Alice Sardell PhD, NYU: health policy, urban and community politics

Academic

Alice Sardell, a political scientist, is the center of the Department's health policy concentration. She has been actively publishing on health issues for many years. Her book, The United States Experiment in Social Medicine: The Community Health Center Program, 1965-1986, is the definitive history of one of this country's major innovations in urban health care delivery. More recently, Sardell has turned her attention child health policy, physician networks, and new models of health care delivery, and she is actively working on a book on national policy toward child health.

Sardell teaches the Department's introductory and advanced courses on Health Services and Health Policy, as well as its basic course on urban politics, Power in the City. She has also developed an innovative course sequence on Communities and Health Services, a pilot for larger interdisciplinary Neighborhood Studies Program at the College and a pedagogic model integrating teaching and field work.

Sardell is the Undergraduate Internship Advisor.

Contact

Office: Powdermaker Rm. 250
Telephone: (718) 997 5143
Email: alsard@optonline.net

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