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Outreach
- State and Community Service
at the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies
Outreach is an essential part of the mission of the Andrew Young School. Faculty, research associates and graduate students were heavily involved in Georgia and in the Atlanta region, in all manner of ways. We developed and implemented training programs, carried out applied research projects, spoke at public and private meetings, worked directly with government officials in evaluation of policy options, and served on boards of non-profit agencies. We tried to help make better policy in our state, and believe we added value in many areas. The following listing shows the very great breadth of our state and community service. See also the more detailed discussions in the sections describing the activities of Domestic Programs, Environmental Policy Program, Health Policy Center, and the Program for Rehabilitation Leadership.
Andrew Young School of Policy Studies
received a grant from the UPS Foundation to support its continuing program of Child Policy Research and Outreach.
with The Robinson College of Business co-sponsored James D. Wolfensohn, President of The World Bank Group, in a speaking engagement at the Southern Center for International Studies, Atlanta, Ga., March 2, 2004.
co-sponsored “An Evening with His Excellency Mikhail Saakashvili, President of Georgia,” organized by the Southern Center for International Studies, held at the Atlanta History Center, Atlanta, Ga., August 6, 2004.
Georgia Health Policy Center
received a grant from the Arthur M. Blank Family Foundation to bring top-level policy makers, faculty and students to Atlanta for a public discussion of pertinent topics in its Child Policy Speaker Series.
facilitates and staffs the Rural Health Committee of the Georgia Rural Development Council, drawing from research and field experience to inform the Council’s legislative recommendations for strengthening the state’s rural health infrastructure and improving health at the community level.
planned and coordinated the Annual Meeting of the Georgia Rural Health Association’s “Healthy Rural Georgia 2010.”
hosted a site visit for more than 35 public health physicians, academicians
and students at the 2004 Campus-Community Partnership for Health/Towards
Unity for Health Conference, Atlanta, Ga., October 2004.
chaired a panel at the 24th Biennial Institute for the Georgia General Assembly.
serves as a member of the Governor's Council of Economic Advisors.
and John Matthews*. Georgia’s Redevelopment Powers Law: A Policy Guide to the Evaluation and Use of Tax Allocation Districts, Research Atlanta report, November 19, 2004.
assisted the Georgia Senate Budget Office with initial research on Department of Corrections and Board of Pardons and Paroles state budgets; began development of performance oriented budget presentation for legislature.
conducted a seminar on “Advancing a Policy Agenda” with the Policy Leaders of Nia, Atlanta, Ga., April 2004.
served as Chairman of the Board of Court Appointed Special Advocate (CASA), a program assigned to the Family Court to represent an independent voice for abused and neglected children in the custody of the court.
organized a CEO Roundtable on Human Resource Issues in September 2004 to bring CEOs and HR executives together to discuss contemporary HR issues and problems confronting corporate governance, sponsored by the Society of Human Resource Managers (SHRM) chapters of North Georgia.
served as a consultant to S2Tech, North Georgia Processing, Sencola Palmer Corporation, and the Stephens County Chamber of Commerce.
consulted to several start-up airlines on marketing and safety management issues.
gave presentations at monthly Board Meetings at the Flint River Water Center, Albany, Ga.
served as Member of the Atlanta TDM Framework Research and Measurement Program Advisory Panel, sponsored by the Georgia DOT and the Southern Coalition for Advanced Transportation.
A Study of Liquid Asphalt Price Indices Applications to Georgia Pavement Contracting, Georgia Department of Transportation report, 2004.
provided research and consultation services for the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Ga.
(with CDC researchers Stephanie Sansom, John Anderson, Thomas Sukalac, Sada Soorapanth, Jill Clark, and Ken Dominguez) developed the paper, "Updated Lifetime Costs of Perinatal HIV Infections,” to be submitted to the Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes (JAIDS).
and Angela Hutchinson** (with CDC researchers Don Ekwueme, Hazel Dean, and Scott Kellerman) developed the paper, “A First Look at the Economic Burden of HIV/AIDS in Racial and Ethnic Minorities, 2002,” to be submitted to the Journal of the National Medical Association.
and Angela Hutchinson** (with CDC researchers Bernard Branson and Sheryl Lyss) developed the paper, "Cost-Effectiveness of Routine Versus Targeted Rapid HIV Testing in Emergency Room Settings," to be submitted to the journal Medical Decision Making.
produced the analysis Assigning Priority to Ecosystem Restoration Investments in Georgia's Chickasawhatchee Swamp for Georgia’s Water Policy Center.
advised State Senator Casey Cagle on aspects of Senate Bill 460.
served on the Aviation Resources Group for the Atlanta Regional Commission (ARC).
See Gary T. Henry.
served on the following local boards: Community Housing Resource Center, Georgia Partnership for Excellence in Education, Georgia Security Link/Metropolitan Atlanta Crime Commission, Operation PEACE, Advisory Board for the Institute for the Study of Disadvantage and Disability: The Impact of the Broader Environment of Economic and Social Disadvantage on Child Health and Development, Kids Voting Atlanta, Advisory Board for Kilpatrick Stockton project to study Technical Education and High School Dropouts, Atlanta Fulton Coalition for Health and Wellness, Atlanta Community Access Coalition, and Metro Group Executive Committee.
served as Chair Elect for the United Way Fulton Advisory Board.
served as Principal for a Day at the Peterson Elementary School for Atlanta Public Schools in the program sponsored by the Metro Chamber of Commerce.
served as Guest Teacher for a third grade class at West Manor Elementary School for the Teach for America Program.
served on the Advisory Committee for a United Way and Ad Council of America project to build community consensus and local synergy for positive community change.
served on The Core Team to establish the Atlanta Fulton Family Connection.
chaired the Education Task Force for the Metro Group.
served on the Coalition for Atlanta Public Schools that included the Metro Chamber of Commerce, Metro Group, 100 Black Men of Atlanta, and Concerned Black Clergy.
offered technical assistance to the Metro Group Task Force on Diversity.
served on the steering committee for the Community Knowledge Project to provide easy public access through the Internet to existing data and information from government and nonprofit sources.
presented to the Fulton County Government Senior Citizen Program, Atlanta, Ga., May 2004.
presented on Community Capacity Building, Public Housing Changes and The Atlanta Project to public officials and representatives from several communities in Ireland, Atlanta, Ga., June 2004.
wrote The Advantage of Accessibility to Goods and People: Transportation and Georgia’s economic development, Fiscal Research Center Report No. 96, 2004.
served as a member of the Atlanta Regional Commission Freight Advisory Task Force.
served as a member of the Metro Atlanta Transportation/Logistics Industry Taskforce for the Metro Atlanta Chamber of Commerce.
served on the Technical Advisory Committee for Gwinnett County Public Schools.
served as Member of the Advisory Committee for the North Carolina More at Four Prekindergarten Program.
, Laura W. Henderson and Bentley Ponder wrote Ready or Not: A Snapshot of Children Entering Kindergarten in Georgia, Domestic Programs report, September 2004.
, Bentley Ponder, Dana K. Rickman, Andrew Mashburn, Laura W. Henderson and Craig S. Gordon wrote An Evaluation of The Implementation of Georgia’s Pre-K Program: Report of The Findings From The Georgia Early Childhood Study (2002-03), Domestic Programs report, 2004.
presented “School Readiness and Universal Pre-K” at the Start Smart Press Conference, People for the American Way Foundation, Albuquerque, N.M., October 18, 2004.
presented “Facts About Adolescent Pregnancy and Births in Georgia” at the Georgia Campaign for Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention, Advocacy Day and Legislative Luncheon, Atlanta, Ga., January 15, 2004.
served as Member of the American Economic Association, Western Economic Association, Eastern Economic Association, Southern Economic Association, Society of Labor Economists, and Committee on the Status of Women in the Economics Profession.
through her role as the Director of the Georgia Administrative Data Project (FRP), facilitated access for researchers in the community to various administrative data bases. In 2004, she responded to 10 different data inquiries, facilitated data access for three researchers inside the university and seven data requests from people outside the university.
served as a member of Atlanta Mayor Shirley Franklin's nine-member Living Wage Ordinance Independent Review Commission.
gave a speech on "Agency Temp Workers: The Who, The Where, and the How" to the Small Business, Agriculture, and Labor Advisory Council of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, Atlanta, Ga., March 2004.
gave a speech on "How Many Jobs are Enough?" to the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta Staff Conference, October 2004, and to the Kiwanis Club of Druid Hills, November 2004.
gave a speech entitled “Shaping Your HR Role: Opportunities and
Challenges for Success in Your Organization” at the Workforce Planning
and Development Conference for Georgia State Government Human Resource
Professionals, Atlanta, Ga., September 16, 2004.
Rebalancing Georgia's Long-term Care System, Georgia Health Policy Center report, March 2004.
Issue Brief: Expanding Health Care Coverage with DSH: Georgia’s Indigent Care Trust Fund, Georgia Health Policy Center report, November 2004.
Issue Brief: Georgia’s Foster Care Children and the Medicaid System, Georgia Health Policy Center report, December 2004.
See Gary T. Henry.
served as Member of the American Economic Association, Western Economic Association, Southern Economic Association, International Economics and Finance Society, and the Economic Development Association.
served on the expert advisory committee to design an exhibit addressing childhood obesity for Imagine It! The Children’s Museum of Atlanta.
provided technical staff support for meetings of the Philanthropic Collaborative for a Healthy Georgia.
provided technical staff support to a stakeholder task force addressing school health.
served as member of a task force to prepare information for the health component of the 24th Biennial Institute for the Georgia General Assembly.
coordinated a seminar for school health grantees to learn about evaluation and development of logic models for their programs.
wrote Preventing Overweight Children in Georgia: Opportunities for Foundations and Grantmakers, Papers Commissioned by Childhood Obesity Task Force, Philanthropic Collaborative for a Healthy Georgia, February 2004.
wrote Preventing Overweight Children: A Brief for Foundations, Philanthropic Collaborative for a Healthy Georgia, January 2004.
served as a member of the United Way of Metropolitan Atlanta’s Outcome Measurement Advisory Group, a committee of outside experts which provides guidance and feedback on United Way’s program planning and performance measurement processes.
, Dana K. Rickman and Gary T. Henry wrote Evaluation of The Pre-K Summer Readiness Pilot Program, Domestic Programs report, November 2004.
presented "Quality of Child Care in Georgia: A Research Perspective" at the Office of School Readiness Conference, Atlanta, Ga., March 2004.
See Bentley Ponder.
produced a Corporate Income Tax receipts forecast to the State of Georgia through the Fiscal Policy Research Center.
served on the Board of Directors of the Georgia Department of Technical and Adult Education representing the 13th Congressional District. He was appointed by Board Chairman Harold Reynolds to chair the Board’s Justification-Economic Impact Committee.
was appointed by Governor Sonny Perdue to serve on the Commission for a New Georgia’s Workforce Development Task Force.
served as Chair of the Board of the Georgia Foreign Trade Zone.
served as a judge for the Georgia Municipal Association’s 2004 “Trendsetter” Awards.
made a policy presentation to the BellSouth Network of African-American Telecommunications (BNAT) Professionals, Atlanta, Ga., March 23, 2004.
served as Member of the American Economics Association, American Society for Public Administration, Association for Cultural Economics International, Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management, and Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action.
wrote Sustainable Funding for the Arts: What Can Atlanta Learn from the Detroit Experience? Research Atlanta report, June 2004.
served as organizer and host of the Annual Nonprofit Executive Roundtable, and was a panelist in the Roundtable’s symposium on “Charitable Choice in Georgia,” May 5, 2005.
presented “Sustainable Funding for the Arts: What Can Atlanta Learn from the Detroit Experience?” to a meeting convened by Research Atlanta at the Capital City Club, Atlanta, Ga., June 16, 2004.
served as a Member of the Board of the Center for Educational Partnerships in Music, based in Atlanta.
served as Member of the Association for Culture Economics, International, as Immediate-Past President.
served as Member of the Planning Committee for the 2004 Wichita Workshop, Appraisal for Ad Valorem Taxation of Communications, Energy and Transportation Properties, National Tax Association.
wrote “The Economics of Cigarette Taxation: Lessons for Georgia,” State Tax Notes, May 31, 2004.
served as consultant to The Coca-Cola Company and the Marcus Foundation (Georgia Aquarium Association); and authored “The New World of Coca-Cola and the Georgia Aquarium: Economic Impact Study," June 2004.
served as consultant to The Atlanta Sports Council, and to several law firms located nationwide regarding antitrust and other litigation support issues.
presented “The Role of the Arts in a Community: Economic Issues” to Atlanta arts groups, Alliance Main Stage Theater, May 3, 2004.
presented “An Economist’s View of Commercial Damages Analysis” at the Georgia Contract Litigation Seminar, Atlanta, Ga., August 20, 2004.
served on the Board of the Atlanta Regional Commission.
served on the Board of Directors for the Regional Leadership Forum.
served as Member of the City of Atlanta Telecommunication Public Advisory Committee.
served as Member of the Task Force on Financing Alternatives, for the Commission for a New Georgia.
wrote the report Early Metrics of the Georgia Cancer Coalition Eminent Scholar Program for the Georgia Cancer Coalition, October 2004.
was “on loan” from AYSPS serving as Policy Advisor for Governor Sonny Perdue for Transportation, Natural Resources, and Economic Development, from November 2002 to June 2004. She helped guide the development of his “Fast Forward” 6-year, $15.5 billion transportation plan. In addition, she assisted in the passage of the state’s first statewide water planning legislation and the development of the first statewide partnership initiative for land conservation. As part of the Governor’s senior staff, she coordinated major budget and policy discussions with the governor in her policy areas.
was appointed by the governor to the Georgia Regional Transportation Authority board in July 2004, which is a state authority that works to improve mobility, air quality, and land use practices in the 13 non-attainment counties of the metro area.
served on the Public Involvement Advisory Committee of the Atlanta Regional Commission and reviewed and rated 55 proposals for the Atlanta Regional Commission CREATE Community Awards Committee.
prepared Fiscal Notes for the 2004 State General Assembly Session.
developed revenue forecasts for the Individual Income Tax for Governor Sonny Perdue: the Winter 2004 update; the budget for 2006 in Fall 2004; and the 2006 budget update.
served on the search committee for a State Fiscal Economist.
chaired a panel at the 24th Biennial Institute for the Georgia General Assembly.
served on the City of Decatur’s Waste Management Advisory Board.
served on the City of Decatur’s Planning Commission.
participated in the Annual Georgia Emergency Management Conference in Savannah, Ga., May 9-11, 2004.
