Rob Nelb is an Ethics, Politics, and Economics major at Yale University, and he is part of the new Select BA-MPH Program in Public Health. His academic interest centers on improving health systems to better manage chronic diseases, which he combines with extracurricular activities to mobilize students to address public health problems.

On campus, he writes a public health column for the Yale Daily News and he has led several advocacy campaigns to raise awareness and support for public health issues. Nationally, he is a senior fellow for the Roosevelt Institution, the nation's first student think tank and also plays a leading role with the American Public Health Association.

His views on health care can best be summed up with a prize-winning essay that he wrote for the Kaiser Family Foundation about what the ideal presidential candidate's health plan should look like. He's still waiting for one of the candidates to pick it up...

Blog Entries by Rob Nelb

S-CHIP Plan B: Automatic Enrollment

Posted October 23, 2007 | 11:12 AM (EST)


Last Thursday's failed vote on children's health care was the latest example of politics at its worst. Both sides were unwilling to compromise, and in the end, not one House Republican changed votes.

Even worse, the sides became more entrenched. Speaker Nancy Pelosi says the goal of covering...

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New Banner Ban at Yale Threatens Free Speech

Posted October 11, 2007 | 04:46 PM (EST)


If you want to get attention on a college campus what do you do? Posters get lost on overcrowded bulletin boards, chalk washes away when it rains, and even e-mails fall into the spam filters these days. Instead, as any enterprising student knows, nothing can be better than a big...

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S-CHIP: Today It Gets Personal

Posted October 4, 2007 | 02:15 AM (EST)


Yesterday, it was no surprise that President Bush vetoed the reauthorization of the State Children's Health Insurance Program. Although millions of kids are now at risk of losing coverage, Bush had announced his intentions months before, and if I know one thing for certain, this president doesn't like to change...

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S-CHIP By The Numbers

Posted September 27, 2007 | 10:40 AM (EST)


The rhetoric around reauthorization the State Children's Health Insurance Program is making my head spin. Whoever thought that providing health care to kids could be so complicated?

Instead of the usual political bickering, I prefer to look at the numbers, plain and simple:

$35 billion: The additional funding...

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Since When Did Health Care Become a Supermarket?

Posted September 20, 2007 | 06:13 PM (EST)


As a skeptic of Hillary Clinton's potential to deliver health care reform, I was quite impressed with the new plan she laid forward Monday. It's clear, it's doable, and although I believe that a single-payer system would be more ideal in the long run, Hillary makes a

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