Ellen Schaffer Bio

Ellen R. Shaffer is Co-Director of the Center for Policy Analysis which sponsors The EQUAL campaign for Equitable, Quality, Universal, Affordable health reform. The Center conducts policy research and analysis on access to health care, and on globalization and health. Dr. Shaffer served as the senior health policy advisor to U.S. Senator Paul Wellstone from 1992 to 1995, guiding staff work on national health care reform and for managed care patients' rights. She is an Assistant Clinical Professor in the Department of Clinical Pharmacy at the University of California, San Francisco, and a member of the Executive Board of the American Public Health Association. She has a Masters in Public Health from the University of California at Berkeley, a Ph.D. from the School of Hygiene and Public Health at Johns Hopkins University, and is a Certified Employee Benefits Specialist.

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