Upcoming event: Divergence in American Life Expectancy

Divergence in American Life Expectancy

What: Hamilton Project Forum, “Divergence in American Life Expectancy”

When: 2:00—4:00 PM Wednesday, June 29, 2016

Where: The Brookings Institution—1775 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC

AGENDA

2:00 PM Welcome and Introductions

• Robert E. Rubin
  Co-Chair, Council on Foreign Relations;
  Former U.S. Treasury Secretary

2:10 PM Framing Remarks: Emerging Trends in American Life Expectancy

• Discussant: Anne Case
  Alexander Stewart 1886 Professor of Economics and Public Affairs; Director, Research Program in Development Studies (RPDS), Princeton University

2:40 PM Roundtable: Harnessing Public Policy to Increase Life Expectancy for All Americans

• Discussant: Angus S. Deaton
  Dwight D. Eisenhower Professor of International Affairs; Professor of Economics and International Affairs, Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University
• Discussant: David Cutler
  Otto Eckstein Professor of Applied Economics, Harvard University
• Discussant: Mark B. McClellan
  Director of the Robert J. Margolis Center for Health Policy; Margolis Professor of Business, Medicine and Health Policy, Duke University
• Discussant: Gary Burtless
  The John C. and Nancy D. Whitehead Chair; Senior Fellow, The Brookings Institution
• Discussant: James S. Marks
  Executive Vice President, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
• Moderator: Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach
  Director, The Hamilton Project; Senior Fellow, The Brookings Institution

4:00 PM Forum Adjourns