Susan Giaimo, Ph.D.

Susan Giaimo, Ph.D.Marquette University

Wehr Physics Hall, 402

MilwaukeeWI53201United States of America(414) 288-3356susan.giaimo@marquette.edu

Curriculum Vitae

Adjunct Associate Professor

Political Science

Susan Giaimo's research and teaching interests comprise comparative politics of advanced industrial societies, comparative public policy, comparative political economy, and health care politics and policy. Dr. Giaimo’s courses and research explore how industrialized democracies are responding to the challenges of globalization and demographic change, and how an understanding of the social determinants of health may inform public policy. Her latest book is Reforming Health Care in the United States, Germany, and South Africa: Comparative Perspectives on Health (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015). She has also published journal articles and book chapters on comparative welfare state policies and health care politics. Dr. Giaimo has been panelist on a number of public forums on health policy, including the local PBS program 4th Street Forum and the Milwaukee Press Club.

Dr. Giaimo has taught in the political science department at MIT. She was a post-doctoral fellow in the Robert Wood Johnson Scholars in Health Policy Research Program at the University of California at Berkeley.

Education

Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, Madison, 1994

Courses Taught

• POSC 4381 Politics of US Health Care | Syllabus
• POSC 4406 Public Policy in Industrial Democracies | Syllabus
• POSC 4461 Comparative Health Politics and Policy | Syllabus
• POSC 4501 European Politics
• POSC 6401 Comparative Politics | Syllabus

Publications

• Reforming Health Care in the United States, Germany, and South Africa: Comparative Perspectives on Health (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015)
• "Interest Groups, Think Tanks, and Health Care Policy, 1960s-Present," in The CQ Guide to U.S. Health and Health Care Policy, Thomas Oliver, ed. (New York: DWJ Books, 2014), pp. 375-392.
• Markets and Medicine: the Politics of health Care Reform in Britain, Germany, and the United States (University of Michigan Press, 2002)