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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: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: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:20220922T010000
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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:20220927T010000
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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: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/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220928T010000
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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: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:20220929T010000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220929T010000
DTSTAMP:20260618T173502
CREATED:20231103T185113Z
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SUMMARY:Censorship and the Right to Information During the Pandemic
DESCRIPTION:This webcast will examine global concerns regarding governmental repression of public health information related to the pandemic through use of criminal law and other means. Panelists will discuss the challenge of protecting freedom of expression and access to information during the pandemic\, while addressing concerns regarding mis- and disinformation. \nWhen/Where: 10-11 a.m.\, September 29\, 2022 (online) \nFore more information and to register\, visit this webpage. \n 
URL:https://healthjournalism.org/event/censorship-and-the-right-to-information-during-the-pandemic/
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