UCLA Fielding's Dr. Mark Peterson receives inaugural APSA Career Achievement Award in Health Politics and Policy
Dr. Mark Peterson, professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management, has received the inaugural APSA Career Achievement Award.
UCLA's Dr. Mark Peterson, professor in the Fielding School's Department of Health Policy and Management, has received the American Political Science Association's (APSA) inaugural Career Achievement Award in Health Politics and Policy.
“Receiving this inaugural Career Achievement Award from the Health Politics and Policy Section of the American Political Science Association was an unexpected honor," said Peterson, who also serves as a UCLA professor of public policy, political science, and law, as well as a senior fellow at the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research. "As I said to my colleagues, now populated by subsequent generations of scores of younger and innovative scholars, it has been exciting to participate in and watch the emergence of the study health politics and policy making, and its real-world influence, become so prominent in the discipline of political science.”
The award was presented by Dr. Julianna Pacheco, outgoing president of APSA's Health Politics and Policy Section, during APSA’s annual meeting in Vancouver, Canada, in September.
The award recognizes Peterson’s decades-long contributions to understanding and shaping health policy, his mentorship of younger scholars, and his enduring impact on both the field and public life.
A leading scholar on American national institutions, Peterson has focused much of his research on the Presidency, Congress, interest groups, and public opinion, with particular attention to health care policy, Medicare reform, and HIV/AIDS politics.
He has authored numerous influential works, including Legislating Together: The White House and Capitol Hill from Eisenhower to Reagan and co-edited volumes for the Annenberg Institutions of American Democracy Project, one of which received APSA’s Richard E. Neustadt Award.
Beyond scholarship, Peterson has shaped policy through advisory roles in Congress and California state agencies, contributed to the Blue Sky Health Initiative, and guided health care reform efforts including the Affordable Care Act.
Reprinted with permission from the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs. The original post can be found here.
