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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170706T010000
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SUMMARY:Hospitals and Food Insecurity webinar
DESCRIPTION:The American Hospital Association (AHA) hosts a one-hour webinar on “Food Insecurity and the Role of Hospitals” starting at noon ET. The event\, moderated by Feeding America’s Community Health and Nutrition consultant Kim Prendergast\, includes representatives from ProMedica and Arkansas Children’s Hospital. 
URL:https://healthjournalism.org/event/hospitals-and-food-insecurity-webinar/
CATEGORIES:None
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170706T010000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170708T010000
DTSTAMP:20231109T161250Z
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SUMMARY:National Sexual Health Conference
DESCRIPTION:The American Sexual Health Association\, The University of Minnesota and the Colorado Department of Public Health hold the 4th National Sexual Health Conference.   \nAmong the topics covered at the three-day event in Denver are the social determinants of sexual health\, LGBTQ health and mental health. Other sponsors include Gilead\, Planned Parenthood\, Advocates for Youth and the National Association for Community Health Centers\, among others.
URL:https://healthjournalism.org/event/national-sexual-health-conference/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170707T010000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170707T010000
DTSTAMP:20231109T154257Z
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SUMMARY:Understanding What's Next for Medicaid
DESCRIPTION:This Alliance for Health Policy briefing will examine the real-world implications of proposed policy changes to Medicaid and the impact on populations such as children\, the disabled\, and those who need long-term services and supports. We will discuss how the current House and Senate health care bills would transform Medicaid\, how a system of per capita caps would work\, and what steps states are likely to take with our without changes in federal legislation.  \nWHEN: \nJuly 7\, Noon-1:30 p.m. \nLunch available at 11:45 a.m. \n WHERE: \nDirksen Senate Office Building\, Room G50 \n\n\nCindy Mann\, Manatt \n\n\nRichard Frank\, Harvard Medical School \n\n\nChuck Duarte\, Community Health Alliance \n\n\nChip Kahn\, Federation of American Hospitals \n\n\nSarah Dash of the Alliance for Health Policy and Melinda Abrams of The Commonwealth Fund will moderate \n\n\nSpace is limited. Register Today.  
URL:https://healthjournalism.org/event/understanding-whats-next-for-medicaid/
CATEGORIES:None
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170718T010000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170718T010000
DTSTAMP:20231109T154257Z
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SUMMARY:Beyond the ACA: Health Policy and Sustainable Health Spending
DESCRIPTION:The Affordable Care Act and the basic structure of the 52-year old Medicaid program remain front and center in today’s policy and political discussions. But what comes next? How will the gargantuan health sector be affected across multiple dimensions\, including long-term care\, prices\, jobs\, coverage\, quality\, and equity? And what is the outlook for health care cost control and sustainability in the medium- and long-term? \nWe have a distinguished panel of presenters who will speak to these key questions and more at a critical time just months into a new administration and with congressional leadership focused on replacing the ACA. Join us as we examine health policy choices\, discuss health care and fiscal pressures\, and peer into future health spending and related trends.This year\, we are offering a special opportunity for the first 150 in-person registrants—at the symposium\, each will receive a copy of An American Sickness: How Healthcare became Big Business and How You Can Take it Back by panelist Elisabeth Rosenthal. Presenters include:  \n\n\nElisabeth Rosenthal\, Kaiser Health News  \n\n\nJoanne Kenen\, POLITICO  \n\n\nDrew Altman\, Kaiser Family Foundation \n\n\nJames Capretta\, American Enterprise Institute  \n\n\nGail Wilensky\, Project Hope \n\n\nJeanne Lambrew\, Century Foundation  \n\n\nJohn Ayanian\, University of Michigan \n\n\nCeci Connolly\, Alliance of Community Health Plans  \n\n\nJessica Banthin\, Congressional Budget Office \n\n\nSheila Burke\, Baker\, Donelson\, Bearman\, Caldwell & Berkowitz\, PC \n\n\nAnne Montgomery\, Altarum Center for Elder Care & Advanced Illness \n\n\nJohn Cutler\, National Academy of Social Insurance & Chair-elect\, AcademyHealth LTSS Interest Group \n\n\nRodney Whitlock\, Mintz Levin Strategies \n\n\nHemi Tewarson\, National Governors Association  \n\n\nDarrell Gaskin\, Johns Hopkins University \n\n\nChapin White\, RAND Corporation \n\n\nRena Conti\, University of Chicago \n\n\nCharles Roehrig\, Altarum Center for Sustainable Health Spending \n\n\nView the complete program agenda and register to attend in-person or webcast: https://www.eiseverywhere.com/ehome/altarumbeyondaca/newdimensions/       \n\nEvent Date & Location\nJuly 18\, 9 a.m.-1:45 p.m.Kaiser Family Foundation’s Barbara Jordan Conference Center1330 G ST. NWWashington\, DC \n\nContact\nPaul Hughes-Cromwick(734) 302-4616Paul.Hughes-Cromwick@altarum.org
URL:https://healthjournalism.org/event/beyond-the-aca-health-policy-and-sustainable-health-spending/
CATEGORIES:None
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170718T010000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170719T010000
DTSTAMP:20231109T161250Z
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SUMMARY:Government Health Care Congress
DESCRIPTION:Executives from health plans\, hospitals\, managed care plans\, and government entities discuss policy\, quality\, collaboration. \nContact: Julia Rapacki\, Senior Marketing ManagerPhone: 781-939-2620 Julia.Rapacki@worldcongress.com
URL:https://healthjournalism.org/event/government-health-care-congress-2/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170718T010000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170719T010000
DTSTAMP:20231109T161249Z
CREATED:20231025T162007Z
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SUMMARY:ARCHE Women’s Health Equity Summit
DESCRIPTION:Allies for Reaching Community Health Equity (ARCHE) hosts “Women’s Wealth & Health Equity Summit\,” a two-day event to address health and wealth inequities affecting women and families with more than 150 experts\, health care practitioners and advocates. \nRegistration is free for the summit\, held in Oxon Hill\, Md.\, just outside Washington\, D.C.
URL:https://healthjournalism.org/event/arche-womenaes-health-equity-summit/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170719T010000
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SUMMARY:D.C. chapter: Covering public health
DESCRIPTION:Experts from the Altarum Institute will discuss public health issues involving the opioid crisis\, aging policies and children’s health. Altarum’s experts talk about the stories that have been undercovered\, the sources reporters can call upon and their ideas for what solutions need to be better explored by the media. \nWHEN: Wednesday\, July 19\, 6 p.m. \nWHERE: The Aspen Institute\, 1 Dupont Circle \nRSVP: Here \nLight refreshments will be provided.
URL:https://healthjournalism.org/event/d-c-chapter-covering-public-health/
CATEGORIES:Workshops | Summits
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170719T010000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170719T010000
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SUMMARY:NAS Health Literacy Workshop
DESCRIPTION:The National Academies of Science’s Health and Medicine Division (formerly the Institute of Medicine) holds a one-day public workshop to discuss community-based health literacy interventions. \nThe event\, held at NAS in Washington\, D.C.\, will be hosted by the division’s Roundtable on Health Literacy and livestreamed on its website. The workshop will feature work conducted by the Horowitz Center for Health Literacy at the University of Maryland School of Public Health.
URL:https://healthjournalism.org/event/nas-health-literacy-workshop/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170719T010000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170719T010000
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SUMMARY:Congressional Briefing Highlighting Immunotherapy’s Progress and Its Benefit to Patients
DESCRIPTION:The American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) and the Society for Immunotherapy of Cancer (SITC) will co-host a congressional briefing titled\, “Progress in Immunotherapy: Delivering Hope and Clinical Benefit to Cancer Patients\,” to highlight innovations in the field of immunotherapy\, illustrate the hope that these advances are bringing to patients\, and note the challenges that need to be overcome so that even more patients can benefit from these revolutionary treatments. \nFor many patients\, cancer immunotherapies are providing lifesaving results where other treatments had failed or were not viable. But realizing more breakthroughs in this area and increasing the number of types of cancers that can be treated with immunotherapy requires a sustained\, federal investment in cancer research through the National Institutes of Health and the National Cancer Institute. \nWHEN/WHERE: \nWednesday\, July 19\, noon-1:30pm ET \nRussell Senate Office Building\, Room 485 on Capitol Hill in Washington\, D.C. \nSpeakers include: \n\n\nElizabeth M. Jaffee\, M.D.\, AACR President-Elect 2017-2018; Chair\, National Cancer Institute’s National Cancer Advisory Board; Member\, Biden Cancer Initiative Board of Directors; Deputy Director\,Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins in Baltimore \n\n\nLisa H. Butterfield\, Ph.D.\, President\, SITC; Professor of Medicine\, Surgery and Immunology; and Director\, UPCI Immunologic Monitoring and Cellular Products Laboratory\, University of Pittsburgh \n\n\nSteven A. Rosenberg\, M.D.\, Ph.D.\, Chief of Surgery\, National Cancer Institute\, Bethesda\, Maryland \n\n\nBernard A. Fox\, Ph.D.\, Past President\, SITC; Chief\, Molecular and Tumor Immunology\, Robert W. Franz Cancer Research Center\, Earle A. Chiles Research Institute\, Providence Cancer Center\, Portland\, Oregon \n\n\nDaniel S. Chen\, M.D.\, Ph.D.\, Vice President\, Global Head of Cancer Immunotherapy Development\, Genentech\, South San Francisco  \n\n\nStefanie Joho\, colon cancer survivor who benefited from immunotherapy \n\n\nHow to Attend: \nTo attend\, please RSVP to Rachel Salis-Silverman at rachel.silverman@aacr.org or 215-446-7159. Visit the newsroom.  \n 
URL:https://healthjournalism.org/event/congressional-briefing-highlighting-immunotherapyaes-progress-and-its-benefit-to-patients/
CATEGORIES:None
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170720T010000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170720T010000
DTSTAMP:20231109T154253Z
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SUMMARY:Healthy People Webinar on Health\, Education
DESCRIPTION:Healthy People 2020\, a federal government initiative aimed at improving Americans’ health by the year 2020\, holds an online discussion to look at progress regarding social determinants of health. The webinar will specifically examine the impact of high school graduation rates\, efforts to improve them and their impact on health. Registration for the one-hour webinar\, which starts at noon ET\, is here. 
URL:https://healthjournalism.org/event/healthy-people-webinar-on-health-education/
CATEGORIES:None
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170722T010000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170727T010000
DTSTAMP:20231109T161248Z
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SUMMARY:IAGG World Congress of Gerontology and Geriatrics
DESCRIPTION:Over 6\,000 professionals in gerontology and geriatrics are expected to attend the World Congress in San Francisco.  \nContact: Todd Kluss GSA\, (202) 587-2839 tkluss@geron.org
URL:https://healthjournalism.org/event/iagg-world-congress-of-gerontology-and-geriatrics/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170725T010000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170725T010000
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SUMMARY:The Future of Comparative Effectiveness Research
DESCRIPTION:The second in a series of educational forums on comparative effectiveness research that will discuss federal funding levels\, private sector leadership\, regulatory barriers\, dissemination and uptake of research results\, and new areas for research. \nSpeakers: \n\n\nKent Conrad\, former U.S. senator\, North Dakota \n\n\nDr. Phil Gingrey\, former U.S. representative\, Georgia \n\n\nNaomi Aronson\, Ph.D.\, executive director of Clinical Evaluation\, Innovation\, and Policy\, Blue Cross Blue Shield Association \n\n\nDr. Joel Kupersmith\, Director\, Georgetown University Veterans Initiatives; Professor of Medicine \n\n\nJeffrey Lerner\, Ph.D.\, President and CEO\, ECRI Institute \n\n\nNewell McElwee\, Pharm.D.\, Vice President of Health Economics and Outcomes\, Boehringer Ingelheim \n\n\nSara Traigle van Geertruyden\, Executive Director\, Partnership to Improve Patient Care \n\n\nJuly 25\, 10-11:30 am.Bipartisan Policy Center1225 “Eye” St NW\, Washington\, D.C.or watch the webcast.
URL:https://healthjournalism.org/event/the-future-of-comparative-effectiveness-research/
CATEGORIES:None
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170730T010000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170802T010000
DTSTAMP:20231109T161247Z
CREATED:20231025T161948Z
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SUMMARY:Clinicians for Underserved meeting
DESCRIPTION:The Association of Clinicians for the Underserved (ACU) holds its annual conference in Washington\, D.C. The event brings together physicians and other health care providers who serve communities and populations that generally lack for such care. \nThis year’s event will cover topics such as cultural competency and patient engagement and include new research on the topic.
URL:https://healthjournalism.org/event/clinicians-for-underserved-meeting/
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