Jeffrey H. Anderson
Director

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Jeffrey H. Anderson, a Ph.D. from Claremont Graduate University (American government and political philosophy) in 2001, taught Political Science at the United States Air Force Academy (USAFA) starting that fall, was promoted to Associate Professor in 2006, and won the department's highest honors for majors-level teaching ("Outstanding Upper-Division Instructor," 2006-07) and for academic research and writing (the Coble Award, 2003-04). He left USAFA in 2007 and worked in the Policy and Speechwriting Department of the Rudy Giuliani presidential campaign, before serving as the Senior Speechwriter for Secretary of Health and Human Services Mike Leavitt, from 2008-09. He became a Senior Fellow in Health Care Studies for the Pacific Research Institute in June 2009 and is now the Director of the Benjamin Rush Society, an organization committed to bringing together medical students who support the liberty of the patient-doctor relationship and who oppose federal control of the U.S. health-care system. His health-care op-eds have recently been published by the Weekly Standard, the New York Post, the Washington Times, National Review Online, Investor's Business Daily, and Pajamas Media, and he has made TV appearances on Fox News and Fox Business News. He also created one of the six college football computer rankings that is used each season by the Bowl Championship Series ;(BCS) to help decide what two teams will play in the National Championship Game. The Anderson & Hester Rankings have been part of the BCS Standings from 1998-present.

James Egan
Program Coordinator

James Egan is senior at the University of Utah where he is working toward honors degrees in English and political science. He plans to pursue a law degree following graduation. He has developed an interest in medicine and health law through his father, an anesthesiologist. He worked as an intern in the speechwriting office at the Department of Health and Human Services in 2008. In 2009 he spent the summer in New Delhi, India where he was working for an organization focused on public health issues.