BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Association of Health Care Journalists - ECPv6.17.2//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:Association of Health Care Journalists X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://healthjournalism.org X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Association of Health Care Journalists REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20030406T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20031026T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20040404T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20041031T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20050403T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20051030T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20060402T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20061029T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20070311T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20071104T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20080309T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20081102T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20090308T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20091101T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20100314T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20101107T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20110313T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20111106T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20120311T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20121104T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20130310T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20131103T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20140309T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20141102T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20150308T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20151101T060000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20040716T010000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20140717T010000 DTSTAMP:20231109T163514Z CREATED:20231025T161620Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231109T163514Z UID:24011-1089939600-1405558800@healthjournalism.org SUMMARY:Private Healthcare Exchanges Conference DESCRIPTION:The Private Healthcare Exchanges conference July 16-17 in Chicago will focus on how the Affordable Care Act is changing the way insurers sell health insurance. Instead of marketing almost exclusively to employers\, the ACA has forced insurers to focus on enrolling consumers. The conference is sponsored by Employee Benefit News. URL:https://healthjournalism.org/event/private-healthcare-exchanges-conference/ CATEGORIES:Event END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080708T010000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080708T010000 DTSTAMP:20231109T160712Z CREATED:20231025T145949Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231109T160712Z UID:23497-1215478800-1215478800@healthjournalism.org SUMMARY:Health Care For America Now campaign kickoff DESCRIPTION:$40 Million Health Care Campaign to Launch in Virginia and Nationwide\nCommunity Leaders Push for Quality\, Affordable Health Care for Every American\nHealth Care for America Now\, a coalition of organizations that includes labor unions\, large community-based membership groups\, women's groups\, doctors\, nurses\, small businesses\, and leading netroots activists\, will launch a $40 million campaign to push for quality\, affordable health care for every American. \nThe coalition will hold a press conference on July 8 to outline the mission of the campaign and how it will affect people in Virginia. \nAlong with the event in Richmond\, the campaign will be hosting launch events in 44 cities (including 36 state capitals) across the country. Between now and election day\, the group plans to spend $25 million in paid media and have 100 organizers in 45 states. \nThe campaign's steering committee includes ACORN\, AFSCME\, Americans United for Change\, Campaign for America's Future\, Center for American Progress Action Fund\, Center for Community Change\, MoveOn\, NEA\, National Women's Law Center\, Planned Parenthood\, SEIU\, UFCW\, and USAction. \nWHO: Leaders of the Virginia Interfaith Center for Public Policy\, Virginia Poverty Law Center\, Virginia Organizing ProjectWHAT: Launch of the $40 million Health Care for America Now campaignWHERE: House Briefing Room\, First Floor\, General Assembly Building\, Richmond\, Va.WHEN: Tuesday\, July 8 at 11 a.m.Contact: Joe Szakos\, Executive Director\, Virginia Organizing Project\, (434) 984-4655 x 222 URL:https://healthjournalism.org/event/health-care-for-america-now-campaign-kickoff/ CATEGORIES:Event END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080709T010000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080709T010000 DTSTAMP:20231109T160711Z CREATED:20231025T145946Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231109T160711Z UID:23493-1215565200-1215565200@healthjournalism.org SUMMARY:Talking Health: Covering the Underinsured DESCRIPTION:AHCJ\, The Commonwealth Fund\, and the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism will present Talking Health\, a webcast for members that will explore the growing problem of the underinsured – those who have insurance but are still at risk for substantial out-of-pocket expenses. \nThe archived webcast is available. URL:https://healthjournalism.org/event/talking-health-covering-the-underinsured/ CATEGORIES:Webinar END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080711T010000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080711T010000 DTSTAMP:20231109T160710Z CREATED:20231025T145935Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231109T160710Z UID:23482-1215738000-1215738000@healthjournalism.org SUMMARY:Rejuvenating Public Sector Science DESCRIPTION:The Center for Science in the Public Interest is holding its fourth national Integrity in Science Conference from 9 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. at the Ronald Reagan International Center in Washington\, DC. \nThe conference will focus on creating a way to foster public sector science and eliminate the influence of politics and corporations on that science. The all-day conference includes sessions on limiting conflicts of interest on federal advisory committees\, with a special emphasis on the FDA; and disclosing conflicts of interest in the medical literature. CSPI will be unveil a model conflict of interest policy signed by several leading bioethicists and journal editors\, which will be released to reporters a few days before the conference embargoed for that day. \nSession of special interest\nMerrill Goozner\, AHCJ member and director of the Integrity in Science project for the Center for Science in the Public Interest suggests a session of particular interest for health care reporters who plan to cover the reform debates this fall and in the new year\, since both major candidates have included comparative effectiveness research as part of their health care reform platforms. \n"Setting the Health Care Comparative Effectiveness Agenda: What Role for Industry?" will include Project Hope's Gail Wilensky\, the former head of what is now the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services; Ezekiel J. Emanuel of the the NIH Department of Bioethics; Oregon Health Sciences University's Mark Gibson\, executive director of its Center for Evidence-Based Policy; M. Gregg Bloche\, professor of law at Georgetown University Law School; and Alan Goldhammer\, vice president for regulatory affairs at the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers Association. The session will be moderated by the New America Foundation senior fellow Shannon Brownlee\, author of the new book "Overtreated." \nSee the conference's schedule for additional information. The conference includes a sit-down lunch where the featured speaker will be NASA scientist James Hansen\, giving his latest take on global warming. \nRegistration \nThe conference is free for journalists. Otherwise registration is $250. The fee is reduced to $109 for nonprofit agencies\, educational institutions and government agencies. Students pay $30. \nThe Reagan International Center is at 1300 Pennsylvania Ave\, NW. URL:https://healthjournalism.org/event/rejuvenating-public-sector-science/ CATEGORIES:Event END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080711T010000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080711T010000 DTSTAMP:20231109T160710Z CREATED:20231025T145949Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231109T160710Z UID:23496-1215738000-1215738000@healthjournalism.org SUMMARY:Long-Term Care Reform Briefing DESCRIPTION:The Brookings Institution's Engelberg Center for Health Care Reform will hold a briefing to discuss the economic and care-based issues facing long-term care in the United States. \nProminent panelists will discuss how to improve long-term care and what policy initiatives could be implemented or added to existing reforms to improve the financial feasibility of long term care. \nThe briefing is 9 a.m. to 11:45 a.m. in Room 902 of the Hart Senate Office Building\, 200 2nd St. NE. Use the Second Street entrance. Contact the Engelberg Center at engelbergevents@brooking.edu or 202-797-6119 for more information. URL:https://healthjournalism.org/event/long-term-care-reform-briefing/ CATEGORIES:Event END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080717T010000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080717T010000 DTSTAMP:20231109T160709Z CREATED:20231025T145950Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231109T160709Z UID:23498-1216256400-1216256400@healthjournalism.org SUMMARY:Sex and Gender Research: Pain DESCRIPTION:Office of Research on Women's Health\, Women's Health Seminar Series \n 1-3 p.m.Lipsett AmphitheaterBuilding 10\, NIH Campus \n Specialized Centers of Research on Sex and Gender Factors Affecting Women's Health \n Presentations will include: \n\n Sex Differences in Visceral Pain in Irritable Bowel Syndrome\nSex Differences in Brain Responses in Irritable Bowel Syndrome\nSex Differences in Responses of Gastrointestinal Tract to Stress: Implication of CRF-Signaling Pathways\n\nThe Women's Health Seminar Series\, sponsored by the NIH Office of Research on Women's Health (ORWH)\, is free and open to the public. For more information on the seminar series\, call (301) 402-1770 or visit the ORWH Web site at http://orwh.od.nih.gov. Web users who have RealPlayer 5.0 or other RealMedia software on their computers may view this seminar\, as well as past ORWH Women's Health Seminars\, at http://orwh.od.nih.gov/news/video.html. \n  URL:https://healthjournalism.org/event/sex-and-gender-research-pain/ CATEGORIES:Event END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080726T010000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080726T010000 DTSTAMP:20231109T160708Z CREATED:20231025T150025Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231109T160708Z UID:23518-1217034000-1217034000@healthjournalism.org SUMMARY:Kick-off workshop for 2008-09 Midwest Health Journalism Program fellows DESCRIPTION:This competitive program picks 10 journalists from Kansas and Missouri each year for special training sessions\, mentoring and access to AHCJ conferences\, workshops and resources. The aim of the program is to provide already-established journalists with the tools needed to improve the depth and amount of coverage focused on critical state and local health issues. \nThis kick-off workshop brings the class of fellows together with experts to learn more about politics and policy\, stakeholders in the health care debate and ideas for generating stories. Read more about the Midwest Health Journalism Program. URL:https://healthjournalism.org/event/kick-off-workshop-for-2008-09-midwest-health-journalism-program-fellows/ CATEGORIES:Workshops | Summits END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080730T010000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080730T010000 DTSTAMP:20231109T160707Z CREATED:20231025T145950Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231109T160707Z UID:23499-1217379600-1217379600@healthjournalism.org SUMMARY:Kids Risk Symposium DESCRIPTION:Kids Risk Project is holding a symposium in Boston entitled "Managing Children's Risks: Putting All Children Ahead." The symposium will feature researchers from Kids Risk Project as well as prominent authors in the field. \nRegistration is free but space is limited\, so register here. \nThe meeting will be 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the Joseph B. Martin Conference Center at Harvard Medical School. URL:https://healthjournalism.org/event/kids-risk-symposium/ CATEGORIES:Event END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080731T010000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080731T010000 DTSTAMP:20231109T160706Z CREATED:20231025T145953Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231109T160706Z UID:23501-1217466000-1217466000@healthjournalism.org SUMMARY:Hearing: Lessons learned from recent salmonella outbreak DESCRIPTION:The Recent Salmonella Outbreak: Lessons Learned and Consequences to Industry and Public Health \nSubcommittee on Oversight and Investigations Hearing \n10 a.m. in room 2123 Rayburn House Office Building \nConnect to the Video Webcast (128 kbps) URL:https://healthjournalism.org/event/hearing-lessons-learned-from-recent-salmonella-outbreak/ CATEGORIES:Event END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR