Series I. Alphabetical Files, 1950-2010, undated., 1950-2010

Consists of professional activities records, professional appointments records, and personal and professional correspondence, generated by Rashi Fein as a product of his professional, publishing, and administrative activities throughout his career. The bulk of the series consists of meeting minutes, committee reports, and correspondence related to Fein’s service in various professional organizations, boards, and committees. Committee records, meeting minutes, and related correspondence were generated through Fein’s service in numerous committees and organizations related to health policy and economics, including as: Chair of the Interim Board of Directors and as a Member of the permanent Board of Directors of the American Academy of Pediatrics’s Center for Child Health Research; Associate of the Committee for National Health Insurance; and Chair of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Scholars in Health Policy Research Program’s National Advisory Committee. Professional activities also include typed lectures, conference programs, and related correspondence for Fein’s public speaking engagements related to: healthcare costs, and financing; national health insurance; medical manpower; healthcare equity and access; and other topics in medical economics and healthcare reform. Professional appointments records include: University of North Carolina letters of appointment and administrative correspondence; President John F. Kennedy’s Council of Economic Advisors administrative correspondence and reports on education, mental health, income distribution, and racial discrimination; Brookings Institution administrative correspondence and reports on healthcare costs and financing, racial discrimination, and medical manpower; Harvard Medical School Department of Social Medicine and Health Policy (previously the Department of Preventive and Social Medicine) administrative correspondence, committee minutes and reports, and teaching records for courses taught in healthcare policy and financing. Correspondents include: Economist Eli Ginzberg (1911-2002), concerning publications, healthcare regionalization, and health manpower; Massachusetts Senator Edward M. Kennedy (1932-2009), concerning healthcare reform and national health insurance, as maintained with related policy reports; Economist Dorothy P. Rice, concerning healthcare costs and financing; Economist Alice M. Rivlin (born 1931), concerning healthcare costs and financing, and government’s role in healthcare management and financing; Economist Burton Weisbrod (born 1931), concerning work with President Kennedy’s Council of Economic Advisors, maintained with policy papers on education and health policy; and various other colleagues. Series also contains: manuscript drafts, reprints, and publication correspondence for writings related to national health insurance, access to healthcare, healthcare costs and financing, the relative incomes of African Americans, and other topics in healthcare and economics; correspondence and research data related to a study on North Carolina physician distribution conducted with Gordon DeFriese (born 1942) and Cecil Sheps (1913-2004) of the University of North Carolina, as a follow-up to Fein’s doctoral dissertation conducted twenty years earlier; and letters of recommendation written by Fein for his colleagues and students.