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Ongoing

Private Healthcare Exchanges Conference

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.

Healthy Aging Month

Healthy Aging Month is an annual observance focusing national attention on the positive aspects of growing older. 

NPC Luncheon with CDC Director Thomas R. Frieden, M.D.

Thomas R. Frieden, M.D., director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, will report on the state of our health security at this National Press Club luncheon. Frieden will identify eminent dangers to our health security – superbugs, disasters, and leading causes of death – and the assets the nation’s health protection agency can use to thwart them.

To submit a question in advance, put FRIEDEN in the subject line and email to president@press.org before 10 a.m. the day of the luncheon.

Atlanta chapter: The CDC and global health with Ron Ballard

The Atlanta chapter of the Association of Health Care Journalists will meet 7 p.m. Tuesday evening, Sept. 10, at Ri Ra Irish Pub (1080 Peachtree St NE, Suite 1, at the corner of Crescent and 12th) in Midtown to hear about the CDC’s role in global health.

We’ll hear from Ron Ballard, Ph.D., who is associate director for laboratory science at the CDC Center for Global Health Leadership.

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