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This video is part four of a multi-part series of a two-day symposium "Public Management and the Lindsay Years (1966-1973)", presented by Baruch College School of Public Affairs in collaboration with the Museum of the City of New York on September 29 and 30, 2010.

This session is about health policy and management during the Lindsay years.

Panelists include:

Joan M. Leiman, Chief of Staff to the President & CEO, New York Presbyterian Hospital & Healthcare System, Lindsay's Assistant Budget Director. Leiman introduces the panel and later discusses the administration's move to replace the Department of Health with a quasi public agency, NYC Health and Hospitals Corporation.

Jim Kagen, Consulting Director at The Chartis Group, Lindsay's First Commissioner of NYC Health Department. Kagen focuses on progressives efforts of the administration to enhance physical and mental health services for prisoners, protect children from lead poisoning, and survey abortion services (which became legal in NY State during the Lindsay years).

Robert Newman, President Emeritus, Continuum Health Partners, Lindsay's Assistant Commissioner of NYC Health Department. Newman discusses his work with providing addiction and ambulatory detox services and the successes that followed.

The speakers are introduced by Stan Altman, symposium organizer, Professor of School of Public Affairs and Director of American Humanics at Baruch College.

This program was digitized, captioned, and made accessible in 2021 as part of "Uncovering CUNY'S Audiovisual Heritage," a preservation project funded by Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR).

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