4 talks, 1 panel set at Clinton School

The University of Arkansas Clinton School of Public Service has five events planned this week.

Thomas Oliphant and Curtis Wilkie will discuss their book, The Road to Camelot: Inside JFK’s Five-Year Campaign, at 6 p.m. Tuesday at Sturgis Hall.

The book tells the behindthe-scenes story of John F. Kennedy’s campaign, beginning with his failed attempt to win the vice-presidential nomination in 1956.

On Wednesday, John Monahan, a psychologist and former campaign worker, will speak at 6 p.m. at Sturgis Hall.

Monahan, who works at the University of Virginia Law School, served on the Obama-Biden and Clinton-Gore transition teams and has worked on several election campaigns. He teaches and writes about how courts use behavioral science evidence, violence-risk assessment, criminology and mental-health law.

He worked at the U.S. State Department on global health issues from 2010 through 2014.

Michael Novak, a deputy director on the naval operations staff, will talk at noon Thursday at Sturgis Hall.

Novak is responsible for rapid prototyping and development of unmanned systems across all domains.

On Friday, a panel will discuss the cost of health care in Arkansas. It will begin at 8:15 a.m. at the W.H. Bowen School of Law at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. Speakers will be local and national health care professionals and policymakers, including Gov. Asa Hutchinson and Children’s Hospital’s chief executive officer, Marcy Doderer.

The keynote speaker is Michael Chernew, a health policy expert and professor at Harvard University’s medical school.

Admission is free and open to the public. Reservations are available by emailing publicprograms@clintonschool.uasys.edu or by calling (501) 683-5239. Most of the events are at Sturgis Hall, which is the old Choctaw Railway Station building on the Clinton Presidential Center. The UALR law school is at MacArthur Park.