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PhD (History) in Ashoka University

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• History Curriculum and Requirements
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• Course Catalogue : Spring 2022
• History Handbook

HISTORY MAJOR, MINOR, & CONCENTRATION

The Department of History requires students to take a total of 12 courses in three years in order to receive the bachelor’s degree, according to UGC guidelines. However, the course should be considered as a four year programme, including the ‘Advanced Major’, which brings the total courses to 16 in four years.  

Elective courses in the Department of History seek to stir, whet, and capture a student’s historical imagination through a conceptual, historiographical and methodological study of different historical themes and subjects.

The History Undergraduate Research Thesis/Project is a thesis or other project based on original research it is optional for third year students (majors or minors), but if it is to be opted, it should be opted in the Monsoon semester of the 3rd year. It gives students an opportunity to put into practice their understanding of the discipline of history by undertaking independent inquiry on their chosen historical theme.

History Core Courses:

A. GATEWAY COURSES:

HIS-1001 European History from Renaissance to Revolution (Spring)

HIS-2001 History of India I: From Prehistoric Beginnings to the Mauryan Empire (Spring)

HIS-2002 History of India II: From the Mauryan Empire to c. 1000 CE (Monsoon)

HIS-2003 History of India III: From c. 1000 CE to 1764 CE (Spring)

HIS-2004 History of India IV: From 1764 CE to 1967 CE (Spring)

B. READING COURSES

HIS-3001 Reading History (Spring)

HIS-3002 Reading Archaeology (Monsoon)

C. RESEARCH COURSES

HIS-3991/3992 UG Research Thesis/Project (optional, 3rd year)

HIS-4991/4992 - History Capstone Thesis/Project (compulsory for History Advanced Major, 4th year)

History Major Requirements 

A Major is the field of a student’s primary academic focus in course of their undergraduate degree. For a Major in History, students must take a total of 12 courses in History. History majors must take all 5 gateway courses (HIS 1001, HIS 2001, HIS 2002, HIS 2003, and HIS 2004). These five gateway courses give students a solid foundation in the history of the  general patterns and processes of Indian and modern Western history within a global comparative framework. These courses provide students with chronological anchors for more advanced thematic courses.

Along with the gateways, 2 reading courses, (HIS-3001 & HIS-3002) equip students with the basic apparatus of the historical craft. Reading History introduces students to different theories that have influenced historical imagination, the various schools of thought and modes of writing history such as positivism, Marxism, annals, structuralism, post-structuralism, postmodernism and postcolonialism. Reading Archaeology introduces students to the methods and theories of archaeology globally, and engages students with the history of archaeological thought.  

History Minor Requirements

A Minor is a secondary area of study that a student can choose to focus in course of their undergraduate degree. Students Minoring in History must take 6 total courses in History. These are:

(i) any 2 of the five Gateway Courses (HIS 1001, HIS 2001, HIS 2002, HIS 2003, and HIS 2004)

(ii) any 1 of the two Reading Courses (HIS 3001, HIS 3002)

(iii) 3 additional History courses, which may be any combination of Gateway Courses, Electives, Independent Study Modules (ISM), CTS, and/or the UG Research Thesis/Project.  

Note: No more than one CTS can count towards a Minor in History. 

History Concentration Requirements

A Concentration is a field of a student’s secondary academic interest aside from their Major (and Minor) in course of their undergraduation. For a Concentration in History, students must take 4 total courses in History. These are:

HIS 3001. Reading History

3 additional History courses, which may be any combination of Gateway Courses, Electives, Independent Study Modules (ISM), CTS, and/or the UG Research Thesis/Project. 

Note: No more than one CTS can count towards a Concentration in History.

INTERDISCIPLINARY MAJOR REQUIREMENTS

History & International Relations

For the History & International Relations (IR) interdisciplinary major, 16 courses are required, including 10 courses in History and 6 courses in IR. 

Note: No more than 1 CTS course may count as an elective.

History & Economics Interdisciplinary Major

For the History and Economics Interdisciplinary major 17 courses are required, including 8 each from History and Economics and 1 last from either.  

Note: For History, no more than 1 CTS may count as an elective. 

At Ashoka University, students can opt for the Ashoka Scholars’ Programme (ASP), which comprises a fourth year after the completion of graduation at the end of the third year. For the History Department, this comprises the History Advanced Major programme. This extra year is aimed at equipping our students towards research in the discipline through immersive research-oriented coursework and academic writing. 

History Advanced Major Requirements

The History Advanced Major comprises a minimum of 16 credits. Students can choose to opt for this in their 4th year (Ashoka Scholar’s Programme or ASP). Once they do, they will be required to take three additional courses in History at the advanced level. The first two among these courses are exclusive to the rigorous research-oriented training that the History Advanced Major programme comprises:

i. HIS-4001 & HIS-4002. Sources and Histories I & II (4 credits): 

ii. HIS-4983. History Capstone Thesis (8 credits): 

iii. Any one History Elective/ISM (4 credits) at the 300/400 level

History-IR Advanced Major Requirements

During the fourth year at Ashoka, students who opt for the History-IR Advanced Major are required to take three additional courses in History and IR at the advanced level. These are:

i. Sources and Histories (4 credits)

ii. History or IR Capstone Thesis (8 credits)

iii. Any IR Elective/ISM (4 credits) at the 300/400 level

In addition to these courses, ASP students can also opt for the Teaching Practicum (2 Credits)

Foundation Courses 

1. FC 0201-1    Indian Civilisations     (Rudrangshu Mukherjee and Gopalkrishna Gandhi)

2. FC 0201-2    Indian Civilisations      (Upinder Singh)

3. FC 0601-1    Great Books                (Rudrangshu Mukherjee)

4. FC 0601-2.   Great Books               (Neeladri Bhattacharya)

Gateway Courses

 1. HIS-1001   European History: Renaissance to Revolution  (Rudrangshu Mukherjee

2. HIS-2001  History of India I (Sanjukta Datta)

3. HIS-2003  History of India III (Mahmood Kooriadathodi)

4. HIS-2004  History of India IV (Rudrangshu Mukherjee and Srinath Raghavan)

5. HIS 3002/SOA-3513 Reading History (Neeladri Bhattacharya)

Elective Courses 

1. HIS-3205/ IR 3018 The World of War in South Asia 1000-1800 (Pratyay Nath)

2. HIS-3503/ ENG-4801  History on the Couch: Psychoanalysis and the Historic Method (Aparna Vaidik)

3. HIS-3510/ ENG 2320     Reading the Twentieth Century: An Introduction to Intellectual and Cultural History

4. HIS- 3512    Women on the Move: Gendered Travel in the Indian Ocean (Mahmood Kooriadathodi)

5. HIS-3513    Stone, Paper, Bamboo, Silk: Sinophone Textual Cultures (Eloise Wright)

6. HIS-3514/ IR 3022  Chinese Pasts: "Ancient China" Through Contemporary Eyes (Eloise Wright)

7. HIS-3515/ IR 3023/    History of Modern China: Empire and Its Aftermath (Sayantani Mukherjee)

8. HIS-3516/ SOA- 3514    Borderlands: Towards a Spatial History of Empire (Sayantani Mukherjee)

9. HIS-3517/ ENG-3060/ SOA 3227. A Cultural reading of India and China: Connections and Networks (Barnali Chanda)

10. HIS-3518/ ES-3221 Negotiating Nature in the Early Modern World 

11. HIS 4203 Museums in South Asia: History and Politics (Kanika Singh)    

12. HIS-4204/ SOA-2210   Making of the Indian Republic (Aparna Vaidik)        

13. POL-2065/ HIS-2801 Pakistan: A Social and Political History (Julien Levesque)

14. SAN-2001/ HIS-2801 Intermediate Sanskrit 1-  Buddhacarita  (Naresh Keerthi)

15.  SAN-2001/ HIS-2802  Intermediate Sanskrit 2- From the Sena Court  (Naresh Keerthi)

16. VA-2005/ HIS-3802 Sites and Sights: Museums, Exhibitions and the Making of Art (Sraman Mukherjee and Rakhi Peswani)

Language Courses

1. HIS 1012 Persian 2 (Nadeem Akhtar)

2. HIS 1014 Persian 4 (Nadeem Akhtar)

3. SAN-1001/HIS-1101    Elementary Sanskrit 1 (Shagun Sinha)

4. SAN-1002/ HIS 1102    Elementary Sanskrit 2 (Shagun Sinha)

For more information, refer to the handbook

These course listings and descriptions are for reference only.  The Department of History may not repeat all of these courses, or may not repeat them every year.  Whether and when a course is likely to be repeated is noted, however, this is not a guarantee that a course will be offered as stated. The only courses that will be offered regularly are the seven listed above as History Core Courses. However, the course descriptions of the History Core Courses may change, according to the different faculty teaching them. All courses are 4 credits unless otherwise specified.

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The Department of Biology at Ashoka University invites students to carry out cutting-edge research through its Ph.D. program in Biological Sciences. The university offers fully funded fellowships to select candidates. We are recruiting Ph.D. candidates for the academic session 2024-2025 in the following thematic areas:

• Animal Behaviour, Life History and Evolution
• Cell and Developmental Biology
• Experimental Evolution, Evolutionary Immunology and Genomics
• Functional RNA, Origins of Life & Phase-separation
• Infectious Disease Glycobiology
• Machine Learning, Systems Biomedicine, and Digital Health 
• Microbial Evolution, Antibiotic Resistance and Genomics
• Molecular Biology and Biochemistry of Circadian Clock
• Neuroscience of Sleep and Communication
• Plant-animal Interactions
• Structural Biology

These thematic areas encompass the diversity in biological systems – in both length and complexity. State-of-the-art research facilities and a unique liberal arts environment allow Ph.D. students at Ashoka University to work on interdisciplinary research projects drawing on the expertise of faculty members within and beyond the Biology Department.

Principal Investigators listed below will be recruiting Ph.D. students in the admission cycle for the academic year 2024-2025.

• Anurag Agarwal
• Anup Padmanabhan*
• Bittu Kaveri Rajaraman**
• Dilip Kumar*
• Hiroshi Hamada (Co-PI: Kasturi Mitra)
• Imroze Khan
• Kavita Agarwal*
• Kasturi Mitra*
• Krishna Melnattur
• Laasya Samhita*
• Manvi Sharma
• Rintu Kutum (Co-PI: Anurag Agrawal)*
• Sandeep Ameta**
• Shivani Krishna**
• Sougata Roy*

*The faculty members have two positions available (One position for Ashoka University-funded or from PI’s grant and one position for externally funded students who receive a scholarship from government or partner organizations)

**The faculty members will be recruiting only externally funded students who receive a scholarship from government or partner organizations.

For further details on the research of individual faculty members,  click here . The last date for application submission is 31 st May 2024.

Admission to the Ph.D. program

The admission to the program is scheduled in the beginning of Monsoon Semester (Aug-1).  Details regarding Ph. D opportunities with application deadlines are advertised in prominent web space (such as Ashoka website, IndiaBioscience, LinkedIn, Twitter etc.) and leading newspapers. Additionally, flyers are distributed to all major institutions throughout the country. The number of Ph.D. students admitted varies from year to year and depend on the available positions in the department and also the merit of candidates.

Orientation

The incoming cohort of Ph.D students will undergo a half-day departmental orientation. During this orientation session,

All faculty members intending to recruit Ph.D students will give a 20-minute presentation highlighting their research and possible Ph.D projects in their group. This will allow all the incoming students to get an overall idea of various research opportunities in the department.

The students will be apprised of the Ph.D. program, various timelines, course requirements and laboratory policies.

Appointment of Supervisor

Thereafter, the students will be encouraged to interact with as many faculty members they deem necessary to decide on a Ph.D. supervisor. A maximum of two faculty members may co-supervise a student, one of who should be from the department of biological sciences. The other co-supervisor with an expertise relevant to the student’s proposed research, maybe from any department within or outside Ashoka University. The student will formally e-mail the Ph.D program coordinator their first three choices for faculty supervisor within 4 weeks of the admission date.

The Coordinator (Biological Sciences Ph.D. Program) will assign each student a faculty supervisor in consultation with the faculty committee of the department.

In the event that two or more students have the same faculty as their choice, then it would be up to the faculty to pick student(s) depending on positions available in the lab.

Formation of the Student Research Committee (SRC)

The student, in consultation with the primary faculty supervisor (and co-supervisor, if any), should select a committee consisting of two persons in addition to the primary faculty supervisor (and co-supervisor, if any) to serve as the Student Research Committee (SRC). One of the non-supervisory members will act as the chairperson. This will be communicated to the Ph.D. program coordinator.

Roles of the SRC – The role(s) of SRC comprises (but is not limited to) the following

The SRC functions to assist supervisors in providing guidance and advice on students’ research, by complementing the expertise of supervisor/s. SRC members will read the required progress reports, judge whether there is satisfactory progress through the program, and approve the reports.

They actively mentor the student in case of supervisor’s non-availability or during disputes between supervisors and the student. Therefore, the SRC members should be reasonably accessible to students when called upon for discussion of students’ academic progress or for consultation on issues related to the research project and for general guidance.

Students are encouraged to meet informally with SRC members for academic or research matters as well as seek advice on career options.

The graduate courses offered by the department are listed below*.

Research Methodology (Mandatory)

Graduate Seminar Series in Biological Sciences (Mandatory)

Programming in Biology

Advanced Biochemistry and Biophysics

Bioimaging and Quantitative Methods in Biology

Advanced Cell Biology

Advanced Molecular Biology

Concepts in Mechanobiology

Current Advances in Developmental Biology

Plant and Microbial Development

Evolutionary Biology

Biostatistics

Chemical and synthetic biology

Next-generation sequencing data analysis

Macromolecular structure determination

Host-pathogen interaction

DNA replication and repair

Specificity in gene expression

Cell signalling

Ecological Modelling

 (*Some of the courses may not be offered every year. Please contact the relevant faculty for updated information)

Students with an MPhil/MTech degree are required to complete at least 8 credits of 600-level course work (2-3 courses) within 18 months from the date of admission. Students with an MSc/MA/Mcom/BTech must complete at least 24 credits (6-8 courses) of 600-level course work within 18 months from the date of admission. Students may take graduate courses (level 600) within or outside of the department that would provide the necessary breadth and depth of knowledge to undertake proposed research. However, all students must compulsorily take the course on Research Methodology and Graduate Seminar Series in Biological Sciences.

The department of biological sciences requires all students to demonstrate good academic standing and maintain a minimum grade of 7.5/10 (3.0 /4.0) at the end of their coursework.

A national or international workshop or summer/winter school may be considered for credit only if it constitutes at least 40h of direct contact hours and involves some form of assessment and or grading.

Graduate Assistantship 

All PhD students who have been awarded Graduate Assistantship established by Ashoka University or those receiving scholarship from UGC or “partner” organizations are expected to work for 8 hours/week assisting with teaching courses. Assistance in teaching will include (among others) grading assignments, quizzes, or lab reports, data collection and/or analysis, and maintenance of LMS. Students may contact individual faculty members for TA-ship opportunities. Ph.D students are required to assist as a Graduate Assistant in at least four courses (lectures or lab). Out of the four, it is mandatory that the students complete at least two assistantships prior to taking oral qualifying examination.

A student will be formally admitted to the Ph.D. candidature status upon fulfilling the following criteria.

Satisfied all course requirements

Completed mandatory TA-ship hours

Cleared Oral Qualifying Examination (OQE)

The oral examination is intended to test specific knowledge about the research field and the dissertation project that the student intends to embark upon. The student should clear the OQE no later than 24 months after admission.

The Ph.D. qualifying examination will consist of two components,

A thesis proposal report, which clearly provides comprehensive background literature, aim/s of the dissertation research, planned methodologies, preliminary data to indicate feasibility of the proposed research and future directions to be taken. The report is to be submitted to the SRC at least 2-weeks prior to the oral qualifying examination.

The student should present and defend their thesis research proposal before the SRC to qualify for candidacy. This oral defense is open to the Ashoka community, while the audience will be excused for closed-door discussions between the student and the SRC.

The SRC will decide if the student has cleared the oral examination and can transfer to the Ph.D. program.

If the SRC unanimously feels that the student has failed the examination, the student may not be recommended for Ph.D. candidature.

In the event that the SRC feels that the student needs to demonstrate satisfactory performance in the qualifying examination and/or the coursework, the SRC will communicate the deficiencies to the student and provide recommendations. These may include taking additional courses and/or revising research questions and re-appearing for the qualifying examination. In such a scenario, the student can be given a ‘conditional pass’. The students must comply with these recommendations within the stipulated time, failing which the candidature may be terminated.

Annual Work Seminar Requirement

Each student who has been confirmed as a  Ph.D. candidate, must present their work once in a year in the department, beginning in the Spring semester of their third year. Students may also present their work in seminars outside Ashoka University, with the approval of their Faculty supervisor(s).

Upon clearing their qualifying examination, the PhD student must organize an SRC meeting annually and at least two such meetings are required before a thesis can be submitted. Review meeting with SRC may be combined with the Annual Work Seminar of the student. However, SRC may request for more meetings based on the progress of the work. SRC approval is necessary for writing up the thesis and its submission.

Dissertation Defense

Students will be required to subject the draft dissertation to a check for plagiarism using a standard software and will be responsible for any plagiarism found after submission. The thesis will be examined by two external examiners out of five names of potential examiners suggested by SRC. The selection of the examiners will be done by the Vice-Chancellor. The Faculty supervisor(s) will also examine the thesis as examiner(s).

Each external examiner, supervisor and co-supervisor will independently recommend one of:

“the dissertation is accepted without any revision”,

“the dissertation is accepted subject to suggested changes/clarifications being incorporated in the dissertation and presented at time of the viva voce examination”,

“the dissertation is revised and submitted for re-examination”, or

“the dissertation is rejected outright”.

Once each external examiner and Faculty supervisor recommends either 1) or 2), the department (HOD) will formally conduct a viva voce examination in the presence of at least one, but preferably both, external examiners. The examination will be open to all faculty members and students from Ashoka University.

After the viva voce, a copy of the dissertation will be deposited with Ashoka University Library.

Publication/ Patent Requirements

The student, before submitting the thesis, should have submitted a patent or published at least ONE first author manuscript in a peer-reviewed indexed journal.

Compulsory coursework

Complete coursework requirement

Complete TA-ship requirement

Comprehensive written Examination (CQE)

Form Student Research Committee (SRC)

Oral Qualifying Examination (OQE)

Confirmation of Ph.D Candidature

Year – 3 till Year-6

Carry out Dissertation Research

Annual Work Seminar

SRC review meeting

Communicate your research as a manuscript / patent

Dissertation submission and Thesis Defense

Students must submit their final dissertation within five years of the date of admission to the PhD Programme. Based on need or justification, an extension of up to 1 year may be recommended by the SRC, and granted by the Dean (Research).

The monthly stipend paid to all Ph.D. students selected as TAs funded by Ashoka University will be Rs. 50,000 +HRA (10000) per month. The Ph.D. Scholars are eligible for Senior Research Fellowship (SRF) upon completing their candidacy. The monthly stipend for an SRF is Rs 55,000+HRA (10000)  per month.

A contingency grant of Rs. 20,000 per annum will be made available to each PhD student.

The quantum of stipend paid to TAs will be reviewed periodically.

Tuition fee: Rs. 12,500 per semester.

Dissertation assessment fee: Rs. 15,000 for the first time, and Rs. 5,000 the second/third time.

The quantum of fees paid by PhD students will be reviewed from time to time.

The monthly stipend and annual contingency grant given to PhD students who receive a scholarship from UGC or a partner organization will be decided based on terms covering the scholarship itself.

An annual contingency of Rs 20,000, will be made available to each PhD student

Whenever there is a delay in receiving funds from the funding agencies, Ashoka University will pay in advance.

University waives the semester fees

Ashoka University offers financial assistance to all PhD scholars for presenting their research ideas/findings in reputed international conferences. This facility can be availed once by each PhD student. Maximum amount of aid is Rs 2,00,000/-.

• HRA: Rs 7500

On-campus housing will be provided to PhD students only if it is available. In case on-campus housing is not available, the University will arrange accommodation nearby and provide transport for the campus.

 Ashoka University facilitates medical insurance (as per university policy)

The applications for the academic year 2024-2025 intake are now open

Deadline - 31st may 2024, why biology.

There is always the much needed open communication between faculty and researchers. The weekly journal club is a treat as it regularly updates the knowledge of the presenter and others who are from the same or different fields. The Research Office works constantly to make the researcher’s administrative work easier. The department being enriched with faculty from different biological fields creates ample opportunities to work in interdisciplinary research areas. The interdisciplinary research provides a broader perspective of looking at any subject, a quality I have craved to learn throughout my research career. What really excites me is working with the UG students, who being curious and young, ask intriguing questions which they either work on independently or with any Ph.D. student. This direct involvement of UG students with us is very enriching. What is close to my heart is the opportunities we get to work on our teaching skills by assisting professors and the UGs’ in their respective courses.

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Assistant Professor (Tenure Track) in the Department of History, Ashoka University

The Department of History at Ashoka University invites applications for a full-time, tenure-track faculty position in Medieval & Early Modern World History. We welcome outstanding candidates from all sub-fields, but knowledge of Persian is particularly desirable.

Ashoka is a research university based near New Delhi, India. It offers internationally competitive terms and conditions. The teaching load is comparable to the top universities in the world, and the university supports research in various ways.  The selected candidates will be expected to both teach and carry out high-quality research.

Qualifications

The appointment will be at the rank of tenure-track Assistant Professor. The selected candidates must have a PhD degree at the time of appointment.

Application Instructions

Ashoka University strongly encourages applications by women and members of other groups underrepresented in academia.

Applicants should submit:

(1) a cover letter; (2) a curriculum vitae; (3) two samples of academic writing (article length); (4) teaching evaluations (if available); and (5) names of three referees to be contacted by the university for recommendations.

All materials should be submitted through Interfolio.

The deadline for submitting a complete application is May 12, 2024.

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Friday, April 26, 2024

Cade Marcotte will defend his PhD thesis in August, and has already accepted a plum academic job at   New Saint Andrews College in Moscow, ID, where he will be teaching, among other things, the history of physics.

Congratulations Cade and cheers to your upcoming PhD defense! 

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Nielsen’s contributions to the ACA are recognized, documented in the Obama Presidency Oral History

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Nancy Nielsen is one of the “extraordinary people” invited to tell the story of the 44th presidency, now online

By Ellen Goldbaum

Release Date: April 29, 2024

BUFFALO, N.Y. – Growing up in Elkins, West Virginia, (current population 6,800), Nancy H. Nielsen , MD, PhD, could not have fathomed that she would one day not only meet the president of the United States but work with his administration to completely transform health care in America.

Now her work — and that of many others — on the Affordable Care Act, from advocacy to implementation, has been documented for posterity in the Obama Presidency Oral History .

Nielsen, senior associate dean for health policy in the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences at the University at Buffalo, is one of the “extraordinary people from all walks of life” invited to participate in the Obama Presidency Oral History project. Compiled by Columbia University, the history is based on more than a thousand hours of interviews with hundreds of people.

Just being invited to do the interview was an incredible honor, Nielsen said. It also gave her a chance to review how she came to take part in one of the most significant health care reforms the U.S. has ever seen. She recounts some of the highlights in this video (link to come).

‘Nontraditional’ MD student

In 1973, with a PhD in microbiology and a faculty position at the Jacobs School, Nielsen was accepted to the UB medical school. She was a “nontraditional” student, since she already had a faculty position and was also raising five small children. She was one of just 30 women in her class of 135.

After graduating and serving as the first woman chief resident in internal medicine at Buffalo General, Nielsen was board-certified as an internist. In addition to running a busy private practice, she was drawn to the policy side of medicine. She served as president of the Erie County Medical Society, became involved with the state medical society and started working at the national level.

She served four consecutive terms as speaker of the American Medical Association House of Delegates and in 2008 was elected AMA president, a term that coincided with the intensifying national health care debate.

While Nielsen was president-elect, the AMA launched its Voice for the Uninsured campaign, advocating for health care reforms that would extend health insurance coverage to Americans who didn’t have it.

In preparing for the campaign, the AMA media relations staff asked if Nielsen had any patients who were uninsured.

Nancy Nielsen, MD’76, with her extended family after receiving the Jacobs School’s Distinguished Alumni Award in the fall 2023.

‘The cause of my life’

That’s when Nielsen revealed that she had also been uninsured. “During graduate school, I delivered two babies when I was uninsured,” she said, “and that became the cause of my life: to make sure all Americans got health insurance.”

She recalled that at the time the Affordable Care Act was passed, 19% of the U.S. population had no health insurance.

“It really was a national scandal, to tell you the truth, and there were places where it was even worse than that,” she said. “There is nothing good about being uninsured. That was the whole point of the Voice for the Uninsured. They didn’t have a voice. So we became that voice.”

Once implemented, the Affordable Care Act cut the uninsured rate in the U.S. from 19% to 9%. It would have cut it even more, Nielsen explained, but the Supreme Court intervened and said the expansion of Medicaid, which was supposed to insure millions, was a state’s rights issue.

Since then, more states have come on board. Nielsen said it’s now down to about 10 states that haven’t expanded Medicaid, about half of which are considering it or are about to expand.

Nielsen, then president of the American Medical Association, welcomed President Barack Obama to the AMA House of Delegates' annual meeting in Chicago on June 15, 2009. Photo courtesy of the American Medical Association

A call from the White House

A few months after Nielsen finished her term as immediate past president of the AMA, she got a call from the White House. She was asked to come work at the newly established Center for Innovation in the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services in the Department of Health and Human Services.

“It was a brand-new part of HHS, and they said they needed me to come to bring the physician voice, as they were implementing this new part of the government,” said Nielsen.  

As senior adviser for stakeholder engagement, she would be “on loan” from UB to the federal government, a stint that would last two years. Her role was to interact with, and share the concerns of, clinicians throughout the health care system.

“The Innovation Center is unique in government,” explained Nielsen. “It was enshrined in the ACA law so that instead of making a big policy change and then having unintended consequences, the Innovation Center would do pilots and actually evaluate whether the care was improved and whether there were savings. That was the purpose. There was no place else in government where there was the flexibility to try something to see if it worked.”

She assumed additional responsibilities working with HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, advising on policy and sometimes attending events when the secretary could not.

“It was just an extraordinarily exciting time and I loved it,” recalled Nielsen.

She admitted that working in Washington was “seductive,” but she always intended to return to UB.

“I owe my career to UB,” she said simply. “I always wanted to be a physician. I didn’t have money. After my fifth child was born, I finally applied. I was 29 when I started medical school and my fifth child was 2 months old.

‘UB gave me a chance’

“So UB gave me a chance. I was lucky that the admissions committee let me in, and I will never forget it. My whole career has been here and I’ve just been very fortunate. I owe it all to UB.”

Now she’s passing her passion for policy to the next generation of physicians. Nielsen was recently asked to be faculty adviser to a group of Jacobs School students who want to develop a policy elective. 

“Why is policy important?” she asked. “Policy is the road map that we use to get to the society we want. For me, it meant getting affordable health insurance for every American. I tell the students, ‘Your cause will be different.’ My role here is to help the students change the world, whatever that means to them.”

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