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SUMMARY:Long COVID update
DESCRIPTION:Journalists reporting on “long COVID” need to keep abreast of the latest research. In this media briefing from AAAS\, three experts will review the research on symptoms of long COVID\, risk factors for developing it and evolving treatment options. They will discuss the strengths and weaknesses of the peer-reviewed research and what reporters need to keep in mind as they cover long COVID.  \nSponsor: American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) \nWhen/Where: 2 p.m. ET\,  Wednesday\, September 28\, 2022 (online)l \nCost: Free \nVisit this webpage to register.  \nPanelists: \n\n\nDr. Bhramar Mukherjee\, University of Michigan School of Public Health \n\n\nDr. Christian Sandrock\, University of California Davis School of Medicine \n\n\nDr. Alexander Truong\, Emory University
URL:https://healthjournalism.org/event/long-covid-update/
CATEGORIES:None
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220928T010000
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DTSTAMP:20260404T033737
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SUMMARY:Nurse staffing and patient safety: What the research shows
DESCRIPTION:Sept. 28\, 1 p.m. ET \nJournalist Sarah DiGregorio\, author of the forthcoming book\, “Taking Care: The Revolutionary Story of Nursing\,” and Kerry Dooley Young\, AHCJ’s core topic leader on patient safety\, will review the findings of major studies on how nurse staffing levels affect quality of care. This webinar will introduce journalists to major papers and reports on this issue and provide an update on efforts at the state and federal level to mandate nurse-patient ratios. \nView the webcast \n“She Had a Preemie — and Then She Started to Ask Important Questions” was the headline of the 2020 New York Times review of DiGregorio’s first book\, “Early: An Intimate History of Premature Birth and What It Teaches Us.” DiGregorio\, who has a master’s in journalism from New York University\, has been published in the New York Times\, Washington Post\, the Wall Street Journal\, and the Village Voice and in magazines including Saveur and Parade\, specializing earlier in food writing. Her second book\, a cultural history of nursing called “Taking Care: The Revolutionary Story of Nursing\,” is forthcoming in May.
URL:https://healthjournalism.org/event/nurse-staffing-and-patient-safety-what-the-research-shows/
CATEGORIES:Webinar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220928T010000
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SUMMARY:Call for applicants for NIHCM Foundation Health Care Journalism Grant program
DESCRIPTION:The NIHCM Foundation is now accepting applications for the 2022-2023 cycle of its Health Care Journalism Grant program. \nGrants provide funding for:  \n\nEducational opportunities for working journalists.\nReporting projects across a broad range of print\, digital\, and broadcast media\, including national\, local\, and multilingual outlets serving audiences in the United States. \nSupport for documentary films’ public engagement campaigns.\n\nFor more information and to apply\, visit this webpage. \nApplication deadline: September 28\, 2022 @ 5:00 p.m. EST 
URL:https://healthjournalism.org/event/call-for-applicants-for-nihcm-foundation-health-care-journalism-grant-program/
CATEGORIES:None
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220927T010000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220927T010000
DTSTAMP:20260404T033737
CREATED:20231103T185107Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231109T153314Z
UID:26946-1664240400-1664240400@healthjournalism.org
SUMMARY:Telling the Stories of Rural Health in America
DESCRIPTION:Reporters often focus stories about rural health on the negatives\, such as barriers to access\, provider shortages\, technological disparities and relatively poor health outcomes.These issues are important to cover\, but so are positive stories. \nIn this webinar\, two journalists and one expert will talk about positive rural health storytelling. The panelists will discuss examples of positive storytelling and share valuable resources\, ideas and tools related to reporting on rural health. Bring your comments and questions. \nSponsor: National Organization of State Offices of Rural Health (NOSORH) \nWhen/Where: September 27\, 2:00 pm EST (online) \nCost: Free \nPanelists: \n\n\nLiz Carey\, correspondent\, Daily Yonder  \n\n\nTony Pipa\, senior fellow\, Center for Sustainable Development – Brookings Institution \n\n\nSarah Jane Tribble\, senior correspondent\, Kaiser Health News \n\n\n For more information and to register\, visit this webpage.
URL:https://healthjournalism.org/event/telling-the-stories-of-rural-health-in-america/
CATEGORIES:None
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220922T010000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220922T010000
DTSTAMP:20260404T033737
CREATED:20231103T185112Z
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SUMMARY:Ask the expert: A White House Q&A on monkeypox
DESCRIPTION:Sept. 22\, noon ET \nMonkeypox is the latest infectious disease outbreak for health journalists to cover and explain to the public. \nIn early August\, President Biden declared monkeypox a public health emergency and named Dr. Demetre Daskalakis\, CDC director of HIV/AIDS prevention\, as deputy coordinator of the administration’s effort to respond to the outbreak. Daskalakis will take questions for 30 minutes during this webcast\, so bring your questions about transmission\, risk\, health equity and how not to perpetuate stigma in your coverage. \nView the webcast \nDemetre Daskalakis \nBara Vaida \nDemetre Daskalakis is the deputy coordinator of the White House monkeypox response. He previously was director of the division of HIV/AIDS prevention at the CDC’s National Center for HIV/AIDS\, Viral Hepatitis\, STD and TB Prevention. Daskalakis was integral in designing and leading many HIV and STD programs in New York City\, including their Ending the Epidemic program\, which is credited with decreasing HIV incidence to an historic low.
URL:https://healthjournalism.org/event/ask-the-expert-a-white-house-qa-on-monkeypox/
CATEGORIES:Webinar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220915T010000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220915T010000
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SUMMARY:Lunch and Learn: Finding ... and keeping ... accountability partners
DESCRIPTION:When/Where: 1:00 p.m. ET\, Sept. 15 (virtual) \nView the webcastMeeting ID: 943 4281 6993
URL:https://healthjournalism.org/event/lunch-and-learn-finding-and-keeping-accountability-partners/
CATEGORIES:Freelancers,Lunch and Learn,None,Webinar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220914T010000
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SUMMARY:Understanding the pharmacy benefit manager 'shell game'
DESCRIPTION:Sept. 14\, 1 p.m. ET \nIn this webcast\, Ohio-based\, award-winning journalist Darrel Rowland will explain the strategies pharmacy benefit managers use to boost profits by increasing what patients pay out of pocket for their medications and limiting the drugs that insurers will cover. He’ll also talk about how pharmacy benefit managers have driven smaller and locally owned pharmacies out of business. \nThese strategies and others led the Federal Trade Commission to begin an investigation this spring into the practices of the six largest PBMs — CVS Caremark\, Express Scripts\, OptumRx\, Humana Inc.; Prime Therapeutics\, and MedImpact Healthcare Systems — and Rowland will help prepare journalists to report on the outcome of that investigation. \n  \nView the webcast \n  \nLinks\nA press release about a report from the U.S. Senate Finance Committee on insulin and the role of PBMs and other actors in the drug-supply chain: \n\n\nhttps://www.finance.senate.gov/chairmans-news/grassley-wyden-release-insulin-investigation-uncovering-business-practices-between-drug-companies-and-pbms-that-keep-prices-high \n\n\nThe press release includes a link to all of the material the committee reviewed\, including the full text of the committee’s investigative report and the committee’s records: HERE.   \nAnd here’s a link to the report itself: \n\n\nhttps://www.finance.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/Grassley-Wyden Insulin Report (FINAL 1).pdf \n\n\nHere are links from the Federal Trade Commission on its PBM investigation into PBMs: \n\n\nhttps://www.ftc.gov/news-events/events/2022/06/future-pharmaceuticals-examining-analysis-pharmaceutical-mergers \n\n\nFTC-DOJ Listening Forum – Health Care- April 14\, 2022 \n\n\nThe Future of Pharmaceuticals – June 14\, 2022 \n\n\nThe Future of Pharmaceuticals – June 15\, 2022 \n\nMerger Guidelines Listening Forum- June 21\, 2022\n\nOther sources mentioned included: \n\n\nAntonio Ciaccia at 3 Axis Advisors\, a consulting firm\, and at 46Brooklyn Research\, drug-price researchers and on Twitter at @A_Ciaccia \n\n\nAdam J. Fein\, PhD\, CEO of Drug Channels Institute. \n\n\nAnd here’s a link to a report in 2019 from the Massachusetts Health Policy Commission on what’s called the ‘black box’ in the relationship between health insurers and PBMs: \n\n\nCracking Open the Black Box of Pharmacy Benefit Managers \n\n\n  \nDarrel Rowland \nJoseph Burns \nDarrel Rowland is an independent journalist who has won multiple awards for his work over more than three decades at The Columbus Dispatch in Ohio as a reporter and editor. His work has focused on what he calls accountability stories about pharmacy benefit managers and on a wide variety of other topics. Stories he supervised led to the resignation of an Ohio attorney general\, and he has reported on a scandal in which state officials admitted to improperly withholding $40 million in child-support payments to single parents.
URL:https://healthjournalism.org/event/understanding-the-pharmacy-benefit-manager-shell-game/
CATEGORIES:Webinar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220914T010000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220914T010000
DTSTAMP:20260404T033737
CREATED:20231103T185108Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231109T153317Z
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SUMMARY:Youth and gender identity and transitioning
DESCRIPTION:More than 5% of U.S. young adults say their gender is different from the sex assigned to them at birth. At the same time\, at least 15 states are currently debating laws that would restrict the types or timing of interventions designed to support young people wishing to change their gender. \nSciLine’s next media briefing will cover: what is known about how gender identity develops\, including the role of external factors such as family\, school\, and community environments; what is involved in the process of medical transition\, including the use of puberty blockers and hormone treatments; and research findings on how the outward\, social transition to a different gender — and the age at which that transition occurs — can impact a person’s mental health. Three experts will brief reporters and then take questions on the record. \nFeatured panelists \n● Dr. Jenifer McGuire\, University of Minnesota \n● Dr. Madeline Deutsch\, University of California\, San Francisco \n● Dr. Alex Keuroghlian\, Harvard Medical School and The Fenway Institute \n● SciLine Director Rick Weiss will moderate the briefing. \nWhen/Where:1:00pm EST\, Wednesday\, September 14\, 2022 (Online) \n  \nFind more information and a video about the event\, visit this webpage. \n 
URL:https://healthjournalism.org/event/youth-and-gender-identity-and-transitioning/
CATEGORIES:None
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220829T010000
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SUMMARY:Application deadline approaching for IRE freelance fellowships
DESCRIPTION:The Investigative Reporters & Editors is acceptinon applications for freelance fellowships  awarded to journalists for project proposals of impact\, breadth and significance. Priority will be given to proposals that involve whistleblowers\, business ethics or privacy issues. The awards support freelance work that will be published in the United States and in outlets that have a primarily American audience. \nFellowship details: Awards range from $1\,000 to $2\,500\, plus a one-year IRE membership. \nApplication deadline: August 29th\, 2022.  \nFor more details and to apply\, visit the IRE website.
URL:https://healthjournalism.org/event/application-deadline-approaching-for-ire-freelance-fellowships/
CATEGORIES:None
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220825T010000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220827T010000
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CREATED:20231025T162452Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231109T153318Z
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SUMMARY:NAJA National Native Media Conference
DESCRIPTION:The Native American Journalists Association will host the National Native Media Conference Aug. 25-27\, 2022 at the Hyatt Regency Phoenix. Special events and programs will also be hosted at the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Arizona State University.
URL:https://healthjournalism.org/event/naja-national-native-media-conference/
CATEGORIES:Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220818T010000
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SUMMARY:Investigating alcohol harms in your community
DESCRIPTION:New Mexico In Depth recently published an investigative series\, “Blind Drunk\,” documenting the toll alcohol takes on the state. \nThe investigation was sweeping. But whatever your beat or focus area\, alcohol remains a huge\, largely uncovered story with impacts on health\, crime\, policing\, business\, culture\, or politics. \nFor reporters as well as others who want to learn more\, this briefing by reporter Ted Alcorn will provide an overview of the problem and a basic toolkit to get started with your own investigation into alcohol harms in your community. There will also be time for discussion\, questions and answers. \nThis event is free. Register today and join us on Thursday\, August 18 at noon\, Mountain Time. \n~~~ \nTed Alcorn is a writer raised in New Mexico whose work has appeared in The New York Times\, The Atlantic\, and The Washington Post Magazine\, among other publications. For New Mexico In Depth he’s investigated how the state’s prisons have ignored an epidemic of hepatitis C\, how Albuquerque stood up its branch of non-police emergency response\, and how non-profit hospitals shortchange community health. Follow him at @tedalcorn. \nNew Mexico In Depth is an award-winning\, nonprofit media outlet that produces investigative\, data-rich stories with an eye on solutions that can be a catalyst for change.
URL:https://healthjournalism.org/event/investigating-alcohol-harms-in-your-community/
CATEGORIES:None
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220728T010000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220728T010000
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SUMMARY:Free SciLine Media Briefing
DESCRIPTION:SciLine\, a free service for journalists from the American Association for the Advancement of Science\, is holding a media briefing about the physical and mental health effects of experiencing extreme heat for different demographics. These include children\, older people and outdoor workers. Panelists will discuss trends in deaths\, hospitalizations and other outcomes\, disparities in outcomes and measures communities can take to keep people safe. Panelists will also take questions from reporters. \nWhen/Where: Thursday\, July 28\, at 3 p.m. EST (virtual) \nCost: Free \nPanelists: \n\n\nDr. Perry Sheffield\, associate professor of environmental medicine and public health at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai  \n\n\nDr. Amruta Nori-Sarma\, assistant professor of environmental health @ Boston University School of Public Health \n\n\nModerator: \nSciLine Deputy Director Dr. Meredith Drosback \nTo register\, visit the SciLine website.
URL:https://healthjournalism.org/event/free-sciline-media-briefing/
CATEGORIES:None
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220726T010000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220726T010000
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LAST-MODIFIED:20231109T153319Z
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SUMMARY:Follow The Money: American Rescue Plan
DESCRIPTION:This Poynter Institute webinar will review how the 2021 American Rescue Plan and other federal stimulus funds are being used in local communities. Participants will: \n\n\nGain practical advice on how to track federal spending in local communities. \n\n\nLearn best practices for spending federal funds on public health\, public safety\, infrastructure and the environment. \n\n\nHear questions from other journalists who are analyzing federal spending. \n\n\nInstructors include Kristen Hare\, a faculty member at the Poynter Institute; Taylor DesOrmeau\, a data reporter for MLive; Shelby Harris\, a local reporter for Carolina Public Press; Weihua Li\, a data reporter at The Marshall Project; and Anastasia Valeeva\, a data journalist and editor at The Marshall Project. \nSponsor: Poynter Institute \nWhen/Where: 1:00 p.m. EST\, July 26\, 2022 (Online) \nCost: Free \nTo register and for more details\, visit Poynter Institute website. \n 
URL:https://healthjournalism.org/event/follow-the-money-american-rescue-plan/
CATEGORIES:None
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220714T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220714T130000
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SUMMARY:Rural Health Workshop 2022 Chattanooga
DESCRIPTION:By Katti Gray | July 27\, 2022 \n\n\n\nFinding and parsing rural health data\, tracking COVID-19’s curve in rural regions\, the promise and limitations of telemedicine for rural health consumers\, and reopening rural hospitals were among the topics tackled at AHCJ’s Rural Health Workshop 2022. (Check out full panel recordings.) \n\n\n\nDuring the first in-person Rural Health Workshop since 2019 in Denver\, expert panelists also cited ongoing gaps in care for rural patients and shared innovations for filling some of those voids. \n\n\n\nThe one-day workshop was hosted by the University of Tennessee School of Medicine Chattanooga; the University of Tennessee Health Science Center College of Nursing; Cempa Community Care and Erlanger Health System. Sponsors were The Commonwealth Fund; the Helmsley Charitable Trust; and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. \n\n\n\nStories about health in far-flung\, medically underserved places are fodder for journalists and essential to improving rural health care\, said Rob Headrick\, M.D.\, CHI Memorial Rees Skillern Cancer Institute’s chief of thoracic surgery. \n\n\n\n“The challenge for us is how to combine your skills and mine … ” Headrick said during the panel “Bringing health care to the people: mobile screening and other routes to prevention.” \n\n\n\nHeadrick is among clinicians regularly traveling to rural communities to provide care and boost health literacy so health consumers refine their self-care and treat illnesses early on. “Health care is local\, meaning people search for solutions locally\,” said Headrick\, whose presentation spotlighted mobile lung screening. \n\n\n\n“When we get out to the rural communities\, there’s at least a perception that they can’t understand or don’t want to understand that I think is completely false … For so long we had this perception that lung cancer was just part of our culture\, particularly in the South — that it’s smoking-induced and somehow you deserve [it]. Yet it’s impacting our health care dollars. It’s making us less stable as a family [and] making us less stable as a county or a state.” \n\n\n\nWhen found early\, the cure rates for lung cancer — with death rates higher than opioid overdoses\, a more often-told news story — are relatively high\, Headrick said. But the lack of symptoms for lung cancer and stigma have prevented many who contract cancer from being diagnosed early. \n\n\n\nHis institute’s mobile unit puts more rural patients in the pool for whom there is 90% cure rate versus the 18% cure rate among those whose lung cancer isn’t detected early. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMaking connections and spreading hope\n\n\n\nBlake Farmer\, a reporter for NPR’s Nashville affiliate and for Kaiser Health News\, was among the 60 people who attended the six panels and heard luncheon keynote speaker Stephanie Boynton\, vice president and CEO for critical access facilities Erlanger Western Carolina Hospital and in Tennessee\, Erlanger Bledsoe Hospital. \n\n\n\n“This state has lost more hospitals than any state\, except for Texas\,” Farmer said at the end of the workshop. “That story is kind of old. What we heard about today was backfilling. How do you get the doctors\, the staffing?” \n\n\n\n“I came looking for ideas beneath the surface of the headlines I’ve written for years. I’ve just made a list of six or seven stories\,” Farmer said. “And I made connections here. I’m logging out of here with a pretty concrete list of stories I’d like to do in the next couple of months.” \n\n\n\nMedical student Amanda Lemus\, a volunteer organizer at Migrant Equity Southeast\, lent her expertise to “Few and far between: How sparse resources shaped the COVID-19 curve in rural communities.” In her fourth year at Medical College of Georgia\, she is considering setting up a rural practice. \n\n\n\n“My school and my upbringing have led me to want to do this. I’ve seen the need and grown up in it\,” said Lemus\, a Savannah native whose parents immigrated from Honduras. \n\n\n\n“The Latino community is where I’ve seen the most need\, especially in Savannah\,” she said. “But\, also\, … in my [medical] rotation\, I’ve gone to Vidalia and Claxson\, very small towns. I’ve seen the need. I’ve seen how many health care providers there are for the patient population.” \n\n\n\nLemus said she’s encouraged by student-loan debt forgiveness programs for physicians who move to rural areas. “I feel like\, once they get an idea of these areas\, they’ll actually want to stay there and practice.” \n\n\n\nThat’s the hope of Leslie Griffin\, M.D.\, family medicine residency director at the University of Tennessee College of Medicine’s Chattanooga campus. As it works to dispatch more newly minted family medicine doctors to rural communities\, it’s also expanding their skills in areas of medicine usually associated with physicians with niche specialties. \n\n\n\n“Family physicians are the way to go in the rural health track\,” said Griffin of that track in her medical school. \n\n\n\nThose doctors\, she added\, “do a lot more than a lot of the communities realize. Yes\, we do the adult care\, we do the geriatrics. But we also take care of kids. I still deliver babies. We do the g-y-n … We do sports medicine and non-operative orthopedics … pain management\, mental health. We have to. There’s no one else to do it.” \n\n\n\nKatti Gray (@kattigray) is AHCJ’s core topic leader for behavioral and mental health. A former Rosalynn Carter Mental Health Journalism Fellow\, Gray is providing 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. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHOSTS \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCollege of Medicine Chattanooga  |  College of Nursing \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSPONSORS
URL:https://healthjournalism.org/event/rural-health-workshop-2022-chattanooga/
LOCATION:DoubleTree by Hilton\, 407 Chestnut Street\, 37402-4904 United States\, Chattanooga\, United States
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SUMMARY:Rural Health Journalism Workshop 2022
DESCRIPTION:Finding and parsing rural health data\, tracking COVID-19’s curve in rural regions\, the promise and limitations of telemedicine for rural health consumers\, and reopening rural hospitals were among the topics tackled at AHCJ’s Rural Health Workshop 2022. \n  \n 
URL:https://healthjournalism.org/event/rural-health-journalism-workshop-2022/
CATEGORIES:Workshops | Summits
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220713T010000
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SUMMARY:Senate’s health committee to hold hearing following Dobbs decision
DESCRIPTION:Senator Patty Murray (D-WA)\, chair of the Senate Committee on Health\, Education\, Labor\, and Pensions (HELP)\, will lead a hearing on how the Dobbs decision affects reproductive health care in America and the barriers\, challenges\, and threats it poses to women’s health. The hearing will begin at 10 a.m. on July 13. \nAll members of the media may watch the hearing remotely at www.help.senate.gov. Check the HELP committee website for more details on the hearing. \n 
URL:https://healthjournalism.org/event/senateaes-health-committee-to-hold-hearing-following-dobbs-decision/
CATEGORIES:None
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220630T010000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220630T010000
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UID:26939-1656550800-1656550800@healthjournalism.org
SUMMARY:Application deadline approaching for Columbia Journalism School Age Boom Academy
DESCRIPTION:Annual call for applicants for this free virtual forum to help journalists deepen their coverage of the caregiving crisis across America. Training will be held over four two-hour sessions in October. \nWhen/Where: October\, 13\, 14\, 20 and 21 (online) \nContact: Catilin Hawke\, cmh2197@cumc.columbia.edu \nApplication deadline: June 30\, 2022 \n 
URL:https://healthjournalism.org/event/application-deadline-approaching-for-columbia-journalism-school-age-boom-academy/
CATEGORIES:None
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220629T010000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220629T010000
DTSTAMP:20260404T033737
CREATED:20231103T185048Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231109T152651Z
UID:26935-1656464400-1656464400@healthjournalism.org
SUMMARY:Breaking the Law or Breaking the Oath: How Abortion Bans Betray America's Patient's and Physicians
DESCRIPTION:As the decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization — and the likely subsequent overturn of Roe v. Wade and Casey v. Planned Parenthood looms — physicians and patients across the country must prepare to navigate the ethical quagmire that abortion bans present. That preparation requires an assessment of the full scope of abortion restrictions’ effects\, including how physicians’ ethical obligations to their patients and to the practice of medicine may be reshaped\, redirected or even contradicted by the threat posed by laws not founded in science or based on evidence. \nThis webinar will bring leading physician\, legal\, and ethicist voices together to discuss how the Dobbs decision betrays America’s patients and physicians — and asks physicians to be complicit by betraying their patients as well. While it’s difficult to anticipate the reach and effects of the oncoming wave of abortion bans and restrictions\, panelists will discuss how clinicians must prepare themselves mentally for the changes they will be forced to make and provide ideas on how the medical community can bring the most ethical and comprehensive care possible to patients. \nExplore the full agenda and learn about the speakers. \nWHEN/WHERE: Noon to 4 p.m. ET\, June 29\, 2022 \nLocation: Register here. \n 
URL:https://healthjournalism.org/event/breaking-the-law-or-breaking-the-oath-how-abortion-bans-betray-americas-patients-and-physicians/
CATEGORIES:None
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220629T010000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220629T010000
DTSTAMP:20260404T033737
CREATED:20231103T185037Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231109T152652Z
UID:26928-1656464400-1656464400@healthjournalism.org
SUMMARY:A Cochrane conversation on using systematic reviews
DESCRIPTION:June 29\, 2 p.m. ET \nIn the era of big data\, some think that all you need for a systematic review is enough data. Not true\, say Cochrane experts\, who apply a rigorous methodology to their systematic reviews to minimize bias and produce more reliable\, higher quality research findings. Journalists who attend this webinar will learn: \n\n\nThe difference between a study\, a review\, meta-analyses\, and systematic reviews \n\n\nWhat’s so great about systematic reviews \n\n\nHow to read a systematic review and evaluate its quality \n\n\nWhat to care about in the summary of findings table \n\n\nHow to report on a systematic review to help your readers make informed health decisions \n\n\nCochrane’s protocol for assessing health evidence and how it compares to others’. \n\n\nView the webcast—Slides (892 KB .pdf) \nLisa Bero \nTara Haelle \nProfessor Lisa Bero is a researcher in evidence-based health care and is internationally known for her studies on the integrity of clinical and basic research evidence that is used to influence health policy. She is affiliate professor\, University of Sydney\, where she founded the multidisciplinary Evidence\, Policy and Influence Collaborative at the Charles Perkins Centre\, focusing on bias and its influence on the integrity of research. She is a professor of medicine and public health and chief scientist\, Center for Bioethics and Humanities\, University of Colorado. She has contributed to Cochrane as an author\, editor\, center director\, and member and co-chair of Cochrane’s Governing Board\, and is currently senior editor\, research integrity. She is also a longtime contributor to the work of the World Health Organization\, including serving as a member of the Guideline Review Committee\, and as chair of the Essential Medicines Committee. \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://healthjournalism.org/event/a-cochrane-conversation-on-using-systematic-reviews/
CATEGORIES:Webinar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220628T010000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220628T010000
DTSTAMP:20260404T033737
CREATED:20231103T185050Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231109T152653Z
UID:26938-1656378000-1656378000@healthjournalism.org
SUMMARY:Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee
DESCRIPTION:The FDA’s Advisory Committee will meet in open session to discuss whether and how the SARS-CoV-2 strain composition of COVID-19 vaccines should be modified. \nThe meeting will include slide presentations with audio components to allow the presentation of materials in a manner that most closely resembles an in-person advisory committee meeting. \nWhen/Where: 8:30 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. EST\, Tuesday\, June 28\, 2022  (Online)  \nFor more information and to participate\, visit the FDA’s website. \n 
URL:https://healthjournalism.org/event/vaccines-and-related-biological-products-advisory-committee/
CATEGORIES:None
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220627T010000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220627T010000
DTSTAMP:20260404T033737
CREATED:20231103T185049Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231109T152654Z
UID:26937-1656291600-1656291600@healthjournalism.org
SUMMARY:Protecting Immunocompromised Patients through Effective Prevention and Treatment
DESCRIPTION:Join the National Foundation for Infectious Diseases (NFID) for a webinar addressing current recommendations to protect adult immunocompromised patients through effective prevention and treatment of infectious diseases. Discussion topics will include current U.S. vaccination recommendations\, gaps in immunization coverage among immunocompromised adult patients\, and strategies to overcome challenges. Speakers will also address questions submitted by participants\, as time allows. \nNFID Medical Director William Schaffner\, M.D.\, will moderate the discussion with Kathleen Dooling\, MD\, MPH\, Medical Officer in the Division of Viral Diseases at the CDC and Camille Kotton\, MD\, Clinical Director of Transplant Infectious Disease and Immunocompromised Host Program at Massachusetts General Hospital. \nWhen/Where: 1:00 PM EST\, Monday\, June 27\, 2022  \nFor more information and to register for this event\, visit this webpage.
URL:https://healthjournalism.org/event/protecting-immunocompromised-patients-through-effective-prevention-and-treatment/
CATEGORIES:None
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220623T010000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220623T010000
DTSTAMP:20260404T033737
CREATED:20231103T185049Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231109T152655Z
UID:26936-1655946000-1655946000@healthjournalism.org
SUMMARY:ECRI holds webinar on CPAP recall
DESCRIPTION:The nonprofit group ECRI will hold a webinar June 23 at noon ET about the 2021 recall alert for certain Philips Respironics issued a recall alert for certain CPAP\, BiPAP and mechanical ventilator devices due to potential health risks. Polyester-based polyurethane (PE-PUR) foam within the devices can break down\, leading to the potential ingestion of black pieces of foam or certain chemicals\, while using the device\, ECRI said. Although the recall was issued a year ago\, a full resolution has not been provided. On the webinar\, experts will discuss the cause of the problem and recommendations for helping patients.  \nWhen/Where: Noon EST\, Wednesday\, June 23\, 2022 \nTo register\, vist the ECRI website.
URL:https://healthjournalism.org/event/ecri-holds-webinar-on-cpap-recall/
CATEGORIES:None
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220623T010000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220623T010000
DTSTAMP:20260404T033737
CREATED:20231103T185048Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231109T152656Z
UID:26934-1655946000-1655946000@healthjournalism.org
SUMMARY:Data and Policy: Evidence-Based Opioid Use Disorder Treatment
DESCRIPTION:If you are covering the opioid epidemic\, join this free webinar hosted by The Foundation for Opioid Response Efforts to explain what data is showing about how best to treat opioid use disorder and what policies should be enacted. Speakers include: Arjun Venkatesh\, M.D.\, M.B.A.\, M.H.S.\, associate professor and chief of the section of administration in the Department of Emergency Medicine at Yale University\, Lisa Clemens-Cope\, Ph.D.\,\, senior research fellow in the Health Policy Center at the Urban Institute\, Peter Treitler\, MSW\, research specialist in the Center for Health Services Research at the Rutgers Institute for Health\, Health Care Policy and Aging Research and Bradley Stein\, M.D.\, Ph.D.\, director of the Opioid Policies\, Tools\, and Information Center (OPTIC) at the RAND Corporation. \nWhen/Where: 3 p.m. EST\, Thursday\, June 23\, 2022 \nVisit this webpage to register.
URL:https://healthjournalism.org/event/data-and-policy-evidence-based-opioid-use-disorder-treatment/
CATEGORIES:None
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220622T010000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220622T010000
DTSTAMP:20260404T033737
CREATED:20231103T185043Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231109T152657Z
UID:26931-1655859600-1655859600@healthjournalism.org
SUMMARY:Reporting the facts on abortion
DESCRIPTION:June 22\, noon ET \nWomen in many U.S. states are facing increased legal obstacles to abortion\, a trend that has been accelerating in recent years with laws now requiring waiting periods and “counseling\,” among other stipulations. A pending Supreme Court decision is expected to further limit access by banning the procedure outright in many states. \nTo help better inform your reporting\, using science and evidence-based information\, AHCJ will hold a webinar with Nisha Verma\, M.D.\, a fellow with the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG). Patient safety core topic leader Kerry Dooley Young will host the webinar. This session will help journalists know what to ask when presented with research on abortion\, particularly medical abortions. The webinar will also explore how political agendas have skewed research. Verma will also address the potential of telehealth in states where abortion is not restricted. \nView the webcast \nNisha Verma \nKerry Dooley Young \nNisha Verma\, M.D.\, M.P.H.\, F.A.C.O.G.\, was born in Greensboro\, N.C.\, and received her bachelor’s in Biology and Anthropology and her medical degree from the University of North Carolina\, Chapel Hill. She graduated from Obstetrics and Gynecology residency at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and completed her Complex Family Planning fellowship and Master’s in Public Health degree at Emory University. \nShe is currently serving as the Darney-Landy Fellow at the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists with their Strategies for Healthy Equity team and provides abortion care at Planned Parenthoods in the Delaware area. She is also Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics at Emory University. \nShe is particularly passionate about improving access to reproductive health care in the southeast United States\, her home region\, and has expertise in effective messaging techniques on complicated topics such as abortion.
URL:https://healthjournalism.org/event/reporting-the-facts-on-abortion/
CATEGORIES:Webinar
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220621T010000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220621T010000
DTSTAMP:20260404T033737
CREATED:20231103T185044Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231109T152657Z
UID:26933-1655773200-1655773200@healthjournalism.org
SUMMARY:Monkeypox update
DESCRIPTION:Monkeypox cases have now been confirmed in more than a dozen U.S. states. SciLine’s next media briefing will cover: science basics about the virus that causes Monkeypox\, including transmission dynamics and current U.S. case spread; prevention and treatment options\, including existing vaccines and their limitations; and lessons learned from COVID-19 and other outbreaks that can inform the country’s public health response to Monkeypox. \nFeatured experts include three scientists: Dr. Anne Rimoin of the University of California\, Los Angeles; Dr. Inger Damon of the CDC.  Dr. Amira Roess of George Mason University. They will brief reporters and then take questions. The discussion will be moderated by SciLine Director Rick Weiss. \nWhen/Where: 2-3 p.m. EST\, Tuesday\, June 21 (online) \nVisit this webpage to register. https://sciline.org/public-health/monkeypox-update/ \n 
URL:https://healthjournalism.org/event/monkeypox-update/
CATEGORIES:None
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220617T010000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220617T010000
DTSTAMP:20260404T033737
CREATED:20231103T185043Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231109T152658Z
UID:26932-1655427600-1655427600@healthjournalism.org
SUMMARY:What’s Next in Home and Community-Based Services?
DESCRIPTION:During this webinar hosted by the Alliance for Health Policy\,panelists will provide an overview of home and community-based services\, including populations receiving these services\, enrollment numbers\, workforce challenges\, benefits of HCBS and barriers to caring for complex populations. Speakers will also discuss recent federal policy measures taken to bolster HCBS as well as potential long-term policy levers to better improve this model. \nWhen/Where: 12:00 to 1:30 p.m. EST\, Friday\, June 17 (online) \nCheck out this webpage for more information and to register. \n 
URL:https://healthjournalism.org/event/whataes-next-in-home-and-community-based-services/
CATEGORIES:None
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220616T010000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220616T010000
DTSTAMP:20260404T033737
CREATED:20231103T185042Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231109T152659Z
UID:26930-1655341200-1655341200@healthjournalism.org
SUMMARY:Lunch and Learn (Virtual)
DESCRIPTION:Join us Thursday\, June 16 for AHCJ’s Lunch & Learn on contracts. We’re going to support one another and talk about rights-grabbing clauses that are sneaking in. Bring questions comments and negotiation strategies! \nWhen/Where: 1:00 p.m. ET\, June 16 (virtual) \nView the webcastMeeting ID: 961 8036 2044
URL:https://healthjournalism.org/event/lunch-and-learn-virtual-3/
CATEGORIES:None
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220610T010000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220610T010000
DTSTAMP:20260404T033737
CREATED:20231103T185036Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231109T152700Z
UID:26926-1654822800-1654822800@healthjournalism.org
SUMMARY:Facts in a Time of Fiction: Reporting the truth amid lies and disinformation
DESCRIPTION:Journalists have long been charged with sorting fact from fiction through their reporting. But what happens when readers redefine what they see as truth and what they’ll accept as fact? \nNew York Times writer and author Elizabeth Williamson\, whose critically-acclaimed book “Sandy Hook: An American Tragedy and the Battle for Truth” published this spring\, will describe how she threaded together more than 400 interviews\, 10\,000 pages of court testimony and other records\, and on-the-ground reporting to trace a line from conspiracy theories around Sandy Hook to Jan. 6\, 2021. \nParticipants will learn to: \n\nIdentify how misinformation and political conspiracy theories have spread.\nWork with sensitivity and clarity while reporting on conspiracy theories.\nPre-bunk conspiracy theories through early reporting.\nUse trauma-informed reporting methods while working with people suffering tragedy.\nOrganize reporting and deep research to craft a long-form narrative.\n\nWhen/Where: 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. EST\, Friday\, June 10\, 2022 (virtual) \nRegister for free using this link. 
URL:https://healthjournalism.org/event/facts-in-a-time-of-fiction-reporting-the-truth-amid-lies-and-disinformation/
CATEGORIES:None
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220610T010000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220610T010000
DTSTAMP:20260404T033737
CREATED:20231103T185035Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231109T152700Z
UID:26924-1654822800-1654822800@healthjournalism.org
SUMMARY:Reporting in An Age of Lies and Disinformation
DESCRIPTION:“Journalists have long been charged with sorting fact from fiction through their reporting. But what happens when readers redefine what they see as truth and what they’ll accept as fact?” asks the National Press Club’s Journalism Institute. \nIn a one-hour webinar at 11:30 am ET on June 10\, New York Times writer Elizabeth Williamson will share the insights she gained into how conspiracies grow as she reported and wrote her critically acclaimed book\, “Sandy Hook: An American Tragedy and the Battle for Truth\,” published this spring. \nThe institute says\, “Participants will learn to:  \n\nIdentify how misinformation and political conspiracy theories have spread;\nWork with sensitivity and clarity while reporting on conspiracy theories; \nPre-bunk conspiracy theories through early reporting;\nUse trauma-informed reporting methods while working with people suffering tragedy; and\nOrganize reporting and deep research to craft a long-form narrative.”\n\nRegistration is free.
URL:https://healthjournalism.org/event/reporting-in-an-age-of-lies-and-disinformation/
CATEGORIES:None
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220608T010000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220608T010000
DTSTAMP:20260404T033737
CREATED:20231103T185042Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231109T152701Z
UID:26929-1654650000-1654650000@healthjournalism.org
SUMMARY:Innovations in Healthy Aging 2022 Summit: Bridging Academia and Industry
DESCRIPTION:University of Arizona Health Sciences researchers and other leaders in the field of aging will discuss health care\, legal and environmental issues as they relate to meeting the needs of a diverse\, aging population. The event is free and open to the public; it’s hosted by Innovations in Healthy Aging\, a strategic initiative of UArizona Health Sciences\, Registration is required. To confirm attendance or to schedule interviews\, contact Annisa Westcott at annisa@arizona.edu or 520-626-8447. \nWhen/Where: 9:00 a.m.- 4:00 p.m. EST\, June 8\, at the University of Arizona Outreach and Collaboration in Washington D.C.\, and online. \nVisit the organization’s site to register. 
URL:https://healthjournalism.org/event/innovations-in-healthy-aging-2022-summit-bridging-academia-and-industry/
CATEGORIES:None
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