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SUMMARY:Atlanta Chapter: CDC response to meningitis outbreak
DESCRIPTION:The CDC’s John Jernigan\, M.D.\, M.S.\, clinical team lead on the Multistate Meningitis Outbreak and director of the CDC’s Office of Health Associated Infections Prevention Research and Evaluation will talk about the agency’s response to the multistate fungal meningitis outbreak. \nHealth journalists in the Atlanta area are invited to this event\, which will include the AHCJ Regional Health Journalism Fellows. \nWhen: Dec. 3 at 7:30 p.m. \nWhere:Emory Conference Center Hotel1615 Clifton Rd.Starvine 1 Room (South Wing)
URL:https://healthjournalism.org/event/atlanta-chapter-cdc-response-to-meningitis-outbreak/
LOCATION:Georgia
CATEGORIES:None
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20121204T010000
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SUMMARY:Adapting to an aging society: Challenges and opportunities
DESCRIPTION:CoreTopics: Essential coverage areas for health journalists\n\nHealth Reform\nAging\nOral Health\nOther Topics\n\n\n \nClick here for a recording of the webcast and resources mentioned.\nWebcast explores aging adults’ contributions\, widening disparities\, creating ‘synthetic families’ \nToday\, Americans are living 30 years longer than their ancestors did just four generations ago. Yet policymakers have been slow to recognize the implications of this unprecedented increase in longevity. \nAs a result\, social institutions of all kinds – workplaces\, communities\, families\, educational organizations\, health care providers – haven’t yet adapted to the challenges and opportunities posed by America’s aging population. Nor is there any consensus over what successful adaptation might look like. \n\nAntonucci \nOlshansky \nZissimopoulos \n\nThe mission of the MacArthur Foundation Network on an Aging Society\, established in 2008\, is to articulate a framework that can guide effective responses to the aging of America and to promote policy options that help achieve this objective. \nIn this webcast\, on Dec. 4 at 4 p.m. ET\, three members of the MacArthur Network will discuss noteworthy trends and research in aging\, including a recent study on troubling disparities in life expectancy that was featured on the front page of The New York Times. Judith Graham\, AHCJ’s topic leader on aging\, will moderate. \nToni Antonucci is a research professor at the Life Course Development Program and the Elizabeth M. Douvan Collegiate Professor of Psychology at the University of Michigan. Her research focuses on social relations across the life span\, including multigenerational studies of the family and comparative studies of social relations across the life span in the United States\, Europe and Japan. \nS. Jay Olshansky is a professor in the School of Public Health at the University of Illinois at Chicago\, as well as a research associate at the Center on Aging at the University of Chicago and at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. The focus of his research has been estimates of the upper limits to human longevity; the health and public policy implications associated with individual and population aging; forecasts of the size\, survival\, and age structure of the population; and the pursuit of the scientific means to retard aging in peoples. \nJulie M. Zissimopoulos is an associate professor in the Department of Pharmaceutical Economics and Policy at the University of Southern California. She is also the associate director of the Schaeffer Center for Health Policy and Economics. She specializes in the economics of aging. Topics of special interest are medical expenditures at older ages\, savings and wealth\, labor force behavior\, and financial and non-financial support between generations of family members.
URL:https://healthjournalism.org/event/adapting-to-an-aging-society-challenges-and-opportunities/
LOCATION:Georgia
CATEGORIES:Webinar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20121205T010000
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SUMMARY:AHCJ Washington\, D.C.\, Chapter: Holiday happy hour
DESCRIPTION:You’re invited to the Association of Health Care Journalists’ D.C. chapter’s Holiday Happy Hour! \nCome toast the holiday season with some fine wine and craft beer with other DC-area health reporters and editors. \nNo formal program – just a gathering of health journalists to tell war stories from 2012 and look forward to another crazy year in 2013.   \nWhen: 6 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. Wednesday\, Dec. 5 \nWhere: Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation\, 1330 G Street NW (1/2 block west of Metro Center). Second Floor reception area. \nAll health journalists are invited. For those interested\, dinner will follow afterward at a nearby tavern. \nPlease RSVP by Dec. 3 to pgalewitz@kff.org
URL:https://healthjournalism.org/event/ahcj-washington-d-c-chapter-holiday-happy-hour/
LOCATION:Georgia
CATEGORIES:None
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SUMMARY:Cleveland-Akron Chapter Meet 'n Greet
DESCRIPTION:We are headed into the chilliest season of the year and at the Cleveland Association of Health Care Journalists’ Meet ‘n Greet you can get a head start on holiday chillin’ (and playing catch-up) at Cedar-Fairmount’s aptly named and cozy (dim lights\, scattered tables\, comfy couch) Fairmount Martini and Wine Bar. \n AHCJ will spring for light grazing (Fairmount’s delish cheese boards) and there’ll be happy-hour prices on the bar’s regular beers (and the night’s draft special\, too). If you feel like something with more of a kick\, try one of the bar’s “stiff pour” and excellent martinis. Scene Magazine says their like hasn’t been served in mainstream bars since the 1940s. \n You don’t have to be a member of AHCJ to come – in fact\, this is a chance to check out what the group is about\, talk with members and see if it’s your cup of tea. No pressure. Students interested in health writing welcome. \n Date: Wednesday\, Dec. 5 Time: 6 to 8 p.m. Where:  2448 Fairmount Blvd\,  Cleveland Heights\, OH 44106  Right where Fairmount and Cedar intersect (Here’s a map) Parking: Free\, well lighted lot behind bar (enter off Fairmount Blvd.) \n Please RSVP to Cleveland-Akron co-chapter leaders:  Eileen Beal (eojb@visn.net) or Carrie Buchanan ( cbuchanan@jcu.edu)
URL:https://healthjournalism.org/event/cleveland-akron-chapter-meet-n-greet/
LOCATION:Georgia
CATEGORIES:None
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20121212T010000
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SUMMARY:State health law implementation: Race to the starting line
DESCRIPTION:Please join the Chicago chapter of the Association of Health Care Journalists for a special event on Wednesday\, Dec. 12. \nThis panel discussion is sponsored by AHCJ\, the Alliance for Health Reform and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. \nModerator: Ed Howard\, executive vice president of the Alliance for Health Reform\, a nonpartisan\, nonprofit health policy group in Washington\, D.C. \nPanelists: \n\n\nBruce Japsen\, Forbes \n\n\nCristal Thomas\, deputy governor\, office of Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn \n\n\nSabrina Corlette\, research professor and project director at the Health Policy Institute at Georgetown University \n\n\nDavid DiLoreto\, M.D.\, chief clinical operations and innovation officer\, Presence Health \n\n\nTime: 6 p.m. refreshments; 6:30 p.m.  program \nLocation: Columbia College Journalism Department33 East Congress\, Room 219 (southwest corner of Wabash and Congress\, under the L tracks) \nLess than a year from now\, states must be ready to enroll millions of people in insurance exchanges\, as outlined in the 2010 health care overhaul law. Or\, the federal government will step in to do the job\, or part of it. States also have the option of opening their Medicaid programs to millions of new participants. But that’s not much time\, considering their long to-do lists. \n At least half a dozen Republican governors had delayed implementation efforts in hopes that the Supreme Court would rule the law unconstitutional\, or that Gov. Mitt Romney would win the November election and repeal the law. Neither happened\, but even if they decide now to run their own exchanges\, it will be difficult for those states _ and some others _ to be ready in time\, say health care experts. Illinois is seeking federal help with its exchange in 2014\, but is aiming to operate its own after that. \n States had to notify Washington by Nov. 16 whether they intended to run their own exchanges in 2014 and must submit plans on how they plan to do so by Dec. 14. By Jan. 1\, they must convince the Department of Health and Human Services that they are on track to be able to do it in time. At the same time\, insurance companies are scrambling to create new health plan products to sell on the exchanges\, but industry leaders complain they don’t have the necessary guidance and that time is running out. \n What information do the states still need from the federal government about how the federal and partnership exchanges will work? How much latitude will the states have to handle eligibility for Medicaid and to make sure that people transitioning between Medicaid and subsidized private insurance in the exchanges won’t have gaps in coverage? Can the federal government be ready with its own back-up exchanges? Will insurers be ready in time? \n This briefing will help you answer these questions for your readers\, viewers and listeners. \nPlease RSVP to Carla K. Johnson.
URL:https://healthjournalism.org/event/state-health-law-implementation-race-to-the-starting-line/
LOCATION:Georgia
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