rendezvous

Greg Connolly

Rendez-vous 156
October 23, 2005

Greg is now Professor of the practice of public health at Harvard University.

I last interviewed Greg on December 15, 1999. 5 years later, he is still the same combative and persistent activist.

Q1.Massachusetts used to be at the forefront of tobacco control. What is the situation now? What happened?

Currently, the Massachusetts budget for tobacco control is $3.5 million, about a tenth of what it was just three years ago.

Steven Schroeder

Rendez-vous 152
February 28 2003

Steven is Past President of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation,
Distinguished Professor of Health and Health Care, Department of Medicine,
University of California, San Francisco

Thank you Steven for accepting our rendez-vous. May I ask you to introduce yourself?

Steven Schroeder: I am a physician with training in internal medicine and public health and with a long interest in health policy. For most of my professional life I was in academic positions, first at Harvard, then at George Washington, and from 1976-1990 at the University of California, San Francisco.

Jim Bergman

Rendez-vous 150
January 7 2003

Jim Bergman Co-Director of The Center for Social Gerontology Ann Arbor, Michigan http://www.tcsg.org/tobacco.htm [email protected]

Thank you Jim for accepting our rendez-vous. May I ask you to introduce yourself?

Jim Bergman: One of the most succinct descriptions of me is that I'm a lawyer by training and an advocate by instinct. I've spent over 35 years in the field of aging, much of that devoted to legal and policy issues concerning older Americans. In 1992, I made a rather significant career change when I accepted the position as the first Executive Director of STAT (Stop Teenage Addiction to Tobacco), a national advocacy organization based in Springfield, Massachusetts.