The Big Cities Health Coalition (BCHC), the National Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO) and the March of Dimes will host a webinar for reporters to discuss the threat posed by the Zika virus in the summer of 2017. Experts will review the ongoing state of the outbreak; the role of local health departments in fighting the disease; impacts to mothers, babies, and families; and how combatting it could be undermined as federal funding wanes.

Hosted by NAS’ Roundtable on the Promotion of Health Equity and the Elimination of Health Disparities and its Roundtable on Population Health Improvement, the event will include discussion of efforts aimed at tackling “systematic disinvestment in rural communities and implications for improving the social determinants of health, including access to and quality of health care services.” 

The Atlanta-based Carter Center holds a discussion on anxiety disorders with Rosalynn Carter Mental Health Journalism Fellow Andrea Petersen, a Wall Street Journal health and science contributing writer and author of “On Edge: A Journey Through Anxiety.”

Kaiser Family Foundation will hold a phone call for journalists with some of their top experts to answer questions on cost and coverage provisions of the legislation, and its effect on both the individual market and Medicaid.