Past Symposium Activity
| 2015 | Robert K. Ross, President & CEO of The California Endowment, Social Determinants of Health: Non-medical Interventions that Affect Population Health |
| 2014 | Shivani Siroya, CEO and Founder of InVenture, The Power of Innovation to Drive Inclusive Growth |
| 2013 | Borja Leon, Deputy Mayor of Los Angeles for Transportation, The L.A. Story |
| 2012 | Dr. Jonathan Fielding, Director of the LA County Department of Public Health and Health Officer for LA County, The Health Dividend |
| 2011 | Bonnie Reiss, Regent of the University of California, Education in California: Past, Present and Future |
| 2010 | The Honorable Gray Davis, 37th Governor of California, Policy Options to Fix California's Budget |
| 2009 | no keynote |
| 2008 | Professor Daniel J.B. Mitchell, UCLA, The Collapse of the Schwarzenegger Health Plan in California |
| 2007 | Brian Michael Jenkins, RAND Corporation, The War on Terror and Efforts to Prevent Attacks in Los Angeles |
Past Panels
2014 |
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| Panel 1: | Social Innovation Panel Discussion |
| Panelists: | Trey Miller, RAND Paul Torrens, UCLA/Claremont Graduate University Margaret Weber, eRoots/WORKS Abby Fifer Mandell, USC |
| Panel 2A: | Business/Technology and Innovation Panel |
| Moderator: | Sandip Chakrabarti, USC |
| Panelists: | Rafiq Dossani, RAND Arjan Schutte, Core Innovation Capital Louis Stewart, California Governor's Office of Business and Economic Development Peter Marx, City of Los Angeles |
| Panel 2B: | Inequality and Innovation Panel |
| Moderator: | Christopher Nelson, RAND |
| Panelists: |
Ricardo Basurto-Dávila, Los Angeles County Department of Public Health Heather Campbell, Claremont Graduate University Colleen Callahan, UCLA |
2013 |
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| Panel 1: | Local Transportation Panel Discussion |
| Panelists: | Eric Peltz, RAND Jonathan Kulick, Pepperdine Kenneth Kuhn, RAND James E. Moore II, USC |
| Panel 2A: | Environment and Transportation Panel |
| Moderator: | Sandip Chakrabarti, USC |
| Panelists: | Rob Lempert, RAND Juan Matute, UCLA Rui Wang, UCLA |
| Panel 2B: | Human Trafficking Panel |
| Moderator: | Priscillia Hunt, RAND |
| Panelists: |
Det. Dana Harris, LAPD Lt. Andre Dawson, LAPD Mark Latonero, USC Angela Chung, CAST Vanessa Lanza, CAST |
2012 |
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| Panel 1: | Health |
| Moderator: | Lisa Meredith, RAND |
| Panelists: | Chloe Bird, RAND/PRGS LaVonna Lewis, USC Susan Babey, UCLA Manal Aboelata, Prevention Institute |
| Panel 2A: | International Development |
| Moderator: | Juan Saavedra, RAND Corporation |
| Panelists: | Sebastian Linnemayr, RAND Tridib Banerjee, USC Stephen Commins, UCLA/International Medical Corps Luisa Blanco, Pepperdine |
| Panel 2B: | Economic Development |
| Moderator: | Seth Seabury, PRGS |
| Panelists: | Sean Jasso, Pepperdine
Christopher Koontz, Planning Deputy, Office of Councilmember Paul Koretz Michael Chasalow, USC |
2011 |
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| Panel 1: | Current Issues in Education |
| Moderator: | Michael Shires, Economist, Associate Professor of Public Policy, Pepperdine University |
| Panelists: | Lida Jennings, Managing Director, Teach for America Paco Martorell, Economist, RAND Corporation Sarah Reber, Assistant Professor of Public Policy, UCLA Robert Rueda, Stephen H. Crocker Professor of Education, USC |
| Panel 2A: | Energy and Natural Resource Challenges in Los Angeles |
| Moderator: | Lloyd Dixon, Senior Economist, RAND Corporation |
| Panelists: | J.R. DeShazo, Director of the Luskin Center, UCLA Wade Graham, Adjunct Professor, Pepperdine University Rob Lempert, Senior Physical Scientist, RAND Corporation Daniel Mazmanian, Professor and Bedrosian Chair in Governance, USC |
| Panel 2B: | U.S. Foreign Policy and the Middle East |
| Moderator: | Gary Bagley, Diplomat-in-Residence, UCLA |
| Panelists: | Dalia Dassa Kaye, Senior Political Scientist, RAND Corporation Eric Larson, Senior Policy Researcher, RAND Corporation Claude Berrebi, Economist, RAND Corporation Fred Wehrey, Senior Policy Analyst, RAND Corporation |
2010 |
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| Panel: | Reforming local and state budget: How far has the financial crisis changed the dynamic? |
| Moderator: | Susan Marquis, Dean of the Pardee RAND Graduate School |
| Discussants: | Juliet Musso, Associate Professor, USC Michael Shires, Associate Professor, Pepperdine University |
2009 |
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| Panel 1: | The Elephant in the Room: Social Security, Medicare and Rising Health Care Costs |
| Panelists: | Nicole Maestas, Economist, RAND Corporation, and Professor of Economics, Pardee RAND Graduate School Fernando Torres-Gil, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, Professor of Social Welfare and Public Policy, UCLA, and Director, Center for Policy Research on Aging Lavonna Blair Lewis, Clinical Associate Professor, USC, and Director of the Master's Health Administration Program at the USC School of Policy, Planning and Development |
| Panel 2A: | The Deterioration of U.S. Infrastructure: How Should We Pay for Our Infrastructure? |
| Panelists: | Genevieve Giuliano, Senior Associate Dean for Research and Technology, Professor, USC, Director, METRANS Richard G. Little, Director of the Keston Institute for Public Finance and Infrastructure Policy, USC Thomas Light, Associate Economist, RAND and Professor, Pardee RAND Graduate School |
| Panel 2B: | Increased Enforcement on Drug Offenders: Reducing the Prison Population |
| Panelists: | Mark Kleiman, Director, Drug Policy Analysis Program, Professor of Public Policy, UCLA Beau Kilmer, Codirector of the RAND Drug Policy Research Center, and Associate Policy Researcher, RAND Corporation |
2008 |
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| Panel 1A: | The Future of Transit in Los Angeles |
| Panelists: | James Elliot Moore II, Chair, Daniel J. Epstein Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, USC Brian Taylor, Director, Institute of Transportation Studies, UCLA Martin Wachs, Director, Transportation, Space, and Technology Program, RAND Corporation |
| Panel 1B: | California Immigration Policy: Past Patterns, Future Impact |
| Panelists: | Dowell Myers, Director, Population Dynamics Research Group, USC Gary Painter, Director of Research, Lusk Center for Real Estate, USC George Vernez, Director, Center for Research on Immigration Policy, RAND Corporation |
| Panel 2: | The Post-Post 9/11 President: Security Lessons from the Bush Administration for the Next Commander-in-Chief |
| Panelists: | David Aaron, Director, RAND Center for Middle East Public Policy Claude Berrebi, Associate Economist, RAND Corporation William J. Burns, Consultant, Center for Risk and Economic Analysis of Terrorism Events, USC Peter Katona, Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine in Infectious Disease, UCLA Robert Kaufman, Professor of Public Policy, Pepperdine School of Public Policy |
2007 |
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| Panel 1A: | Strategies to Mitigate Climate Change |
| Panelists: | J.R. DeShazo, Director, Lewis Center for Regional Policy, UCLA Robert Lempert, Senior Physical Scientist, RAND Corporation Mary Nichols, Director, UCLA Institute for the Environment Martin Wachs, Director, Transportation, Space, and Technology Program, RAND Corporation |
| Panel: 1B | Challenges Faced by the Urban Poor |
| Panelists: | Evelyn Blumenberg, Associate Professor of Urban Planning, UCLA Elizabeth D'Amico, Behavioral Scientist, RAND Corporation Michael Stoll, Acting Director, Center for the Study of Urban Poverty, UCLA Suzanne Wenzel, Senior Behavioral Scientist, RAND Corporation |
| Panel 2: | Beyond Health Insurance |
| Panelists: | Melinda Beeuwkes Buntin, Codirector, Center for Health Care Organization, Economics, and Finance, RAND Corporation Emmett Keeler, Senior Mathematician, RAND Corporation Arleen Leibowitz, Chair, Department of Public Policy, UCLA Neal Halfon, Director, Center for Healthier Children, Families and Communities, UCLA |
Student Presentations
| 2014 |
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Alexander Becker and Caroline Stevens, USC – The Ramifications of California's Prison Realignment: A Closer Look at County Level Strategies, Funding Allocations and Pretrial Populations Shannon Moran, Pepperdine – Mobile Money in Development: A Case Study between Tanzania and Uganda Andrea Jones, Alison Muckle, and Martha Washo, UCLA – Market Match, Fresh Incentives for Improving Food Security of Older Angelinos David Diaz Avelar, Claremont – San Gabriel Valley Bicycle Master Plan: Creating Bikeable Streets for All Prodyumna Goutam, Pardee RAND – Women’s Assets and Household Fuel Choice in Karnataka |
| 2013 |
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Amy Brennen, USC – An Exploratory Analysis of California Charter School Discipline Policies in Relation to Charter School Demographics Victoria Marie Lopez, Pepperdine – Stunting, Wasting, and Underweight Prevalence in Relation to Improved Water and Sanitation in Sierra Leone Sinduja V. Srinivasan, Pardee RAND Graduate School – Male Earnings Inequality and Female Age at Marriage Nicholas Cain, Claremont – Unlocking the Potential of Renewable Energy Chloe Cornuejols, Soledad De Gregorio, Nobuko Goto, and Cody Reneau, UCLA – Increasing Student Learning: Evidence from a Teacher Bonus Program in Rio de Janeiro |
| 2012 |
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Casey O’Neil, Pepperdine – Are All R&D Dollars Created Equal? A look at the effect of federal investment on patent success Helen Wu, Pardee RAND Graduate School – What’s on the Menu? Chain Restaurant Nutrition in the Food Policy Spotlight Becky French, Christopher Mangum-James, and Sam Gelinas, USC – The Archdiocese of Los Angeles’s Extended School Year Policy: An Implementation Case Study Rob Lester and Abby McClelland, UCLA – Analysis of Potential Improvements of HIV Testing Programs at LA Gay & Lesbian Center |
| 2010 |
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Kiran Hashmi, Lia Moore, Todd Muehlenbeck, Stephanie Rohn and Peggy J. Vadillo, USC – A spatial and multivariate analysis of Social Security Disability Insurance Harrison Wolf, Pepperdine – The Proper Role of Dual-Use Export Control Kathleen Allen, Gilberto Espinoza and Lauren Smith, UCLA – Meeting the growing demand for the California AIDS Drug Assistance Program in a fiscal crisis Adam Gailey, Pardee RAND Graduate School – The fiscal impact of health trends |
| 2009 |
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Chris Sharon, Pardee RAND Graduate School – Moving to Opportunity: An Exploration of Autism Policy Using State-level Variation Adam Gailey, Pardee RAND Graduate School – The Value of Pharmacogenetics and the Economics of Personalized Medicine |
| 2008 |
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Nicholas Williams, Heather May, Elke Kolodinski and Aundreia Cameron, USC – Measuring the Effects of Video Surveillance on Crime: Case Studies in Los Angeles LaMonica Andreoff, Elisabeth Furbush and Brian Hackney, UCLA – Undue Influence: The Impact of In re A-K and In re A-T on Female Genital Cutting Asylum Cases Sarah Gaillot, Pardee RAND Graduate School – Barriers to Mental Health Care Following a Sudden, Unexpected Physical Injury |