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. ------------------------------------------------------------ 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 email: [log in to unmask] http://www.atkinson.yorku.ca/draphael