Ms. Saoussan Askar, a major in Health Policy in the School of Health 
Policy and Management at York University has been accepted into the 
Master's of Science in Comparative Social Policy at Oxford University in 
the UK.

Ms. Askar is the second Health Policy major to be accepted into Oxford 
University.  Mr. Rahul Mediratta is currently taking a masters degree at 
Oxford in the same program that has accepted Ms. Askar.
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Of related interest:

Poverty and Policy in Canada: Implications for Health and Quality of Life 
by Dennis Raphael
Foreword by Jack Layton
http://tinyurl.com/2hg2df

Staying Alive: Critical Perspectives on Health, Illness, and Health Care, 
edited by Dennis Raphael, Toba Bryant, and Marcia Rioux
Foreword by Gary Teeple
http://tinyurl.com/2zqrox

Social Determinants of Health: Canadian Perspectives, edited by Dennis 
Raphael
Foreword by Roy Romanow
http://tinyurl.com/yptzae

See a lecture!  The Politics of Population Health
http://msl.stream.yorku.ca/mediasite/viewer/?peid=ac604170-9ccc-4268-a1af-9a9e04b28e1d


Also, presentation on Politics and Health at the Centre for Health 
Disparities in Cleveland Ohio
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4129139685624192201&hl=en
 
Dennis Raphael, PhD
Professor and Undergraduate Program Director
School of Health Policy and Management
York University
4700 Keele Street
Toronto ON M3J 1P3
416-736-2100, ext. 22134
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http://www.atkinson.yorku.ca/draphael