BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Association of Health Care Journalists - ECPv6.17.2//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:Association of Health Care Journalists X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://healthjournalism.org X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Association of Health Care Journalists REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20160313T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20161106T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20170312T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20171105T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20180311T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20181104T060000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171010T010000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171010T010000 DTSTAMP:20231109T161234Z CREATED:20231103T172123Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231109T161234Z UID:26365-1507597200-1507597200@healthjournalism.org SUMMARY:Is the U.S. prepared for a flu pandemic? DESCRIPTION:Resources\n\nRecorded webcast\nSonja J. Olsen’s presentation\nMichael Osterholm’s presentation\nAHCJ Core Topic: Infectious Diseases\nInfectious disease news from Covering Health\nCDC flu information\nCenter for Infectious Disease Research and Policy\nTip sheet: Background and sources for covering seasonal flu\n\nRelated coverage\n\nU.S. not prepared for a flu pandemic\, experts warn\nThis Year’s Flu Season Could Be Devastating\nFlu pandemic could be deadly for America\, health officials warn\nIs the US Prepared for The Next Flu Pandemic?\n\n \n\nRecorded Oct. 10\, 2017\nNext year\, 2018\, will mark 100 years since the Spanish flu swept the world\, killing as many as 100 million people. Now that we are at the beginning of this year’s flu season\, what are the deadly strains that are circulating and how likely is a pandemic flu? What is the state of preparation if a pandemic flu in the United States if one were to strike? What about the world? Michael Osterholm\, director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota and one of the nation’s leading experts on health security issues will address these issues for AHCJ members and help to localize them to your beat. Sonja Olsen\, CDC Deputy Chief of Epidemiology and Prevention\, will talk about the most concerning flu epidemic circulating in China and how the CDC determines what flu strains have pandemic potential. \n\n\nSonja J. Olsen\, Ph.D.\, deputy chief\, Epidemiology and Prevention Branch\, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention \n\n\nMichael Osterholm\, Ph.D.\, M.P.H.\, director\, Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota \n\n\nModerator: Bara Vaida\, AHCJ’s core topic leader/infectious diseases \n\n\nMichael Osterholm\, Ph.D.\, M.P.H.\, is an internationally recognized expert in infectious disease epidemiology. In addition to serving as the director of CIDRAP\, he is Regents Professor\, McKnight Presidential Endowed Chair in Public Health\, Distinguished Teaching Professor in the Division of Environmental Health Sciences\, School of Public Health\, a professor in the Technological Leadership Institute\, College of Science and Engineering\, and an adjunct professor in the Medical School\, all at the University of Minnesota. He is a member of the National Academy of Medicine (NAM) and the Council of Foreign Relations. Osterholm has served on the National Science Advisory Board on Biosecurity and the World Economic Forum Working Group on Pandemics. \nSonja Olsen\, Ph.D.\, is the deputy chief for the Epidemiology and Prevention Branch in CDC’s Influenza Division.  She has worked as an epidemiologist in influenza since 2010\, first as the Influenza Program Director in Bangkok from 2010 to 2013\, then as a member of the branch assigned to work on the Border Infectious Disease Surveillance in Tucson where she led other projects on seasonal and novel influenza vaccine policy in the United States and vaccine evaluations in Lao PDR. \n \n\nSonja J. Olsen \n\n\nMichael Osterholm \n\n\nBara Vaida \n\n  URL:https://healthjournalism.org/event/is-the-u-s-prepared-for-a-flu-pandemic/ LOCATION:Georgia CATEGORIES:Webinar END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171012T010000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171012T010000 DTSTAMP:20231109T161232Z CREATED:20231103T172123Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231109T161232Z UID:26364-1507770000-1507770000@healthjournalism.org SUMMARY:Marketing matters: ACA enrollment in 2018 DESCRIPTION: \nResources\n\nRecorded webcast\nPresentation\nAHCJ Core Topic: Health reform\nCovered California consumer information\nInformation about Covered California activities\nNew Survey Highlights Continued Need for Marketing of Health Insurance\nThe Commonwealth Fund: How Have Health Insurers Performed Financially Under the ACA’s Market Rules?\n\n \n\nOct. 12\, 3 p.m. ET\nThis conversation with the California exchange director Peter Lee will be about lessons learned in the first years of enrollment\, and how to apply them going forward in a different political climate. \n\n\nPeter Lee\, executive director\, Covered California (state health benefit exchange) \n\n\nModerator: Victoria Colliver\, health reporter\, Politico \n\n\nPeter V. Lee is the first executive director of the California exchange. Earlier he was deputy director for the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services\, where he led initiatives to identify\, test and support new models of care. Before joining the Obama administration\, he was executive director for National Health Policy of the Pacific Business Group on Health\, one of the leading coalitions of private and public purchasers in the nation. An attorney\, he’s also done consumer advocacy work\, and ran programs for the National AIDS Network. \n \n  \n \n\nPeter Lee \n\n\nVictoria Colliver \n\n  URL:https://healthjournalism.org/event/marketing-matters-aca-enrollment-in-2018/ LOCATION:Georgia CATEGORIES:Webinar END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171019T010000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171019T010000 DTSTAMP:20231109T161230Z CREATED:20231103T172133Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231109T161230Z UID:26369-1508374800-1508374800@healthjournalism.org SUMMARY:Atlanta chapter event: Innovative approaches to antibiotic resistance DESCRIPTION:Please join the Atlanta chapter of the Association of Health Care Journalists for a panel discussion on innovative approaches to antibiotic resistance.\nWHEN: Thursday\, Oct. 19\, 7-9 p.m. (7 p.m. social\, 7:30 p.m. discussion) \nWHERE: Fado Irish Pub\, 933 Peachtree St\, Atlanta 30309. Just 2 blocks from Midtown MARTA station or … Parking options: Metropolis Parking Deck\, entrance on 8th Street. Fado validates the first hour. Metered street parking \nFeatured speakers: \n• Michael Bell\, M.D.\, deputy director of Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion\, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention\, an expert in drug-resistant pathogens and hospital-acquired infections whose career has focused on investigating and preventing transmission of health care-associated illnesses for hospital patients and staff alike. \n• Maryn McKenna\, journalist\, Senior Fellow at the Schuster Institute for Investigative Journalism at Brandeis University\, instructor at the Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication at University of Georgia\, and author of the new Amazon bestseller Big Chicken: How Antibiotics Created Modern Agriculture and Changed the Way the World Eats. Her work focuses on global health\, public health\, emerging infections and food policy. \n • Cassandra Quave\, PhD\, Assistant Professor in both the Department of Dermatology\, Emory School of Medicine and the Center for the Study of Human Health\, Emory College of Arts and Sciences; Curator\, Emory University Herbarium. Her lab focuses on drug discovery efforts from natural products to improve treatment options for multidrug-resistant (MDR) bacterial infections. \n• Joshua Weitz\, PhD\, Professor\, School of Biological Sciences; Director of the Interdisciplinary Graduate Program in Quantitative Biosciences. The Weitz Group at Georgia Tech\, which includes physicists\, computational biologists\, mathematicians\, and bioinformaticians\, is interested in the structure and dynamics of complex biological systems with a mission is to understand how viruses transform human health and the fate of our planet. \nJoin us! The first round is on AHCJ! RSVP sonya.collins@gmail.com URL:https://healthjournalism.org/event/atlanta-chapter-event-innovative-approaches-to-antibiotic-resistance/ LOCATION:Georgia CATEGORIES:Workshops | Summits END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171024T010000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171024T010000 DTSTAMP:20231109T161226Z CREATED:20231103T172233Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231109T161226Z UID:26374-1508806800-1508806800@healthjournalism.org SUMMARY:Webinar: Marketplace open enrollment preview DESCRIPTION:This Alliance for Health Policy webinar will unpack the knowns and unknowns heading into the upcoming Affordable Care Act marketplace open enrollment period that begins on Nov. 1. \nWe will examine what those currently enrolled in marketplace coverage and those planning to shop for coverage can expect when it comes to plan choices\, costs\, plan design\, and help enrolling.  \nWHEN: Tuesday\, Oct. 24\, 1:30 – 2:45 p.m. ET \n  \n  \n\n\nKaren Pollitz\, senior fellow at the Kaiser Family Foundation \n\n\nAndy Slavitt\, former acting administrator of CMS and senior advisor to the Bipartisan Policy Center \n\n\nJeanette Thornton\, senior vice president\, America’s Health Insurance Plans  \n\n\nNoam Levey\, reporter\, Los Angeles Times  \n\n\nJennifer Sullivan of the Alliance for Health Policy will moderate the discussion. \n\n\nWatch the recorded video.\n  \n  \n  \n  \nFollow the webinar on Twitter: #AllHealthLive \nAgenda\n1:30 – 1:35 p.m.          Welcome and Introductions \n\nJennifer Sullivan\, Alliance for Health Policy\n\n1:35 – 1:50 p.m.          Context Entering Open Enrollment for 2018 \n\nKaren Pollitz\, Kaiser Family Foundation\n\n1:50 – 2:30 p.m.          Moderated Discussion \n\nKaren Pollitz\, Kaiser Family Foundation\nAndy Slavitt\, @ASlavitt\, Bipartisan Policy Center\nJeanette Thornton\, America’s Health Insurance Plans\nNoam Levey\, @NoamLevey\, Los Angeles Times\n\n2:30 – 2:45 p.m.          Question and Answer Session \n\n\nExpert List \n\n\nMaterials List \n\n\nSpeaker Bios \n\n\nPresentation: Karen Pollitz \n\n\nThis webinar is a project of the Alliance for Health Policy and the National Institute for Health Care Management (NIHCM) Foundation\, in collaboration with the Association of Health Care Journalists. URL:https://healthjournalism.org/event/webinar-marketplace-open-enrollment-preview/ LOCATION:Georgia CATEGORIES:Webinar END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171026T010000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171026T010000 DTSTAMP:20231109T161224Z CREATED:20231103T172133Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231109T161224Z UID:26371-1508979600-1508979600@healthjournalism.org SUMMARY:South Florida chapter event: Health Journalists are invited to a meet-and-greet DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, Oct. 26\, 6-8 p.m. \nat the WINE STORY1910 Harrison Street\, Hollywood \nIndependent Journalists Meryl Davids Landau and Rachele Hendricks-Sturrup have launched a new South Florida chapter of the Association of Health Care Journalists (AHCJ). Our aim is to create social events and programming for health care journalists in the area (whether you report on health policy\, wellness\, specific medical conditions\, alternative medicine…). \nYou do not have to be a member of AHCJ to attend any of our events \nPlease RSVP on our Meetup page if you plan to attend. \nAHCJ will pay for the first $10 of your food or drinks \nFree parking is available on the street\, or $1/hour parking can be found at the Van Buren Garage\, 251 S. 20th Street \nFor those of you who had been looking forward to our previously planned event with the speaker from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services\, which was cancelled due to Hurricane Irma\, we hope to be able to reschedule that. (If you would like to help us plan this or any other event\, please let us know.) \nWe look forward to getting to know you! \n  URL:https://healthjournalism.org/event/south-florida-chapter-event-health-journalists-are-invited-to-a-meet-and-greet/ LOCATION:Georgia CATEGORIES:Workshops | Summits END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171026T010000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171030T010000 DTSTAMP:20240827T171728Z CREATED:20231025T161935Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240827T171728Z UID:24198-1508979600-1509325200@healthjournalism.org SUMMARY:World Conference of Science Journalists DESCRIPTION:The Association of Health Care Journalists collaborated on the curriculum for the 10th World Conference of Science Journalists\, Oct. 26-30 in San Francisco. \nAHCJ partnered with the National Association of Science Writers and the Council for the Advancement of Science Writing on programming for this global event\, being held in the United States for the first time. All three organizations are affiliated with the World Federation of Science Journalists\, which connects science\, health\, environment and technology writers around the world. AHCJ members received a discounted rate to attend. Read more about the conference sessions. \nThe final registration deadline is Oct. 12. These sessions will be at the Marriott Marquis. See the full conference schedule. \nAs an AHCJ member\, you are qualified to register at the discounted member rate. Just select AHCJ member or WFSJ-Affiliated Member from the pull-down menu when you register. \nTravel assistance available\nInterested in attending WCSJ but need some help? AHCJ is now able to make a limited amount of travel assistance available for AHCJ members interested in attending. The deadline to apply is Oct. 12 but the sooner you apply\, the more likely we can help. Apply here. \n–> \nHealth Journalism Track:\n\n\n\n\nOct. 26\n\n\n\n\n2:45 – 4 p.m. \n\n\nTapping Databases for Scientific Evidence on Health \n\n\nAnurag Acharya \n\n\nRobert Logan \n\n\nModerator: Roxanne Khamsi \n\nMedical Journal Overload: Databases Help Reporters Mine Healthcare Studies\n\nVideo \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nOct. 27\n\n\n\n10:45 a.m. – noon\n\nThe Global Refugee Crisis: Changing Health Needs \n\n\nHussam Jefee-Bahloul \n\n\nPaul Spiegel \n\n\nModerator: Nancy Shute \n\n\n\n \n\n\n1:30 – 2:45 p.m.\n\nWhy Social Determinants Matter in Health Journalism \n\n\nPaula Braveman \n\n\nK. Srinath Reddy \n\n\nMia Malan \n\n\nModerator: Bibi-Aisha Wadvalla \n\nYou Are Not Solely Responsible For Your Health—But Does Health Journalism Reflect That?\n\n\n \n\n\n3:15 – 4:30 p.m.\n\nThe Challenges of Covering Infectious Disease Outbreaks \n\n\nHelen Branswell \n\n\nDuane J. Gubler \n\n\nDick Thompson       \n\n\nModerator: Martin Enserink \n\nCovering The Next Pandemic: Tips For Journalists Reporting On Disease Outbreaks\n\nVideo \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nOct. 28\n\n\n\n10:45 – noon\n\nSlow-Motion Epidemics: The Global Threat of Chronic Disease \n\nJorge Gomez\n\nLawrence Gostin \n\n\nSilvana Luciani \n\n\nModerator: Marilynn Marchione \n\n\n\n \n\n\n1:30 – 2:45 p.m.\n\nReporting with Clarity on Vaccines and Vaccine Development \n\n\nÈve Dubé \n\n\nSerusha Govender \n\n\nAndrew Holtz \n\n\nMark Miller \n\n\nModerator: Cécile Klingler \n\nHow To Rate Your Latest Vaccine Story: Tips From A Health News Reviewer\n\n\n \n\n\n3:15 – 4:30 p.m.\n\nAntibiotic Resistance: The Next Challenges \n\n\nRamanan Laxminarayan \n\n\nKevin Outterson \n\n\nTara C. Smith \n\n\nModerator: Maryn McKenna \n\nResistance Fighters: Bacteria Evolve To Withstand Drugs\, Limiting Effective Therapies\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\nSupporters\nThese are the funders of the AHCJ Global Health Journalism Track: \nRobert Wood Johnson Foundation \nThe Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust \nGordon and Betty Moore Foundation \nThe Commonwealth Fund \nBurroughs Wellcome Fund URL:https://healthjournalism.org/event/world-conference-of-science-journalists/ LOCATION:Georgia CATEGORIES:Workshops | Summits END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR