Presentations, resources from 2008 Urban Health Journalism Workshop

These are just some of the presentations from the 2008 Urban Health Journalism Workshop. More audio files are expected to be added.

Field trip

Visit to elementary and high school health clinics in the Bronx, which are part of the largest hospital-sponsored school-based health program of its kind in the country.

• Read about the school-based health centers
• Margee Rogers, F.N.P., training and education coordinator, Montefiore School Health Program | Presentation (PDF)
• Audio: Intro to school-based health centers (MP3, 29:40)
• Multimedia presentation from PS 28

Computer-assisted reporting basics: Investigating health data using spreadsheets

• Jeff Porter, AHCJ special projects director
  Presentation (PDF) | Tip sheet

Data files: overall_ratings.xls medicaid_by_category.xls med_salaries.xls cause_of_death.xls

medicaid_by_county.xls insured.xls death_rates.xls hospital_cost_by_day.xls

Keynote by Steve Lopez of the Los Angeles Times

• Listen to Lopez (MP3, 55 minutes)
• Trudy Lieberman, president of AHCJ's board of directors and director of the Health and Medicine Reporting Program at the Graduate School of Journalism at City University of New York, welcomes attendees.(MP3, 1:16 minutes)
• Lieberman introduces Judith Watkins, associate dean of the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism (MP3, 1:09 minutes)
• Judith Watkins, associate dean of the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism, welcomes attendees (MP3, 2:03 minutes)
• Charles Ornstein, senior reporter at ProPublica and vice president of AHCJ's board of directors, introduces Steve Lopez (MP3, 2:44 minutes)
• Steve Lopez, Los Angeles Times columnist, discusses meeting a homeless, mentally ill musician he passed on the streets each day and how the series of columns he wrote about the man became a moving book, "The Soloist," that is soon to be a Dreamworks movie. Learn more at www.stevelopezonline.com.

Diagnosing the fiscal health of city hospitals

• Karl Stark, health and science editor, The Philadelphia Inquirer | Presentation (PDF)
• Alan M. Zuckerman, president, Health Strategies & Solutions Inc. | Presentation (PDF)
• Audio (1 hour,9 minutes; MP3)

Impact of violence on neighborhood health

• Introduction (2:57 minutes, MP3)
• Philip J. Leaf, Ph.D., professor, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health; senior associate director, Center for Prevention of Youth Violence
  Presentation (PDF) | Audio (12:43 minutes, MP3)
• Jon Schuppe, staff writer, The (Newark, N.J.) Star-Ledger
  Audio (13:23 minutes, MP3)
• Mary Vriniotis, M.S., research specialist and communications liaison, Harvard Youth Violence Prevention Center
  Presentation (PDF) | Audio (19:21 minutes, MP3)
• Moderator: Mike Stobbe, staff writer, The Associated Press
• Audience Q&A (22:52 minutes, MP3)

Urban illness spotlight: Asthma and children

• Read about the panel
• Introduction (5:14 minutes, MP3)
• Karen L. Warman, M.D., Department of Pediatrics, Montefiore Medical Center
  Presentation (PDF) | Audio (10:36 minutes, MP3)
• Sebastian Bonner, Ph.D., investigator, Center for Urban Epidemiologic Studies, New York Academy of Medicine
  Presentation (PDF) | Audio (10:11 minutes, MP3)
• Ray López, environmental program manager, Little Sisters of the Assumption Family Health Service Inc.
  Presentation (PDF) | Audio (12:43 minutes, MP3)
• Moderator: Irene Wielawski, independent journalist
• Audience Q&A (29:50 minutes, MP3)

How the “aging in place” trend affects senior health

• Kelly Greene, staff reporter, The Wall Street Journal
• Mia Oberlink, M.A., senior research associate, Center for Home Care Policy & Research, Visiting Nurse Service of N.Y.
  Presentation (PDF)
• Fredda Vladeck, director, Aging in Place Initiative, United Hospital Fund
• Moderator: Trudy Lieberman, director, health and medicine reporting program, City University of New York

Looking at health indicators by ZIP code

• Introduction (54 seconds, MP3)
• Carolyn Olson, M.P.H., director, community epidemiology unit, New York City Health Department
  Presentation (PDF) | Audio (21:29 minutes, MP3)
• Gary Puckrein, Ph.D., president and chief executive officer, National Minority Quality Forum
  Presentation (PDF) | Audio (18:01 minutes, MP3)
• Moderator: Jennifer LaFleur, director of computer-assisted reporting, ProPublica
  Presentation (PDF) | Audio (13:31 minutes, MP3)
• Audience Q&A (15:55 minutes, MP3)

Coming to grips with access to care

• Read about this panel
• Reed Abelson, health care reporter, The New York Times
• Albert B. Knapp, M.D., F.A.C.P.,clinical professor of medicine, New York University School of Medicine
  Presentation (PDF)
• Peter Selwyn, M.D., M.P.H., chairman, Department of Family and Social Medicine, Montefiore Medical Center
  Presentation (PDF)
• Moderator: Tim Race, health care business editor, The New York Times

What’s the real story on emergency rooms?

• Read about the panel
• Introduction (2:50 minutes, MP3)
• Michael Carius, M.D., F.A.C.E.P., chairman, Department of Emergency Medicine, Norwalk Hospital
  Presentation (PDF) | Audio (21:03 minutes, MP3)
• Lynne Holden, M.D., attending physician, Department of Emergency Medicine, Montefiore Medical Center
  Audio (21:21 minutes, MP3)
• Moderator: Carla K. Johnson, staff writer, The Associated Press
• Audience Q&A (22:42 minutes, MP3)

Monitoring jail and prison health

• Read about the panel
• Introduction (42 seconds, MP3)
• Milton Zelermyer, staff attorney, Legal Aid Society
  Audio (17:56, MP3)
• Courtney Gross, city government editor, Gotham Gazette | Presentation (PDF)
  Audio (16:14, MP3)
• Naseem Sowti Miller, health reporter, Ocala (Fla.) Star-Banner | Presentation (PDF)
  Audio (18:23, MP3)
• Moderator: Phil Galewitz, health writer, The Palm Beach Post
• Audience Q&A (15:52, MP3)
  

The built environment's impact on public health

• Read about the panel
• Introduction (47 seconds, MP3)
• Hal Strelnick, M.D., director, Division of Community Health, Department of Family & Social Medicine; Montefiore Medical Center
  Audio (24:45 minutes, MP3) | Presentation (PDF)
• David J. Freeman, partner, Paul Hastings
  Audio (16:10 minutes, MP3)
• Lynn Dee Silver, M.D., M.P.H., assistant commissioner, Chronic Disease Prevention and Control, New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene
  Audio (21:32 minutes, MP3) | Presentation (PDF)
• Moderator: Dave Biello, associate editor, energy & environment, Scientific American
• Audience Q&A (9 minutes, MP3 – Note: The audience's questions were inaudible so they have been cut out of this recording.)