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Whether you are a policymaker or a program manager, you will need to determine if your program actually works as intended and why or why not. Dr. Cynthia Osborne, Associate Dean for Academic Strategies and director of the Center for Health and Social Policy at the LBJ School of Public Affairs, will discuss how to begin to answer the question of “Does it work?” including how to develop a strong logic model that guides the evaluation of programs. More.

CHASP Faculty Fellow and LBJ School of Public Affairs Dr. Todd Olmstead joins as health economist on $3.3 million 5-year R01 grant funded by the NIH's National Institute on Minority Health & Health Disparities on how to improve employment outcomes for unemployed persons living with #HIV/#AIDS. Learn more: https://lbj.utexas.edu/lbj-school-researcher-explores-employment-outcome... #LBJsocialpolicy

Prisons in America affect millions of lives, not just those who live and work there, but the families who are left behind. They consume a meaningful share of state budgets, house over 1.3 million people, and employ over 200,000 corrections officers in state-run correctional institutions. Yet despite the scale and impact of prisons, they are among the least transparent and most understudied public institutions in our country.

We know world population projections call for a rise in the number of people 60 years or older from 900 million to 2 billion by 2050. What we do not know is what we are going to do with all of them. Read more.