AcademyHealth | Annual Research Meeting

2009 Annual Research Meeting. | June 28-30 | Hilton Chicago

For 25 years AcademyHealth’s Annual Research Meeting (ARM) has brought together health services researchers, providers, and key decision makers to address the critical challenges confronting the nation’s health care delivery system. The 2009 meeting features peer-reviewed research sessions, policy roundtables, methods workshops, poster presentations, and special networking opportunities.

• See who’s coming to the ARM. List of pre-registrants now online.
• Full conference agenda and agenda at a glance now online, including presentations selected from the call for abstracts.
• On-site rates for registration now apply. You can continue to register for the meeting on-line, by fax or by mail until June 15, after which time, all registration must take place on-site in Chicago.
• Additional hotel and travel resources are available in the conference brochure.

Source: AcademyHealth: Advancing Research, Policy, and Practice.

Cato Institute | Conference on Health Reform, June 17, 2009

Conference on Health Reform, June 17, 2009, 8:00 AM- 5:00 PM, Cato Institute • 1000 Massachusetts Ave., N.W., Washington, D.C. 20001. Full list of speakers and registration.

Symposium: America and Chicago’s Health Safety Net: A Century of Continuity and Change – SSA Centennial

Organizers:

• Colleen M. Grogan, Associate Professor; Faculty Chair, Graduate Program in Health Administration and Policy; Research Associate, Center for Health Administration Studies
• Harold Pollack, Associate Professor; Faculty Chair, Center for Health Administration Studies; Co-Director, University of Chicago Crime Lab

Date: April 17, 2009

Location: School of Social Service Administration
969 East 60th Street
Chicago, IL 60637

As the fields of modern health services research, health policy and health administration emerged at the University of Chicago, the faculty recognized the close link between vulnerability and health, and the importance of community-level safety net organizations to improve well-being. Today, with the rise in chronic health conditions, continued economic and racial segregation, and one million uninsured living in Chicago alone, that link has never been more apparent. How can today’s medical and social safety net organizations attack the multitude of health-related problems among America’s poor and low-income?

This symposium will reflect on the role of various health care reform approaches—what they are and ought to be—for vulnerable populations. Presenters will trace the major historical trends in the development of the U.S. health care delivery system—particularly the development of our private/public mixed system, and offer a new critique on how this broader framing influenced the separate development of the health care safety net. As the Obama administration begins efforts to reform the U.S. health care system, our keynote speaker will provide a thought-provoking and entertaining talk on previous U.S. Presidents’ attempts to pass national health care reform and lessons to be learned.

Health care reform in light of equity in access to care, quality improvements, and cost control will be considered. Presenters will reflect on enduring concepts that still apply to thinking about health care reform today and other areas where we have witnessed significant change. Finally, Chicago’s health care safety net and the role of health care providers in improving health for vulnerable populations will be explored.

View the full agenda for this symposium.

View speakers’ biographies.

Please register online for this event. The registration cost is $55 which includes lunch and a reception.

via America and Chicago’s Health Safety Net: A Century of Continuity and Change – SSA Centennial.

Responsible Health Reform: Competition, Innovation, and Individual Control

Responsible Health Reform: Competition, Innovation, and Individual Control
American Enterprise Institute Event. Thursday, March 13, 2008, 12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m. 188 Russell Senate Office Building, Washington, DC

At this event, Senators Richard Burr (R-N.C.) and Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) will offer a market-based reform proposal that relies on stronger competition in the health system, tax reforms, individual responsibility and ownership, and more active consumer involvement in medical decisions. Eugene Steuerle of the Urban Institute and Thomas P. Miller of the AEI will offer their assessment of the key features of the Burr-Coburn proposal, and AEI’s Joseph Antos will moderate.
Registration.

Third National Pay for Performance Summit

Third National Pay for Performance Summit
Integrated Healthcare Association Event
February 27-29, 2008
Los Angeles, CA
Registration

Human Organs for Sale?

Human Organs for Sale?
Cato Institute Policy Forum
Thursday, February 21, 2008, 12:00 p.m. (Lunch included)
Washington, DC
Registration

Getting to Universal Health Insurance Coverage Conference

National Academy of Social Insurance’s 20th annual policy conference focused on achieving affordable health coverage for all Americans. The conference brought together the major participants in the health coverage debate to frame the problem, compares specific policy proposals, and identified ways of overcoming the obstacles to reform. Video and transcripts for Day 1 and Day 2 re available through kaisernet.org.

5th Conference on Public Health, Law & Obesity

This conference will be sponsored by The Public Health Advocacy Institute (PHAI) and Public Health Law & Policy (PHLP) & held on Sept 19 – 21st, 2008 at Northeastern University School of Law.  At the conference “advocates, public health practitioners, legal scholars, researchers, and policy makers are invited to come together to discuss the current legal approaches to the obesity epidemic. The conference will help stakeholders collaborate in developing a public health legal strategy.”  For more details, go here.

National Medicare Education Program (NMEP) Coordinating Committee Meeting

The National Medicare Education Program Partnership Alliance began as an educational effort as a result of the Balanced Budget Act of 1997, which expanded Medicare’s health plan options by creating the Medicare+Choice program. A partnership soon developed between public and private organizations and CMS around a common goal: educating people with Medicare to make informed choices about their health care. NMEP continues its work under the Medicare Modernization Act of 2003. CMS traditionally holds this meeting in Washington, D.C., with National Partner Organizations. In addition to the National Partner Organizations, local partners from each CMS Regional Office will be invited to participate in this meeting virtually via teleconference. This meeting will set the standard in bringing together our national and regional partners for a dialogue that is helpful and productive for all. The meeting agenda will be posted as soon as it becomes available.  Meeting details:

Thursday, January 31, 2008
8:30 a.m. – 12:45 p.m.
Hilton Washington Embassy Row Hotel
2015 Massachusetts Avenue, NW
Washington, DC  20036
202-265-1600

3rd Annual Conference on the Health of the African Diaspora: Mental Health

3rd Annual Conference on the Health of the African Diaspora: Mental HealthSaturday, February, 9, 2008
9:00Am to 6:00PM
NYU Medical Center
550 First Avenue
New York, NY 10016

To Register: http://www.med.nyu.edu/ichr/chad/events/events.html

Conference Fee: $50 General, $20 Students

The 3rd Annual Conference on the Health of the African Diaspora: Mental Health is an interdisciplinary meeting that brings together physicians, social workers, psychologists, public health professionals and policy makers to discuss the status of mental health among peoples of the African Diaspora. The one-day conference will provide an opportunity for a better understanding of mental health issues across the demographic cross-section of peoples of African descent through a comprehensive discourse of the social, medical and demographic framework that shapes mental health policy, diagnosis and treatment. Over 250 participants are expected and confirmed speakers include: Hugh Hendrie, MD, Indiana University School of Medicine; Hugh Butts, MD, Author, Racism & Posttraumatic Stress Disorder; David Henderson, MD, Associate Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School; Jacqueline Mattis, PhD, New York University; Kirby Randolph, PhD, Kansas Medical School; Ernest Marquez, PhD, National Institute of Mental Health; Alfonso Wyatt, MDiv, Fund for the City of New York; Rosemonde Pierre-Louis, Manhattan Borough Deputy President; Adeyinka Akinsulure-Smith, PhD, CUNY, Bellevue/ NYU Program for Survivors of Torture; and Robert Fullilove, EdD, Columbia University.