Veteran journalist Carey Gillam will be joined by Dr. Dana Barr, Environmental Health Professor at Emory’s Rollins School of Public Health for a conversation on the impacts of glyphosate on our food and health and how this research serves as a case study for the importance of scientific and journalistic rigor.

Panels will discuss what we know about health care spending, examine the effectiveness of current efforts to improve value, and explore how various sectors are responding to high levels of health care spending. 

CDC will provide an update on the current flu season.

The University of California Davis holds a free seminar on “Health Disparities by Legal Status Among Immigrant Farmworkers in the United States” with Erin Hamilton, an associate professor in its Department of Sociology. Hamilton specializes in U.S. population health and child and family migration. 

This symposium will bring together experts in mental health, violence prevention, public health, law enforcement and media studies. 

These are challenging, even dangerous times, to be a reporter. The president of the United States has targeted us, autocrats around the world are cracking down on reporters, police and the courts are moving against us. But we are also under threat from scores of lesser-known dangers, from the toll of a brutal news cycle to sexual harrassment in our own workplaces.

This year, flu has grabbed particular headlines, driven by an early start to flu season and the dominance of a particularly severe flu strain, H3N2.

In this Forum, experts in epidemiology, immunology, and health policy will place this year’s flu season in context. They will explore vaccine development, prevention and treatment and address growing concerns globally as this particularly virulent outbreak gains the potential to spread further — ultimately asking is there a better way to stop the flu?

The Walsh Center for Rural Health Analysis at the University of Chicago hosts Exploring Strategies to Improve Health and Equity in Rural Communities, a one-hour webinar to discuss its initial findings on efforts boost health in less densely populated areas.

The Duke-Margolis Center for Health Policy holds a day-long workshop on at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. to examine safe…

Amber Christ of the nonprofit legal organization Justice in Aging will provide an overview of the Jan. 1 restoration of  adult Medicaid dental benefits under California’s Denti-Cal program.

On Thursday, Feb. 15, HHS Secretary Alex Azar, joined by Acting CDC Director Anne Schuchat, Surgeon General Jerome Adams, FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb, NIAID Director Anthony Fauci, and Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response Robert Kadlec, will hold a press briefing to update the American public on the current state of influenza activity in the United States.

The summit, “Engaging New Allies in the Health Equity Movement,” includes representatives of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health and New York University School of Medicine, among other entities. 

In March, the County Health Rankings and Roadmaps will release the 9th annual County Health Rankings. We want you to be ready to respond and take advantage of the attention and excitement that comes with the release.

Value-based health care is one of the most pressing topics in health care finance and policy today. Value-based payment structures are widely touted as critical to controlling runaway health care costs, but are often difficult for health care entities to incorporate into their existing infrastructures. 

To explore this important issue, the Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics at Harvard Law School is collaborating with Ropes & Gray LLP to host a one-day conference on value-based health care. This event will bring together scholars, health law practitioners, and health care entities to evaluate the impact of value-based health care on the American health care system.