Harvard Club of the Palm Beaches

Crimson Conversations

presents

Implications of the 2024 Election Results for Healthcare

by Dr. Robert J. Blendon AM '87

Thursday, February 27, 2025
6:00 pm Networking cocktails (cash bar)
7:00 pm Presentation
Hybrid Event
This event will be in-person and also livestreamed

Emeritus Professor Dr. Robert J. Blendon will discuss the implications of the 2024 election outcome for US health policy. With Republicans in the majority, his remarks will focus on their views on what should happen in the world of healthcare, medicine, and public health in the four years ahead. His presentation is based on his analysis of thousands of interviews with Republicans conducted before and after the election.

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Tideline Ocean Resort
2842 South Ocean Blvd | Palm Beach | 33480

This is a free event, but we ask that you register in advance to receive the Zoom link and to ensure proper seating is available.

About our speaker
Robert J. Blendon is the Richard L. Menschel Professor of Public Health and Professor of Health Policy and Political Analysis, Emeritus, and former Director for the Division of Policy Translation and Leadership Development at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. He previously held appointments as a Professor of Health Policy and Political Analysis at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. He formerly directed the Harvard Opinion Research Program and co-directed the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation/Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health project on understanding Americans’ Health Agenda. Previously, he co-directed a polling series with The Washington Post and Kaiser Family Foundation.

Blendon was senior vice president at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. In addition, he has served as a senior faculty member for the U.S. Conference of Mayors, the National Governors' Association, and the U.S. Congress Committee on Ways and Means.

Between 1987 and 1996, Blendon served as Chairman of the Department of Health Policy and Management at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and as Deputy Director of the Harvard University Division of Health Policy Research and Education.

Blendon formerly taught a course on Political Strategy in U.S. Health Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. He also directed the Political Analysis track in the University’s Ph.D. Program in Health Policy.

Blendon is a graduate of Marietta College and of the School of Business at the University of Chicago, with a Master's in Business Administration. In addition, he holds a Doctoral degree (DSc) from the School of Public Health of Johns Hopkins University (1969), where his principal attention was directed toward health policy. He also received an honorary degree from Harvard University (M.A. 1987).