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SUMMARY:Using the CDC's Environmental Justice and Social Vulnerability data in your reporting
DESCRIPTION:Environmental health is a deeply intersectional topic\, which opens up the possibility of using lots of different datasets in your reporting. In this webinar\, coordinators from the CDC’s Environmental Justice Index (EJI) and Social Vulnerability Index (SVI) will show you how to access and use data found in these portals. \n\n\n\nSocial vulnerability refers to the potential negative effects on communities caused by external stresses on human health. Environmental justice is the fair treatment and meaningful involvement of all people\, regardless of race\, color\, national origin\, or income\, to develop\, implement\, and enforce environmental laws\, regulations\, and policies. These topics are deeply connected and when these indexes are used together\, they can help to include perspectives that have historically been marginalized. \n\n\n\nJoin us for this webinar to explore the data. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPaul Gordon (he/him)\, AHCJ’s health beat leader for environmental health\, is a Chicago-based environmental journalist\, photographer and arborist. His work appears in The Nation\, Grist\, The New Lede\, Sierra Magazine\, Belt Magazine\, Civil Eats\, Clean Energy Wire and In These Times. Gordon graduated from DePaul university where he studied international relations and journalism. During summers in college\, he worked in conservation across the East Coast for US Fish and Wildlife and the National Park Service. After finishing school\, Gordon worked in conservation and field ecology for the National Audubon Society\, Forest Preserves of Cook County\, and Fermilab. After being awarded the Congress-Bundestag Exchange Fellowship\, he worked as a correspondent for Clean Energy Wire in Berlin and furthered his education in journalism at Freie Universität. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBen McKenzie\, M.S. (he/him)\, is a geospatial epidemiologist with the Geospatial Research\, Analysis\, and ServicesProgram (GRASP) at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention/ the Agency for Toxic Substance andDisease Registry. Since 2021\, he has served as the team lead for the Environmental Justice Index project in collaboration with the National Center for Environmental Health and the HHS Office of Environmental Justice. Mr. McKenzie is a committed advocate for the application of geospatial sciences to promote health and health equity. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nElizabeth Pembleton\, M.P.H. (she/her)\, received her Bachelor of Science in Health Promotion and Behavior from the University of Georgia\, and her Master of Public Health in Epidemiology from the University of Alabama at Birmingham. She has worked in various public health areas throughout her career\, including nutrition and exercise\, healthcare associated infections\, foodborne illnesses\, HIV\, COVID-19\, and most recently\, Social Vulnerability and geospatial science. Elizabeth joined GRASP in July 2020 as the Senior Project Coordinator for COVID-related projects and has since moved to lead the Social Vulnerability Index beginning in early 2022.
URL:https://healthjournalism.org/blog/2024/02/using-the-cdcs-environmental-justice-and-social-vulnerability-data-in-your-reporting/
CATEGORIES:Environmental Health,Webinar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240221T130000
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SUMMARY:Covering reproductive health: A closer look at issues affecting women of color
DESCRIPTION:The impact of abortion bans and the implications of challenges to the Affordable Care Act that aim to limit birth control coverage provide numerous opportunities for reporting. The same goes for stories about the effects of efforts to limit or outright ban the use of mifepristone\, a key drug that has been used in medication abortion for more than two decades. \n\n\n\nHowever\, proponents of reproductive health equity say that many journalists aren’t paying enough attention to — or are ignoring — how both current and possible restrictions will worsen the health of women of color of reproductive age\, particularly Black\, Hispanic and Indigenous women. As the implications of those restrictions become clearer\, those women — who collectively represent 36.5% women from the ages of 15 to 44 in the U.S. — may be even more likely than non-Hispanic white women to have unintended pregnancies or preterm births.Lupe M. Rodríguez\, the executive director of the National Latina Institute for Reproductive Justice\, and Lauren Sausser\, who writes about health care in the South as a member of KFF Health News’ Southern Bureau\, will join AHCJ Health Equity Beat Leader Margarita Birnbaum for this webinar.  \n\n\n\nWe’ll explore why — by some reproductive health measures — Black\, Hispanic\, Native American and Alaska Native women tend to be in poorer health than non-Hispanic white women. We’ll also delve into the role that abortion disinformation and misinformation play in contributing to reproductive health care outcomes in women of color. And we’ll talk about misconceptions about attitudes that women of color have about birth control and abortion. You’ll learn about efforts that aim to give women of color more access to reproductive health care services and encourage them to advocate for themselves. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMargarita Birnbaum is AHCJ’s health beat leader for health equity and an independent journalist based in Dallas. Over the years\, her stories about health\, as well as crime and other topics she covered early in her career\, have appeared in WebMD\, American Heart Association News\, The Dallas Morning News\, The Miami Herald and Reuters. Fluent in English and Spanish\, Birnbaum is also an interpreter and translator. Her personal and professional experiences living and working in the U.S. and in several Central American countries have informed her reporting work in covering health disparity trends among racial and ethnic groups in the U.S. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLupe M. Rodríguez is the executive director of the National Latina Institute for Reproductive Justice. Over the years\, she has worked as a social justice advocate in the U.S. and Mexico. A former vice president of public affairs at Planned Parenthood Mar Monte\, Rodríguez has an undergraduate degree in neurobiology from Harvard University. She serves on the Community Advisory Board for the Center for Clinical Research at Stanford and was chair of the Commission on the Status of Women in Santa Clara County and treasurer of the Board of Directors for California Latinas for Reproductive Justice. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLauren Sausser writes about health care in the South as a member of KFF Health News’ Southern Bureau. She is based in Charleston\, South Carolina\, where she previously spent nine years covering health care at The Post and Courier. A graduate of Clemson University and Columbia University\, she has received awards from the Association of Health Care Journalists\, the Society of Professional Journalists\, and other groups. In 2016\, she was part of a team of reporters who were named finalists for the Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News. In 2017\, she was recognized as Reporter of the Year by the South Carolina Press Association.
URL:https://healthjournalism.org/covering-reproductive-health-a-closer-look-at-issues-affecting-women-of-color/
CATEGORIES:Health Equity,Webinar
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SUMMARY:Open wide: Covering the growing field of AI and dentistry
DESCRIPTION:Artificial intelligence has been making its way into dentistry. New AI software products have emerged that could enhance dentists’ ability to detect tooth decay\, cavities or bone loss and propose treatments before dental health worsens. The FDA already has approved eight such AI products\, with more to come\, and some large corporate dental chains have already begun using them.In this webinar\, we’ll go over how these products work\, their benefits and limitations\, what’s on the horizon\, and how to cover this growing field. Roya Zandparsa\, a dentist who lectures at Tufts and Harvard universities\, and Casey Ross\, national technology correspondent for STAT\, will discuss how the products work and are being incorporated into dental care\, what we might expect in the future\, and how to report on this trend. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nKaren Blum is AHCJ’s health beat leader for health IT. She’s an independent health and science journalist based in the Baltimore area. She has written for publications such as the Baltimore Sun\, Pharmacy Practice News\, Clinical Oncology News\, Clinical Laboratory News\, Cancer Today\, CURE\, AARP.org\, General Surgery News and Infectious Disease Special Edition; covered numerous medical conferences for trade magazines and news services; and written many profiles and articles on medical and science research as well as trends in health care and health IT. She is a member of the American Society of Journalists and Authors (ASJA) and chairs its Virtual Education Committee; and a member of the National Association of Science Writers (NASW) and its freelance committee. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRoya Zandparsa\, D.D.S.\, M.Sc.\, D.M.D.\, F.I.C.D.\, is a clinical professor and biomaterials course director at the Department of Prosthodontics at Tufts University School of Dental Medicine and a lecturer at the Department of Restorative Dentistry and Biomaterials Sciences at Harvard School of Dental Medicine. She also is vice president of innovation and development at Qualitas Dental Partners Organization\, the founder & CEO of Expert Dental Advisory\, the president-elect of the American Association of Women Dentists\, the past president of American Academy of Dental Science\, and a Fellow of the International College of Dentistry. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCasey Ross is a national technology correspondent at STAT. His reporting examines the use of artificial intelligence in medicine and its underlying questions of safety\, fairness\, and privacy. Before joining STAT in 2016\, he wrote for the Cleveland Plain Dealer and the Boston Globe\, where he worked on the Spotlight Team in 2014 and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize.
URL:https://healthjournalism.org/blog/2024/02/open-wide-covering-the-growing-field-of-ai-and-dentistry/
CATEGORIES:Health IT,Webinar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240305T140000
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SUMMARY:Parsing the deadly problem of low vaccination rates in nursing homes
DESCRIPTION:Nearly four years into the pandemic\, vaccine uptake for COVID\, RSV and even influenza remain very low among nursing home residents and staff\, according to recent CDC MMWR data. Some 600 nursing home residents died from COVID in the first two weeks of January alone. Meanwhile\, flu cases remain high in parts of the U.S.\, and risk for RSV is still elevated among this vulnerable population. \n\n\n\nDespite widespread availability of both the COVID-19 booster and new adult RSV vaccine\, infection rates\, hospitalizations and deaths continued to climb over the winter months. On top of that\, COVID booster uptake by nursing home staff was only 23% at the end of 2023\, CDC data shows. Why haven’t more nursing home residents received the vaccine? And\, what\, if anything\, can nursing homes or states do to ensure their residents and staff are protected? \n\n\n\nAHCJ Health Beat Leader on Aging Liz Seegert will talk with a geriatrician/researcher and the executive director of an organization that advocates for aging people about what the data tell us\, the challenges of ensuring staff and residents receive the shots they need\, overcoming persistent misinformation about the COVID and RSV vaccines\, and the impact new federal staffing mandates may have on infection control and prevention. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLiz Seegert is AHCJ’s health beat leader on aging. She’s an award-winning\, independent health journalist based in New York’s Hudson Valley\, who writes about caregiving\, dementia\, access to care\, nursing homes and policy. Seegert is also a contributing writer for Fortune.com\, the American Journal of Nursing\, and PBS/NextAvenue.org\, reporting on myriad health topics\, including social determinants of health and women’s health. She has written for TIME Health\, The Wirecutter\, Money.com\, Medscape\, Consumer Reports\, The Guardian and Medical Economics\, as well as dozens of other trade and mainstream media. Her articles have been syndicated in Forbes.com\, the Los Angeles Times\, the Hartford Courant\, The Saturday Evening Post and other major outlets. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRichard Mollot is the executive director of the Long Term Care Community Coalition (LTCCC)\, a U.S.-based nonpartisan\, nonprofit organization dedicated to improving care for individuals in nursing homes and other residential care settings through legal and policy research\, advocacy\, and education. Richard has researched and published on a variety of long-term care issues\, including: dementia care; nursing home and assisted living standards; the rights of older adults in residential care; abuse\, neglect\, and crime in nursing homes; nursing home financing; and the imposition and use of penalties for substandard residential care. He is a graduate of Howard University School of Law and a member of the Maryland Bar. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAna Montoya\, M.D.\, M.P.H.\, is a geriatrician and health care researcher at the University of Michigan\, and a clinical associate professor at the U-M Medical School. Her research focuses on improving the care of older adults by examining health system performance for this vulnerable population\, with a particular interest in health disparities\, delirium and dementia\, management of chronic medical problems and infection control in skilled nursing facilities. She received her medical degree from the Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos in Peru\, and her master’s in public health from the University of Michigan\, where she also completed her geriatric medicine fellowship. She is currently enrolled in the Master’s in Health and Health Care Research program at the U-M Institute for Healthcare Policy and Innovation. She is the medical director for the Sub-acute and Long-Term Care program at U-M\, which is a partnership between the U-M Geriatrics Center and local facilities offering rehabilitation and skilled nursing care. She is board-certified in Internal Medicine\, Geriatric Medicine\, and Hospice and Palliative Medicine\, and certified as a medical director by the American Board of Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine.
URL:https://healthjournalism.org/blog/2024/03/parsing-the-deadly-problem-of-low-vaccination-rates-in-nursing-homes/
CATEGORIES:Aging,Webinar
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SUMMARY:Breaking into ghostwriting and collaborating on books
DESCRIPTION:Ghostwriting and collaborating on books are a lucrative income stream — and you don’t have to sacrifice your journalistic principles to do it. The market for these books has mushroomed because publishers are now looking for experts with giant platforms.  \n\n\n\nCollaborations in their various forms can be a financial and professional lifeline; busy ghostwriters and collaborators can make upwards of $100\,000 a year. In this webinar\, two writers and a literary agent will discuss this growing market\, how to get that first assignment as a ghostwriter or collaborator\, what to watch out for in contracts and how to effectively work with an expert. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBarbara Mantel is AHCJ’s health beat leader for freelancing and has written about subjects such as how to find and keep an accountability partner\, how to tap the rich resources at libraries and how to break into narrative journalism. Mantel\, an award-winning journalist\, began her journalism career as the economics reporter and then assistant managing editor of a business news program on ESPN television. She moved to NPR as its economics and business correspondent and later served as the first senior editor\, senior producer and director of the public radio program “Science Friday.” Mantel’s byline has appeared in a wide range of media outlets\, including CQ Researcher\, AARP\, Undark\, Next Avenue\, Medical Economics\, Healthline\, NBCNews.com\, Today.com\, NPR and The New York Times. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSusan K. Golant is a book collaborator\, co-author\, book doctor\, ghostwriter\, editor and/or writing coach. Golant has been writing nonfiction books alone and with others since 1982 and has more than 40 books to her credit. Her specialities include psychology\, health and medical breakthroughs\, spirituality and parenting\, among others. She has collaborated with or ghostwritten for M.D.s\, Ph.D.s and Rosalynn Carter. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMadeleine Morel is the head of 2M Communications\, an agency that represents more than 100 ghostwriters and collaborators\, matching them with experts\, celebrities and public figures who need help getting their ideas into print. Morel has provided writers for more than 60 New York Times bestsellers. Each writer specializes in an area such as health\, parenting\, memoir/autobiography\, science\, sports and more.
URL:https://healthjournalism.org/blog/2024/03/breaking-into-ghostwriting-and-collaborating-on-books/
CATEGORIES:Freelancers,Webinar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240320T140000
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SUMMARY:Reimagining menopause: How reporters can reduce the stigma
DESCRIPTION:Half of the world’s population will experience menopause\, yet this time in life is fraught with mystery\, misconceptions\, and a lack of solid information. Although menopause treatment and knowledge can affect healthy aging\, primary care physicians and even many OB/GYNs don’t get the training or support they need to counsel patients and help them navigate what can be a challenging phase of life. \n\n\n\nJoin Liz Seegert\, AHCJ’s Health Beat Leader for Aging\, a certified menopause specialist\, and a journalist who reports frequently on this topic for some myth-busting and guidance on how to report on menopause with sensitivity. You’ll learn about the most useful research on this subject and where the gaps still exist. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLiz Seegert is AHCJ’s health beat leader on aging. She’s an award-winning\, independent health journalist based in New York’s Hudson Valley\, who writes about caregiving\, dementia\, access to care\, nursing homes and policy. Seegert is also a contributing writer for Fortune.com\, the American Journal of Nursing\, and PBS/NextAvenue.org\, reporting on myriad health topics\, including social determinants of health and women’s health. She has written for TIME Health\, The Wirecutter\, Money.com\, Medscape\, Consumer Reports\, The Guardian and Medical Economics\, as well as dozens of other trade and mainstream media. Her articles have been syndicated in Forbes.com\, the Los Angeles Times\, the Hartford Courant\, The Saturday Evening Post and other major outlets. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRebecca Levy-Gantt\, M.D.\, is a board-certified ObGyn and a certified menopause practitioner. Levy-Gantt has been practicing for the last 15 years in Napa\, California\, and practiced before that for 11 years on Long Island. She focuses on menopause management\, including hormones and alternative management strategies\, as well as vaginal and vulvar pain syndromes. She also teaches at Touro College of Osteopathic Medicine\, and writes frequently on menopause issues. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMeryl Davids Landau is a longtime independent journalist specializing in health. Her work on menopause has appeared in National Geographic\, Good Housekeeping\, Prevention\, Everyday Health and other publications. She’s also the author of the award-winning mindfulness women’s novel\, Warrior Won.
URL:https://healthjournalism.org/blog/2024/03/reimagining-menopause-how-reporters-can-reduce-the-stigma/
CATEGORIES:Aging,Webinar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240327T130000
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SUMMARY:Follow the Money: Using HospitalFinances.org and other tools to tell important stories
DESCRIPTION:This webinar is the first in a four-part series produced by AHCJ and Investigative Reporters and Editors that will equip you with the tools you need to tell the story of the big business of health care. Longtime AHCJ member Karl Stark\, Director of Content Strategy & Editor in Residence at the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics at the University of Pennsylvania\, will show you how to use AHCJ’s hospitalfinances.org site and other tools to report stories about hospitals’ financial health.  \n\n\n\nThe series is free for all journalists\, thanks to the generous support of the NIHCM Foundation. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nKarl Stark is the Director of Content Strategy & Editor in Residence at the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics at the University of Pennsylvania\, where he focuses on encouraging LDI Fellows to write for the public. Before joining LDI\, he worked for more than three decades at the Philadelphia Inquirer\, where he served as Health Editor\, Business News Editor and National/Foreign Editor\, among other positions. His reporting on the bankrupt Allegheny health system helped lead to indictments of the top three executives. He also served as President of the Association of Health Care Journalists\, the nation’s leading group of health reporters and editors. He is a co-author of AHCJ’s “Covering the Quality of Health Care – A Resource Guide for Journalists” and leads a session on covering hospital finances at AHCJ’s annual meeting. He is a graduate of Yale University where he played varsity tennis. He also has distant memories of skating competitively with his sister Julie.
URL:https://healthjournalism.org/blog/2024/03/follow-the-money-using-hospitalfinances-org-and-other-tools-to-tell-important-stories/
CATEGORIES:Health Equity,Health Policy,Webinar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240521T130000
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SUMMARY:Follow the Money: Uncovering insurers’ confidential clauses that hit patients in the pocketbook
DESCRIPTION:New York Times investigative reporter Chris Hamby and STAT reporter Bob Herman\, who covers the business of health care\, will be featured in a May 21 webinar on how journalists can report on the hidden and lucrative alliances health insurers have with cost-containment companies\, pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) and employee benefits consultants. The webinar is the second in a collaboration between The Association of Health Care Journalists and Investigative Reporters and Editors (IRE) and is being offered as part of the organizations’ “Follow the Money” series\, with financial support from NIHCM.  \n\n\n\nIn April\, Hamby reported that MultiPlan\, a company in New York City that helps health insurers keep costs down\, and its health insurer clients have a large and mostly hidden financial incentive to cut payments for policyholders’ claims as much as possible. The result can be patients paying more than they would otherwise.  \n\n\n\nAfter doing a year-long investigation\, Herman reported last year on a largely hidden flow of money among employee benefit consulting companies\, PBMs and health insurers. Those funds went from PBMs and health insurers to the benefit consulting companies\, driving up health care and prescription drug spending for employers\, workers and their families\, Herman wrote.  \n\n\n\nDuring this webinar\, hosted by AHCJ health policy beat leader Joe Burns\, Hamby and Herman will discuss the tools and outline the tips and strategies they used to uncover these hidden agreements and how all health care journalists can report on this important story. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJoseph Burns is AHCJ’s health beat leader on health policy and insurance. He’s an independent journalist based in Brewster\, Mass.\, who has covered health care\, health policy and the business of care since 1991. Burns has written for a variety of publications\, including The New York Times\, Fortune\, Hospitals & Health Networks\, and Medical Economics\, among others. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nChris Hamby is an investigative reporter at The New York Times. While working at the Center For Public Integrity\, Hamby won the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting for his series of stories on coal miners and was later awarded the Lukas Prize to develop his reporting into a book. He was also a finalist for the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting for his work on multinational corporations and their violations of domestic regulations and environmental law. He lives in Washington\, D.C. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBob Herman is a business of health care reporter at STAT. He covers hospitals\, health insurance\, and other corners of the industry — with a goal of explaining and shining light on the massive amount of money flowing through the system. Prior to joining STAT in 2022\, he covered the health care industry at Axios for more than five years. He also previously was an editor and reporter covering health insurance and hospitals at Modern Healthcare. Bob and his family are based in Indiana\, so naturally he has a deep love for all things basketball.
URL:https://healthjournalism.org/blog/2024/05/follow-the-money-uncovering-insurers-confidential-clauses-that-hit-patients-in-the-pocketbook/
CATEGORIES:Health Policy,Webinar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240716T133000
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SUMMARY:How to amp up your reporting using LexisNexis tools
DESCRIPTION:Top-tier research doesn’t begin and end with a quick check on Google. The best in our business comb the LexisNexis news archives for information and tap its massive database to find potential sources and reach them by phone or email. \n\n\n\nIn this webinar\, you’ll learn how award-winning journalists conduct deep-dive backgrounding on people and subjects\, how they get names and numbers from LexisNexis’ list of 800 million profiles\, and how they use paywalled content and trade journal expertise to generate story ideas and fresh angles. \n\n\n\nMany public libraries offer a limited version of LexisNexis\, and some news publications make it available to writers. Fortunately\, AHCJ members get discounted access to this robust tool. \n\n\n\nHowever\, you don’t have to be a LexisNexis subscriber to attend or benefit from this webinar. Our expert panelist will share his screen and walk you through this trove of source material. If you are a LexisNexis subscriber\, you can follow along on your own computer. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBarbara Mantel is AHCJ’s health beat leader for freelancing and has written about subjects such as how to find and keep an accountability partner\, how to tap the rich resources at libraries and how to break into narrative journalism. Mantel\, an award-winning journalist\, began her journalism career as the economics reporter and then assistant managing editor of a business news program on ESPN television. She moved to NPR as its economics and business correspondent and later served as the first senior editor\, senior producer and director of the public radio program “Science Friday.” Mantel’s byline has appeared in a wide range of media outlets\, including CQ Researcher\, AARP\, Undark\, Next Avenue\, Medical Economics\, Healthline\, NBCNews.com\, Today.com\, NPR and The New York Times. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBrad Hamilton runs an award-winning digital newsroom\, The Hatch Institute\, which commissions long-form enterprise pieces and publishes them with big media partners. The institute also mentors and supports other journalists.Hamilton has been a reporter and editor\, primarily in investigative work\, for 40 years\, during which he created and led the New York Post’s first investigations unit and broke numerous front-page exclusives. His work has appeared in The New York Times\, ABC News\, the Los Angeles Times\, Harper’s\, the Guardian\, Playboy\, the Village Voice and other outlets. \n\n\n\nIn addition\, he heads the Institute for Storycraft and Information Gathering\, a nonprofit foundation that provides writing and reporting guidance for campus journalists and other college students.
URL:https://healthjournalism.org/event/how-to-amp-up-your-reporting-using-lexisnexis-tools/
CATEGORIES:Freelancers,Webinar
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CREATED:20240730T165923Z
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UID:55675-1722430800-1722434400@healthjournalism.org
SUMMARY:Tracking medical debt\, a major cause of personal bankruptcy
DESCRIPTION:Medical debt is a significant issue for well over half of Americans\, according to the Consumer Finance Protection Bureau. It may be the leading cause of personal bankruptcy. In this workshop\, we’ll discuss sources\, strategies\, and best practices for reporting on medical debt.  \n\n\n\nThis webinar is part of a series produced by AHCJ and Investigative Reporters & Editors that will equip you with the tools you need to tell the story of the big business of health care. The series is free for all journalists\, thanks to the generous support of the NIHCM Foundation. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeakers\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAnissa Durham is the health data reporter at Word In Black\, where she reports on health care inequities and mental health in the Black community. Prior to working at Word In Black\, she was a general assignment reporter at inewsource and has written for The San Diego Union Tribune\, PBS SoCal\, The Objective\, and Voice of San Diego. Anissa has a bachelor’s degree from National University. In 2024\, she produced Life or Debt\, a 3-part drug price series which explores the ways Black American’s living with chronic disease are forced to manage an expensive health care system. And in 2023\, she produced the reporting series Lost Innocence: The Adultification of Black Children as a fellow with the USC Annenberg Center for Health Journalism and Fact or Fiction: Navigating Health Misinformation. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nNoam N. Levey is a Washington\, D.C.\,-based senior correspondent for KFF Health News\, where he is currently producing “Diagnosis: Debt\,” a multi-part project on medical debt in the U.S. in collaboration with NPR and CBS News. Noam joined KFF Health News in 2021 after 17 years at the Los Angeles Times\, the last 12 as the paper’s national healthcare reporter based in Washington. He has reported on healthcare issues from more than three dozen states and four continents and won numerous honors\, including a Loeb award and two NIHCM awards\, one in 2020 for his series “Inside America’s High-Deductible Revolution” and one in 2023 for “Diagnosis: Debt.” Noam has also been published in Health Affairs\, JAMA and Milbank Quarterly. He started his career at newspapers in Duluth\, Minn.\, Montgomery\, Ala.\, and the United Arab Emirates. Prior to the LA Times\, Noam was an investigative reporter for the San Jose Mercury News. Noam has a degree in History and Near Eastern Studies from Princeton University.
URL:https://healthjournalism.org/event/tracking-medical-debt-a-major-cause-of-personal-bankruptcy/
CATEGORIES:Health Policy,Webinar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240827T130000
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CREATED:20240709T165209Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240828T201003Z
UID:54869-1724763600-1724767200@healthjournalism.org
SUMMARY:How rising health care prices are harming employers and families
DESCRIPTION:Over the past 10 years\, workers’ wages have risen 54% while health care prices have gone up 230% in the U.S. That huge discrepancy means that what consumers spent on health care 10 years ago represented 17% of total compensation compared to 37% now. \n\n\n\nJoin AHCJ Health Beat Leader for Health Policy and Insurance Joe Burns as he talks to Cora Opsahl\, director of the health fund for the Building Service 32BJ labor union in New York City; and Gloria Sachdev\, PharmD\, president and CEO of the Employers’ Forum of Indiana\, about the rising spiral of health care spending and the impact it’s having on employers and families. \n\n\n\nBoth have led fights on behalf of employers over hospital prices. Both see their efforts as part of a growing trend of employers fighting back against rising health care spending\, which leaves businesses with less money for raises and families less money in the bank. \n\n\n\nLearn how to find federal health spending data and real life stories that will help bring this issue alive for your readers. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJoseph Burns is AHCJ’s health beat leader on health policy and insurance. He’s an independent journalist based in Brewster\, Mass.\, who has covered health care\, health policy and the business of care since 1991. Burns has written for a variety of publications\, including The New York Times\, Fortune\, Hospitals & Health Networks\, and Medical Economics\, among others. Early in his journalism career\, Burns worked as a reporter in Connecticut\, first for The Wallingford Post (a weekly)\, and then The Meriden Record-Journal (a daily)\, and later for The Hartford Courant (the largest daily newspaper in the state and the nation’s oldest newspaper). For The Courant\, he was a reporter\, copy editor and regional news editor. During this time\, he also taught news writing at the University of Connecticut. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCora Opsahl is director of the 32BJ Health Fund\, a self-funded plan that provides affordable\, comprehensive and innovative health coverage to 200\,000 union members and their families. Opsahl has led the implementation of multiple benefit changes: removing the New York-Presbyterian hospital system and physicians from the network; transitioning to a new pharmacy vendor and pharmacy group purchasing coalition; and implementing an expanded Centers of Excellence program administered by Mount Sinai Health System. These efforts saved over $35 million in 2022. Prior to joining the 32BJ Health Fund\, Opsahl spent 12 years with Express Scripts\, a pharmacy benefit manager\, where she held a variety of roles\, including in Medicare Part D\, strategy and acquisitions\, operations\, and account management. She holds an MBA from Saint Louis University. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nGloria Sachdev\, PharmD\, is the president and CEO of the Employers’ Forum of Indiana\, a nonprofit employer-led multi-stakeholder health care coalition. Founded in 2001\, the forum aims to align payment with the value of services provided to employers and patients by focusing on hospital prices and quality\, value-based health benefit and payment and on health policy. Sachdev also is an adjunct associate professor at Purdue College of Pharmacy. She received her Bachelor of Science and Doctor of Pharmacy degrees from the University of Oklahoma and completed a primary residency at the VA in Madison\, Wisc. Also\, she has practiced in primary care physicians’ offices managing patients with chronic diseases and founded a consulting company aimed at integrating clinical pharmacists into team-based health care settings.
URL:https://healthjournalism.org/blog/2024/08/how-rising-health-care-prices-are-harming-employers-and-families-2/
CATEGORIES:Health Policy,Webinar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240913T140000
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CREATED:20240903T171601Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240913T211447Z
UID:56301-1726236000-1726239600@healthjournalism.org
SUMMARY:AHCJ Fellowship Informational Session
DESCRIPTION:Interested in applying for the U.S. Health System Reporting Fellowship\, the International Health Study Fellowship or both? Join the Association of Health Care Journalists and program alumni to learn about these opportunities to advance the craft of health journalism and encourage nuanced\, informed reporting that can drive meaningful change in health care systems worldwide.
URL:https://healthjournalism.org/watch-the-ahcj-fellowship-informational-session/
CATEGORIES:Event,Webinar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240924T130000
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DTSTAMP:20260403T144023
CREATED:20240909T165350Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240924T210625Z
UID:56348-1727182800-1727186400@healthjournalism.org
SUMMARY:Hospital mergers and health care price increases: A primer for reporters
DESCRIPTION:Hospital mergers — market consolidation — can lead to health care price increases of anywhere from 3% to 65%\, according to a 2022 RAND Corporation review. The FTC’s director of the Bureau of Economics has said hospitals that merge may charge 40% to 50% more than if they hadn’t merged. \n\n\n\nMergers can also result in layoffs and lower tax revenues and have a negative impact on patient care by reducing access to some health care services. With so much research confirming negative effects and as health care prices continue to rise\, what — if anything — can be done to slow market consolidation and/or reduce the harms to patients and local economies? \n\n\n\nJoin New York Times reporter Reed Abelson; health care cost economist Zachary K. Goldman\, Oregon Health Authority; and executive editor of The Source on Healthcare Price and Competition Katie Gudiksen\, University of California San Francisco\, as they explore those questions and talk about what some states\, like Oregon\, have done to try to control cost growth. \n\n\n\nThis series builds on a recent webinar series produced by AHCJ and Investigative Reporters & Editors (IRE) on the business of health care called “Follow the Money.” Once journalists are trained on how to “follow the money” of health care\, the Peterson-Milbank-supported webinar series will dive into cost drivers and look at solutions. Journalists will learn about ways that states\, employers and other stakeholders can promote affordable health care and will be able to tell these stories in the context of their state and local communities. \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\nReed Abelson\n\n\n\nReporter\, New York TimesReed Abelson is fascinated by the changing landscape of American medicine as more doctors and nurses work for hospitals and corporations\, and large health conglomerates account for a greater share of the care we get. Abelson also covers the business of health insurance and how it has changed since the debut of the Affordable Care Act and the increasing privatization of government programs like Medicare and Medicaid. Abelson aims to be endlessly curious about how the health care system works — and doesn’t — in the United States. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nZachary Goldman\n\n\n\nHealth care cost economist\, Oregon Health AuthorityZachary Goldman is the health care cost economist at the Oregon Health Authority\, where he has worked for 8 years. He currently focuses on Oregon’s Health Care Market Oversight Program and the Sustainable Health Care Cost Growth Target Program. Prior to joining the Oregon Health Authority\, he was a senior policy specialist at Covered California\, the state-based health insurance marketplace. He also worked for a federally qualified health center as a project manager and later as the clinic administrator.  Zachary earned his Bachelor of Arts degrees from Brandeis University and a Master of Public Policy degree from the University of California\, Berkeley. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nKatie Gudiksen\, Ph.D.\n\n\n\nExecutive editor\, The Source on Healthcare Price and CompetitionKatie Gudiksen\, Ph.D.\, is the executive editor for The Source on Healthcare Price and Competition. Dr. Gudiksen is an expert in health care reform and the drivers of health care costs\, with a special interest in market consolidation and state policies to address market power. She has helped draft model legislation to improve state merger review processes and to prohibit anticompetitive terms in contracts between insurers and health systems.  \n\n\n\nHer current work focuses on evaluating the options states have to restrict excessive provider prices\, including cost-growth benchmarks and state public options. Her work has been published in Health Affairs\, Frontiers in Health Services\, the Harvard Journal on Legislation\, and the New England Journal of Medicine\, and covered by media outlet such as the Financial Times and The Wall Street Journal.  \n\n\n\nShe has successfully worked with various state policymakers and stakeholders by commenting on bill language\, presenting to various state agencies and officials\, testifying as expert witness at state legislative hearings\, and participating in briefings and informational sessions in California\, Nevada\, Connecticut and Oregon. 
URL:https://healthjournalism.org/blog/2024/09/hospital-mergers-and-health-care-price-increases-a-primer-for-reporters/
CATEGORIES:Health Policy,Webinar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241016T150000
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CREATED:20240926T154653Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241015T151112Z
UID:56696-1729090800-1729094400@healthjournalism.org
SUMMARY:Biased devices: Reporting on racial bias in health algorithms and products
DESCRIPTION:Doctors measure health in many ways\, from routine blood tests for cholesterol or kidney function to using devices like spirometers to test lung function or pulse oximeters for blood oxygen levels. But the results of these routine tests can be misleading because some tests and devices are skewed by algorithms that produce different results depending on a person’s race or ethnicity. Some devices don’t work as well for people with darker skin tones.  \n\n\n\nThese biases can lead to delayed diagnoses and care for Black\, Hispanic\, Asian\, and other communities of color. Now\, clinicians\, regulators and researchers are working to address inequities caused by the misuse of race. \n\n\n\nThis webinar will cover the fast-moving\, complex space of racial disparities in algorithms and devices. Join Doris Duke Racial Equity in Clinical Equations Civic Science Fellow Jyoti Madhusoodanan and AHCJ Health IT Beat Leader Karen Blum to learn how these algorithms and devices work\, how bias creeps in\, the toll it takes\, and efforts to solve this problem.  \n\n\n\nPanelists for this discussion are University of Michigan pulmonologist Michael Sjoding\, who presented evidence to an FDA advisory committee on how racial bias in pulse oximeters endangers Black patients; and University of Pennsylvania gastroenterologist Shazia Siddique\, who recently led an AHRQ-funded systematic review on clinical algorithms and racial disparities. \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 Health IT Beat LeaderKaren Blum is AHCJ’s health beat leader for health IT. She’s an independent health and science journalist\, based in the Baltimore area. She has written for publications such as the Baltimore Sun\, Pharmacy Practice News\, Clinical Oncology News\, Clinical Laboratory News\, Cancer Today\, CURE\, AARP.org\, General Surgery News and Infectious Disease Special Edition; covered numerous medical conferences for trade magazines and news services; and written many profiles and articles on medical and science research as well as trends in health care and health IT. She is a member of the American Society of Journalists and Authors (ASJA) and chairs its Virtual Education Committee; and a member of the National Association of Science Writers (NASW) and its freelance committee. \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\nJyoti Madhusoodanan\n\n\n\nDoris Duke Racial Equity in Clinical Equations Civic Science FellowJyoti Madhusoodanan is AHCJ’s Civic Science Fellow\, covering race in health algorithms as part of a year-long fellowship funded by the Doris Duke Foundation. She is an independent science and health journalist who regularly covers biomedical research\, health equity\, clinical trials\, and the translation of basic research into clinical care. Her reporting on race adjustments in clinical algorithms was supported by a 2020 project fellowship from the MIT Knight Science Journalism program; reporting on other topics has received fellowship support from the Alicia Patterson Foundation\, the GSA Journalists in Aging program\, and others. Madhusoodanan is a senior contributor to Undark magazine and her work regularly appears in Nature\, Scientific American\, and other outlets. She also serves on the Board of Directors of the National Association of Science Writers. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nShazia Siddique M.D.\, M.S.H.P.\n\n\n\nGastroenterologist & health policy researcher\, University of PennsylvaniaDr. Shazia Siddique M.D.\, M.S.H.P.\, is assistant professor of medicine\, division of gastroenterology; associate director for research\, Center for Evidence-Based Practice; director of research\, Center for Healthcare Improvement and Patient Safety (CHIPS); senior fellow\, Leonard Davis Institute for Health Economics\, University of Pennsylvania.  \n\n\n\nSiddique is a physician-scientist with expertise in health services research and health equity. She is currently an Assistant Professor of Medicine in the Division of Gastroenterology\, Senior Fellow at the Leonard Davis Institute for Health Economics\, and Senior Scholar for the Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the University of Pennsylvania. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMichael Sjoding\, M.D.\, M.Sc.\n\n\n\nAssociate professor of medicine\, University of Michigan Division of Pulmonary and Critical CareDr. Sjoding received his medical degree from Loyola University in Chicago. At the University of Michigan\, he completed a Pulmonary and Critical Care Fellowship and received a master’s degree in health care research. His research focuses on developing novel digital tools to improve hospital care for patients with acute respiratory diseases.
URL:https://healthjournalism.org/event/biased-devices-reporting-on-racial-bias-in-health-algorithms-and-products/
CATEGORIES:Algorithms and Health Disparities,Health IT,Webinar
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SUMMARY:Reporting the respiratory triple threat: Preparing for flu\, COVID and RSV season
DESCRIPTION:The winter respiratory illness season now includes three major pathogens that people need to prepare for by getting available vaccines and following the usual hygiene protocols to reduce risk of infection and transmission: influenza\, COVID-19\, and respiratory syncytial virus (RSV).  \n\n\n\nJoin Dr. Demetre Daskalakis\, director of the CDC’s National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases\, and Health Beat Leader for infectious diseases Tara Haelle to hear about the CDC’s tools and resources for covering the upcoming flu/COVID-19/RSV season. Join us for this opportunity to get the answers you need to prepare your coverage. \n\n\n\nThis webinar is sponsored by the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services. \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\nTara Haelle\n\n\n\nAHCJ Infectious Diseases Health Beat LeaderTara Haelle is AHCJ’s health beat leader for infectious diseases and medical studies. She’s an independent science/health journalist\, author\, speaker\, and photographer. Her work has appeared in the National Geographic\, Scientific American\, Texas Monthly\, Science News\, Medscape/WebMD\, The New York Times\, Wired\, and O Magazine\, among others.  \n\n\n\nShe specializes in public health and medical research\, particularly vaccines\, infectious disease\, maternal and pediatric health\, mental health\, healthcare disparities\, and misinformation. She also covers medical research conferences and edits Long COVID Connection on Medium. Haelle earned a master’s in photojournalism from the University of Texas at Austin\, and her images have appeared in Texas Monthly\, NPR\, the\, Chicago Sun-Times and elsewhere. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDemetre Daskalakis\, M.D.\, MPH\n\n\n\nDirector\, National Center for Immunization and Respiratory DiseasesDemetre Daskalakis\, M.D.\, MPH\, is the Director of the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases (NCIRD). Most recently\, he served as the Director of the Division of HIV Prevention in CDC’s National Center for HIV\, Viral Hepatitis\, STD\, and TB Prevention. Dr. Daskalakis has been recognized nationally and internationally as an expert in HIV prevention and has focused much of his career on the treatment and prevention of HIV and other STIs as an activist physician with a focus on LGBTQIA+ communities. He also served as the Deputy Coordinator of the White House’s Mpox Response\, where he led vaccination and public education efforts that helped to halt advancement of the virus. \n\n\n\nDr. Daskalakis began his career as an attending physician at Bellevue Hospital in New York City and later served in several public health capacities there\, including the Deputy Commissioner for the Division of Disease Control at the NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene. He also served as the NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene incident commander during the measles outbreak of 2018-2019 and the 2020 COVID-19 public health emergency. Dr. Daskalakis received his Doctor of Medicine from the New York University School of Medicine and received a Master of Public Health from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.
URL:https://healthjournalism.org/reporting-the-respiratory-triple-threat-preparing-for-flu-covid-and-rsv-season/
CATEGORIES:Infectious Diseases,Webinar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241121T130000
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CREATED:20241108T220959Z
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UID:57276-1732194000-1732198500@healthjournalism.org
SUMMARY:'No one can see you now': What states are doing to boost primary care
DESCRIPTION:Evidence abounds that access to primary care improves health and lowers costs. According to one estimate\, the U.S. could save $67 billion a year if everyone saw a primary care provider as their main source of care. And yet\, only 5% of health care spending in this country goes to primary care\, less than in any other Western democracy.  \n\n\n\nThis webinar will examine what actions states — which regulate the insurance industry and run the Medicaid programs — have taken to increase spending on primary care and what effect these efforts can have on costs.  \n\n\n\nAHCJ Board President Felice Freyer\, an independent journalist\, will lead the discussion with three national experts on the topic. \n\n\n\nRelated webinars\n\n\n\n\nHow rising health care prices are harming employers and families\n\n\n\nHospital mergers and health care price increases: A primer for reporters\n\n\n\n\nThis webinar series\, supported by the Peterson-Milbank Program on Sustainable Health Care Costs\, covers the affordability of health care by diving into health care cost drivers and looking at solutions. Journalists will learn about ways that states\, employers and other stakeholders can promote affordable health care and will be able to tell these stories in the context of their state and local communities. \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\nFelice J. Freyer\n\n\n\nIndependent journalistPresident\, AHCJ Board of Directors \n\n\n\nFelice J. Freyer is a health care journalist based in Rhode Island. For 10 years until last spring\, she was a health reporter at the Boston Globe\, where the crisis in primary care was among the topics she covered. Before the Globe\, Freyer was the medical writer at the Providence Journal. Now working independently\, she has published articles in the Boston Globe Magazine and Harvard Public Health Magazine\, as well as teaching journalism at Emerson College. She was elected to the AHCJ board in 2009 and currently serves as its president. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nChristopher F. Koller\n\n\n\nPresident\, Milbank Memorial FundFormer Rhode Island Health Insurance Commissioner \n\n\n\nChristopher F. Koller is President of the Milbank Memorial Fund and Publisher of the Milbank Quarterly. The Fund is a more than 100-year-old operating foundation that improves population health and health equity by connecting leaders with evidence and sound experience.  \n\n\n\nBefore joining the Fund in 2013\, he served the state of Rhode Island for eight years as the country’s first health insurance commissioner. Prior to that\, he was CEO of Neighborhood Health Plan of Rhode Island. He has served in numerous national and state health policy advisory capacities and was elected to the National Academies of Science Engineering and Medicine in 2023.  Koller is also a professor of practice in the School of Public Health at Brown University. He resides in East Providence\, R.I. with his wife\, Colette Cook. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDiane Rittenhouse\, M.D.\, MPH\n\n\n\nSenior fellow\, MathematicaProfessor of family medicine and health policy\, UCSF \n\n\n\nDiane Rittenhouse\, M.D.\, MPH\, has two decades of experience researching health care organization\, delivery\, finance\, and workforce — and translating that research into policy.  She received a Generalist Physician Faculty Scholar award from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and has been recognized in the United States and Europe as a leading primary care researcher.   \n\n\n\nCurrently\, she is leading several projects focused on optimizing the primary care team workforce; strengthening the connection between primary care and health equity; diversifying California’s physician workforce; and understanding and supporting independently owned physician practices. She serves as an expert advisor for the development of the Health of U.S. Primary Care Scorecard recommended by the National Academies of Sciences\, Education and Medicine.  Dr. Rittenhouse is a family physician who practiced for 10 years in a community-based faculty practice at the University of California\, San Francisco. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMatthew Probst\, PA-C\n\n\n\nPhysician assistant and primary care provider\, Sunrise Medical Clinic \n\n\n\nMatthew Probst is a Physician Assistant and Primary Care Provider at Sunrise Medical Clinic in Las Vegas\, New Mexico. He is also Director of Rural Engagement for the University of New Mexico Office for Community Health. In 2019 he was the American Academy of Physician Assistants PA of the Year and recipient of the Primary Care Community Leadership Award and the National Association of Rural Mental Health Schumacher Award for Excellence in Clinical Service.  \n\n\n\nIn 2020\, U.S. Sen. Martin Heinrich named him a Hometown Hero\, and New Mexico Magazine recognized him as a True Hero for COVID-19 response. In 2021\, Mr. Probst was the New Mexico Alliance of School-Based Health Center Champion and the National Organization of State Rural Health Offices Community Star. In addition to the National Advisory Committee on Rural Health and Human Services\, Matt currently serves New Mexico on the Health Care Workforce Committee\, the Primary Care Council\, and the Aging and Long-Term Services Division Policy Advisory Committee.
URL:https://healthjournalism.org/blog/2024/11/no-one-can-see-you-now-what-states-are-doing-to-boost-primary-care/
CATEGORIES:Event,Insurance,Webinar
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SUMMARY:What Kennedy could do: Reporting on U.S. vaccine policy and the powers of the HHS Secretary
DESCRIPTION:President-elect Trump’s choice for Secretary of Health and Human Services\, Robert F. Kennedy Jr.\, could significantly impact the perception and uptake of vaccines. Whether he or any of Trump’s other vaccine-skeptical nominees receive Senate confirmation\, signs suggest the incoming administration may attempt to change long-established vaccine policy in the U.S.  \n\n\n\nThis webinar will cover the ins and outs of how vaccines are approved and recommended\, how vaccine injuries are adjudicated and compensated\, and the powers of the HHS Secretary over those procedures. We’ll cover what the secretary has the power to undo\, what checks and balances exist on those powers\, and what the potential consequences of those actions could be. \n\n\n\nLed by AHCJ Health Beat leader for infectious disease Tara Haelle\, this webinar will prepare reporters for anticipating possible policy moves in the new administration. \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\nTara Haelle\n\n\n\nHealth Beat Leader for Infectious Diseases\, AHCJ \n\n\n\nTara Haelle is AHCJ’s health beat leader for infectious diseases and medical studies. She’s an independent science/health journalist\, author\, speaker\, and photographer. Her work has appeared in the National Geographic\, Scientific American\, Texas Monthly\, Science News\, Medscape/WebMD\, The New York Times\, Wired\, and O Magazine\, among others. She specializes in public health and medical research\, particularly vaccines\, infectious diseases\, maternal and pediatric health\, mental health\, healthcare disparities\, and misinformation. She also covers medical research conferences and edits Long COVID Connection on Medium. Haelle earned a master’s in photojournalism from the University of Texas at Austin\, and her images have appeared in Texas Monthly\, NPR\, the\, Chicago Sun-Times and elsewhere. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPaul A. Offit\, M.D.\n\n\n\nDirector\, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia Vaccine Education CenterMaurice R. Hilleman Professor of Vaccinology\, University of PennsylvaniaPaul A. Offit\, M.D.\, is the Director of the Vaccine Education Center at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia as well as the Maurice R. Hilleman Professor of Vaccinology and a Professor of Pediatrics at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Offit is currently a voting member on the FDA’s Vaccine Advisory Committee and has previously served on the Advisory Committee for Immunization Practices to the CDC. He is also the co-inventor of the rotavirus vaccine\, RotaTeq\, recommended for universal use in infants by the CDC in 2006 and by the WHO in 2013. This vaccine was estimated recently to save about 165\,000 lives a year. He is also the author of 11 books written for the public about science\, medicine\, and vaccines.   \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDorit Rubinstein Reiss\, LLB\, Ph.D.\n\n\n\nJames Edgar Hervey Chair in Litigation\, UC Law San FranciscoDorit Rubinstein Reiss\, LLB\, Ph.D.  is a professor of law and the James Edgar Hervey Chair in Litigation at UC Law San Francisco (formerly UC Hastings). She specializes in vaccine law and policy\, including exemption laws and tort liability related to non-vaccination. She also teaches administrative law and public health law. She published in law reviews\, peer-reviewed journals and blogs on legal and policy issues related to vaccines and co-authored a book on Vaccines Law and Policy with Professor Y. Tony Yang.
URL:https://healthjournalism.org/what-rfk-jr-could-do-reporting-on-u-s-vaccine-policy-and-the-powers-of-the-hhs-secretary/
CATEGORIES:Health Policy,Infectious Diseases,Webinar
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SUMMARY:Be careful out there: A digital safety primer for journalists
DESCRIPTION:More than 40 percent of journalists dealt with threats and online harassment in 2022. When policymakers turn their attention to science and health issues such as vaccination\, access to abortion care\, and the health dangers of climate change\, journalists covering these topics must be prepared to protect themselves amidst online communities that can mirror — or amplify — harmful rhetoric. \n\n\n\nJoin AHCJ and the National Association of Science Writers (NASW) for a webinar with Alison Joyce\, a senior analyst on the Information Security team at The New York Times\, and Tat Bellamy-Walker\, program manager of Digital Safety Training and Resources (Media) at PEN America as they share best practices and resources on digital safety for journalists. \n\n\n\nAttendees will learn how to gauge their own risks\, assess their habits and leave with a list of resources they can deploy to improve their digital safety. \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\n\n\nModerator\n\n\n\n\nJyoti Madhusoodanan\n\n\n\nCivic Science Fellow\, AHCJJyoti Madhusoodanan is AHCJ’s Civic Science Fellow\, covering race in health algorithms as part of a year-long fellowship funded by the Doris Duke Foundation. She is an independent science and health journalist who regularly covers biomedical research\, health equity\, clinical trials\, and the translation of basic research into clinical care.  \n\n\n\nHer reporting on race adjustments in clinical algorithms was supported by a 2020 project fellowship from the MIT Knight Science Journalism program; reporting on other topics has received fellowship support from the Alicia Patterson Foundation\, the GSA Journalists in Aging program\, and others.  \n\n\n\nMadhusoodanan is a senior contributor to Undark magazine and her work regularly appears in Nature\, Scientific American\, and other outlets. She also serves on the Board of Directors of the National Association of Science Writers. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAlison Joyce\n\n\n\nSenior analyst\, New York Times Information Security TeamAlison Joyce is a Senior Analyst on the Information Security team at The New York Times. She specializes in providing tailored training and awareness to staff across the organization on digital security policies and best practices.  \n\n\n\nAlison has successfully built internal security programs for the newsroom\, business departments and senior leadership. Prior to joining The Times\, she spent six years working in the financial industry as an Incident Response Analyst. Alison earned a master’s degree in Cybersecurity Policy and Governance from Boston College. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTat Bellamy-Walker (He/They) is the Program Manager of Digital Safety Training and Resources (Media) at PEN America. Previously\, Bellamy-Walker was a communities reporter at The Seattle Times and a newsroom equity team committee member. Bellamy-Walker is program co-director of the Trans Journalists Association’s Peer Career Network\, the organization’s inaugural mentoring program.\n\n\n\nBefore joining The Seattle Times\, they worked for NBC News’ diversity verticals and as a digital editor/reporter at Gay City News. Their work has also appeared in The Daily Beast\, Inc. Magazine and on CNN. In 2023\, they were selected for IWMF’s HEFAT training in Austin\, Texas. Bellamy-Walker later shared digital safety tips in a local journalists webinar with the Council on Foreign Relations. They have also been a panel speaker at Investigative Reporters and Editors\, NABJ\, NAHJ and NLGJA. \n\n\n\nBellamy-Walker has a Master’s in Journalism with a concentration in Health and Science from the Craig Newmark School of Journalism.
URL:https://healthjournalism.org/be-careful-out-there-a-digital-safety-primer-for-journalists/
CATEGORIES:Algorithms and Health Disparities,Event,Freelancers,Webinar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250129T120000
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CREATED:20250114T182714Z
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SUMMARY:Finding and sharing hospital prices with your audience
DESCRIPTION:In 2001\, the federal Department of Health and Human Services required all hospitals to post the prices they charge patients for services. Many\, but not all\, hospitals have complied with this rule. Still\, finding the actual prices that hospitals charge for 300 non-urgent (called “shoppable”) services is challenging if not impossible for most consumers.  \n\n\n\nThat gives journalists an opportunity to empower consumers by finding and publishing hospital price information and to ensure that hospitals are complying with the now four-year-old federal rule. \n\n\n\nDuring this AHCJ webinar\, journalists will learn to gather price information from hospitals and compare prices among multiple hospitals. You’ll hear from a Colorado journalist who put transparency to the test when she was expecting a baby and learn from two experts about tools and resources you can use to find prices.  \n\n\n\nYou’ll walk away with the ability to find out what hospitals charge\, including what health insurers will pay hospitals and what consumers can expect to pay out of pocket for each service. \n\n\n\nThis webinar series\, supported by the Peterson-Milbank Program on Sustainable Health Care Costs\, covers the affordability of health care by diving into health care cost drivers and looking at solutions. Journalists will learn about ways that states\, employers and other stakeholders can promote affordable health care and will be able to tell these stories in the context of their state and local communities. \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\n\n\nModerator\n\n\n\n\nJoseph Burns\n\n\n\nAHCJ Health Policy Beat LeaderJoseph Burns is AHCJ’s health beat leader on health policy and insurance. He’s an independent journalist based in Brewster\, Mass.\, who has covered health care\, health policy and the business of care since 1991. Burns has written for a variety of publications\, including The New York Times\, Fortune\, Hospitals & Health Networks\, and Medical Economics\, among others.  \n\n\n\nEarly in his journalism career\, Burns worked as a reporter in Connecticut\, first for The Wallingford Post (a weekly)\, and then The Meriden Record-Journal (a daily)\, and later for The Hartford Courant (the largest daily newspaper in the state and the nation’s oldest newspaper). For The Courant\, he was a reporter\, copy editor and regional news editor. During this time\, he also taught news writing at the University of Connecticut. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPatricia Kelmar\n\n\n\nSenior director\, Public Interest Research GroupKelmar directs PIRG’s health care campaigns\, supports its state offices on state-based health initiatives and works with patient advocates nationwide. Previously\, she worked as a senior policy advisor at the New Jersey Health Care Quality Institute\, as an associate state director at AARP New Jersey and as a consumer advocate at NJPIRG. In 2022\, she was appointed to the federal Ground Ambulance and Patient Billing Advisory Committee. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nKiana Moore\n\n\n\nCEO\, Moore ConsultingKiana Moore is the CEO of Moore Consulting\, in Washington\, D.C. For its clients\, Moore Consulting analyzes data to measure outcomes and Inform health care policy. Those clients include the federal Agency for Healthcare Quality and Research\, the CDC\, CMS\, the National Institutes of Health and the National Alliance of Healthcare Purchaser Coalitions. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMegan Wingerter\n\n\n\nHealth care reporter\, The Denver PostMegan Wingerter\, health care reporter for The Denver Post. Wingerter is an award-winning journalist who joined the Denver Post in February 2019 as an education reporter and switched to health in 2020. She previously worked at The Oklahoman\, Kansas News Service\, The Topeka (Kansas) Capitol-Journal and The Muskegon (Michigan) Chronicle. She has won awards for business coverage in Kansas and for column writing in Michigan.
URL:https://healthjournalism.org/blog/2025/01/finding-and-sharing-hospital-prices-with-your-audience/
CATEGORIES:Health Policy,Webinar
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CREATED:20250128T204528Z
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SUMMARY:Unraveling the myth: ProPublica's investigation into a bad doc and a reckless hospital
DESCRIPTION:The infamous “Dr. Death” case in Texas showed just how little oversight there often is of physicians. When confronted with a neurosurgeon who was maiming and killing patients\, multiple hospitals looked the other way. Meanwhile\, the state medical board dragged its feet in taking punitive action\, and Texas malpractice law discouraged private lawsuits. \n\n\n\nNow\, ProPublica reporter Dave McSwane has investigated yet another shocking case of prolonged physician misconduct — this time in a very different setting. Montana oncologist Thomas Weiner\, who was beloved by his patients and their families as well as his staff\, now stands accused of numerous legal and ethical breaches that harmed and killed patients. \n\n\n\nAmong the infractions: treating patients for cancers they didn’t actually have\, changing end-of-life care directives without patient consent\, and improperly prescribing narcotics. In this webinar\, McSwane will talk about what he’s learned about why\, in this case\, hospital officials and fellow physicians remained silent about their suspicions that Weiner was harming patients\, and why federal regulators and health plans failed to step in to stop the abuses. \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\n\n\nModerator\n\n\n\n\nMary Chris Jaklevic\n\n\n\nAHCJ Health Beat Leader for Patient SafetyMary Chris Jaklevic is AHCJ’s health beat leader for patient safety based in Chicago. She’s an independent journalist who has covered health care finance\, clinical care and medical research for a variety of professional and consumer publications. Her interest in patient safety issues and the potential harms of medical interventions was honed by her experience as a contributor to HealthNewsReview.org\, a project that aimed to improve health care journalism by critiquing the accuracy and balance of media messages about medical treatments and tests. She’s a longtime AHCJ member and served on the board for two terms. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJ. David McSwane\n\n\n\nReporter\, ProPublicaJ. David McSwane is a reporter in ProPublica’s Washington\, D.C.\, office. Previously\, he was an investigative reporter for the Dallas Morning News\, where his reporting on the state’s outsourced Medicaid system\, which benefited companies that systematically deny care to sick children and disabled adults\, spurred multiple legislative reforms. Before that he wrote for the Austin American-Statesman and a small Florida newspaper. McSwane’s reporting has spurred new laws and state and federal criminal investigations\, forced belt-tightening lawmakers to invest in social programs and won some trinkets along the way\, including Harvard’s Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting\, the Worth Bingham Prize\, a Scripps Howard award\, an IRE award and the Peabody. He’s a four-time Livingston Award finalist.
URL:https://healthjournalism.org/unraveling-the-myth-propublicas-investigation-into-a-bad-doc-and-a-reckless-hospital/
CATEGORIES:Patient Safety,Webinar
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SUMMARY:Decentralized: Navigating the future of inclusive clinical trials
DESCRIPTION:Decentralized clinical trials have emerged as a promising approach to overcome traditional barriers\, enhance representation\, and improve the quality of research by bringing biomedical studies directly into communities. However\, recent policy changes under the Trump administration\, including the removal of FDA guidance on clinical trial diversity\, have raised concerns about the future of inclusive research. \n\n\n\nRead more about decentralizing clinical trials here. \n\n\n\nIn this webinar\, Ray Dorsey\, M.D.\, professor of neurology and the director of the Center for Human Experimental Therapeutics at the University of Rochester Medical Center in New York\, and Ramita Tandon\, Chief Clinical Trials Officer at Walgreens\, will discuss how decentralization is reshaping clinical research. They will explore the potential of pharmacy-based trials and strategies for increasing patient engagement. \n\n\n\nJoin us for an insightful conversation on the future of clinical trials and what it means for patients\, researchers\, and the healthcare industry. \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\n\n\nModerator\n\n\n\n\nJyoti Madhusoodanan\n\n\n\nAHCJ Civic Science FellowJyoti Madhusoodanan is AHCJ’s Civic Science Fellow\, covering race in health algorithms as part of a year-long fellowship funded by the Doris Duke Foundation. She is an independent science and health journalist who regularly covers biomedical research\, health equity\, clinical trials\, and the translation of basic research into clinical care. Her reporting on race adjustments in clinical algorithms was supported by a 2020 project fellowship from the MIT Knight Science Journalism program; reporting on other topics has received fellowship support from the Alicia Patterson Foundation\, the GSA Journalists in Aging program\, and others. Madhusoodanan is a senior contributor to Undark magazine and her work regularly appears in Nature\, Scientific American\, and other outlets. She also serves on the Board of Directors of the National Association of Science Writers. \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\nLara Salahi\n\n\n\nAHCJ Health Equity Beat LeaderLara Salahi is AHCJ’s health beat leader on health equity. She’s an award-winning\, independent health journalist based in Boston\, whose work has appeared in local\, national and international television and digital news outlets. She is also the Distinguished Professor of Journalism at Endicott College in Beverley\, Mass. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRay Dorsey\, M.D.\n\n\n\nProfessor of Neurology\, University of RochesterRay Dorsey\, M.D.\, is the David M. Levy Professor of Neurology at the University of Rochester and one of the world’s most read\, cited\, and followed neurologists. With his colleagues\, he wrote “Ending Parkinson’s Disease: A Prescription for Action\,” a book that provides a prescription for preventing and ending the world’s fastest growing brain disease. \n\n\n\nDorsey previously directed the University of Rochester’s Center for Health + Technology\, was elected chair of the international Huntington Study Group\, led the movement disorders division and neurology telemedicine at Johns Hopkins\, and consulted for McKinsey & Company. He completed his undergraduate degree at Stanford University and pursued his medical education and neurology training at the University of Pennsylvania where he also earned an MBA in healthcare management from the Wharton School. \n\n\n\nIn 2015\, the White House recognized Dorsey as a “Champion for Change” for Parkinson’s disease. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRamita Tandon\n\n\n\nChief BioPharma Services Officer\, WalgreensAs Chief BioPharma Services Officer at Walgreens\, Ramita Tandon is responsible for leading and driving growth for the Company’s biopharma services\, which includes Walgreens Clinical Trials. In her role\, Ramita works across the healthcare and life sciences industries to enable next-generation clinical trials\, with the goal of making treatments equitable and accessible to patients. \n\n\n\nRamita brings more than 25 years of leadership and operational experience across a portfolio of industry-leading businesses in real-world evidence and patient-centered health outcomes. Since spearheading the launch of Walgreens Clinical Trials in June 2022\, Ramita and her team have been working to make clinical research an inherent care option for patients across the nation when the standard of therapy is not a viable option.  \n\n\n\nThrough its tailored efforts and collaboration with biopharma companies\, Ramita and her team have connected with more than 17 million people for potential recruitment into a sponsor-led clinical trial\, with that number growing daily. Research shows that only 5% of the U.S. population participates in clinical trials and nearly 80% of trials fail to meet their enrollment goals in the timeline presented\, which often contributes to delays in getting novel therapies to patients.  \n\n\n\nUltimately\, Ramita and her team’s main goal is to bring community pharmacy-led clinical trials to patients quicker by meeting them where they want to be met…in their own communities.
URL:https://healthjournalism.org/decentralized-navigating-the-future-of-inclusive-clinical-trials/
CATEGORIES:Algorithms and Health Disparities,Event,Health Equity,Webinar
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SUMMARY:Reporting on the crucial role doctors play in gun violence prevention
DESCRIPTION:Gun suicides reached an all-time high in 2023\, and almost 4% of gun-related deaths in the United States were unintentional shootings — the worst year on record for unintentional shootings by children.  \n\n\n\nAt the same time\, firearms are used in more than three out of five intimate partner homicides in the United States. Yet more than half of clinicians report that they avoid discussing firearm access and safety with patients because they don’t feel equipped to do so or worry about alienating their patients.  \n\n\n\nIn this webinar\, trauma surgeon Dr. Joseph Sakran will talk about how the medical community must overcome its reticence\, take responsibility and prepare to have these difficult conversations.  \n\n\n\nHe’ll talk through a new resource guide from the gun violence prevention organization Brady United that helps clinicians talk to their patients about firearm access and safety. He will also share how health care journalists can cover firearm access and highlight story ideas. \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\n\n\nModerator\n\n\n\n\nKaitlin Washburn\n\n\n\nAHCJ Health Beat Leader for Firearm ViolenceKaitlin Washburn is AHCJ’s health beat leader for firearm violence and trauma and an independent journalist based in Chicago\, primarily working for the Chicago Sun-Times. She was a gun violence reporter for two years in Missouri for The Kansas City Star as a Report for America corps member. Previously\, Washburn was an agriculture reporter covering the omnipresent industry in California’s Central Valley for The Sun-Gazette\, also as a part of RFA. Previously\, Washburn had internships at the Morning Call in Pennsylvania\, the Center for Responsive Politics in Washington\, D.C. and The Oregonian in Portland. She spent three years as a researcher for Investigative Reporters and Editors\, based at The University of Missouri. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJoseph Sakran\, M.D.\n\n\n\nBoard Chair and Chief Medical Officer\, Brady UnitedTrauma surgeon\, Johns HopkinsAn award-winning researcher and pioneer in promoting firearm injury prevention\, Dr. Sakran’s dedication to his field is rooted in his lived experience of trauma from gun violence.  \n\n\n\nAt the age of 17\, Dr. Sakran was nearly killed after being shot in the throat with a 38-caliber bullet after a high school football game. \n\n\n\nAn active leader at the Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore\, Dr. Sakran serves as the executive vice chair of Surgery\, director of Clinical Operations for Surgery\, and associate professor of Surgery and Nursing. His public health research — specifically on firearm injury prevention — has been recognized by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) and Academy Health. \n\n\n\nDr. Sakran gained international prominence in 2018 when the NRA told doctors concerned about gun violence to “stay in their lane” and avoid addressing the topic. Dr. Sakran spoke out to illustrate that healthcare professionals are on the frontlines of this epidemic. In response\, Dr. Sakran launched @ThisIsOurLane\, a grassroots movement of medical professionals committed to reducing firearm injuries and deaths.
URL:https://healthjournalism.org/reporting-on-the-crucial-role-doctors-play-in-gun-violence-prevention/
CATEGORIES:Firearm Violence,Webinar
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SUMMARY:How research misconduct harms patients and science
DESCRIPTION:Fraud\, manipulation and research misconduct can lead scientists down a slippery slope\, affecting drug development\, grant funding\, and patients’ lives. Scientists working in the field of Alzheimer’s research are under enormous pressure to maintain grant funding\, publish\, and\, ultimately\, find a cure. For decades\, their primary focus has been preventing or eliminating amyloid plaque in the brain\, an approach that builds on prior research discoveries. We’re now learning that decades of research may have been misguided\, or even fraudulent. \n\n\n\nCharles Piller\, an investigative journalist for Science and author of “Doctored: Fraud\, Arrogance\, and Tragedy in the Quest to Cure Alzheimer’s\,” has reported on clear signs of manipulated images by a top National Institute of Aging scientist\, found multiple examples of deception by other Alzheimer’s researchers\, and exposed questionable behavior by FDA officials about who had a role in Alzheimer’s drug development and approvals.  \n\n\n\nPiller collaborated with Matthew Schrag\, M.D.\, Ph.D.\, a top neuroscientist at Vanderbilt University\, who first spotted these instances of data manipulation. Piller’s reporting was a wake-up call for many in the scientific community\, including at the National Institutes of Health. \n\n\n\nIn this webinar\, Piller and Schrag will discuss what they uncovered\, how the situation spiraled\, how to spot red flags on questionable papers\, and what journalists should know about the future of Alzheimer’s research. \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\n\n\nModerator\n\n\n\n\nLiz Seegert\n\n\n\nAHCJ Health Beat Leader for AgingLiz Seegert is AHCJ’s health beat leader on aging. She’s an award-winning\, independent health journalist based in New York’s Hudson Valley\, who writes about caregiving\, dementia\, access to care\, nursing homes and policy. Seegert is also a contributing writer for Fortune.com\, the American Journal of Nursing\, and PBS/NextAvenue.org\, reporting on myriad health topics\, including social determinants of health and women’s health. She has written for TIME Health\, The Wirecutter\, Money.com\, Medscape\, Consumer Reports\, The Guardian and Medical Economics\, as well as dozens of other trade and mainstream media. Her articles have been syndicated in Forbes.com\, the Los Angeles Times\, the Hartford Courant\, The Saturday Evening Post and other major outlets. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCharles Piller\n\n\n\nInvestigative journalist\, ScienceCharles Piller is an investigative journalist for Science magazine whose work has appeared in the Los Angeles Times\, the New York Times\, the Sacramento Bee\, and other publications. Piller has been honored with many national journalism awards and is the co-author of “Gene Wars: Military Control over the New Genetic Technologies” and the author of “The Fail-Safe Society: Community Defiance And The End Of American Technological Optimism” and “Doctored: Fraud\, Arrogance\, and Tragedy in the Quest to Cure Alzheimer’s.” He has reported on public health\, biological warfare\, infectious disease outbreaks\, and other topics from the United States\, Africa\, Asia\, Europe\, and Central America. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMatthew Schrag\, M.D.\, Ph.D.\n\n\n\nAssistant professor of neurology\, Vanderbilt University Medical CenterMatthew Schrag\, M.D.\, Ph.D.\, is an assistant professor of neurology at Vanderbilt University Medical Center and a principal investigator at Schrag Lab\, who studies the overlap between vascular and cognitive neurological diseases. His research focuses on the mechanisms of vascular degeneration in cerebral amyloid angiopathy and how this contributes to cognitive impairment in Alzheimer’s disease.  \n\n\n\nDr. Schrag’s investigative work is independent of his job at Vanderbilt University Medical Center and is not speaking on behalf of the university for this webinar.
URL:https://healthjournalism.org/how-research-misconduct-harms-patients-and-science/
CATEGORIES:Aging,Medical Studies,Webinar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250305T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250305T130000
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SUMMARY:Make facts matter again: Pushing back against misinformation and disinformation
DESCRIPTION:It’s exhausting and disheartening to work as a journalist these days\, dutifully reporting the facts only to see accurate reporting engulfed and overwhelmed by misinformation and disinformation — especially on social media. The consequences are dire — for example\, declining vaccination rates and a growing number of measles outbreaks.  \n\n\n\nWhile there is no simple solution to the misinformation epidemic\, the situation isn’t hopeless\, and journalists still play a vital role in conveying accurate\, nuanced information about health. Join us to hear from Stephan Lewandowsky\, a cognitive scientist at the University of Bristol and one of the lead original authors of “The Debunking Handbook\,” as he talks about how misinformation spreads\, why people cling to it — rejecting accurate information — and what he thinks journalists can do to help address this crisis. \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\n\n\nModerator\n\n\n\n\nTara Haelle\n\n\n\nAHCJ Health Beat Leader for Infectious DiseasesTara Haelle is an independent science/health journalist\, author\, speaker\, and photographer. Her work has appeared in the National Geographic\, Scientific American\, Texas Monthly\, Science News\, Medscape/WebMD\, The New York Times\, Wired\, and O Magazine\, among others.  \n\n\n\nShe specializes in public health and medical research\, particularly vaccines\, infectious disease\, maternal and pediatric health\, mental health\, healthcare disparities\, and misinformation. She also covers medical research conferences and edits Long COVID Connection on Medium. Haelle earned a master’s in photojournalism from the University of Texas at Austin\, and her images have appeared in Texas Monthly\, NPR\, the\, Chicago Sun-Times and elsewhere. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nStephan Lewandowsky\, Ph.D.\n\n\n\nChair of Cognitive Science\, University of BristolProfessor Stephan Lewandowsky\, Ph.D.\, is a cognitive scientist at the University of Bristol whose research examines the consequences of the clash between social media architectures and human cognition\, such as countermeasures to the persistence of misinformation and the spread of “fake news” in society\, and how platform algorithms may contribute to the prevalence of misinformation.  \n\n\n\nHe also studies the factors that determine whether or not people accept scientific evidence. He has received a range of prestigious research awards across multiple continents and has published more than 200 peer-reviewed articles since 2000. He also authored a report on Technology and Democracy in 2020 that has helped shape EU digital legislation.
URL:https://healthjournalism.org/make-facts-matter-again-pushing-back-against-misinformation-and-disinformation/
CATEGORIES:Infectious Diseases,Webinar
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CREATED:20250221T140908Z
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SUMMARY:Telehealth on the line: What could happen this spring?
DESCRIPTION:As part of the American Relief Act signed by President Biden in December\, certain telehealth benefits for Medicare beneficiaries were extended only until the end of March 2025 — instead of a three-year extension as proposed in a Continuing Resolution. These benefits and the Acute Hospital Care at Home waiver program are now set to expire on March 31. Some areas\, like in-home cardiology rehabilitation visits\, were left out of this extension. \n\n\n\nIn this AHCJ webinar\, Kyle Zebley\, senior vice president of public policy for the American Telemedicine Association and executive director of ATA Action — an affiliated advocacy group — will spell out what services are covered in this extension\, what was omitted\, and what updates we might expect to see during the next few weeks of President Trump’s second administration. You’ll walk away with story ideas and insights to inform your reporting. \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\n\n\nModerator\n\n\n\n\nKaren Blum\n\n\n\nAHCJ Health Beat Leader for Health ITKaren Blum is an independent health and science journalist\, based in the Baltimore area. She has written for publications such as the Baltimore Sun\, Pharmacy Practice News\, Clinical Oncology News\, Clinical Laboratory News\, Cancer Today\, CURE\, AARP.org\, General Surgery News and Infectious Disease Special Edition; covered numerous medical conferences for trade magazines and news services; and written many profiles and articles on medical and science research as well as trends in health care and health IT. She is a member of the American Society of Journalists and Authors (ASJA) and chairs its Virtual Education Committee; and a member of the National Association of Science Writers (NASW) and its freelance committee. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nKyle Zebley. Photo by Christopher Huang\n\n\n\n\n\n\nKyle Zebley\n\n\n\nSenior VP of public policy\, American Telemedicine Association & executive director\, ATA ActionZebley works with and on behalf of the American Telemedicine Association and members of ATA Action (an affiliated advocacy organization) and like-minded organizations to eliminate barriers to the expansion of telehealth and ensure patients\, providers\, and payers can realize the benefits of virtual care. \n\n\n\nPrior to joining ATA\, Zebley was the chief of staff in the Office of Global Affairs at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. He collaborated with senior leadership from HHS\, the White House and other cabinet departments to develop\, advise and promote U.S. global health policy\, including in areas such as drug pricing\, medical devices\, global health security and non-communicable diseases. \n\n\n\nHe is a sought-after policy expert and frequently quoted in major media coverage of telehealth. In January 2022\, Zebley was named by Politico as one of the “Four Washington players poised to shape digital health in 2022.”
URL:https://healthjournalism.org/event/telehealth-on-the-line-what-could-happen-this-spring-2/
CATEGORIES:Health IT,Webinar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250312T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250312T140000
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CREATED:20250228T202603Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250312T211451Z
UID:58734-1741784400-1741788000@healthjournalism.org
SUMMARY:Finding sustainable work you love in an era of relentless layoffs
DESCRIPTION:If you’re a health journalist who has recently been laid off or bought out\, you might feel lost\, discouraged\, angry or scared. Even if you’re gainfully employed as a staffer or freelancer\, you probably experience waves of uncertainty about the profession and your place in it from time to time. We get it — and we’re here to offer not just encouragement and community\, but also advice from writers\, editors and recruiters with personal experience and an intimate understanding of the journalism landscape today. \n\n\n\nJoin AHCJ freelance beat leader Anna Medaris\, a staff reporter-turned happy freelancer\, as she leads a conversation with writers and editors who were laid off in 2023 or 2024 about their paths to sustainable and satisfying work since. The webinar will also feature industry experts who will share where journalism jobs are now\, how journalism skills can be applied to other industries\, and how we all can gain some control over careers in a volatile profession. \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\n\n\nModerator\n\n\n\n\nAnna Medaris\n\n\n\nAHCJ Freelance Beat Leader(She/her)Anna Medaris is a freelance health and lifestyle journalist with 15 years of experience writing features\, narratives\, explainers\, and news hits for publications including the Washington Post\, Women’s Health\, Vox\, Cosmopolitan\, US New & World Report\, Everyday Health\, AARP\, Monitor on Psychology\, among others. She left her last full-time role as health correspondent for Business Insider to go freelance full time in June 2023.  \n\n\n\nAnna is passionate about\, and skilled in\, telling sensitive human-interest stories\, critiquing quirky cultural trends\, and answering questions you didn’t know you had. She’s appeared on the “TODAY Show\,” “Good Morning America\,” Hulu’s “Age of Influence\,” and many podcasts and local TV and radio stations. Anna also serves as AHCJ’s New York City chapter lead and as a writing coach through the New York Writing Room. She graduated with high honors from the University of Michigan in 2009 and later earned her master’s in interactive journalism from American University. She’s an avid swimmer who lives in Brooklyn with her husband and their basset rescue\, Lou Longbody. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nChandra Turner\n\n\n\nFounder\, The Talent FairyEditorial recruiter and career coach(She/her)Chandra is the founder of The Talent Fairy\, a boutique recruiting agency that connects brands with editorial leaders to elevate their storytelling and content products. When she’s not seeking out new talent\, Chandra works as a career coach\, helping editors\, content marketers\, and other content strategists find new jobs they love\, or thrive in the ones they’ve got. A former editor herself (Parents\, CosmoGirl\, Cosmopolitan)\, she is a vocal advocate for editorial talent; she believes that their skills are infinitely valuable — inside and outside of traditional media. #editorsmakethebesthires \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLiz Szabo\n\n\n\nVeteran health reporter(She/her)Liz is a reporter with 30 years in journalism\, including more than two decades covering health and science at publications such as USA TODAY\, The Virginian-Pilot\, and KFF Health News. An independent journalist since 2023\, Liz has been covering medical news for The New York Times\, NBC News\, Scientific American\, Medscape\, AARP\, and other publications. \n\n\n\nLiz has won numerous state\, local\, and national journalism awards\, including the Victor Cohn Prize for Excellence in Medical Science Reporting and the National Headliner Awards’ first place prize. Her investigation of dangerous doctors for The Virginian-Pilot won two National Press Club Awards and spurred the state legislature to pass a new law to better protect patients. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMelissa Dahl\n\n\n\nIndependent health journalist(She/her)Melissa Dahl is an award-winning journalist with more than 15 years of experience on staff at publications like New York magazine\, Bustle Digital Group and NBC News. She is the author of “Cringeworthy: A Theory of Awkwardness\,” published by Penguin Random House in 2018\, and is now working on her second book. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRebecca Aguilar\n\n\n\nFreelance reporter(She/her)Rebecca is a freelance reporter who believes that part of surviving the news business is being prepared for the unexpected. She has experienced a layoff\, firing\, and newsroom downsizing in her career. The Emmy Award-winning journalist remains in the news after four decades because she has found that you create your path to success by tapping into your network and what you know.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPhoto by Lori Hoffman/Bloomberg\n\n\n\n\n\n\nZachary Tracer\n\n\n\nSenior editor for business and policy\, STAT(He/him)Zach oversees business and policy coverage at the health and medicine publication STAT. He joined STAT in June after being laid off from Business Insider in early 2024. Zach worked at Business Insider for more than five years\, where he built and led the health care team. He began his journalism career at Bloomberg News\, covering financial services and then the health insurance industry.
URL:https://healthjournalism.org/blog/2025/03/finding-sustainable-work-you-love-in-an-era-of-relentless-layoffs/
CATEGORIES:Freelancers,Webinar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250502T130000
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CREATED:20250313T211446Z
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SUMMARY:PitchFest Prep Session
DESCRIPTION:Whether it’s your first or tenth time at PitchFest\, please join this virtual session to review the dos and don’ts of your one-on-one with editors. The PitchFest committee will share feedback it has gotten from previous years’ editors and advice on how to make the most of your 10-minute time slots. Bring your pitches. As time allows\, you’ll have a chance to practice a pitch and get some input from fellow attendees and the committee. \n\n\n\nPitchFest will be held at Health Journalism 2025 in Los Angeles.
URL:https://healthjournalism.org/event/pitchfest-prep-session/
CATEGORIES:Event,Freelancers,Webinar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250521T130000
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DTSTAMP:20260403T144023
CREATED:20250501T202845Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250521T204237Z
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SUMMARY:Health care in court: A prep session for a big June
DESCRIPTION:Buckle up: The Supreme Court is expected to rule before the end of June in a number of cases with significant implications for health in America. With transgender health care\, Planned Parenthood funding\, preventive care\, and several environmental cases\, among others\, in the balance\, what’s the best way to prepare to cover these important stories?  \n\n\n\nThis webinar will highlight the big cases and point you toward resources and strategies for writing solid court-related stories on deadline. You’ll hear from Chris Geidner\, also known as Law Dork for his Substack newsletter on court happenings\, and Alison Tanner of the National Women’s Law Center. They’ll talk about what to look for\, how to find an expert to help you interpret accurately and other tricks to reporting on the legal stuff with less stress. \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\n\n\nModerator\n\n\n\n\nAlice Miranda Ollstein\n\n\n\nSenior health care reporter\, POLITICOAlice Miranda Ollstein is a senior health care reporter for POLITICO\, with a focus on sexual and reproductive health. \n\n\n\nHer coverage of state and federal health policy developments on Capitol Hill\, within government agencies\, in the courts\, and on the campaign trail draws connections between decisions made by elected officials and their impact on the ground. She has broken stories on the Covid-19 response\, the strategies of both anti-abortion and pro-abortion-rights groups\, and both the Biden and Trump transitions. \n\n\n\nAlice graduated from Oberlin College in 2010 and has been reporting in D.C. ever since\, covering the Supreme Court\, Congress and national elections for TV\, radio\, print\, and online outlets. Her work has aired on Free Speech Radio News\, All Things Considered\, WAMU and WTOP\, and her writing has been published by Talking Points Memo\, The Atlantic\, and La Opinión. She was elected in 2016 as an at-large board member of the DC Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists. In 2017\, she was named one of the New Media Alliance’s “Rising Stars” under 30. She is the author of a forthcoming book on the broader health care impacts of post-Roe abortion restrictions\, set to be published by The New Press. \n\n\n\nAlice grew up in Santa Monica\, California and began freelancing for local newspapers in her early teens. When not working on a story\, she can be found riding her bicycle around the region\, attempting to grow vegetables in her backyard\, and playing with her nephews. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nChris Geidner\n\n\n\nLaw DorkChris Geidner is an award-winning journalist who covers the Supreme Court\, law\, and politics at Law Dork. His more than two decades in journalism includes widely recognized coverage of the courts\, LGBTQ issues\, the criminal legal system\, and other complex legal and political questions. \n\n\n\nHe previously worked as the Supreme Court correspondent and legal editor at BuzzFeed News and has written for many publications\, including The New York Times and MSNBC. Among other recognition\, Geidner was named Journalist of the Year by NLGJA\, the LGBTQ journalists’ association\, in 2014.  \n\n\n\nBefore moving to Washington\, D.C.\, in 2009\, Geidner was a practicing lawyer in Columbus\, Ohio. He attended Ohio State University’s Moritz College of Law\, where he was Editor-in-Chief of the Ohio State Law Journal. It was in law school that Geidner originally started the Law Dork blog. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAlison Tanner\n\n\n\nSenior litigation counsel for reproductive rights and health\, National Women’s Law CenterAlison Tanner (she/her) litigates cases defending and expanding access to reproductive health care\, including emergency abortion care and assisted reproductive technologies.  \n\n\n\nPreviously\, she was a staff attorney at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit and the Steven Gey Constitutional Litigation Fellow at Americans United for Separation of Church and State. She graduated magna cum laude from the Georgetown University Law Center\, where she was Editor-in-Chief of the Georgetown Journal of Gender and the Law.
URL:https://healthjournalism.org/health-care-in-supreme-court-a-prep-session-for-a-big-june/
CATEGORIES:Health Equity,Health Policy,Webinar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250709T130000
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SUMMARY:Rest deprived? Why rest\, not just sleep\, matters
DESCRIPTION:If you’re getting sufficient sleep but still feeling mentally burnt out\, at a loss for creativity\, or frequently distracted\, the solution isn’t necessarily quitting your job or taking a vacation—it’s understanding what types of rest you really need and how to get them most effectively. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIn this webinar co-hosted by the National Association of Science Writers and the Association of Health Care Journalists\, Dr. Saundra Dalton-Smith\, an internal medicine physician\, will talk about the seven types of rest—from physical and sensory to creative and social—and how health and science communicators can recharge in ways that support their craft without sacrificing other aspects of their lives. \n\n\n\nThe session\, moderated by NASW’s Joy Drohan and AHCJ’s Anna Medaris\, will include plenty of time for Q&A with Dr. Dalton-Smith\, author of “Sacred Rest: Recover Your Life\, Renew Your Energy\, Restore Your Sanity.” \n\n\n\nAttendees are invited to look over or take Dr. Dalton-Smith’s free “Rest Quiz” beforehand\, an option that includes submitting contact information for Dr. Dalton-Smith’s mailing list. \n\n\n\nRegistration is free and open to all interested professionals and students. \n\n\n\nThe webinar recording will be made available to NASW members. \n\n\n\nA reminder that per NASW’s Code of Conduct attendees must use their name as their Zoom display name in order to be admitted. Please review the code for additional expected behaviors. \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\n\n\nModerator\n\n\n\n\nAnna Medaris\n\n\n\nAHCJ Freelance Health Beat LeaderIndependent journalistAnna Medaris is a freelance health and lifestyle journalist with 15 years of experience writing features\, narratives\, explainers\, and news hits for publications including the Washington Post\, Women’s Health\, Vox\, Cosmopolitan\, US New & World Report\, Everyday Health\, AARP\, Monitor on Psychology\, among others. She left her last full-time role as health correspondent for Business Insider to go freelance full time in June 2023.  \n\n\n\nAnna is passionate about\, and skilled in\, telling sensitive human-interest stories\, critiquing quirky cultural trends\, and answering questions you didn’t know you had. She’s appeared on the “TODAY Show\,” “Good Morning America\,” Hulu’s “Age of Influence\,” and many podcasts and local TV and radio stations. Anna also serves as AHCJ’s New York City chapter lead and as a writing coach through the New York Writing Room. She graduated with high honors from the University of Michigan in 2009 and later earned her master’s in interactive journalism from American University. She’s an avid swimmer who lives in Brooklyn with her husband and their basset rescue\, Lou Longbody. \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\nJoy Drohan\n\n\n\nIndependent science writer and editorJoy is an independent environmental science writer and editor with three decades of experience in translating complex environmental topics into clear\, compelling narratives. She has authored or edited a wide range of scientific and popular materials\, including books\, peer-reviewed journal articles\, grant proposals\, reports\, web content\, magazine articles\, and educational curricula. \n\n\n\nHer experience includes water quality\, watershed management\, PFAS\, microplastics\, hydrogeology\, sea-level rise\, wildfire ecology\, natural gas development\, waste management\, and risk communication. \n\n\n\nHer clients reflect the breadth and depth of her expertise. She has worked with leading universities (Penn State\, North Carolina State University\, University of Maryland)\, national and state environmental agencies (National Park Service\, US Department of Agriculture\, US Fish and Wildlife Service)\, publishers (W. W. Norton & Co.\, Island Press\, Santa Fe Institute Press)\, scientific and nonprofit organizations (Interstate Technology Regulatory Council\, American Society for Enology and Viticulture\, The Conservation Fund)\, and private companies. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSaundra Dalton-Smith\, M.D.\n\n\n\nInternal medicine physician\, speaker and authorDr. Saundra Dalton-Smith is a Board-Certified internal medicine physician\, speaker\, and award-winning author. She is an international well-being thought-leader featured in numerous media outlets\, including Prevention\, MSNBC\, Women’s Day\, FOX\, Fast Company\, Psychology Today\, INC\, CNN Health\, and TED.com.  \n\n\n\nShe is the author of numerous books\, including her bestseller “Sacred Rest: Recover Your Life\, Renew Your Energy\, Restore Your Sanity\,” which includes insight on the seven types of rest needed to optimize your productivity\, increase your overall happiness\, overcome burnout\, and live your best life. Her newest book is “Being Fully Known: The Joyful Satisfaction of Beholding\, Becoming\, and Belonging.” More than 250\,000 people have discovered their personal rest deficits using her free assessment at RestQuiz.com. Learn more about Dr. Saundra at DrDaltonSmith.com. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis event is not intended to be a substitute for therapy. We encourage participants to use the resources below to explore therapy or other forms of professional help as needed. If you have thoughts of harming yourself or others\, please contact a doctor immediately and/or contact: \n\n\n\n988lifeline.org or dial or text 988 (Available in 240 languages within the United States) \n\n\n\nAdditional resources for mental health support\, many of which are specific to media\, can be found at the Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma. This re-cap of the October 2020 ScienceWriters session “Taking care of yourself” has some tips and links to additional resources\, as well.
URL:https://healthjournalism.org/event/rest-deprived-why-rest-not-just-sleep-matters/
CATEGORIES:Freelancers,Webinar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250716T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250716T140000
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CREATED:20250708T171925Z
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UID:60159-1752670800-1752674400@healthjournalism.org
SUMMARY:AHCJ German Health Care Study Group informational webinar
DESCRIPTION:Join us for an informational webinar about the AHCJ German Health Care Study Group\, a weeklong\, immersive experience in Berlin this October. Selected U.S.-based journalists will explore Germany’s health system — one that delivers universal coverage and strong outcomes without medical debt.  \n\n\n\nSupported by The Commonwealth Fund\, the program covers airfare\, lodging\, meals\, local transportation and more. Participants will leave with deeply reported stories and new perspectives on cost\, coverage\, equity and care delivery. \n\n\n\nLearn how to apply\, ask questions about the program and get tips for strengthening your application.
URL:https://healthjournalism.org/event/ahcj-german-health-care-study-group-informational-webinar/
CATEGORIES:Fellowships,Webinar
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