Association of Health Care Journalists

Meet AHCJ President Felice Freyer
2021-10-15 01:00 (America/New_York)
Friday, Oct. 15, noon-1 p.m. ET
Join fellow AHCJ members in welcoming new AHCJ President Felice J. Freyer. Two, one hour sessions will be offered for our members.
Bring your questions, goals, and vision for the future of AHCJ and let’s get to work.
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Reaching the Vaccine Hesitant Young
2021-10-14 01:00
Thursday Oct. 14, 2021, 1-2 PM EDT
Virtual Panel Discussion, hosted by the Pulizer Center and Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Nearly 25 percent of young people are hesitant to get vaccinated putting them at risk for severe illness from COVID-19. Hear three panelists discuss: How can public health officials reach adolescents and young adults? What messages on social media and elsewhere resonate with them? How are journalists reaching younger audiences? Speakers include Caleb Hellerman, medical journalist and director of Race for the Vaccine, Janet Tobias, executive producer of Race for the Vaccine, Rupali Limaye, director of behavioral and implementation science, International Vaccine Access Center at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and Nick Moran, associate director of audience development at Johns Hopkins School of Public Health.
To register click here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_e3N21hX9THuwLXko9VJlnw

A Virtual Conversation with Nancy Segal, author of Deliberately Divided
2021-10-14 01:00
Nancy Segal’s book takes the first in-depth look at the New York City adoption agency that separated twins and triplets in the 1960s, and the controversial and disturbing study that tracked the children’s development while never telling their adoptive parents that they were raising a “singleton twin.” A professor of psychology at California State University, Fullerton, she will also talk about the film Three Identical Strangers, which told this story.

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On the Front Lines: Health Care Reporting in a Pandemic
2021-10-13 01:00
Wednesday, October 13, 2021 • 6 – 8 p.m.
Virtual Event
(Zoom link provided in confirmation email after registration)
Join health care reporters from around the country as they discuss their experiences covering the pandemic, and how it has changed health care journalism.
Register online

Author explains how to push back on high health care costs
2021-10-12 01:00
Recorded Oct. 12, 1 p.m. ET
This past summer, Penguin Random House published Marshall Allen’s book, “Never Pay the First Bill,” promoting it as “the guerilla guide to health care the American people and employers need.” On Tuesday, Oct. 12, Allen will explain why he wrote this important consumer guide to the high and rising costs of health care and outline the steps journalists and patients can follow to push back.
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Marshall Allen is the author of “Never Pay the First Bill: And Other Ways to Fight the Health Care System and Win.” A two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist and recipient of the Harvard Kennedy School’s Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting, Allen spent 15 years investigating the health care system as a journalist, including a decade as a reporter for ProPublica. He has also taught investigative reporting for more than a decade. He now works for the Office of the Inspector General for HHS and runs the Allen Health Academy to help boost the health care literacy of working Americans.

Joseph Burns is the health reform topic leader for the Association of Health Care Journalists who writes about efforts to make the nation’s health care system more equitable and affordable for all and how health systems and health insurers can reduce costs and improve patient outcomes. He has written for The New York Times, Hospitals & Health Networks, Managed Healthcare Executive, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the National Business Coalition on Health, the National Committee for Quality Assurance, and the National Quality Forum, among others.

Marshall Allen

Joseph Burns

Long Haulers and COVID-19: A Virtual Conversation with Dr. Greg Vanichkachorn, Mayo Clinic
2021-10-05 01:00
7:00 p.m. EST, October 05, 2021 (virtual)
Greg Vanichkachorn, M.D., M.P.H., is an occupational medicine specialist who works with post-COVID-19-syndrome patients at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota.

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A Conversation with Dr. Elizabeth Fowler of the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation
2021-10-04 01:00
12:00 p.m. EST, Tuesday, Oct. 5 (virtual)
During this exclusive on-the-record briefing, Elizabeth Fowler, director of the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI) and deputy administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, will provide opening remarks and respond to audience questions.
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Yale Law School’s “Access & Accountability 2021: Seize the Day”
2021-10-01 01:00 - 2021-10-02 01:00
The issue of censorship through federal government and other public information officers will be one of the main topics at Yale Law School’s “Access & Accountability 2021: Seize the Day” conference on October 1-2 via Zoom.
https://law.yale.edu/isp/initiatives/floyd-abrams-institute-freedom-expression/access-accountability-conferences/aac-2021
A session called “Censorship by PIO” at 9:45 a.m. EST on Oct. 2 will address the CDC and issues of particular relevance for health care reporters.
The opening speaker for the conference is Floyd Abrams, who won the landmark Pentagon Papers Supreme Court case.
The conference is free, open to the public and on Zoom. However, registration is required at: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/access-and-accountability-2021-tickets-166964773131

Stopping the Next One: How two journalists covered the race to prevent the next pandemic
2021-09-29 01:00
Fall 2021 Smith/Patterson Science Journalism Lecture
6 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 29Smith Forum, 200 RJISimultaneously live-streaming on the J School Facebook page
Journalists Harriet Constable and Jacob Kushner will discuss their six-part multimedia series for BBC, “Stopping the Next One,” which explores six diseases that could cause the next global pandemic and the scientists working to keep that from happening. Their stories cover a bat-borne virus in Asia, a super-spreader mosquito that has crossed from India to North America, African camels carrying Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS), swine flu in Europe, monkeys with yellow fever in South America, and possums carrying flesh-eating bacteria in Australia.
“The time to stop the next pandemic is now,” Kushner said. “As journalists, it’s our job to lead the way toward a solution by highlighting the public policies governments can enact to enable scientists to discover future, pandemic-possible diseases — before it’s too late.”
“I hope the audience comes away seeing that there’s a great deal we can all be doing – on a personal, local and global scale, to put ourselves in a safer position for the future,” Constable said.
Jacob will be here in-person from Nairobi, and Harriet will attend via Zoom from London.
Attend in-person (with masks) or watch live on the J School Facebook page.

Sciences Writers Annual Conference 2021
2021-09-28 01:00 - 2021-10-08 01:00
Sept. 28-Oct. 8, 2021Online
The National Association of Science Writers (NASW) and the Council for the Advancement of Science Writing are hosting their annual conference for science writers, with an agenda designed to appeal to both the newest writers and seasoned professionals.
The cost depends on your membership status and affiliations, as explained on the registration page.

Preparing for Flu Season and Preventing Another Pandemic
2021-09-24 01:00
Preparing for Flu Season and Preventing Another Pandemic
September 24, 2021 | 12 – 1:15 p.m. ET
The Alliance for Health Policy, in partnership with the Coalition to Stop Flu, is hosting a webinar to discuss flu season preparedness. This briefing will explore:

The similarities and differences between the season flu and COVID-19

How flu and the COVID-19 pandemic have intersected over the past 18 months

Available federal policy levers and policy strategies to improve our flu response.

Panelists include: Thomas A. Daschle, former U.S. Senator and member of Coalition to Stop Flu; Jennifer Pool Miller, of Families Fighting Flu; Anand Parekh, M.D., of the Bipartisan Policy Center; and L.J. Tan, M.S., Ph.D., of National Adult and Influenza Immunization Summit. The panel will be moderated by Amesh A. Adalja, M.D., of the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security.
Registration is free.

Finding Stories With Data
2021-09-21 01:00 - 2021-09-23 01:00
This online course is for journalists who are new to data journalism. In four, 1.5–hour workshops, participants will learn what data is available, how to find it, retrieve it, and find facts and patterns in it that will lead to stories. These are hands-on, screen–sharing workshops with regular Q&As, and participants are expected to contribute. Available to journalists worldwide, although journalists in the U.S. will have to get up early. The sessions are not recorded.

Organizer: The Centre for Investigative Journalism, based in London Dates: September 21-23; 10-11:30 a.m. London timeLocation: Online, via ZoomCost: £109

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National Academy for State Health Policy conference
2021-09-21 01:00 - 2021-09-22 01:00
The National Academy for State Health Policy is holding its 34th annual state health policy conference in September. NASHP is a nonpartisan forum of state policymakers that conducts policy analyses and research; disseminates information on state policies and programs; and provides technical assistance to states.
Join leading state health policy experts online as they discuss Medicaid, health insurance marketplaces, hospital costs, drug costs, telehealth, social determinants of health, behavioral health and other pressing issues.
Organizer: National Academy for State Health Policy Dates: September 21-22, 2021Location: OnlineFor more information: https://www.nashp.org/events/nashpconf21/Press pass: Contact Jennifer”¯Laudano”¯at ”¯jlaudano@nashp.org

What solutions journalism has to offer health care reporters
2021-09-21 01:00
Sept. 21, 2021, 11 a.m. ET
Solutions journalism goes beyond reporting on problems and explores the ways organizations and communities are trying to solve them. Learn what solutions journalism is, what it is not, and why it is so relevant to health care reporting. Get tips for generating and pitching great story ideas and for crafting a compelling narrative. Julia Hotz of the Solutions Journalism Network and Meryl Davids Landau and Sarah Kwon, two freelance reporters who have written solutions-focused stories, will guide the way. AHCJ’s freelance community correspondent Barbara Mantel will moderate.
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Links from the webcast

Solutions Journalism Network: Pitch your story

Introducing the Solutions Journalism Talent Network: Connecting Freelance Journalists to Editors

What Editors Are Looking For in Solutions Pitches

The Top 10 Takeaways from the Newest Solutions Journalism Research

Speakers

Julia Hotz is a journalist who’s reported solutions-focused stories for The New York Times, The Boston Globe, WIRED, Scientific American, Fast Company, VICE, Next City, and more. With her podcast-partner-in-coolness, Jay Woodward, Julia cohosts “Google, Tell Me Something Good” — a daily newscast exploring what’s working. As Network Manager at the Solutions Journalism Network, she leads workshops, directs strategy, and manages initiatives like the LEDE fellowship and mentorship program –which empower journalists around the world to do and spread more solutions-focused journalism.

Meryl Davids Landau is a novelist and freelance journalist, reporting on health, integrative health, psychology, science, climate change/environment, parenting, and general-interest topics. Meryl’s articles have appeared in numerous publications and websites, including The New York Times, Prevention, National Geographic, O: The Oprah Magazine, Vice, Undark, Glamour, Reader’s Digest, Good Housekeeping, Consumer Reports, Everyday Health, and AARP. In July, her article, “What Do Police Know About Teenagers? Not Enough,” ran in The New York Times’ Fixes column. The column examines efforts to address social problems.

Sarah Kwon is an independent journalist who covers public health issues and the business of health care. Sarah’s stories have been published in Fortune, Los Angeles Times, San Francisco Chronicle, The Boston Globe, and elsewhere. Before journalism, she worked in health policy and the health care industry. Sarah has written several solutions-focused stories, including an article for Health Affairs about the University of North Dakota’s approach to boosting American Indian representation in medicine and public health and an article about peer respites for people experiencing a mental health crisis that appeared in the Los Angeles Times.

Barbara Mantel, an independent journalist, is AHCJ’s freelance community correspondent. Her work has appeared in CQ Researcher, Rural Health Quarterly, Undark, Healthline, NBCNews.com and NPR, among others. She helps members find the resources they need to succeed as freelancers and welcomes your suggestions.

Julia Hotz

Meryl Davids Landau

Barbara Mantel

Free for AHCJ members: Virtual Collocated Value-based Care Summit
2021-09-20 01:00 - 2021-09-23 01:00
Bringing together ACO/Direct Contracting Summit XI
Bundled Payment Summit X
Medical Home/Advanced Primary care Summit IX
MACRA MIPS/APM Summit V
Medicare Advantage Summit III
One Registration – Attend All
Broadcast September 20-23 and Archived Thereafter
www.ValueBasedPaymentSummit.com

The Summit features a faculty of over 150.
AHCJ members may register for the Summit or the Summit’s post-conference video archive at no cost @ https://registration.eventsair.com/bps2021/compahcj/Site/Register.

Make it stop: Reporter burnout and the endless pandemic
2021-09-15 01:00
Sept. 15, 1 p.m. ET
It’s been more than a year and a half since reporters were thrust into the daily challenge of reporting on the COVID-19 pandemic, and there’s still no end in sight. It’s been a bruising struggle for the high ground against misinformation, disinformation and often very personal attacks on social media and in real life by news media-haters and science-rejecters. The strain of bearing witness to other people’s pain — on top of the personal losses many reporters have suffered — has made a hard job even more difficult. Is there a way to do this kind of work and stay psychologically healthy? The answer is yes. Find out how.
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Elana Newman, Ph.D. is McFarlin Professor of Psychology at the University of Tulsa, research director of the Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma, and co-director of the University of Tulsa Institute of Trauma, Adversity, and Injustice. She is a journalist ally & expert in traumatic stress studies. Throughout her career, Newman has researched a wide range of topics regarding traumatic life events: PTSD assessment in children and adults, journalism and trauma, veterans, disaster mental health, substance abuse, sexual assault, therapy, cultural issues, and trauma, and trauma research ethics. Together with a colleague, she fostered the creation and acceptance of the APA New Haven Competencies/Guidelines on Trauma Competencies for Education and Training. Her scholarly work in journalism and trauma focuses on understanding the occupational health of journalists who cover traumatic events and examining the effects of journalistic practice upon consumers and individuals covered in the news. Newman has overseen the development of a bibliographic database about journalism and trauma to aid teachers and scholars in identifying information about trauma and journalism (see www.dartcenter.org). She helps journalists learn about trauma science, best psychological practices for interviewing survivors, self-care, best newsroom practices and consider other ways psychological knowledge may be relevant to journalistic practice. Newman also trains organizations, professionals, clinicians, and researchers on how they can better collaborate with journalists. Newman regularly consults to a range of organizations, attorneys, businesses and about trauma science, resilience building, self-care, trauma-informed practice. Newman also serves as a writing consultant for those working on trauma-related topics. Newman co-directed the Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma’s first satellite office in NYC after 9-11. Newman is a past president of the International Society of Traumatic Stress Studies.

Naseem Miller is senior health editor at The Journalist’s Resource, a project of Harvard Kennedy School’s Shorenstein Center. Prior to JR she was the senior health reporter at the Orlando Sentinel, where she covered the Pulse Nightclub mass shooting. In 2017, she helped start the Journalists Covering Trauma Facebook group to create a supportive space for reporters who cover tragic events. She has an undergraduate degree in molecular and microbiology and a master’s degree in multimedia journalism and public affairs.

Katti Gray is AHCJ’s core topic leader for behavioral and mental health. A former Rosalynn Carter Mental Health Journalism Fellow, Gray provides resources to help AHCJ members expand their coverage of mental health amid ongoing efforts to de-stigmatize mental illness and to place mental health care on par with all health care.

Caroline Chen is an investigative reporter covering health care at ProPublica. Her stories on the pandemic were part of the coverage that earned ProPublica a finalist nomination for the Pulitzer Prize in public service.

Katherine Reed will moderate and is director of education and content and a longtime member of AHCJ. She was a professor of practice in the Missouri School of Journalism for 17 years and an editor at the Columbia Missourian. She designed and taught a course on covering trauma and a course for STEM field and journalism students on improving science communication.

Elana Newman

Naseem Miller

Katti Gray

Caroline Chen

Katherine Reed

2021 National Health Research Forum
2021-09-13 01:00 - 2021-09-15 01:00
Begins 10:30 a.m. ET, Sept. 13, 2021September 13-15, 2021Virtual Forum, Free Registration

Join Research!America for its annual National Health Research Forum, called”¯“Straight Talk: Fighting Health Threats Faster.” The three-day, virtual forum is designed to engage public discussion with top federal officials, research leaders, and national media on health and R&D-related issues that are vital to the nation, economy, and patients in the U.S. and across the globe.
Among the speakers scheduled include, Republican Rep. Fred Upton, of Michigan; Democratic Rep. Diana DeGette, of Colorado; Eric Lander, Director,”¯White House Office of Science and Technology and Science Advisor to the President; Sethuraman Panchanathan, Director, National Science Foundation; Dr. Francis Collins,”¯Director, National Institutes of Health; Dr. Rochelle Walensky, Director, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; Dr. Ned Sharpless, Director, National Cancer Institute, NIH; Dr. Peter Marks, Director, Food and Drug Administration’s Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research; Dr. Jacqueline Corrigan-Curay, Principal Deputy Center Director of the FDA Center for Drug Evaluation and Research; Dr. Julia Beaver, Chief of Medical Oncology, FDA Oncology Center of Excellence, Acting Deputy Director, FDA Office of Oncologic Diseases; former Democratic Rep. Patrick J. Kennedy, of Rhode Island and founder of the Kennedy Forum; Scott Gottlieb, former FDA Commissioner; Dr. Mark McClellan, Director of the Duke-Robert J. Margolis, MD Center for Health Policy; Dr. Robert J. Margolis, Professor of Business, Medicine, and Policy at Duke University; Albert Bourla, Pfizer Chief Executive Officer; John Maraganore, Alnylam Pharmaceuticals Chief Executive Officer; Mark Reisenauer, Astellas Pharma U.S. president; Marcia McNutt, president of the National Academy of Sciences”¯and Laurie Hernandez, two-time Olympic Medalist and mental health advocate.

Registration is required but free.

For media requests, email Tim Haynes: thaynes@researchamerica.org

Deadline: 2021 Data Fellowship, The Center for Health Journalism
2021-09-13 01:00
2021 Data Fellowship
The Center for Health Journalism at the USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism is sponsoring a fellowship for skilled journalists “who want to learn to mine data sources to reveal key insights essential to high-impact journalism.” Fellows will learn how to acquire, clean, analyze and visualize data from leading data journalists and trainers. Applicants must propose an ambitious investigative or explanatory reporting project. After the training, each fellow will receive a $2,000 grant to support reporting and data acquisition costs. In addition, they will receive expert one-on-one mentoring for six months. This is an excellent opportunity for journalists who want to get started in data journalism.

Organizer: The Center for Health Journalism at the USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism

Location: Online via Zoom

Dates: Oct. 25–29, 2021

Application deadline: September 13, 2021

For more information: https://tinyurl.com/338ztvvx

How to apply: https://tinyurl.com/2u46euez

National Assisted Living Week
2021-09-12 01:00 - 2021-09-18 01:00
National Assisted Living Week was established in 1995 by the American Health Care Association and the National Center for Assisted Living to recognize and celebrate the role of assisted living in caring for older people; it’s marked by events and activities for residents, staff, and families. Contact: AHCAPressOffice@ahca.org

Healthy AgingÂ® Month
2021-09-01 01:00 - 2021-09-30 01:00
Healthy Aging® Month The goal of the month is to provide “inspiration and practical ideas for adults, ages 50-plus, to improve their physical, mental, social, and financial well-being, according to Healthy Aging Magazine, whose editor created the observance.

Prostate Health Month and Prostate Cancer Awareness Month
2021-09-01 01:00 - 2021-09-30 01:00
Prostate Health Month and Prostate Cancer Awareness Month This disease is the most common non-skin cancer in the U.S., affecting 1 in 8 men. Awareness, screening and early detection can help save lives. Contact: press@pcf.org

Breast Cancer and African Americans Conference
2021-08-28 01:00
Breast Cancer and African Americans Conference Saturday, August 28th

COVID-19 Variants and Uptake of Vaccinations among Latinos
2021-08-25 01:00

Prevention Specialists and Native Communities Webinar Series
2021-08-20 01:00 - 2021-12-17 01:00
Prevention Specialists and Native Communities Webinar Series

August 20, September 17, October 15, November 19, & December 17, 2021, 1 p.m. ET

NABJ Convention & Career Fair
2021-08-18 01:00 - 2021-08-21 01:00
The National Association of Black Journalists is holding a virtual convention and career fair over four days in August. The event will include more than 100 workshops and training sessions, networking sessions, a career fair featuring more than 60 media companies and exhibitors, and the option to schedule appointments with recruiters.
Dates: August 18-21, 2021
Location: Virtual
For more information: https://nabj21.vfairs.com
Register: https://s4.goeshow.com/nabj/annual/2021/NABJ_Registration3.cfm

Media Briefing to Discuss COVID-19 Vaccinations In Black/African American Communities
2021-08-11 01:00
WHAT: According to a recent Kaiser Family Foundation Vaccine Monitor report, COVID-19 vaccine uptake among Black/African American populations continues to lag in at least 40 states. The need to address this trend is crucial because of the recent rapid rise in COVID-19 infections and deaths, a sharp decline in vaccinations, the emergence of the more contagious Delta variant, as well as the misinformation and myths that continue to persist about the virus.
The We Can Do This campaign is hosting a virtual press briefing for Black/African American media. During this live event, medical experts, including trusted Black local doctors, will provide up-to-date COVID-19 vaccine information and will discuss how Black/African Americans can regain traction in their fight against COVID-19. Experts will discuss building confidence in the vaccines, the importance of getting adolescents and young adults vaccinated, and the Delta variant. The event will also address the social conditions that make Black Americans more susceptible to COVID-19 and the impact of COVID-19 on Black families.
WHO:

Dr. Cameron Webb, Senior Policy Advisor for Equity on the White House COVID-19 Response Team

Georgeta Dragoiu, White House Presidential Innovation Fellow on the COVID-19 Public Education Campaign

Dr. Rachel Villanueva, Clinical Assistant Professor of Obstetrics/Gynecology at the NYU Grossman School of Medicine and President of the National Medical Association

Dr. Michele Benoit-Wilson, WakeMed Health, Raleigh, NC

WHEN: Wednesday, August 11, 2021, 12 pm ET (11 am CT)
WHERE: Click here to register.
HOW: For additional information please contact: Darryl Sellers, Director of Public
Relations for Creative Marketing Resources, (612) 834-2793, darryl@cmredge.com

Back to school: Reporting on COVID-19 as kids return to classes
2021-08-11 01:00
Aug. 11, 9 a.m. ET
As parents prepare to send their kids back to elementary, middle and high school this fall, challenging questions persist about balancing children’s safety with the importance of school. Hear from an infectious disease expert and a school nurse about the latest data on COVID-19 in children and what needs to be done to protect them. You’ll also have an opportunity to get comments on the CDC’s latest mask guidance for students and teachers to improve your coverage of schools and the pandemic.
Recording of the webcast …

Tina Q. Tan, M.D., is professor of pediatrics at the Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, and a pediatric infectious diseases attending; medical director of the International Patient Services Program (IPS); co-director of the Pediatric Travel Medicine Clinic; and director of the International Adoptee Clinic at Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago. She is board certified in Pediatrics and Pediatric Infectious Diseases. Tan received her medical degree from Louisiana State University School of Medicine in New Orleans. She completed her residency, chief residency, and pediatric infectious diseases fellowship in the Department of Pediatrics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston. Tan is the chairperson of the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) Section on Infectious Diseases (SOID).

Robin Cogan, M.Ed., R.N., N.C.S.N., is in her 21st year as a New Jersey school nurse in the Camden City School District. She is also the legislative co-chair for the New Jersey State School Nurses Association and a Johnson & Johnson School Health Leadership Fellow and past program mentor. Robin is the recipient of the 2019 and 2020 National Association of School Nurses President’s Award, 2018 NCSN School Nurse of the Year, 2017 Johnson & Johnson School Nurse of the Year, and the New Jersey Department of Health 2017 Population Health Hero Award. Robin is on the faculty in the School Nurse Certificate Program at Rutgers University-Camden School of Nursing where she teaches the next generation of school nurses. You can follow her on Twitter at @RobinCogan.

Daaiyah Bilal-Threats is a labor, social justice and public education advocate who serves as senior policy advisor at the National Education Association (NEA), representing 3 million educators. Daaiyah works to ensure that NEA’s education policy priorities are shaped first and foremost by educators, as well as parents, communities and a multitude of partners and allies that are needed to ensure that students and public education thrive. She has worked in large-scale social change beginning with the World Wildlife Fund, American Red Cross, and Health Information Network. She joined the NEA as a policy analyst focusing on the combination of public health and education policy. She has wide-ranging experience leading national and international programming, as well as political campaigns, that advance racial and social justice, public education, and pro-public education candidates. She currently serves in leadership roles with the Committee on States, Color of Change PAC, the National Council for Responsive Philanthropy, the Partnership for The Future of Learning, and the Coalition to Advance Future Student Success.

Bara Vaida is AHCJ’s core topic leader on infectious diseases. An independent journalist, she has written extensively about health policy and infectious diseases. Her work has appeared in the National Journal, Agence France-Presse, Bloomberg News, McClatchy News Service, MSNBC, NPR, Politico, The Washington Post and other outlets.

Tina Q. Tan

Robin Cogan

Daaiyah Bilal-Threats

Bara Vaida

Census Stories Beyond the Numbers
2021-08-11 01:00
Wondering what the 2020 U.S. Census will reveal about your community? By mid-August, the U.S. Census Bureau will release demographic statistics from last year’s data-gathering effort. Join this one-hour webinar to prepare to cover the stories behind the numbers. Journalists from all beats will learn key concepts, how to generate story ideas and where to find expert sources.
Sponsor: The Poynter Institute
Panelists: MaryJo Webster, Data Editor, Star Tribune; D’Vera Cohn, Senior Writer/Editor, Pew Research Center; Suzanne Gamboa, National Reporter and Senior Writer, NBCLatino; and Olivia Winslow, Demographics Reporter, Newsday.
When: August 11, 2:00 pm Eastern
Where: Online
Cost: Free
Registration: https://www.poynter.org/shop/reporting-editing/census-stories-beyond-the-numbers/

Numbers are not neutral: How journalists can detect deep bias & avoid hidden traps
2021-08-11 01:00
Numbers are tricky. They can contain hidden bias. The National Press Club Journalism Institute is hosting a program to educate journalists about detecting bias found in populations samples, research cohorts and survey audiences. The three panelists include a public opinion researcher, an award-winning health care reporter, and a professor sociology and anthropology.

When: Wednesday, August 11 at 11:30 a.m. ET

Cost: Free

For More Information: https://www.pressclubinstitute.org/event/numbers-are-not-neutral-how-journalists-can-detect-deep-bias-avoid-hidden-traps/

Registration: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_U_fWkH2hRxuh8r5T-WhCDw

Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society annual meeting
2021-08-09 01:00
August 9 — HIMSS21 Global Conference, Las Vegas

The annual meeting of the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society, a nonprofit organization dedicated to improving health care in quality, safety, cost-effectiveness and access through information technology and management systems, will feature both in-person and online events. Click here for registration information; press registration available.
