coverage for 1 To 2 Million Citizens,
	1253	+	Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, July 13, 2006.
	1254	+
	1255	+	Ku L. Using Information Technology to Document Citizenship in Medicaid, Center on Budget and Policy
	1256	+	Priorities, June 20, 2006.
	1257	+
	1258	+	Ku L. The Slowdown in Medicaid Expenditure Growth, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, March
	1259	+	13, 2006.
	1260	+
	1261	+	Ku L, Broaddus M. New Requirement For Birth Certificates or Passports Could Threaten Medicaid
	1262	+	Coverage For Vulnerable Beneficiaries: A State-By-State Analysis, Center on Budget and Policy
	1263	+	Priorities, Revised Feb. 17, 2006.
	1264	+
	1265	+	Ku L Cohen Ross D. Broaddus M. Survey Indicates Deficit Reduction Act Jeopardizes Medicaid
	1266	+	Coverage for 3 to 5 Million U.S. Citizens, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, Revised Feb. 17, 2006.
	1267	+
	1268	+	Schneider A, Ku L, et al. Administration’s Medicaid Proposals Would Shift Federal Costs to States,
	1269	+	Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, Feb. 14, 2006.
	1270	+
	1271	+	Ku L, Cohen Ross D. New Medicaid Requirement Is Unnecessary and Could Impede Citizens' Coverage,
	1272	+	Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, Revised Jan. 4, 2006.
	1273	+
	1274	+	Wachino V, Ku L, et al. Medicaid Provisions of House Reconciliation Bill Both Harmful and
	1275	+	Unnecessary Senate Bill Achieves Larger Savings Without Reducing Access to Care, Center on Budget
	1276	+	and Policy Priorities, Dec. 9, 2005
	1277	+
	1278	+	Ku L, Wachino V. Greenstein R. The House Reconciliation Bill’s Provisions On Medicaid Co-Payments
	1279	+	and Premiums: Are They Mild or Harsh? Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, Nov. 22, 2005.
	1280	+
	1281	+	Wachino V, Ku L , et al. An Analysis of The National Governors Association’s Proposals For Short-Run
	1282	+	Medicaid Reform Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, Oct. 14, 2005.
	1283	+
	1284	+	Ku L and Wachino V. Don't Shift Medicaid's Costs onto Those Who Can Least Afford Them The Hill,
	1285	+	July 20, 2005.
	1286	+
	1287	+	Ku L. Medicaid: Improving Health, Saving Lives, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, July 19, 2005.
	1288	+
	1289	+	Ku L. New Research Sheds Light on Risks from Increasing Medicaid Cost-Sharing and Reducing
	1290	+	Medicaid Benefits, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, July 18, 2005.
	1291	+
	1292	+	Ku L, Wachino V. Medicaid Commission Named By Secretary Leavitt Lacks Balance, Center on Budget
	1293	+	and Policy Priorities, July 10, 2005
	1294	+
	1295	+	Ku L, Wachino V. Assessing The National Governors Association's Proposals To Allow Increases In
	1296	+	Cost-Sharing Charges To Medicaid Beneficiaries, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, July 7, 2005.
	1297	+
	1298	+	Ku L, Wachino.V. The Effect Of Increased Cost-Sharing In Medicaid: A Summary Of Research
	1299	+	Findings, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, Revised, July 7, 2005.
	1300	+
	1301	+
	1302	+
	1303	+	24
	1304	+
	1305	+	Ku L, Broaddus M. Out-Of-Pocket Medical Expenses For Medicaid Beneficiaries Are Substantial And
	1306	+	Growing, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, May 31, 2005.
	1307	+
	1308	+	Ku L, Solomon, J. Is Missouri's Medicaid Program Out-of-Step and Inefficient?, Center on Budget and
	1309	+	Policy Priorities, April 4, 2005.
	1310	+
	1311	+	Wachino V, Schneider A, Ku L. Medicaid Budget Proposals Would Shift Costs To States And Be Likely
	1312	+	To Cause Reductions In Health Coverage: Administration’s Proposal Also Implies Cap On Federal
	1313	+	Funding, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, Feb. 18, 2005
	1314	+
	1315	+	Ku L, Broaddus M, Wachino, V.. Medicaid and SCHIP Protected Insurance Coverage for Millions of
	1316	+	Low-Income Americans, Jan. 31, 2005
	1317	+
	1318	+	Ku L and Wachino V. The Potential Impact of Eliminating TennCare and Reverting to Medicaid: A
	1319	+	Preliminary Analysis, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, Nov. 15, 2004.
	1320	+
	1321	+	Ku L, Deschamps E, Hilman J. The Effects of Copayments on the Use of Medical Services and
	1322	+	Prescription Drugs in Utah’s Medicaid Program, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, Nov. 2, 2004.
	1323	+
	1324	+	Ku L. Will the New TennCare Cutbacks Help Tennessee’s Economy? Center on Budget and Policy
	1325	+	Priorities, July 8, 2004.
	1326	+
	1327	+	Ku L, Nimalendran S. Losing Out: States Are Cutting 1.2 to 1.6 Million Low-Income People from
	1328	+	Medicaid, SCHIP and Other State Health Insurance Programs, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities,
	1329	+	Dec. 22, 2003.
	1330	+
	1331	+	Ku L, Broaddus M. Funding Health Coverage For Low-Income Children In Washington,
	1332	+	Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, Nov. 10, 2003.
	1333	+
	1334	+	Ku L, Report Documents Growing Disparities in Health Care Coverage Between Immigrant and Citizen
	1335	+	Children as Congress Debates Immigrant Care Legislation, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, Oct.
	1336	+	14, 2003
	1337	+
	1338	+	Ku L. CDC Data Show Medicaid and SCHIP Played a Critical Counter-Cyclical Role in Strengthening
	1339	+	Health Insurance Coverage during the Economic Downturn, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, Rev.
	1340	+	Oct. 8, 2003.
	1341	+
	1342	+	Ku L. How Many Low-Income Medicare Beneficiaries In Each State Would Be Denied The Medicare
	1343	+	Prescription Drug Benefit Under The Senate Drug Bill? Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, July 31,
	1344	+	2003.
	1345	+
	1346	+	Ku L. State Fiscal Relief Provides An Opportunity To Safeguard Medicaid Budgets, Center on Budget
	1347	+	and Policy Priorities, June 4, 2003
	1348	+
	1349	+	Ku L, Charging the Poor More For Health Care: Cost-Sharing In Medicaid, Center on Budget and Policy
	1350	+	Priorities, May 7, 2003.
	1351	+
	1352	+	Ku L, Fremstad S, Broaddus M. Noncitizens' Use Of Public Benefits Has Declined Since 1996, Center on
	1353	+	Budget and Policy Priorities, April 14, 2003.
	1354	+
	1355	+
	1356	+
	1357	+
	1358	+	25
	1359	+	Nathanson M, Ku L. Proposed State Medicaid Cuts Would Jeopardize Health Insurance Coverage For 1.7
	1360	+	Million People: An Update, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, Mar. 21, 2003.
	1361	+
	1362	+	Ku L, Shift In Costs From Medicare To Medicaid Is A Principal Reason For Rising State Medicaid
	1363	+	Expenditures, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, March 3, 2003.
	1364	+
	1365	+	Ku L, The Medicaid-Medicare Link: State Medicaid Programs Are Shouldering A Greater Share of The
	1366	+	Costs Of Care For Seniors And People With Disabilities, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, Feb. 25,
	1367	+	2003.
	1368	+
	1369	+	Ku L, Broaddus M. Why Are States' Medicaid Expenditures Rising? Jan. 13, 2003.
	1370	+
	1371	+	Cohen-Ross D, Ku L. Quarterly Status Reporting Could Jeopardize The Health Coverage Of Hundreds Of
	1372	+	Thousands Of Eligible Low-Income Californians, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, Revised Dec.
	1373	+	23, 2002
	1374	+
	1375	+	Ku L, et al., Proposed State Medicaid Cuts Would Jeopardize Health Insurance Coverage for One Million
	1376	+	People, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, Dec. 23, 2002.
	1377	+
	1378	+	Ku L, Cohen-Ross D. Staying Covered: The Importance of Retaining Health Insurance Coverage for
	1379	+	Low-income Families, Commonwealth Fund, Dec. 2002. (One of the most frequently downloaded
	1380	+	Commonwealth Fund reports in 2006.) [PR]
	1381	+
	1382	+	Ku L, New CDC Data Show the Importance of Sustaining Medicaid and SCHIP Coverage as Private
	1383	+	Health Insurance Erodes in 2002, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, Revised Oct. 8, 2002.
	1384	+
	1385	+	Ku L, Cohen-Ross D, Nathanson M. State Medicaid Cutbacks and the Federal Role In Providing Fiscal
	1386	+	Relief to States, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, Revised. Aug. 8, 2002
	1387	+
	1388	+	Ku L, Park E., Improving Transitional Medicaid to Promote Work and Strengthen Health Insurance
	1389	+	Coverage, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, April 29, 2002.
	1390	+
	1391	+	Capps R, Ku L, et al. How Are Immigrants Faring After Welfare Reform? Preliminary Evidence from
	1392	+	Los Angeles County and New York City, Report to the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and
	1393	+	Evaluation, Dept. of Health and Human Services, March 2002. Available at
	1394	+	http://aspe.hhs.gov/hsp/immigrants-faring02/index.htm. [PR]
	1395	+
	1396	+	Broaddus M, et al. Expanding Family Coverage: States' Medicaid Eligibility Policies for Working
	1397	+	Families in the Year 2000, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, Revised Feb. 2002.
	1398	+
	1399	+	Ku L, Park E, Administration's Regulation to Reduce Medicaid Upper Payment Limit Would Further
	1400	+	Worsen State Budget Crises, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, Dec. 11, 2001.
	1401	+
	1402	+	Ku L, Park E. Federal Aid to State Medicaid Programs Is Falling While the Economy Weakens, Center on
	1403	+	Budget and Policy Priorities, Oct. 6, 2001.
	1404	+
	1405	+	Ku L, Rothbaum E. Many States Are Considering Medicaid Cutbacks in the Midst of the Economic
	1406	+	Downturn, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, October 26, 2001.
	1407	+
	1408	+	Park E, Ku L, Health Care Provisions of House Ways And Means Committee Stimulus Package Offer
	1409	+	Little Help for the Health Insurance Needs of Unemployed Workers, Center on Budget and Policy
	1410	+	Priorities, Oct. 19, 2001.
	1411	+
	1412	+
	1413	+
	1414	+	26
	1415	+
	1416	+	Park E, Ku L, Temporary Medicaid Improvements As Part of a Stimulus Package, Center on Budget and
	1417	+	Policy Priorities, Oct. 9, 2001.
	1418	+
	1419	+	Ku L, Counting the Uninsured: A Guide for the Perplexed, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, Sept.
	1420	+	21, 2001
	1421	+
	1422	+	Park E, Ku L. Administration Medicaid and SCHIP Waiver Policy Encourages States to Scale Back
	1423	+	Benefits Significantly and Increase Cost-Sharing for Low-Income Beneficiaries, Center on Budget and
	1424	+	Policy Priorities, August 15, 2001.
	1425	+
	1426	+	Ku L, Guyer J. Medicaid Spending: Rising Again But Not to Crisis Levels, Center on Budget and Policy
	1427	+	Priorities, April 20, 2001.
	1428	+
	1429	+	Broaddus M, Ku L. Nearly 95 Percent of Low-Income Uninsured Children Now Are Eligible for
	1430	+	Medicaid or SCHIP, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, Dec. 6, 2000.
	1431	+	12/6/00
	1432	+
	1433	+	Ku L, Freilich A., Caring for Immigrants: Health Care Safety Nets in Los Angeles, New York, Miami and
	1434	+	Houston, Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured, Feb. 2001.
	1435	+
	1436	+	Holahan J, Ku L, Pohl M.. Is Immigration Responsible for the Growth in the Number of Uninsured
	1437	+	People? Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured, March 2001.
	1438	+
	1439	+	Ku L, Blaney S. Health Coverage for Legal Immigrant Children: New Census Data Highlight Importance
	1440	+	of Restoring Medicaid and SCHIP Coverage, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, Revised. Oct. 10,
	1441	+	2000.
	1442	+
	1443	+	Ormond B, Ku L and Bruen B. Engine of Change or One Force among Many? Section 1115
	1444	+	Demonstration Projects and Trends in Medicaid Expenditures (Baltimore, MD: Health Care Financing
	1445	+	Administration, February 2001).
	1446	+
	1447	+	Ku L, Limiting Abuses of Medicaid Financing: HCFA’s Plan to Regulate the Medicaid Upper Payment
	1448	+	Limit, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, Sept. 27, 2000.
	1449	+
	1450	+	Ku L, Broaddus M. The Importance of Family-Based Insurance Expansions: New Research on the Effects
	1451	+	of State Health Reforms, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, September 5, 2000.
	1452	+
	1453	+	Ku L, Matani S. Immigrants’ Access to Health Care and Insurance on the Cusp of Welfare Reform,
	1454	+	Assessing the New Federalism Discussion Paper 00-03, Washington, DC: The Urban Institute, June 2000.
	1455	+
	1456	+	Ku L, Garrett B. How Welfare Reform and Economic Factors Affected Medicaid Participation: 1984-96,
	1457	+	Assessing the New Federalism Discussion Paper 00-01, Washington, DC: The Urban Institute, February
	1458	+	2000.
	1459	+
	1460	+	Ku L, Ellwood MR, Hoag S, Ormond B, Wooldridge J. The Evolution of Medicaid Managed Care
	1461	+	Systems and Eligibility Expansions in Section 1115 Projects. Final report to the Health Care Financing
	1462	+	Administration, from the Urban Institute and Mathematica Policy Research, Inc., May 2000. [PR]
	1463	+
	1464	+	Coughlin T, Ku L, Kim, J., Reforming the Medicaid Disproportionate Share Program in the 1990s,
	1465	+	Assessing the New Federalism, The Urban Institute, Discussion Paper 99-14, (joint release with
	1466	+	Commonwealth Fund), 1999. [PR]
	1467	+
	1468	+
	1469	+
	1470	+	27
	1471	+
	1472	+	Ku L, Bruen B. The Continuing Decline in Medicaid Coverage, Assessing the New Federalism Brief A-
	1473	+	37, The Urban Institute, December 1999.
	1474	+
	1475	+	Ku L, Ullman F, Almeida R, What Counts? Determining Medicaid and CHIP Eligibility for Children,
	1476	+	Assessing the New Federalism Discussion Paper 99-05, Washington, DC: The Urban Institute, 1999.
	1477	+
	1478	+	Ku L, Hoag S. Medicaid Managed Care and the Marketplace: State Health Reforms in Hawaii,
	1479	+	Oklahoma, Rhode Island and Tennessee, Report to the Health Care Financing Administration from the
	1480	+	Urban Institute and Mathematica Policy Research, February 1998.
	1481	+
	1482	+	Ku L, Kessler B. The Number and Cost of Immigrants on Medicaid: National and State Estimates,
	1483	+	Report to the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation from the Urban Institute,
	1484	+	December 1997. [PR]
	1485	+
	1486	+	Ku L, Berkowitz, A., Ullman F, Regenstein M. Health Policy for Low-Income People in Mississippi,
	1487	+	Assessing the New Federalism, Washington, DC: The Urban Institute, December 1997. [PR]
	1488	+
	1489	+	Nichols L, Ku L, Norton S, Wall S. Health Policy for Low-Income People in Washington Assessing the
	1490	+	New Federalism, Washington, DC: The Urban Institute, November 1997. [PR]
	1491	+
	1492	+	Ku L, Wall S. The Implementation of Oklahoma's Medicaid Reform Program: SoonerCare, Report to the
	1493	+	Health Care Financing Administration from the Urban Institute and Mathematica Policy Research,
	1494	+	October 1997. [PR]
	1495	+
	1496	+	Ku L, Coughlin T, The Use of Sliding Scale Premiums in Subsidized Insurance Programs, Urban Institute
	1497	+	Working Paper, March 1997. [PR]
	1498	+
	1499	+	Ku L, Coughlin T, How the New Welfare Reform Law Affects Medicaid, Assessing New Federalism
	1500	+	Policy Brief No. A-7, the Urban Institute, February 1997. [PR]
	1501	+
	1502	+	Wooldridge J., Ku L, Coughlin T, Dubay L, Ellwood MR, Rajan S, Hoag S., Reforming State Medicaid
	1503	+	Programs: First Year Implementation Experiences from Three States, Mathematica Policy Research,
	1504	+	January 1997. [PR]
	1505	+
	1506	+	Wooldridge J, Ku L, Coughlin T, Dubay L, Ellwood MR, Rajan S, Hoag S. Implementing State Health
	1507	+	Care Reform: What Have We Learned from the First Year? The First Annual Report of the Evaluation of
	1508	+	Health Reform in Five States. Report to the Health Care Financing Administration, from Mathematica
	1509	+	Policy Research Inc. and the Urban Institute, December 1996. [PR]
	1510	+
	1511	+	Ku L, Wade M, Dodds S. How Cost-Reimbursement Affected Patients, Health Centers and Medicaid:
	1512	+	The Federally Qualified Health Center Program, Report to the Health Care Financing Administration,
	1513	+	from the Urban Institute and Mathematica Policy Research, Inc., August 1996.
	1514	+
	1515	+	Long S, Ciemnecki A, Coughlin T, Kenney G, Ku L, Mitchell J, Rajan S, Rosenbach M, Thornton C,
	1516	+	Wade M, Zuckerman S. Designing an Evaluation of the Medicaid Health Reform Demonstrations, Report
	1517	+	to the Health Care Financing Administration, from the Urban Institute, Center for Health Economics
	1518	+	Research and Mathematica Policy Research, Inc., Feb. 1996.
	1519	+
	1520	+	Holahan J, Coughlin T, Liu K, Ku L, Kuntz C, Wade M, Wall S. Cutting Medicaid Spending in
	1521	+	Response to Budget Caps, Report to the Kaiser Commission on the Future of Medicaid, Sept. 1995. [PR]
	1522	+
	1523	+
	1524	+
	1525	+
	1526	+	28
	1527	+	Wade M, Ku L, Dodds S. (1995). The Impact of the Medicaid FQHC Program on Center Users, FQHCs
	1528	+	and the Medicaid Program, Urban Institute Working Paper 06428-03, May 1995.
	1529	+
	1530	+	Ku L, Coughlin T. Medicaid Disproportionate Share and Related Programs: A Fiscal Dilemma for the
	1531	+	States and the Federal Government, Report to the Kaiser Commission on the Future of Medicaid from the
	1532	+	Urban Institute, December 1994.
	1533	+
	1534	+	Holahan J, Coughlin T, Ku L, Lipson D, Rajan S. Increasing Insurance Coverage through Medicaid
	1535	+	Waiver Programs, Urban Institute Working Paper 06433-005-01, November 1994.
	1536	+
	1537	+	Rajan S, Coughlin T, Ku L, Holahan J, Lipson, D. Increasing Insurance Coverage through Medicaid
	1538	+	Waiver Programs: Case Studies, Urban Institute Working Paper 06433-005-02, November 1994.
	1539	+
	1540	+	Ku L, Publicly Supported Family Planning in the United States: Financing of Family Planning Services.
	1541	+	Report to the Kaiser Family Foundation, The Urban Institute, June 1993.
	1542	+
	1543	+	Holahan J, Coughlin T, Ku L, Heslam D, Winterbottom C, The States' Response to Medicaid Financing
	1544	+	Crisis: Case Studies Report, Health Policy Center Report 6272-02, The Urban Institute, December 1992
	1545	+	(revised).
	1546	+
	1547	+	Sonenstein F, Ku L, Juffras J, Cohen B. Promising Prevention Programs for Children, Report to the
	1548	+	United Way of America, The Urban Institute, March 1991.
	1549	+
	1550	+	Ellwood MR, Ku L. Summary and Policy Recommendations: Studies on Health Care Services to
	1551	+	Severely Disabled Children, Report Submitted to the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and
	1552	+	Evaluation, DHHS, Lexington, MA: SysteMetrics/ McGraw-Hill, August 1990.
	1553	+
	1554	+	Ku L, Who's Paying the Big Bills?: Very High Cost Pediatric Hospitalizations in California in 1987,
	1555	+	Report to Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, DHHS, Lexington, MA:
	1556	+	SysteMetrics/McGraw-Hill, August 1990.
	1557	+
	1558	+	Sonenstein F, Ku L, Adams EK, Orloff T. Potential Research Strategies to Evaluate the Effect of
	1559	+	Transitional Medicaid and Child Care Benefits, Report to the Office of the Assistant Secretary for
	1560	+	Planning and Evaluation, DHHS, Lexington, MA: SysteMetrics/McGraw-Hill, May 1990.
	1561	+
	1562	+	HIV/AIDS and Reproductive Health
	1563	+
	1564	+	Lindberg L, Ku L, Sonenstein F. Minor Mothers and Adult Fathers: Age Differences Between Teen
	1565	+	Mothers and Their Partners, Urban Institute Working Paper, 1996.
	1566	+
	1567	+	Sonenstein FL., Pleck JH, Ku L. Why Young Men Don't Use Condoms: Factors Related to Consistency
	1568	+	of Utilization, Sexuality and American Policy Seminar Series, Kaiser Family Foundation and American
	1569	+	Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research, Washington, D.C., May 1995.
	1570	+
	1571	+	Ku L and the NSAM Study Team, Preliminary Results of the Pretest for the National Survey of
	1572	+	Adolescent Males, Report to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the National Institute for
	1573	+	Child Health and Human Development, November 1994.
	1574	+
	1575	+	Ku L, Levine G, Sonenstein F, State STD Reporting Rules and Research Surveys, Report to the Centers
	1576	+	for Disease Control and Prevention, September 1994.
	1577	+
	1578	+	Sonenstein F, Pleck J, Ku L, The Male Side of the Equation, TEC Networks, 33:3-4, June 1992.
	1579	+
	1580	+
	1581	+
	1582	+	29
	1583	+
	1584	+	Sonenstein F, Pleck J, Ku L, Influences on Adolescent Male Premarital Sexual Behavior, Final Report to
	1585	+	the Office of Population Affairs, DHHS from Urban Institute, May 1992.
	1586	+
	1587	+	Sonenstein F, Pleck J, Ku L, Sex and Contraception Among Adolescent Males, TEC Networks, 29:1-3,
	1588	+	June 1991.
	1589	+
	1590	+	Sonenstein F, Pleck J, Calhoun C, Ku L, 1988 National Survey of Adolescent Males: A User's Guide to
	1591	+	the Machine Readable Files and Documentation, Data Set G6, Data Archives on Adolescent Pregnancy
	1592	+	and Pregnancy Prevention, Los Altos, CA: Sociometrics Corp, 1991.
	1593	+
	1594	+	Sonenstein F, Pleck J, Calhoun C, Ku L, Determinants of Contraceptive Use by Adolescent Males, Final
	1595	+	Report to the National Institute for Child Health and Human Development, Urban Institute, February
	1596	+	1991.
	1597	+
	1598	+	Food and Nutrition Policy
	1599	+
	1600	+	Ku L, Debating WIC, The Public Interest, 135: 108-12, Spring 1999. [PR]
	1601	+
	1602	+	Ku L, Cohen B, Pindus N. Full Funding for WIC: A Policy Review, Washington, DC: Urban Institute
	1603	+	Press, 1994.
	1604	+
	1605	+	Ku L, Long S, Brayfield A. and others, Low-Income Children's Nutritional Needs and Participation in
	1606	+	USDA's Food Assistance Programs. Final Report to the Food and Nutrition Service, USDA from the
	1607	+	Urban Institute, September 1993.
	1608	+
	1609	+	Ku L, Institutional Participation in the National School Lunch and Breakfast Programs, Final Report to
	1610	+	the Food and Nutrition Service, USDA from the Urban Institute, March 1993.
	1611	+
	1612	+	Ku L, Reported Meal Production Costs and Reimbursement Rates in the National School Lunch Program,
	1613	+	Draft Report to the Food and Nutrition Service, USDA from the Urban Institute, April 1992.
	1614	+
	1615	+	Ku L, Brayfield A, and others, Evaluation of Low-Income Children's Nutritional Needs and Participation
	1616	+	in USDA's Food Assistance Programs: Conceptual Assessment. Report to Food and Nutrition Service,
	1617	+	USDA from the Urban Institute, February 1992.
	1618	+
	1619	+	Ku L, McKearn M. Effects of the Temporary Emergency Food Assistance Program (TEFAP) on
	1620	+	Displacement of Commercial Sales, (with the Economic Research Service and Mathematica Policy
	1621	+	Research), Report to Congress, U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, August 1987.* [PR]
	1622	+
	1623	+	Ku L, Dalrymple R., Differences Between SIPP and Food and Nutrition Service Program Data on Child
	1624	+	Nutrition and WIC Program Participation, Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP) Working
	1625	+	Papers, No. 8707, Bureau of the Census, May 1987.
	1626	+
	1627	+	Ku L, Nutritional Research Relating to Infant Feeding in the WIC Program, Report to the Assistant
	1628	+	Secretary for Food and Consumer Services, June 1986.*
	1629	+
	1630	+	Richman L, Hidelbaugh T, McMahon-Cox N, Ku L, Dayton CM, Goodrich N. Study of WIC Participant
	1631	+	and Program Characteristics, Report to Congress, Food and Nutrition Service, U.S. Dept. of Agriculture
	1632	+	(with Ebon Research Systems and Abt Associates Inc.), April 1986. [PR]
	1633	+
	1634	+
	1635	+
	1636	+
	1637	+	30
	1638	+	Ku L, Abbot J, Forchheimer M. The Feasibility, Costs and Impacts of a Universal School Lunch Program,
	1639	+	Draft Report to Congress, U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, June 1985.
	1640	+
	1641	+	Puma M, Ku L, Economic Analysis of the Temporary Emergency Food Assistance Program, Report to
	1642	+	Congress, Food and Nutrition Service, U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, May 1985.* [PR]
	1643	+
	1644	+	Ku L, Nichols A. Report on the Food Bank Demonstration Project, Report to Congress, Food and
	1645	+	Nutrition Service, U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, April 1984.* [PR]
	1646	+
	1647	+	* These reports were issued as official Agency or Department reports with no listed authors. In
	1648	+	addition, Leighton Ku wrote numerous proposed and final regulations and legislative and budget
	1649	+	reports while on the staff of the Food and Nutrition Service. In many cases, these were published
	1650	+	in the Federal Register, Congressional Record and related Federal series.
	1651	+
	1652	+	Selected Presentations and Testimony
	1653	+	Ku L. Medicaid Expansion: a Potential Shot in the Arm for North Carolina’s Economy. Presentation to
	1654	+	Cone Health Foundation Advisory Board, June 9, 2021.
	1655	+
	1656	+	Ku L. Medicaid and Smoking: Still a Public Health Crisis. National webinar for Self-Made Health
	1657	+	Network (for CDC), May 25, 2021.
	1658	+
	1659	+	Ku L. Immigrants and Community Health Centers. Webinar for the Geiger Gibson./RCHN Community
	1660	+	Health Foundation series. March 1, 2021.
	1661	+
	1662	+	Ku L. Tracking Medicaid Tobacco Cessation Utilization. Presented to American Lung Association State
	1663	+	Affiliates. Dec. 14, 2020.
	1664	+
	1665	+	Ku L. 17
	1666	+	th
	1667	+	Annual Immigration Law and Policy Conference: Georgetown Law School, Migration Policy
	1668	+	Institute and Catholic Legal Immigration Network. The Two Pandemics: How COVID-19 and Systemic
	1669	+	Racism Affect Immigrants and Their Families. Sept. 22, 2020.
	1670	+
	1671	+	Ku L. Immigrant Health Court Declarations. Protecting Immigrant Families. Aug. 12, 2020.
	1672	+
	1673	+	Ku L. Webinar: Health Policy Responses to Covid-19. George Washington Univ. April 9, 2020.
	1674	+
	1675	+	Han X, Ku L. Enhancing Staffing in Rural Community Health Centers Can Improve Behavioral Health
	1676	+	Care. Health Affairs press briefing, National Press Club, Washington DC, Dec. 4, 2019
	1677	+
	1678	+	Ku, L. Testimony: Economic and Employment Benefits of Expanding Medicaid in North Carolina. Field
	1679	+	Hearing, North Carolina Assembly. Winston-Salem, NC. Aug. 16, 2019. Similar presentation at Field
	1680	+	Hearing, North Carolina Legislature, Raleigh, NC, Oct. 1, 2019.
	1681	+
	1682	+	Ku L. Current Threats to Medicaid. Dialogue on Diversity. Unidos US. Washington, DC. June 26,
	1683	+	2019.
	1684	+
	1685	+	Ku, L, Rosenbaum S, Keith K, Blumberg L, Sidhu A. Health Policy Goes to Court: Collaborations of
	1686	+	Law and Research. AcademyHealth Annual Research Conf. Washington, DC. June 2, 2019
	1687	+
	1688	+	Ku L, Brantley E, Pillai D. The Effects of SNAP Work Requirements in Reducing Participation and
	1689	+	Benefits. AcademyHealth Annual Research Conf. Washington, DC. June 4, 2019
	1690	+
	1691	+
	1692	+
	1693	+	31
	1694	+
	1695	+	Brantley E, Pillai D, Ku L. Factors Affecting Enrollment in Public Programs. AcademyHealth Annual
	1696	+	Research Conf. Washington, DC. June 2, 2019
	1697	+
	1698	+	Ku, L. Immigrants and American Health Policy. Boston College. Global Migration Conference:
	1699	+	Inclusion and Exclusion. Boston MA April 12, 2019.
	1700	+
	1701	+	Ku, L. Medicaid Policy in the States. Scholars Strategy Network National Leadership Conference,
	1702	+	Washington DC. Jan. 18, 2019.
	1703	+
	1704	+	Ku, L. Health Insurance Coverage for DC Latinos. DC Latino Health Leadership Symposium.
	1705	+	Washington DC. Jan. 9, 2019.
	1706	+
	1707	+	Seiler N, Ku L. Medicaid’s Role in Addressing the Opioid Crisis. GW seminar, Nov. 16, 2017.
	1708	+	Ku L. Medicaid: Addressing Tobacco & Opioid Addictions. Presentation at Addressing Addiction:
	1709	+	Policy Prescriptions to Preventing Opiate Abuse and Tobacco Use. Health Policy Institute of Ohio,
	1710	+	Columbus, OH, Sept. 26, 2017.
	1711	+	Ku L. Economic and Employment Effects of the Better Care Reconciliation Act. Testimony to the
	1712	+	Maryland Legislative Health Insurance Coverage Protection Commission, Maryland House of Delegates,
	1713	+	Annapolis, MD. Aug. 1, 2017. Similar presentation at REMI webinar, Aug. 2, 2017.
	1714	+	Ku L. Economic and Employment Effects of the American Health Care Act. Presentation at
	1715	+	AcademyHealth Annual Research Conference, New Orleans, June 25, 2017. Similar presentations at
	1716	+	Policy in the Trump Era: National, State, and Regional Economic Impacts Conference, Hall of States,
	1717	+	Washington, D.C. June 19, 2017 and at Medicaid Policy Conference, Council of State Governments,
	1718	+	Washington, DC, June 29, 2017.
	1719	+	Ku L. Repealing Obamacare: Effects on the Health Workforce. Presentation at AcademyHealth Annual
	1720	+	Research Conference, New Orleans, June 26, 2017.
	1721	+	Brantley E, Ku L. Promoting Tobacco Cessation: The Role of Medicaid and Other Policies. Poster at
	1722	+	AcademyHealth Annual Research Conference, New Orleans, June 26, 2017.
	1723	+	Ku L. The Future of Medicaid. Conference on Obamacare After Obama. Southern Illinois
	1724	+	Healthcare/Southern Illinois University School of Law. Springfield, IL, May 19, 2017.
	1725	+	Brantley E, Ku L. Linking Data to Uncover Medicaid's Role in Cessation. National Conference on
	1726	+	Tobacco or Health, Austin TX, March 23, 2107.
	1727	+	Ku L. The Future of Medicaid and the Safety Net. Health Policy Expert Series. Milken Institute School
	1728	+	of Public Health. March 21, 2017.
	1729	+	Ku L. Financial Consequences of ACA Repeal. Podcast, Feb. 15, 2017
	1730	+	http://www.commonwealthfund.org/interactives-and-data/multimedia/podcasts/new-directions-in-health-
	1731	+	care/the-impact-of-aca-repeal
	1732	+	Ku L. Repealing Health Reform: Economic and Employment Consequences for States. REMI Seminar,
	1733	+	Washington, DC. Jan. 27, 2016. Similar national webinar Feb. 1, 2017.
	1734	+	Ku L. Pay for Success Demonstrations of Supportive Housing for Chronically Homeless Individuals: The
	1735	+	Role of Medicaid. Association for Public Policy and Management Research Conference, Washington,
	1736	+	DC. Nov. 4, 2016.
	1737	+
	1738	+
	1739	+
	1740	+	32
	1741	+	Ku L. Immigrants and Community Health Centers. Pennsylvania Association of Community Health
	1742	+	Centers, Lancaster PA. Oct. 12, 2016.
	1743	+
	1744	+	Ku L. Moving Medicaid Data Forward (discussant). Mathematica Policy Research, Washington, DC Oct.
	1745	+	11, 2016.
	1746	+
	1747	+	Ku L. Medicaid Can Do More to Help Smokers Quit, Michael Davis Lecture, University of Chicago,
	1748	+	Oct. 4, 2016. Similar seminar at Univ. of Maryland, Sept. 15, 2016.
	1749	+
	1750	+	Ku L, Borkowski L. Publish or Perish: Advice for Publishing for Peer-Reviewed Journals in Health
	1751	+	Policy. GW Department of Health Policy & Management seminar, Sept. 20, 2016.
	1752	+
	1753	+	Ku L . Family Planning, Health Reform and Potential Restrictions on Coverage or Access, presented at
	1754	+	Contraception Challenged: Putting Zubik v. Burwell in Context, sponsored by National Family Planning
	1755	+	and Reproductive Health Association meeting at Capitol Visitors Center, Washington, DC, June 7, 2016.
	1756	+
	1757	+	Ku L Russell T. et al. Debate on the Role of Public Programs in Care for the Poor. Benjamin Rush
	1758	+	Institute, Washington, DC, April 1, 2016.
	1759	+
	1760	+	Brantley E, Ku L. Improved Access and Coverage Under The ACA: Are Immigrants at the Table?,
	1761	+	presented at GW Research Day, March 30, 2016. (Won prize for best policy and practice research.)
	1762	+
	1763	+	Ku L. The Role of the Health Care Safety Net, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, March
	1764	+	17, 2016.
	1765	+
	1766	+	Ku L, Steinmetz E, Bysshe T. Medicaid Continuity of Coverage in an Era of Transition. Webinar for
	1767	+	Association of Community-Affiliated Plans, Nov. 2, 2015.
	1768	+
	1769	+	Ku L Bruen B, Steinmetz E, Bysshe T. Trends in Tobacco Cessation Among Medicaid Enrollees,
	1770	+	presented at AcademyHealth Annual Research Meeting, Minneapolis, June 15, 2015.
	1771	+
	1772	+	Ku L. Using Economic Impact Analysis in Medicaid Advocacy, presented at AcademyHealth Annual
	1773	+	Research Meeting, Minneapolis, June 13, 2015.
	1774	+
	1775	+	Ku L. The Translation of Health Services Research into Policy Related to the Affordable Care Act,
	1776	+	Presented at American Association of Medical Colleges, March 20, 2015.
	1777	+
	1778	+	Ku L. Policy and Market Pressures on Safety Net Providers, National Health Policy Conference, Feb. 10,
	1779	+	2015.
	1780	+
	1781	+	Ku L. ‘Economic and Employment Costs of Not Expanding Medicaid in North Carolina, Cone Health
	1782	+	Foundation, Greensboro, NC, Jan. 9, 2015.
	1783	+
	1784	+	Ku L . Health Reform: How Did We Get Here, What the Heck Is Going On and What Next?
	1785	+	Keynote Address: Medical Librarians Association, Alexandria VA, Oct. 20, 2014.
	1786	+
	1787	+	Ku L. Health Reform and the Safety Net. Testimony before Maryland Community Health Resources
	1788	+	Commission. Annapolis, MD, Oct. 2, 2014.
	1789	+
	1790	+	Ku L. Some Key Issues in Health Reform. Presented at American Association for the Advancement of
	1791	+	Science Health Policy Affinity Group Meeting, Washington, DC July 24, 2014.
	1792	+
	1793	+
	1794	+
	1795	+
	1796	+	33
	1797	+	Ku L, Curtis D. Barlow P. District of Columbia’s Health Benefits Exchange at the Launch of a State-
	1798	+	Based Exchange: Challenges and Lessons Learned Georgetown Law School Summer Session on Health
	1799	+	Reform, July 23, 2014.
	1800	+
	1801	+	Ku L. The Big Picture on Medicaid for State Legislators Presented at Council of State Governments.
	1802	+	Medicaid Workshop for Health Leaders, Washington, DC June 20, 2014.
	1803	+
	1804	+	Ku L, Frogner B, Steinmetz E, Pittman P. Many Paths to Primary Care: Flexible Staffing and
	1805	+	Productivity in Community Health Centers, Presented at Annual Research Conference AcademyHealth,
	1806	+	San Diego, CA, June 10, 2014.
	1807	+
	1808	+	Ku L, Zur J., Jones E, Shin, P, Rosenbaum S. How Medicaid Expansions and Post-ACA Funding Will
	1809	+	Affect Community Health Centers’ Capacity. Presented at Annual Research Conference AcademyHealth,
	1810	+	San Diego, CA, June 9, 2014.
	1811	+
	1812	+	Ku L. Critical Issues for Community Health Centers, Alliance for Health Reform briefing,
	1813	+	Commonwealth Fund, Washington, DC. May 16, 2014.
	1814	+
	1815	+	Ku L. Immigrants' Health Access: At the Nexus of Welfare, Health and Immigration Reform, Keynote
	1816	+	talk at Leadership Conference on Health Disparities, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA May 6, 2014.
	1817	+
	1818	+	Ku L. Wellness and the District of Columbia. District of Columbia Chamber of Commerce forum,
	1819	+	Washington, DC, March 11, 2014.
	1820	+
	1821	+	Ku L. Health Care for Immigrant Families: A National Overview. Congressional Health Justice Summit,
	1822	+	Univ. of New Mexico - Robert Wood Johnson Center for Health Policy, Albuquerque, NM, Sept. 7, 2013.
	1823	+
	1824	+	Ku L. Health Reform: Promoting Cancer Prevention and Care. Talk to DC Citywide Navigators
	1825	+	Network, Washington, DC, July 15, 2013.
	1826	+
	1827	+	Ku L. Analyzing Policies to Promote Prevention and Health Reform. Seminar at the Centers for Disease
	1828	+	Prevention and Promotion, Atlanta, GA. July 10, 2013.
	1829	+
	1830	+	Ku L. Medicaid: Key Issues for State Legislators. Council on State Governments, Medicaid Workshop
	1831	+	for Health Leaders, Washington, DC, June 22, 2013.
	1832	+
	1833	+	Ku L, Steinmetz E. Improving Medicaid’s Continuity of Care: An Update. Association of Community
	1834	+	Plans Congressional Briefing, May 10, 2013.
	1835	+
	1836	+	Ku L (with Brown C, Motamedi R, Stottlemeyer C, Bruen B) Economic and Employment Impacts of
	1837	+	Medicaid Expansions. REMI Monthly Policy Seminar, Washington, DC, April 24, 2013.
	1838	+
	1839	+	Ku L. Building Texas’ Primary Care Workforce, Legislative Briefing: Health Care Coverage Expansion
	1840	+	& Primary Care Access in Texas, Center on Public Priorities and Methodist Healthcare Ministries, Texas
	1841	+	Capitol, Austin, TX, Mar. 8, 2013
	1842	+
	1843	+	Ku L, Jewers M. Health Care for Immigrants: Policies and Issues in a New Year. Presentation to
	1844	+	Conference on After the Election: Policies Affecting Young Children of Immigrants, Migration Policy
	1845	+	Institute, Washington, DC, Jan. 17, 2013.
	1846	+
	1847	+	Ku L. Health Reform and the New Health Insurance Exchanges: Issues for Indiana Families, Indiana
	1848	+
	1849	+
	1850	+
	1851	+	34
	1852	+	Family Impact Seminar at Indiana State Legislature, Nov. 19, 2012.
	1853	+
	1854	+	Ku L. Pediatric Preventive Medical and Dental Care: The Role of Insurance and Poverty,
	1855	+	AcademyHealth Annual Research Meeting, Orlando, FL, June 24, 2012.
	1856	+
	1857	+	Ku L. A Medicaid Tobacco Cessation Benefit: Return on Investment, Webinar for Partnership for
	1858	+	Prevention and Action to Quit, Feb. 8, 2012.
	1859	+
	1860	+	Ku L. Safety Net Financing Issues, Webinar for National Workgroup on Integrating a Safety Net,
	1861	+	National Academy for State Health Policy, Feb. 6, 2012
	1862	+
	1863	+	Ku L. How Medicaid Helps Children: An Introduction. Briefing to Congressional Children’s Health
	1864	+	Caucus, Jan. 25, 2012
	1865	+
	1866	+	Ku L. Market Access Webinar: Provider Access: Coordinating Medicaid & Exchanges: Continuity of
	1867	+	Services & the Role of Safety Net Providers, Webinar for Center for Consumer Information and
	1868	+	Insurance Oversight, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, Dec. 15, 2011.
	1869	+
	1870	+	Ku L. The Safety Net: An Evolving Landscape, Presented to Grantmakers in Health, Washington, DC.
	1871	+	Nov. 3, 2011. [Similar talks in Orlando, FL to Blue Cross Blue Shield of Florida Foundation, Feb. 17,
	1872	+	2012 and in Williamsburg, VA to Williamsburg Community Health Foundation Apr. 3, 2012 and to
	1873	+	Virginia Health Foundation, Nov. 13, 2012]
	1874	+
	1875	+	Ku L. Open Access Publishing. Presented at forum for GW Medical Center faculty and staff, Oct. 24,
	1876	+	2011.
	1877	+
	1878	+	Ku L, Levy A. Implications of Health Reform for CDC’s Cancer Screening Programs: Preliminary
	1879	+	Results, Presentation to National Breast and Cervical Cancer Early Detection Program and Colorectal
	1880	+	Cancer Control Program Directors Meeting, Atlanta, GA, Oct. 21, 2011.
	1881	+
	1882	+	Ku L. Coordinating Medicaid & Exchanges: Continuity of Services & the Role of Safety Net Providers,
	1883	+	Presented to America’s Health Insurance Plans, Washington, DC. Sept. 16, 2011.
	1884	+
	1885	+	Ku L. The Potential Impact of Health Reform on CDC’s Cancer Screening Programs:
	1886	+	Preliminary Results, Presented to NBCCEDP Federal Advisory Committee Meeting, Atlanta, GA, Jun.
	1887	+	17, 2011. (Similar presentations to the American Cancer Society, Sept. 2011.)
	1888	+
	1889	+	Ku L. Crystal Balls and Safety Nets: What Happens After Health Reform? Presented at AcademyHealth,
	1890	+	Seattle, WA, June 2011.
	1891	+
	1892	+	Ku L. Strengthening Primary Care to Bend the Cost Curve: Using Research to Inform U.S. Policy,
	1893	+	International Community Health Center Conference, Toronto, Canada, June 2011
	1894	+
	1895	+	Ku L. Integrating/Coordinating Care for Safety Net Providers: Issues and Local Examples, International
	1896	+	Community Health Center Conference, Toronto, Canada, June 2011.
	1897	+
	1898	+	Ku L. Health Reform: Federal Implementation and More Unanswered Questions Presented at American
	1899	+	Society of Public Administration, Baltimore, MD, Mar. 14, 2011.
	1900	+
	1901	+	Ku L. Key Issues in the Confusing World of Health Reform, Presented to Industrial College of the
	1902	+	Armed Forces, National Defense University, Washington, DC, Feb. 25, 2011.
	1903	+
	1904	+
	1905	+
	1906	+	35
	1907	+
	1908	+	Ku L. Reducing Disparities and Public Policy Conflicts, Institute of Medicine Workshop on Reducing
	1909	+	Disparities in Life Expectancy, Washington, DC, Feb. 24, 2011.
	1910	+
	1911	+	Ku L. Primary Care, Hospitalizations and Health Reform, American Enterprise Institute Workshop,
	1912	+	Washington, DC, Feb. 17, 2011.
	1913	+
	1914	+	Ku L. The Promise and Perils of Health Policy for Asians in the United States, Invited keynote talk at 4
	1915	+	th
	1916	+
	1917	+	International Asian Health and Wellbeing Conference, Univ. of Auckland, New Zealand, NZ, July 6,
	1918	+	2010. Similar talk at symposium sponsored by the New Zealand Office of Ethnic Affairs, Wellington,
	1919	+	NZ, July 8, 2010.
	1920	+
	1921	+	Ku L, Strengthening Primary Care to Bend the Cost Curve: The Expansion of Community Health Centers
	1922	+	Through Health Reform, Briefing for Senate and House staff and media, convened by Sen. Bernie
	1923	+	Sanders (VT), Russell Senate Office Building, June 30, 2010.
	1924	+
	1925	+	Ku L. Ready, Set, Plan, Implement. Executing Medicaid’s Expansion, Health Affairs Conference on
	1926	+	Health Reform, Washington, DC, June 8, 2010.
	1927	+
	1928	+	Ku L. Coordinating Care Among Safety Net Providers, Primary Care Forum, National Academy of State
	1929	+	Health Policy, Alexandria, VA, June 2, 2010.
	1930	+
	1931	+	Ku L. Title VI: The Role of Culturally Competent Communication in Reducing Ethnic and Racial Health
	1932	+	Care Disparities, National Minority AIDS Education and Training Center Spring Symposium, Howard
	1933	+	Univ. May 29, 2010.
	1934	+
	1935	+	Ku L. American Health Reform as Massive Incrementalism, American Association for Budget and
	1936	+	Program Analysis, Nov. 24, 2009.
	1937	+
	1938	+	Ku L. The Health Care Safety Net and Health Reform, National Academy of Public Administration,
	1939	+	Conference on Health Care for the Future, Nov. 22, 2009.
	1940	+
	1941	+	Ku L. The Health of Latino Children, National Council of La Raza Symposium on Latino Children and
	1942	+	Youth, Oct. 22, 2009.
	1943	+
	1944	+	Ku L. What the Obama Administration Will Mean for Child Health, AcademyHealth preconference
	1945	+	session on Child Health, Chicago, IL June 2009.
	1946	+
	1947	+	Ku L. Immigrants and health reform, 6
	1948	+	th
	1949	+	Annual Immigration and Law Conference, Georgetown Univ.
	1950	+	Law School, Migration Policy Institute and Catholic Legal Immigration Network, Washington, DC, June
	1951	+	24, 2009.
	1952	+
	1953	+	Ku L. From the Politics of No! to the Potential for Progress, invited keynote talk about immigrant policy
	1954	+	and research to Society for Research in Child Development, Denver, CO, April 1, 2009.
	1955	+
	1956	+	Ku L. Strengthening the Primary Care Safety Net, National Association of Community Health Centers,
	1957	+	Policy and Issues Conference, March 26, 2009.
	1958	+
	1959	+	Ku L. The Dial and the Dashboard: Assessing the Child Well-Being Index, Presentation to the Board of
	1960	+	the Foundation for Child Development, March 3, 2009.
	1961	+
	1962	+
	1963	+
	1964	+
	1965	+	36
	1966	+	Ku L. Key Data Concerning Health Coverage for Legal Immigrant Children and Pregnant Women,
	1967	+	invited presentation to Senate staff, Jan. 13, 2009.
	1968	+
	1969	+	Ku L. Comparing the Obama and McCain Health Plans, George Washington Univ. Medical School
	1970	+	Alumni Conference, Sept. 27, 2008.
	1971	+
	1972	+	Ku L. The Future of Medicaid, Medicaid Congress, sponsored by Avalere Health and Health Affairs,
	1973	+	Washington, DC, June 5, 2008.
	1974	+
	1975	+	Ku L. A Brief Appreciation of Health Advocates: Progress Made, Some Setbacks, Challenges Ahead,
	1976	+	Public Interest Law Center of Philadelphia Conference, Philadelphia, PA, May 14, 2008.
	1977	+
	1978	+	Ku L. Financing Health Care Reform in New Jersey: Making Down Payments on Reform, Rutgers-AARP
	1979	+	Conference, New Brunswick, NJ. Mar. 18, 2008
	1980	+
	1981	+	Ku L, Perez T, Lillie-Blanton M. Immigration and Health Care-What Are the Issues, Kaiser Family
	1982	+	Foundation Health Cast, webcast interview March 12, 2008.
	1983	+
	1984	+	Ku L. How Research Might Affect SCHIP Reauthorization, Child Health Services Research Meeting at
	1985	+	AcademyHealth, Orlando, FL, June 2, 2007.
	1986	+
	1987	+	Ku L. Immigrant Children and SCHIP Reauthorization, Capital Hill Briefing conducted by the Population
	1988	+	Resource Center, April 20, 2007.
	1989	+
	1990	+	Ku L. Health Policy and Think Tanks, Robert Wood Johnson Health Policy Fellows, Institute of
	1991	+	Medicine, June 2006. Similar talk in other years.
	1992	+
	1993	+	Ku L. Medicaid Reform and Mental Health, National Alliance for the Mentally Ill, Annual Conference,
	1994	+	Austin, TX, June 20, 2005.
	1995	+
	1996	+	Ku L. Cost-sharing in Medicaid and SCHIP: Research and Issues, National Association of State Medicaid
	1997	+	Directors, Washington, DC, Nov. 18, 2004. Similar talk given to National Academy of State Health
	1998	+	Policy, St. Louis, MO, Aug. 2, 2004.
	1999	+
	2000	+	Ku L. Coverage of Poverty-Level Aged and Disabled in Mississippi’s Medicaid Program, Testimony to
	2001	+	Mississippi Senate Public Health and Welfare Committee, Aug. 24, 2004
	2002	+
	2003	+	Ku L. Medicaid Managed Care Issues, Testimony to Georgia House of Representatives Appropriations
	2004	+	Committee, March 2, 2004.
	2005	+
	2006	+	Ku L. Medi-Cal Budget Issues, Testimony to Joint Hearing of California Senate Budget and Health and
	2007	+	Human Services Committees, Feb. 26, 2003.
	2008	+
	2009	+	Ku L .New Opportunities to Improve Health Care Access and Coverage, American College of Emergency
	2010	+	Physicians, May 1, 2001.
	2011	+
	2012	+	Ku L,. Medicaid DSH and UPL: Perplexing Issues, National Association of Public Hospitals Health
	2013	+	Policy Fellows Conference, Washington, DC, Mar. 20, 2001.
	2014	+
	2015	+	Ku L, Insurance Coverage and Health Care Access for Immigrant Families, Testimony Before the U.S.
	2016	+	Senate Finance Committee, Washington, DC, March 13, 2001.
	2017	+
	2018	+
	2019	+
	2020	+
	2021	+	37
	2022	+	Ku L. Increasing Health Insurance Coverage for Low-Income Families and Children, Insuring the
	2023	+	Uninsured Project Conference, Sacramento, CA, Feb. 13, 2001.
	2024	+
	2025	+	Ku L, Concerning the Healthy Families Program Parent Expansion Proposal, Testimony
	2026	+	Before a Joint Hearing of the California Senate Health and Human Services and Insurance Committees
	2027	+	and Budget and Fiscal Review Subcommittee # 3, Sacramento, CA, January 30, 2001.
	2028	+
	2029	+	Ku L, Insurance Trends and Strategies for Covering the Uninsured, National Health Law Program
	2030	+	Conference, Washington, DC, Dec. 3, 2000.
	2031	+
	2032	+	Ku L, Improving Health Care Access and Coverage: New Opportunities for States in 2001, Midwest
	2033	+	Leadership Conference, Council of State Governments, Minneapolis, MN, August 6, 2000.
	2034	+
	2035	+	Ku L, Health Care for Immigrants: Recent Trends and Policy Issues, Alliance for Health Reform,
	2036	+	Washington, DC, August 2, 2000. Similar talks in Miami at Florida Governor’s Health Care Summit and
	2037	+	in San Diego at California Program on Access to Care conference.
	2038	+
	2039	+	Ku L, Matani S, Immigrants’ Access to Health Care and Insurance on the Cusp of Welfare Reform,
	2040	+	presented at Association for Health Services Research Conference, Los Angeles, CA, June 25, 2000.
	2041	+
	2042	+	Ku L, Matani S. Immigrants and Health Care: Recent Trends and Issues, presented to the Association of
	2043	+	Maternal and Child Health Programs meeting, Washington, DC, March 7, 2000.
	2044	+
	2045	+	Ku L, Ellwood MR., Hoag S, Ormond B, Wooldridge J. Building a Newer Mousetrap: the Evolution of
	2046	+	Medicaid Managed Care Systems and Eligibility Expansions in Section 1115 Projects, presented at
	2047	+	American Public Health Association meeting, Chicago, IL, Nov. 10, 1999.
	2048	+
	2049	+	Ku L. Young Men’s Reproductive Health: Risk Behaviors and Medical Care@, presented at D.C.
	2050	+	Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy Meeting, Washington, DC, Oct. 19, 1999.
	2051	+
	2052	+	Ku L, Medicaid and Welfare Reform: Recent Data, presented at Getting Kids Covered Conference,
	2053	+	sponsored by National Institute for Health Care Management and Health Resources and Services
	2054	+	Administration, Washington, DC, Oct. 6, 1999.
	2055	+
	2056	+	Ku L, Garrett B. How Welfare Reform and Economic Factors Affected Medicaid Participation, presented
	2057	+	at Association for Health Services Research meeting, Chicago, IL, June 29, 1999.
	2058	+
	2059	+	Ku L. Recent Factors Affecting Young Men's Condom Use, presented to conference sponsored by
	2060	+	National Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy and Advocates for Youth, Washington, DC, February
	2061	+	1999.
	2062	+
	2063	+	Medicaid, Welfare Reform and CHIP: The Growing Gulf of Eligibility Between Children and Adults,
	2064	+	presented to National Association of Public Hospitals and Health Systems, Washington, DC, and to
	2065	+	Generations United, Washington, DC, September 1998.
	2066	+
	2067	+	Ku L. Sliding Scale Premiums and Cost-Sharing: What the Research Shows presented at workshop on
	2068	+	CHIP: Implementing Effective Programs and Understanding Their Impacts, Agency for Health Care
	2069	+	Policy and Research User Liaison Program, Sanibel Island, FL, June 30, 1998.
	2070	+
	2071	+	Ku L, Sonenstein F, Boggess S, Pleck J. Understanding Changes in Teenage Men's Sexual Activity: 1979
	2072	+	to 1995, presented at 1998 Population Association of America Meetings, Chicago, IL, April 4, 1998.
	2073	+
	2074	+
	2075	+
	2076	+
	2077	+	38
	2078	+	Ku L. Welfare Reform, Immigrants and Medicaid presented at Annual Meeting of the Association of
	2079	+	Maternal and Child Health Programs, Washington, DC, March 9, 1998. Similar talk presented at
	2080	+	Association for Health Services Research Meeting, Washington, DC, June 23, 1998.
	2081	+
	2082	+	Ku L. Medicaid Policy and Data Issues: An Overview presented to National Committee on Vital and
	2083	+	Health Statistics, DHHS, September 29, 1997.
	2084	+
	2085	+	Ku L. How Welfare Reform Will Affect Medicaid Coverage presented to National Ryan White Title IV
	2086	+	Program Conference, Washington, DC, November 8, 1996.
	2087	+
	2088	+	Ku L, Rajan S, Wooldridge J, Ellwood MR, Coughlin T, Dubay L. Using Section 1115 Demonstration
	2089	+	Projects to Expand Medicaid Managed Care in Tennessee, Hawaii and Rhode Island, presented at
	2090	+	Association of Public Policy and Management, Pittsburgh, Nov. 1, 1996.
	2091	+
	2092	+	Ku L. The Federal-State Partnership in Medicaid: Is Divorce Inevitable or Would Therapy Be Enough?
	2093	+	presented to Council of State Governments Conference on Managing the New Fiscal Federalism,
	2094	+	Lexington, KY, May 10, 1996.
	2095	+
	2096	+	Ku L. The Male Role in the Prevention of Teen Pregnancy, presented to the Human Services Committee,
	2097	+	National Council of State Legislatures, Washington, DC, May 9, 1996
	2098	+
	2099	+	Ku L. Implications of Converting Medicaid to a Block Grant with Budget Caps, presented to American
	2100	+	Medical Association State Legislation Meeting, Aventura, FL, Jan. 1996 and to the American Psychiatric
	2101	+	Association Public Policy Institute, Ft. Lauderdale, FL, March 1996.
	2102	+
	2103	+	Ku L. Medicaid: Program Under Reconstruction, presented at Speaker's Forum at New York City
	2104	+	Council, September 12, 1995.
	2105	+
	2106	+	Ku L. State Health Reform Through Medicaid Section 1115 Waivers, presented at Pew Health Policy
	2107	+	Conference, Chicago, IL, June 3, 1995.
	2108	+
	2109	+	Ku L. Setting Premiums for Participants in Subsidized Insurance Programs, presented at Conference on
	2110	+	the Federal-State Partnership for State Health Reform, sponsored by HCFA, the National Academy of
	2111	+	State Health Policy and RTI, March 15, 1995.
	2112	+
	2113	+	Ku L. Medicaid Disproportionate Share and Related Programs: A Fiscal Dilemma for the Federal
	2114	+	Government and the States, with Teresa Coughlin, presented to the Kaiser Commission on the Future of
	2115	+	Medicaid, November 13, 1994.
	2116	+
	2117	+	Ku L. Full Funding for WIC: A Policy Review, with Barbara Cohen and Nancy Pindus, presented at
	2118	+	Dirksen Senate Office Building, Washington, DC, in a panel hosted by the Center on Budget and Policy
	2119	+	Priorities, Bread for the World, the Food Research and Action Center and the National Association of
	2120	+	WIC Directors, May 5, 1994.
	2121	+
	2122	+	Ku L. The Financing of Family Planning Services in the U.S., presented at the Institute of Medicine,
	2123	+	National Academy of Sciences on February 15, 1994 and at the American Public Health Association
	2124	+	meeting, San Francisco, CA, October 25, 1993.
	2125	+
	2126	+	Ku L. Using SUDAAN to Adjust for Complex Survey Design in the National Survey of Adolescent
	2127	+	Males, with John Marcotte and Karol Krotki, briefing at National Institute of Child Health and Human
	2128	+	Development, Rockville, MD, April 2, 1992.
	2129	+
	2130	+
	2131	+
	2132	+
	2133	+	39
	2134	+	Ku L. The Association of HIV/AIDS Education with Sexual Behavior and Condom Use Among Teenage
	2135	+	Men in the United States with Freya Sonenstein and Joseph Pleck, presented at the Seventh International
	2136	+	Conference on AIDS, Florence, Italy, June 1991.
	2137	+
	2138	+	Ku L. Patterns of HIV-Related Risk and Preventive Behaviors Among Teenage Men in the United States,
	2139	+	with Freya Sonenstein and Joseph Pleck, paper presented at the Sixth International Conference on AIDS,
	2140	+	San Francisco, CA, June 23, 1990.
	2141	+
	2142	+	Ku L. Trends in Teenage Childbearing, Pregnancy and Sexual Behavior, paper presented at the American
	2143	+	Sociological Association Meeting, Washington, D.C., August 15, 1990.
	2144	+
	2145	+	Ku L. Research Designs to Assess the Effect of WIC Participation by Pregnant Women on Reducing
	2146	+	Neonatal Medicaid Costs, briefing to Congressional staff, February 1987.
	2147	+
	2148	+	Ku L. Testimony about the Special Supplemental Food Program for Women, Infants and Children
	2149	+	(WIC), with Frank Sasinowski, presented to House Education and Labor Committee on behalf of the
	2150	+	American Public Health Association, March 1983.
	2151	+
	2152	+	Media
	2153	+
	2154	+	Leighton Ku has extensive experience with electronic and print media. He has been interviewed by ABC,
	2155	+	NBC, CBS, Fox, PBS, National Public Radio, CNN, Bloomberg TV, BBC and other television or radio
	2156	+	news broadcasts and webcasts. He has been quoted or his research has been cited in the New York Times,
	2157	+	Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Christian Science Monitor,
	2158	+	Congressional Record, Huffington Post, Forbes, Fortune, US News and World Report, Politico, The Hill,
	2159	+	Buzzfeed, and trade publications, such as Modern Health Care, Nation’s Health, CQ HealthBeat, Kaiser
	2160	+	Health News, etc. He has been an online contributor to the Washington Post. He was a regular panelist
	2161	+	on a radio talk show about health policy, broadcast on WMAL in the Washington DC region. He has
	2162	+	been cited as an expert by PolitiFact and related fact-checking sources.
	2163	+
	2164	+	Service and Honors
	2165	+
	2166	+	Member, Executive Board, District of Columbia Health Benefits Exchange Authority (2012-now) (The
	2167	+	board governs the new health insurance exchange for the District of Columbia, based on the Patient
	2168	+	Protection and Affordable Care Act. This is a voluntary, unpaid position, appointed by the Mayor and
	2169	+	approved by the City Council. I was reappointed in 2018.) Chair of the Research Committee and the
	2170	+	Information Technology Committee. Led working groups that developed the financial sustainability plan
	2171	+	for the Exchange, dental plans, standardized benefit plans and changes required in light of threats to the
	2172	+	Affordable Care Act.
	2173	+
	2174	+	One of three top reviewers of the year, Milbank Quarterly, December 2019
	2175	+
	2176	+	Social Science Research Network, one of five most downloaded papers in field, Oct-Dec. 2018.
	2177	+
	2178	+	Commonwealth Fund, two of the top ten most frequently downloaded reports (2017).
	2179	+
	2180	+	Commonwealth Fund, one of top ten most frequently downloaded reports (2006).
	2181	+
	2182	+	Award for promoting racial and economic justice, Mississippi Center for Justice, 2005
	2183	+
	2184	+	Service award from the National WIC Directors Association (2002).
	2185	+
	2186	+
	2187	+
	2188	+
	2189	+	40
	2190	+	Choice (the magazine of the American Library Association for academic publications), top ten academic
	2191	+	books of the year (1994)
	2192	+
	2193	+	Pew Health Policy Fellow, Boston University and Brandeis University, 1987-1990.
	2194	+
	2195	+	Public Health Service traineeship, University of California, Berkeley, 1976-79.
	2196	+
	2197	+	Other Service
	2198	+
	2199	+	Organizer, HPM Research and Policy Issues Seminar Series, 2020-21
	2200	+
	2201	+	Submitted expert witness declaration in a federal lawsuit regarding the President’s proclamation which
	2202	+	would have denied visas to those without approved forms of health insurance, Declaration in Support of
	2203	+	Plaintiffs' Motion for a Preliminary Injunction (regarding Presidential Proclamation on Visas and Health
	2204	+	Insurance), John Doe #1, et al. v Donald Trump, et al. United States District Court, District of Oregon,
	2205	+	filed November 8, 2019. [Resulted in an injunction prohibiting implementation of the visa denials.]
	2206	+
	2207	+	Submitted expert witness declaration in federal lawsuits on public charge regulations and health,
	2208	+	including La Clinica de la Raza, et al. v. Donald Trump, et al. United States District Court, Northern
	2209	+	District of California, September 1, 2019. Make the Road New York, et al v Ken Cucinelli, et al. United
	2210	+	States District Court, Southern District of New York, Sept. 9, 2019. State of New York, et al. v. U.S.
	2211	+	Department of Homeland Security, et al. United States District Court, Southern District of New York,
	2212	+	Sept. 9, 2019. [Ultimately resulted in injunctions prohibiting implementation of the public charge
	2213	+	regulations.]
	2214	+
	2215	+	Helped develop and cosigned amicus briefs on behalf of public health scholars in key federal lawsuits,
	2216	+	including King v Burwell (health insurance exchanges), Stewart v Azar (approval of Kentucky work
	2217	+	requirement waiver, versions 1 and 2), Gresham v Azar (approval of Arkansas work requirements). Texas
	2218	+	v Azar (constitutionality of ACA), Philbrick v Azar (approval of New Hampshire work requirement) and
	2219	+	Massachusetts v. US Dept of Health and Human Service (contraceptive mandate).
	2220	+
	2221	+	Parliamentarian, Milken Institute School of Public Health, 2019
	2222	+
	2223	+	Member, Technical Expert Panel, AHRQ Panel on Future of Health Services Research, RAND, 2019.
	2224	+
	2225	+	Served as expert witness in federal lawsuits on immigration and health, including State of Texas v United
	2226	+	States and Perez and State of New York v Trump (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals). 2018.
	2227	+
	2228	+	Co-Director, PhD Health Policy Program. First at GW Trachtenberg School of Public Policy and
	2229	+	Administration, now at Milken Institute School of Public Health, 2015-now
	2230	+
	2231	+	Served as search committee member, chair, Department of Health Policy and Management, 2019 and
	2232	+	2020 and faculty, Dept. of Exercise and Nutrition Sciences, 2019.
	2233	+
	2234	+	Search committee, Associate Provost for Graduate Studies, George Washington Univ, 2019
	2235	+
	2236	+	Member, AcademyHealth/NCHS Health Policy Fellowship Program board. 2016-17.
	2237	+
	2238	+	Affiliated faculty, Jacobs Institute of Women’s Health, 2015-now.
	2239	+
	2240	+	Advisory Board, Remaining Uninsured Access to Community Health Centers (REACH) Project, Univ. of
	2241	+	California Los Angeles, 2015-17.
	2242	+
	2243	+
	2244	+
	2245	+	41
	2246	+
	2247	+	Member, DC Metro Tobacco Research and Instruction Consortium (MeTRIC). 2014- present
	2248	+
	2249	+	Member, Health Workforce Research Institute, GW, 2013-present.
	2250	+
	2251	+	Member, National Advisory Board, Public Policy Center of University of Iowa, 2014-18.
	2252	+
	2253	+	Chair/Vice Chair, Advocacy Interest Group, AcademyHealth, 2014-17.
	2254	+
	2255	+	Member, Advisory Committee on Non-Health Effects of the Affordable Care Act, Russell Sage
	2256	+	Foundation, Dec. 2013.
	2257	+
	2258	+	Member, Technical Expert Group on the Affordable Care Act and the National Survey of Family Growth,
	2259	+	National Center for Health Statistics, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Nov. 2013
	2260	+
	2261	+	Member, Steering Committee, GW Institute of Public Policy, 2013-now
	2262	+
	2263	+	Member, External Review Committee for Department of Family Science for the University of Maryland
	2264	+	School of Public Health, 2012.
	2265	+
	2266	+	GW Faculty Senator, representing School of Public Health and Health Services, 2010-12.
	2267	+
	2268	+	Member of numerous University, School and Departmental committees. 2008-present.
	2269	+
	2270	+	Member or chair, numerous faculty and dean search committees, Milken Institute School of Public Health
	2271	+	and School of Nursing, George Washington University. 2008-present.
	2272	+
	2273	+	National Institutes of Health, member of various grant review study sections (1996-now).
	2274	+
	2275	+	Invited reviewer. Committee on National Statistics. National Academy of Sciences. Databases for
	2276	+	Estimating Health Insurance Coverage for Children. 2010-11.
	2277	+
	2278	+	Grant reviewer. Robert Wood Johnson Public Health and Law program. 2010.
	2279	+
	2280	+	Invited reviewer, Institute of Medicine report on family planning services in the U.S., 2009.
	2281	+
	2282	+	External reviewer for faculty promotion and tenure for Harvard School of Public Health, Harvard Medical
	2283	+	School, Univ. of California at Los Angeles and at San Diego, Boston University, Baruch College, George
	2284	+	Mason University, University of Maryland, University of Iowa, Kansas University, Portland State
	2285	+	University, etc., 2008-present.
	2286	+
	2287	+	Submitted expert witness affidavits/declarations in federal, state and local lawsuits including: Texas v
	2288	+	United States and New York, et al. v. Trump (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals), Wood, et al. v.
	2289	+	Betlach, (Medicaid cost sharing), Lozano v. City of Hazleton (immigrant rights), Spry, et al., v. Thompson
	2290	+	(Medicaid cost-sharing), Dahl v. Goodno (Medicaid cost-sharing), Newton-Nations, et al., v. Rogers
	2291	+	(Medicaid cost-sharing) and Alford v. County of San Diego (cost-sharing for a local health program).
	2292	+
	2293	+	Board Member and Treasurer, Alliance for Fairness in Reforms to Medicaid (2002-2008)
	2294	+
	2295	+	Urban Institute, founding member, Institutional Review Board (1997-2000)
	2296	+
	2297	+	National Health Research Institute (Taiwan’s NIH) grant reviewer (1999).
	2298	+
	2299	+
	2300	+
	2301	+	42
	2302	+
	2303	+	Urban Institute, member, Diversity Task Force (1995)
	2304	+
	2305	+	Pew Health Policy Fellow, Boston University and Brandeis University, 1987-1990.
	2306	+
	2307	+	Consultant Services
	2308	+
	2309	+	Consortia of law practices, including Justice Action Center, Paul Weiss, National Health Law Program
	2310	+	and New York State Attorney General, 2019-2020
	2311	+	Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund, 2018
	2312	+	New Jersey State Attorney General, 2018
	2313	+	New York State Attorney General, 2017
	2314	+	First Hospital Foundation, Philadelphia PA, 2017
	2315	+	Wilmer Hale/Planned Parenthood Federation, 2017
	2316	+	Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2016
	2317	+
	2318	+	Professional Society Memberships and Service
	2319	+
	2320	+	AcademyHealth (formerly Association for Health Services Research), Program Selection Committees
	2321	+	(multiple years), chair Advocacy Interest Group (2014-16).
	2322	+	American Public Health Association
	2323	+	Association of Public Policy and Management, Program Selection Committees (many years)
	2324	+
	2325	+	Editorial Peer Review Service
	2326	+
	2327	+	Associate editor, BMC Health Services Research, 2009 – 2013.
	2328	+
	2329	+	Reviewer for numerous journals, including Health Affairs, New England Journal of Medicine, Journal of
	2330	+	the American Medical Association, Milbank Quarterly, Pediatrics, American Journal of Public Health,
	2331	+	Inquiry, Medical Care, HSR, Medicare and Medicaid Research Review, American Journal of Preventive
	2332	+	Medicine, Family Planning Perspectives, Journal of Association of Public Policy and Management,
	2333	+	Nicotine and Tobacco Research, Maternal and Child Health, Journal of Health Care for the Poor and
	2334	+	Underserved, JAMA-Internal Medicine, Public Administration Review (1990 to now). In 2017, I
	2335	+	reviewed 16 manuscripts for journals. External reviewer for RAND Corporation, National Academy of
	2336	+	Science, Oxford Univ. Press, etc.
	2337	+
	2338	+	Awarded as one of three top reviewers of the year, Milbank Quarterly, December 2019
	2339	+
	2340	+	Public Health Practice Portfolio
	2341	+
	2342	+	Member, New York Fiscal Policy Institute Immigration Advisory Group (2021).
	2343	+
	2344	+	Member, Protecting Immigrant Families Research Group. 2019 to now.
	2345	+
	2346	+	Member, Executive Board, District of Columbia Health Benefits Exchange Authority (2012-now). The
	2347	+	board governs the new health insurance exchange for the District. (Nominated by the Mayor and
	2348	+	appointed by the City Council; reappointed in 2017). Chair of the IT and Eligibility Committee, Research
	2349	+	Committee and various working groups.
	2350	+
	2351	+	Member, Technical Expert Group, the Future of Health Services Research, for Agency for Healthcare
	2352	+	Research and Quality, conducted by RAND. Jan. 2019.
	2353	+
	2354	+
	2355	+
	2356	+
	2357	+	43
	2358	+	Expert Advisor, Russell Sage Foundation. Non-health effects of the Affordable Care Act. (2013).
	2359	+
	2360	+	Expert Advisor, Revisions to the National Survey of Family Growth, National Center for Health
	2361	+	Statistics, CDC (2013)
	2362	+
	2363	+	Member, Technical Advisory Committee for Monitoring the Impact of the Market Reform and Coverage
	2364	+	Expansions of the Affordable Care Act, sponsored by ASPE. (2013)
	2365	+
	2366	+	Member, Technical Advisory Group for the Design of the Evaluation of the Medicaid Expansion Under
	2367	+	the ACA, sponsored by ASPE (2012)
	2368	+
	2369	+	Member, National Workgroup on Integrating the Safety Net, National Academy of State Health Policy,
	2370	+	July 2011 – 2013.
	2371	+
	2372	+	Member, National Advisory group for Iowa Safety Net Integration project, 2011-2013.
	2373	+
	2374	+	Foundation for Child Development, Selection Committee, Young Scholars Program, 2008-2015.
	2375	+
	2376	+	Foundation for Child Development, Advisory Committee, Child Well-Being Index, 2008-present
	2377	+
	2378	+	Member, National Advisory Board, Center on Social Disparities on Health, University of California at
	2379	+	San Francisco, 2005-2008.
	2380	+
	2381	+	National Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy, Member, Effective Programs and Research Task Force
	2382	+	(2000)
	2383	+
	2384	+	Doctoral Students Mentored/Advised
	2385	+
	2386	+	Dissertations Completed
	2387	+	Prof. Peter Shin (chair)
	2388	+	Prof. Megan McHugh
	2389	+	Dr. Sarah Benatar
	2390	+	Dr. Emily Jones (chair)
	2391	+	Dr. Saqi Cho (chair)
	2392	+	Dr. DaShawn Groves (chair)
	2393	+	Dr. Heitor Werneck
	2394	+	Dr. Brad Finnegan (chair)
	2395	+	Dr. Maliha Ali
	2396	+	Dr. Christal Ramos
	2397	+	Prof. Qian (Eric) Luo
	2398	+	Dr. Bill Freeman
	2399	+	Dr. Serena Phillips
	2400	+	Dr. Julia Strasser
	2401	+	Dr. Kristal Vardaman (chair)*
	2402	+	Dr. Brian Bruen
	2403	+	Dr. Xinxin Han (chair)*
	2404	+	Dr. Jessica Sharac (chair)*
	2405	+	Dr. Nina Brown
	2406	+	Dr. Mariellen Jewers (chair)*
	2407	+	Dr. Leo Quigley (chair)*
	2408	+	Dr. Erin Brantley
	2409	+	Dr. Roberto Delhy
	2410	+
	2411	+
	2412	+
	2413	+	44
	2414	+	Dr. Chelsea Richwine
	2415	+	Dr. Shin Nozaki
	2416	+	Dr. Drishti Pillai (chair)*
	2417	+
	2418	+	In Progress
	2419	+	Brent Sandmeyer (chair)
	2420	+	Rachel Landis (chair)
	2421	+	Derrick Beasley (chair)
	2422	+	Thomas Hammang (TSPPPA general)
	2423	+	Kan Giannastasio
	2424	+
	2425	+	* I use the traditional term “chair,” although alternative terminology is that I was the “director”,
	2426	+	the faculty who worked most closely with the student and directs the dissertation.
	2427	+
	2428	+	Other Student Advising
	2429	+
	2430	+	Co-Director, Health Policy PhD Program
	2431	+	Faculty advisor, MPH, health policy. Provide guidance to about a dozen MPH students per cohort.
	2432	+	Faculty Advisor, GW Health Policy Student Association, 2016-now
	2433	+	Mentor to high school student at DC Schools without Walls, 2020-now
	2434	+	Executive Office of the Mayor – Mayor’s Office of Talent and Appointments
	2435	+	John A. Wilson Building \| 1350 Pennsylvania Avenue, Suite 600 \| Washington, DC 20004
	2436	+
	2437	+	Dr. Leighton Ku
	2438	+	Dr. Leighton Ku is the Director and a Professor at The Center
	2439	+	for Health Policy Research at The George Washington
	2440	+	University (GWU). He is also a current member of the Health
	2441	+	Benefit Exchange Authority Executive Board in the District.
	2442	+	Dr. Ku is a nationally known health policy and health services
	2443	+	scholar with more than 25 years of experience. He has
	2444	+	examined topics such as national and state health reforms;
	2445	+	access to care for low-income populations; Medicaid;
	2446	+	preventive services; the health care safety net; cost and benefits of health services; and immigrant
	2447	+	health. Dr. Ku joined the Milken Institute School of Public Health at The George Washington
	2448	+	University as a full-time faculty member in 2008. However, he has held adjunct positions at
	2449	+	George Washington's School of Public Policy and Public Administration since the early 1990s.
	2450	+	Currently, Dr. Ku directs the multidisciplinary research Center for Health Policy at GWU. The
	2451	+	Center for Health Policy has a research portfolio of more than $25 million, with its members
	2452	+	including physicians, attorneys, economists, and health management experts. Prior to this, Dr. Ku
	2453	+	served as a senior fellow at the Washington based Center on Budget and Policy Priorities. He was
	2454	+	the principal researcher at the Urban Institute and a policy and budget analyst for the federal
	2455	+	nutrition program WIC (Women, Infants, and Children). Here, he focused on improving policies
	2456	+	for low- and moderate-income Americans. In addition, Dr. Ku has been a principal investigator
	2457	+	for many studies from the National Institutes of Health; Centers for Disease Control and
	2458	+	Prevention; Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services ; and the Commonwealth Fund and
	2459	+	Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
	2460	+	A Ward 1 resident, Dr. Leighton Ku earned his Bachelor of Arts in Biochemistry from Harvard
	2461	+	University, his Master of Science in Nutritional Sciences from the University of California
	2462	+	Berkeley, his Master of Public Health from the University of California Berkeley, and his
	2463	+	Doctorate in Health Policy from Boston University. GOVERNMENT OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
	2464	+	Executive Office of Mayor Muriel Bowser
	2465	+
	2466	+	Office of the General Counsel to the Mayor
	2467	+
	2468	+
	2469	+	______________________________________________________________________________
	2470	+	The John A. Wilson Building • 1350 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW • Suite 300 • Washington, D.C. 20004 • Office (202) 724 -7681
	2471	+
	2472	+	To: Tommy Wells, Steve Walker
	2473	+	From: Betsy Cavendish
	2474	+	Date: July 28, 2023
	2475	+	Subject: Legal sufficiency review of Resolutions nominating Henry J. Aaron, Leighton
	2476	+	Ku, Gabriela Mossi, and Tamara Watkins as members of the Health Benefit Exchange Authority Executive Board
	2477	+	This is to Certify that this office has reviewed the above- referenced resolutions and
	2478	+	found them to be legally unobjectionable. If you have any questions in this regard, please do not
	2479	+	hesitate to call Vanessa Careiro, Deputy General Counsel, Executive Office of the Mayor, at 202-724-1303, or me at 202- 724-7681.
	2480	+
	2481	+
	2482	+	______________________________ Elizabeth A. (Betsy) Cavendish
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