John Hopkins University will hold its fifth annual Social Determinants of Health Symposium on race, racism and the healing of Baltimore. This year’s event comes one year after the death of Freddie Gray sparked unrest in the heart of the city.

An Institute of Medicine committee on health equity will hold its third meeting on efforts to improve economic well-being and community outcomes regarding access to health.  The workshop, to be held in Irvine, California, will also be available via live webcast.

U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Tom Frieden will deliver remarks at a Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health’s event on health in Indian Country.

An increasing number of states are using managed care approaches to deliver Medicaid dental services. In this webinar, state policymakers from Kentucky, Arizona, and Pennsylvania will share their insights.

Two entities at Stanford University – Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research and the Stanford Center on Poverty and Inequality – hold a discussion on economics professor Raj Chetty’s recently published article on the relationship between people’s income and how long they are expected to live.

Discover a robust, globally-focused initiative designed to advance best practices and guidelines for health information management through Information Governance (IG), an initiative lead by the American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA). Along with the Integrating the Health Enterprise (IHE), AHIMA has created an enhanced approach to aligning health information management practices with health IT to support best practices through interoperability standards.

Titled “Translating Research to Action to Improve the Health of All Youth,” this day-long symposium at Harvard Medical School in Boston aims to “to advance current research and intervention approaches with the goal of improving understanding of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) bullying and its effects on child and adolescent health.” Experts, including researchers, health care providers, local lawmakers, and school officials, will address health disparities in sexual and gender minority youth with an eye toward ways to improving LGBT youth health, boost resilience and decrease bullying. The event will be held at Harvard’s Joseph B. Martin Conference Center from 9 a.m.-5 p.m.

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine releases its report on preventing bullying during a press conference in Washington, D.C., that will be webcast live.

The winners of the American Academy of Political and Social Science’s 2016 Moynihan Prize – Ron Haskins and Isabel Sawhill, the bipartisan duo who launched The Brookings Center on Children and Families – will discuss evidence-based policy solutions to address family and child well-being and poverty.

This interactive webinar from the National Association of County & City Health Officials will provide an overview of the community development sector, a multi-billion-dollar sector that serves as an action arm for addressing social determinants of health through the development and financing of affordable housing, grocery stores, community centers, health clinics, and services in low- and moderate-income communities.

The discussion on Capitol Hill aims to highlight innovative strategies in states such as West Virginia and Utah, as well as how action in U.S. states can help build a national strategy to curb poverty in youth and improve children’s health. 

The Washington-based Bipartisan Policy Center holds an event to release its recommendations for “Healthy Aging” and the role of housing on health care for seniors.

Stephen J. Ubl, president and CEO of the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America, will discuss the value and promise of personalized medicine at the 12th Annual State of Personalized Medicine Luncheon Address, including the fact that 25 percent of new drugs approved last year were so-called personalized medicine.

The global research institute RTI International will host a policy forum “Mental Illness and Violent Events: Identifying, Managing and Reducing Risks,” in which expert researchers working on these issues will clarify the scope of mental illness in relation to violent events, including suicide, gun violence, and victimization.