Program Manager

Mansfield Center for Pacific Affairs

Mansfield Library
University of Montana
Missoula, MT 59812

TEL: (406) 243-6454
FAX: (406) 243-2181
EMAIL: pmurdo@selway.umt.edu

CAN BE INTERVIEWED FOR: Print, Radio, TV

INTERVIEW LANGUAGES: English

SPECIALIZATIONS:

• BUSINESS, TRADE AND ECONOMICS
  health care; labor and labor relations
• POLITICS, GOVERNMENT AND DEFENSE
  environmental policy; health care policy; labor policy; welfare programs

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Communications Committee Member, Western Regional Air Partnership; Editor/Analyst, Japan Economic Institute, 1988-96; Editorial Consultant, Veterans Administration, 1986-88; Copy Editor, Great Falls Tribune, 1984-85; Reporter/Assistant City Editor, The Independent Record, 1975-84; Public Information Officer, Emergency Medical Services Bureau, 1974-75.

IN JAPAN: 1980-81 - study.

MAJOR PUBLICATIONS:

Leap-Frog Environmentalism: Potential and Pitfalls (forthcoming); "From the Far East to the Old West: Chinese and Japanese Settlers in Montana," (producer, documentary); "Japanese, American Approaches Differ on Aging, Long-Term Care," JEI Report (April 10, 1992); "Japanese Health-Care System No Panacea for Ailing US Program," JEI Report (July 5, 1991); "Environmental Developments Offer Opportunities for Japan," JEI Report (January 10, 1992); "Pollution Control: Can Past Lessons Be Recycled?," JEI Report (March 8, 1991).