Nancy Milio, PhD (Yale, sociology), FAPHA, FAAN,is a professor emeritus of nursing and a professor emeritus of health policy and administration (School of Public Health) at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she taught for 25 years. Her teaching, research, and publications center on policy development, implementation, strategic analysis, and evaluation in public health services, food and nutrition; community information networks; and health promotion/education. She has worked with numerous governments (in Scandinavia, Eastern and Western Europe, Australasia, and Latin America), nonprofit organizations, and the World Health Organization and Pan American Health Organization as a policy analyst and consultant for 20 years. Among several visiting professorships, she teaches public health policy at the University of Kuopio in Finland each year. She is also active in local, state, and national policy promotion on accessible health care and lowincome housing.Public Health in the Market: Facing Managed Care, Lean Government, and Health Disparities(University of Michigan Press, 2000) is her most recent book.