An Introduction to the US Health Care System

Steven Jonas, MD, MPH, MS, is Professor of Preventive Medicine, School of Medicine, and Professor, Graduate Program in Public Health, at Stony Brook University (NY).

Raymond L. Goldsteen, DrPH, MA, is Professor Emeritus of Preventive Medicine at Stony Brook University School of Medicine. He was founding director of the MPH Program and professor of Population Health in the School of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of North Dakota. He was also founding director of the Graduate Program in Public Health and professor of Preventive Medicine in the School of Medicine at Stony Brook University. Dr. Goldsteen has an extensive background in health care and was formerly a director of the health policy research centers at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign, University of Oklahoma College of Public Health, and the West Virginia University School of Medicine. He is a coauthor of Introduction to Public Health, now in its second edition, and many peer-reviewed publications in health and health care.

Karen Goldsteen, PhD, MPH, is an Affiliated Public Health Faculty member in the Program in Public Health at Stony Brook University. Prior to this, she was a research associate professor of Population Health in the MPH Program, School of Medicine and Health Sciences, at the University of North Dakota. She was also a research associate professor of Health Technology and Management in the Graduate Program in Public Health at Stony Brook University. She was awarded her MPH degree from Columbia University School of Public Health and her PhD in Community Health from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She was a Pew Health Policy Fellow at the University of California, San Francisco. Dr. Goldsteen is a coauthor of Introduction to Public Health, now in its second edition, and many peer-reviewed publications on health and health care.