Read and comment on this obituary from the Washington Post for Jeffrey Cyrus Merrill who served in Colombia in the 1960's and used his fluency in Spanish to work with representatives from Spanish-speaking countries and international organizations to improve health services research. He was the author of "The Road to Health Care Reform: Designing a System that Works" (1994). Our condolences to his family and friends. Read the obituary at:
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Jeffrey Cyrus Merrill, 59; Health Care Policy Expert
Tuesday, June 10, 2003; Page B07
Jeffrey Cyrus Merrill, 59, an authority on health care financing and substance abuse who worked in the government and the private sector for three decades, died of stomach cancer June 6 at a hospital in New York. The former Washington resident lived in Cranbury, N.J.
Mr. Merrill came to the Washington area about 1970 and was a senior health policy analyst at the American Public Health Association. During the Carter administration, he was principal health economist for the Congressional Budget Office and director of the Health Care Financing Administration's legislation and policy office.
He spent the early 1980s as director of Georgetown University medical school's Center for Health Policy Studies.
He then used his experience at foundations, research centers and universities in the mid-Atlantic region.
He was a vice president of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, one of the largest philanthropies involved in health care issues; was vice president and director of the Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse's division of policy research and analysis; and held teaching and research positions at Columbia University's School of Public Health and the University of Pennsylvania's medical school.
In 2000, he became professor of psychiatry at the Robert Wood Johnson Medical School of the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey.
Mr. Merrill was a native of Brooklyn, N.Y., and a graduate of Johns Hopkins University, where he also received a master's degree in public health.
He was in the Peace Corps in Colombia in the 1960s and used his fluency in Spanish to work with representatives from Spanish-speaking countries and international organizations to improve health services research.
He was the author of "The Road to Health Care Reform: Designing a System that Works" (1994).
Survivors include his wife, Rebecca Beauregard, whom he married in 1977, and two sons, Nicholas Merrill and Jonathan Merrill, all of Cranbury.
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