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SUMMARY:Everyone's talking about peptides: What reporters should know
DESCRIPTION:Peptides made headlines this summer when an FDA advisory panel decided compounding pharmacies could prepare six peptides for patients with a prescription. Great news for wellness influencers\, celebrities and Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. — among the many people who have touted the benefits of peptides for muscle growth\, fat loss\, anti-aging and enhanced athletic performance. But what are peptides\, and are they safe?  \n\n\n\nIn this webinar\, medical experts Dhruv Khullar\, an associate professor of health policy and economics at Weill Cornell Medical College\, and Rachel Frank\, professor of orthopedic surgery at the University of Colorado School of Medicine\, will help you get a handle on what you need to know about peptides\, what the media often gets wrong when reporting on them\, and what stories still deserve to be explored. As always\, the discussion will be followed by a Q&A. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nModerator\n\n\n\n\nKaren Blum\n\n\n\nAHCJ’s Health Beat Leader for AI and Patient SafetyKaren Blum is a Baltimore-based freelance writer who covers AI and patient safety for the Association of Health Care Journalists. She writes about health\, medicine and science for a variety of outlets. Her articles have appeared in the Baltimore Sun\, AARP\, Cure\, Medscape\, and numerous medical trade magazines such as Anesthesiology News\, Pharmacy Practice News\, Clinical Oncology News\, Kidney News\, Clinical Laboratory News and Ophthalmology Management. She also has written profiles and feature articles for alumni and association magazines and offers copy editing services. She holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees in journalism from Northwestern University. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nModerator\n\n\n\n\nAnna Medaris\n\n\n\nAHCJ’s Freelance Beat LeaderAnna Medaris is AHCJ’s Freelance Beat Leader and head of the association’s New York City chapter. A health and lifestyle journalist with more than 15 years of experience\, she’s written for publications including The Washington Post\, Women’s Health\, New York Magazine\, the New York Post\, AARP\, Business Insider and US New & World Report. She’s also appeared as a health expert on the “TODAY Show\,” “Good Morning America” and Hulu’s “Age of Influence.” Anna is a graduate of the University of Michigan\, where she was inducted into Phi Beta Kappa\, and of American University\, where she earned her master’s in interactive journalism. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRachel Frank\, M.D.\n\n\n\nProfessor in Orthopaedic Surgery\, University of Colorado School of MedicineRachel Frank\, M.D.\, is a board-certified orthopaedic surgeon and sports medicine surgeon. Frank serves as professor in Orthopaedic Surgery at the University of Colorado School of Medicine\, is head orthopaedic surgeon for the Colorado Rapids professional soccer team\, and is a team physician for US Soccer. Frank has authored or co-authored over 400 peer-reviewed journal articles\, over 50 book chapters\, and presents her research both nationally and internationally at orthopaedic meetings every year. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDhruv Khullar\, M.D.\, M.P.P.\n\n\n\nAssociate Professor of Health Policy and Economics\, Weill Cornell Medical CollegeDhruv Khullar\, M.D.\, M.P.P.\, is a physician and associate professor of health policy and economics at Weill Cornell Medical College. He is also a writer at The New Yorker\, where he covers medicine\, health care\, and politics. He serves as director of The Physicians Foundation Center for the Study of Physician Practice and Leadership\, and associate director of the Cornell Health Policy Center. His research focuses on value-based care\, health care consolidation\, and medical innovation\, and has been published in JAMA and The New England Journal of Medicine. \n\n\n\nKhullar earned his medical degree at the Yale School of Medicine and completed his medical training at the Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School. He also received a master’s in public policy from the Harvard Kennedy School\, where he was a fellow at the Center for Public Leadership. He has been recognized by the National Academy of Medicine as an Emerging Leader in Health and Medicine\, the National Minority Quality Forum as a 40 Under 40 Leader in Health\, and FASPE with the 2019 Distinguished Fellow Award for Ethical Leadership. His writing was featured in The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2025.
URL:https://healthjournalism.org/peptides-what-reporters-should-know/
CATEGORIES:AI and Patient Safety,Event,Freelancers,Webinar
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SUMMARY:Federal health agencies won't talk to the press. What now?
DESCRIPTION:As reporters\, we’ve all been there: You send an email to the Health and Human Services press office\, or fill out the press inquiries form at the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services website\, and then… nothing. Or worse\, you get a canned response attributable to no one\, or an “off-the-record” response saying the government has no comment. What to do next?  \n\n\n\nIn this 1-hour webinar\, three experienced health reporters will describe their experiences being stonewalled by these government agencies and how they managed to do great reporting in spite of it. You’ll also hear from an expert on press freedom who will discuss trends in this area and resources available to reporters who need — or want — to take further action.  \n\n\n\nPanelists include: \n\n\n\n\nSheryl Gay Stolberg\, health policy reporter for The New York Times.\n\n\n\nRobert King\, CMS reporter for Politico\n\n\n\nBob Herman\, business of healthcare reporter for STAT\n\n\n\nCaitlin Vogus\, senior advisor for advocacy at the Freedom of the Press Foundation \n\n\n\n\nThe panel will be moderated by Joyce Frieden\, Washington editor for MedPage Today and co-chair of the Association of Health Care Journalists’ Right-to-Know Committee. After each panelist’s presentation\, there will be a short Q&A period.
URL:https://healthjournalism.org/event/federal-health-agencies-wont-talk-to-the-press-what-now/
CATEGORIES:Event,Webinar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260909T130000
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SUMMARY:The new Medicaid work requirement and how states are planning to implement it
DESCRIPTION:The biggest cuts in Medicaid’s history start going into effect on January 1. Enacted as part of the GOP’s “One Big Beautiful Bill Law\,” the legislation will cut approximately $1 trillion over the coming decade from Medicaid\, a joint federal-state health program for people with low incomes. It also requires certain people who became eligible for Medicaid under the ACA expansion to prove that they are meeting new federal work requirements. And it constrains how states finance their portion of Medicaid.  These changes will ripple through the entire health system but will hit the already vulnerable rural health providers (and the populations they serve) particularly hard. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nModerator: Joanne Kenen\, journalist-in-residence\, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nModerator\n\n\n\n\nJoanne Kenen\n\n\n\nJournalist-in-residence\, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health \n\n\n\nJoanne Kenen is an experienced public health and health care journalist who has been the journalist in residence at the Bloomberg School of Public Health since late 2021. She also co-teaches a course about how the changing economic and political media landscape in the United States affects public health. During the decade before she came to the Johns Hopkins University\, Kenen was at Politico where she oversaw the prize-winning health reporting team—from the implementation of the ACA through the coronavirus pandemic.  \n\n\n\nHer work has appeared in numerous national publications: Politico and Politico Magazine\, KFF Health News\, the Washington Post\, Stat\, the Atlantic\, Health Affairs and many other outlets. Kenen has guest lectured at numerous universities and done training for health journalists both through the Association of Health Care Journalist and the USC Center for Health Journalism. She is a regular on KFF’s “What the Health” podcast.  Honors & Awards \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAkeiisa Coleman\, assistant vice president\, Medicaid\, The Commonwealth Fund\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAkeiisa Coleman\n\n\n\nAssistant Vice President\, Medicaid\, Expanding Coverage and Access\, The Commonwealth Fund \n\n\n\nAkeiisa Coleman\, M.S.W.\, is assistant vice president for Medicaid\, Expanding Coverage and Access at the Commonwealth Fund. She is responsible for the Medicaid and state-facing grants. She was promoted from program officer in July 2021. She advises on strategy around federal and state policy\, contributing to Fund research and publications and helping to execute projects and events to inform and educate policymakers at the state and federal level.  \n\n\n\nPrior to joining the Commonwealth Fund in August 2018\, Coleman was a senior policy analyst with the National Governors Association (2015-2018)\, where she managed multiple projects related to social determinants of health\, Medicaid\, and behavioral health. She provided technical assistance to state leaders\, including governors’ health policy advisors\, Medicaid directors\, secretaries of health\, and other senior state officials on key policy issues and best practices.  \n\n\n\nFrom 2008–2015\, she was a health policy associate with the Missouri Foundation for Health\, where she wrote and edited reports on the Affordable Care Act\, Medicaid\, Medicare\, and health disparities and assisted in the development of grant programs and requests for proposals. While working full-time as a health policy associate\, she was also a clinical social worker at Barnes-Jewish Hospital in St. Louis from 2009–2015.  \n\n\n\nPrior to those positions\, she was a project coordinator at the Center for Mental Health Services Research in St. Louis\, a Coro Fellow in Public Affairs\, and an AmeriCorps member. Coleman earned an M.S.W. from Washington University in St. Louis and a B.A. in sociology from the University of Southern California. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nStuart Portman\, Medicaid director\, State of Georgia\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nStuart Portman\n\n\n\nMedicaid Director\, State of Georgia \n\n\n\nStuart Portman serves as Executive Director for the Division of Medical Assistance Plans in the Georgia Department of Community Health\, where he oversees Medicaid and CHIP operations statewide. \n\n\n\nPrior to this role\, he served as Senior Health Policy Advisor on the U.S. Senate Committee on Finance and in legislative roles for Senators Orrin Hatch\, Chuck Grassley\, and Mike Crapo\, focusing on Medicaid\, the Children’s Health Insurance Program\, and a broad range of health policy issues including health information technology and Food & Drug Administration policy. \n\n\n\nStuart holds a Master of Public Health degree in health policy from the Milken Institute School of Public Health at The George Washington University and a Bachelor’s Degree in Biology and Political Science from the University of Denver. He is a proud native of St. Louis\, Missouri. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMeghan Groen\, Chief deputy director for Health Services\, Michigan Department of Health and Human Services.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMeghan Groen\n\n\n\nChief deputy director for Health Services\, Michigan Department of Health and Human Services \n\n\n\nMeghan Groen oversees Michigan Medicaid in her role as chief deputy director for Health Services for the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services. She also oversees long term care and programs for people with developmental disabilities. Earlier\, she was a health policy adviser to Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer\, and helped oversee creation of the Healthy Moms Healthy Babies initiative to address health disparities.
URL:https://healthjournalism.org/event/rural-health-2026-medicaid-work-requirement/
CATEGORIES:Event,Rural Health 2026,Workshops | Summits
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SUMMARY:'The Case for Rural America': A conversation with researcher and author J. Tom Mueller
DESCRIPTION:In his recent book\, “The Case for Rural America\,” rural sociologist and demographer J. Tom Mueller\, Ph.D.\, makes a case for why rural America is worth saving and what policymakers must do to preserve a way of life that many people prefer. One of the main solutions he proposes is directly related to healthcare in America. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nModerator: Jared Ewy\, Radio host\, The Daily Yonder\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJared Ewy\n\n\n\nRadio host\, The Daily Yonder \n\n\n\nAfter an attempt to play college football disabused him of the notion that he was a battering ram\, Jared Ewy made the leap into radio. From the Four Corners\, he worked his way to Denver before taking on an opportunity to work with Bob Newhart and\, in turn\, launch a comedy career. Incredibly poor\, he would join a tech startup and help build it into a company on the Nasdaq. From there\, Ewy has focused on helping nonprofits like Ability Connection Colorado share the work they do\, as well as syndicate Yonder Radio\, a show that amplifies rural stories and is syndicated across the country. Ewy continues to tell stories on stage. He’s won Denver’s Moth Story Slam seven times and is currently the back-to-back Moth Grand Slam Champion. He lives in Colorado with his wife\, three kids and too many pets. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJ. Tom Mueller\, Ph.D.\, Director\, Kansas Center for Rural Health\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJ. Tom Mueller\, Ph.D.\n\n\n\nDirector\, Kansas Center for Rural HealthAssistant professor\, University of Kansas Medical Center Department of Population Health \n\n\n\nJ. Tom Mueller\, Ph.D.\, is an Assistant Professor of Population Health and Director of the Kansas Center for Rural Health at the University of Kansas Medical Center. As a rural sociologist and demographer\, he studies the geography of well-being and the environment in rural America. Dr. Mueller’s work focuses on three primary areas: health and well-being in rural America\, (2) environmental injustice and environmental health\, and (3) the measurement and tracking of poverty across space.Dr. Mueller has published his work in leading outlets such as the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences; American Journal of Public Health; Nature Water; Nature Communications; Demography; and Rural Sociology\, among others. Dr. Mueller pursues and receives funding from a variety of sources including the National Institutes of Health\, the National Institute of Food and Agriculture\, and the National Science Foundation. \n\n\n\nDr. Mueller is the author of “The Case for Rural America“.
URL:https://healthjournalism.org/event/rural-health-2026-part-5-case-for-rural-america/
CATEGORIES:Event,Rural Health 2026,Webinar,Workshops | Summits
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261008T080000
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SUMMARY:AI in Health Care: Reporting What's Real | Fall Summit 2026
DESCRIPTION:AI in health care is moving fast — and journalists need both a strong grounding in the forces driving that change and a chance to see the technology in action. Over two days\, AHCJ’s 2026 fall summit\, AI in Health Care: Reporting What’s Real\, will bring together journalists\, researchers\, clinicians and other experts to examine what AI means for patients\, providers and the health care system.  \n\n\n\nTwo days\, two facets: Build the knowledge to report on AI with depth and confidence\, then get exclusive access at Cedars-Sinai in Los Angeles for a hands-on look at how AI is being put into practice at a major hospital system. \n\n\n\nJoin us Oct. 8-9 in Los Angeles for a two-day exploration of some of the most important topics related to the use of artificial intelligence in health care. We’ll discuss: \n\n\n\n\nAI 101: Gaining clarity when development is at blur speed.\n\n\n\nHello\, doc; meet my chatbot.\n\n\n\nAI\, diagnostics and prevention: Case studies.\n\n\n\nYou make the call: An AI decision-making exercise.\n\n\n\nAI in the health care Gold Rush: Promises\, pitfalls\, and who pays the price.\n\n\n\nWhere there’s smoke: AI in wildfire detection and other disasters.\n\n\n\nThe patient and the pill: How AI could change drug development.\n\n\n\nYou made the call. Now\, what shaped your decision?\n\n\n\nAI and the Health Care Workforce.\n\n\n\nAI\, the business of health care and the digital divide.\n\n\n\n\nAfter sessions end on Friday\, we’ll take a hands-on field trip to Cedars-Sinai\, where you’ll get a closer look at how AI tools are changing the delivery of health care in a hospital setting\, including in diagnostics and surgery. \n\n\n\nThis summit is possible with support from Cedars-Sinai and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. \n\n\n\nRegister here\n\nBook a discounted hotel room\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSchedule At-a-Glance\n\n\n\nSubject to change. More details will be added soon. \n\n\n\n\nThursday\, Oct. 8\n\n\n\nBreakfast: 7 – 8 a.m.\n\n\n\nSessions: 8 a.m. – 5 p.m. (including lunch)\n\n\n\nReception: 5 – 7 p.m.\n\n\n\nFriday\, Oct. 9\n\n\n\nBreakfast: 7 – 8 a.m.\n\n\n\nSessions: 8 – 10 a.m.\n\n\n\nField trip: 10 a.m. – 4:15 p.m. (including lunch plus travel to and from the hotel).
URL:https://healthjournalism.org/training-events/workshops-summits/2026-fall-summit-ai-in-health-care-reporting-whats-real/
CATEGORIES:Event,Workshops | Summits
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