The Private Healthcare Exchanges conference July 16-17 in Chicago will focus on how the Affordable Care Act is changing the way insurers sell health insurance.

This year's meeting features a mini-conference on ethics, public health and the environment. The keynote speaker will be Ezekiel J. Emanuel, M.D., Ph.D., chair, Department of Clinical Bioethics, The NIH Clinical Center, National Institutes of Health. He will speak on ethical issues in universal health care reform.

The Research and Training Center for Children's Mental Health hosts this event to expand the research base necessary to improve service systems for children with serious emotional and behavioral disturbances and their families. The agenda will group presentations into tracks that address critical areas of inquiry. Sessions will offer important research and evaluation methods and results in these areas.