BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//events.la.psu.edu//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20201101T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=11;BYDAY=1SU END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20200308T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=2SU END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:18619-5bff168bfcf9b7fc78c8fb6f1c3b7c0e@events.la.psu.edu DTSTAMP:20260814T011118Z DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260408T121500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260408T133000 SUMMARY:“Infected by Politics: Medicine and Public Health in a Divided Democracy ” DESCRIPTION:\nWhat are the consequences of political polarization for me dicine and public health? While affective polarization has reshaped elec tions and policy debates\, we know less about whether it penetrates prof essional domains built on trust\, neutrality\, and expertise. This proje ct examines how partisan identity structures beliefs\, clinical interact ions\, and public health environments in the United States.  Using natio nal surveys of physicians and the public\, embedded experiments\, geogra phic analyses of physician partisanship\, and clinician focus groups\, P acheco investigates whether partisan cues shape evaluations of seriousne ss\, communication\, and trust\; how partisanship structures beliefs abo ut medicine’s social mission\; and whether communities differ in public health contexts based on the partisan composition of their physician wor kforce. Together\, the findings suggest that polarization extends beyond politics to influence professional authority\, patient experience\, and the civic foundations of health.\n\nJulianna Pacheco is professor of po litical science at the University of Iowa. She received a Ph.D. in polit ical science from Penn State and postdoctoral training as a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health and Society Scholar at the University of Michi gan. She is currently a Carnegie Fellow 2024–2026 and part of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Interdisciplinary Research Leaders Program-Co hort 7.  Her research sits at the nexus of political science and populat ion health. She was among the first to examine how health shapes politic al participation\, most notably finding that poor health reduces turnout .\n\nFor more details: https://events.la.psu.edu/event/infected-by-polit ics/ X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

What are the co nsequences of political polarization for medicine and public health? Whi le affective polarization has reshaped elections and policy debates, we know less about whether it penetrates professional domains built on trus t, neutrality, and expertise. This project examines how partisan identit y structures beliefs, clinical interactions, and public health environme nts in the United States.  Using national surveys of physicians and the public, embedded experiments, geographic analyses of physician partisans hip, and clinician focus groups, Pacheco investigates whether partisan c ues shape evaluations of seriousness, communication, and trust; how part isanship structures beliefs about medicine’s social mission; and whether communities differ in public health contexts based on the partisan comp osition of their physician workforce. Together, the findings suggest tha t polarization extends beyond politics to influence professional authori ty, patient experience, and the civic foundations of health.

Julia nna Pacheco is professor of political science at the University of Iowa. She received a Ph.D. in political science from Penn State and postdocto ral training as a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health and Society Scho lar at the University of Michigan. She is currently a Carnegie Fellow 20 24–2026 and part of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Interdisciplina ry Research Leaders Program-Cohort 7.  Her research sits at the nexus of political science and population health. She was among the first to exa mine how health shapes political participation, most notably finding tha t poor health reduces turnout.

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