Bob Hackey

About Bob Hackey

Passionate teacher and researcher with more than three decades of experience working on issues of health care reform, health care in popular culture, and state health care regulation. Affiliate of the Taubman Center for American Politics and Policy at Brown University. A regular contributor to public conversations about health policy, politics, and politics in Rhode Island. Author of four books and numerous articles on health care policy. My latest work focuses on staffing shortages in long-term care settings.

Experience

1. Professor of Health Sciences

   Providence College

   Sep 1999 — Present · Providence, RI, US

   My latest book, co-edited with my colleague, Todd Olszewski, examines Democratic and Republican views on important health policy issues. This reference text fills an important void in the literature by providing a factual, impartial analysis of party positions on a wide range variety of health policy issues from abortion to veteran’s health care. Our project included more than a dozen Providence College undergraduates as co-authors for various chapters. The intended audience for this volume includes community and secondary school libraries and colleges and university reference collections. For more details, see the article about our collaborative work with students in the Fall 2019 issue of Providence College Magazine: https://news.providence.edu/hpm-students-co-author-book-on-major-healthcare-decisionsMy research and writing interests are broad and varied in the areas of health care reform, popular culture, and medical humanities. I co-authored an article with three of my students (Victoria Grasso, Madeline LaRochelle, and Katie Seaver) on \"Rethinking the Shortage of Primary Care Physicians\" published in the May 2018 issue of the Journal of the American Academy of Physician Assistants.In 2018, I was invited to serve as the guest editor for a special issue on the physician assistant profession for the Rhode Island Medical Journal. My introductory article, along with four other articles on the role of PAs in Rhode Island\'s health care system,appeared in the August 2018 issue.

Education

• University of Rhode Island

  Bachelor of Arts, Economics and Political Science

  1983 — 1987

• Brown University

  PhD, Political Science

  1987 — 1992

Skills

• Teaching
• University Teaching
• Learning Mangement Systems
• Microsoft Powerpoint
• Microsoft Excel
• Powerpoint
• Higher Education
• Sakai
• Editing
• Policy
• Microsoft Word
• Curriculum Development
• Public Speaking
• Microsoft Office
• Social Media
• Leadership Development
• Statistics
• Sas
• Research
• Grants
• Management
• Curriculum Design
• Volunteer Management
• Healthcare
• Healthcare Consulting
• Health Care Consulting