Rick Mayes, PhD

Economy and Health Care
Thursday, June 10, 2021 | 3:40 PM - 4:30 PM EST

Rick Mayes is a professor in the University of Richmond’s department of political science, and co-director of the university’s Health Studies major. He is also a professor of nursing at the University of Virginia. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Virginia in 2000 and a National Institute of Mental Health postdoctoral traineeship at the U.C. Berkeley School of Public Health from 2000 to 2002. From 1992-1993, he worked on Medicaid policy in the White House Office for George H.W. Bush and thereafter on health insurance and Medicare policy at the AARP during the health care reform effort of 1993-94. He is a graduate of the University of Richmond (B.A., 1991).

His writings have appeared in: The New York Times; Health Affairs; the Journal of Health Politics, Policy & Law; the Journal of the History of Medicine & Allied Sciences and many other journals. He has given talks and research presentations on health care policy, finance, delivery and organization to, among others: the Richmond Academy of Medicine, the Virginia Association of Hematologists & Oncologists, the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Santé Publique (in France); the Yale University School of Medicine; the National Association of Personal Financial Planners; and the University of Virginia School of Medicine and Miller Center.

He is also the author of: UNIVERSAL COVERAGE: The Elusive Quest for National Health Insurance (University of Michigan Press), co-author of MEDICARE PROSPECTIVE PAYMENT AND THE SHAPING OF U.S. HEALTH CARE (Johns Hopkins University Press) with Robert Berenson, M.D., Senior Health Policy Fellow at the Urban Institute, and co-author of MEDICATING CHILDREN: ADHD and Pediatric Mental Health (Harvard University Press) with Catherine Bagwell and Jennifer Erkulwater.