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.
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2 events,This Institute of Medicine report looks at the future of HIV/AIDs in Africa, both in terms of the future spread and character of the disease and in terms of prevention and treatment. |
3 events,The National Rural Health Association presents this event to focus on rural multiracial and multicultural health issues for health care providers to the rural population. Highlights included Camara P. Jones, M.D., Ph.D., the CDC's research director on social determinants of health and equity, on how inequality can make people sick, as well as a panel discussion to increase awareness of the implications of Arizona law SB1070 on health care access and economic impact. This workshop will help journalists see through the numbers behind big stories in health and medicine. A panel of leading statisticians, with wide experience of working with the media, will offer plenty of real-life examples, practical tips and searching questions to ask when reporting on a health story. The session will be repeated morning and afternoon, and there is no charge. |
2 events,Eleven AHCJ-CDC Health Journalism Fellows will spend a week studying public health issues at two CDC campuses. They will attend attend sessions on epidemiology, global disease prevention efforts, pandemic flu preparedness, climate change, vaccine safety, obesity, autism and more. The visit includes a tour of the CDC director's National Emergency Operations Center, the chance to meet new sources on policy and research and information about how to tap the agency's resources to produce better stories. |
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3 events,The Atlanta chapter of the Association of Health Care Journalists will gather to greet two visiting groups of journalists on Tuesday, Dec. 7th. The social gathering will take place at 7:30 p.m. in the lobby area outside the Club Room at the Emory Conference Center Hotel. That's the same site as our previous meeting. There's free parking in the garage underneath the hotel. |
3 events,AHCJ board member Julie Appleby, a health reporter at Kaiser Health News, will be a panelist on "Breaking News: Media's Role in Health Care Reform" at this event. She will join Noam Levey, a health reporter in the Los Angeles Times' Washington D.C. bureau, and Jo Mannies, a reporter for the St. Louis Beacon and other speakers yet to be announced. |
3 events,The National Center for Health Statistics is expected to release its latest report on deaths in the U.S. |
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2 events,The National Center for Health Statistics will release two reports dealing with obesity and socioeconomic status in America from 2005 to 2008. One report will focus on children while the other deals with the adult population. |
2 events,The Census Bureau is expected to release its 2005-2009 five-year estimates, numbers which will include ages, types of disabilities, poverty status and even how many people have health insurance. |
3 events,Learn to evaluate health research, media reports and other sources of health information; identify bias and misrepresentation in studies and use research for your stories. The health policy journal Health Affairs is hosting "Innovations Across the Nation in Health Care Delivery," a free one-day conference. Full video will be available after the conference. |
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2 events,The National Center for Health Statistics is expected to release preliminary data about births for 2009. |
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