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Just Medicine – Making the ACA Vision a Reality For African Americans
September 13, 2016Health Equity Panel for ALC 2016 Walter E. Washington Convention Center Thursday, September 15, 2016 2:00PM – 4:00PM, Room 147A A series of provocative conversations among doctors, social scientists, legislators, activists, and lawyers about new...
New RWJF Leadership Program Launches: Nearly 40 Social Innovators From Across Sectors Selected to Build Culture of Health
September 12, 2016CONTACT Theresa Lewallen 202-789-3533 September 12, 2016 [email protected] FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE September 12, 2016 New Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Leadership Program Launches: Nearly 40 Social Innovators From Across Sectors...
Truth, Racial Healing & Transformation (AAC&U)
September 1, 2016...
Transforming Primary Care for the 21st Century
August 30, 2016Tuesday, September 13th, 2016 12:30pm – 2pm Rayburn House Office Building B-369 Lunch will be provided The Institute for Family Health and U.S. Representative José E. Serrano, Fifteenth Congressional District of New York, cordially invite you...
By How Much do Costs Need to be Reduced to Leverage True Health Transformation?
August 30, 2016by Bobby Milstein, PhD, MPH Proposals abound for improving regional health: some call for initiatives to enhance clinical care and reduce costs, some focus on payment reform, others combine clinical and population-level interventions, and many...
Building Healthy Communities One ZIP Code at a Time
August 25, 2016by Daniel Lau, Manager of Strategic Engagement When Reno’s Renown Health and the Washoe County Health District teamed up to conduct a Community Health Needs Assessment (CHNA) in 2014, they found that the region shared a basic health profile with...
Teachers are not the problem, poverty is
August 22, 2016by Stephen Krashen, Los Angeles Regarding the Aug. 12 news article “Gates Foundation to ‘stay the course’ with approach to education policy”: Melinda Gates still thinks that teacher quality is the problem in American education. Of course...
[Convening] Advancing Racial Equity: The Role of Government – Local & Regional Government Alliance on Race and Equity
August 22, 2016The Government Alliance on Race and Equity (GARE) will be hosting “Advancing Racial Equity: The Role of Government,” a day-long convening on November 10th from 8:30am to 5pm immediately before this year’s Facing Race conference in Atlanta,...
Health Equity and the Role for Community Development
August 18, 2016Douglas Jutte, MD, MPH and Colby Dailey, MPP Directors, Build Healthy Places Network Equity is a hot topic these days as our nation struggles with what is fair and just, and for whom. In philanthropy, equity is high on the agenda among major...
Anti-Racism Efforts Webinar Lead by APHA’s Dr. Camara Jones
August 16, 2016"Racism is a system of structuring opportunity and assigning value based on the social interpretation of how one looks (which is what we call "race", that unfairly disadvantages some individuals and communities, unfairly advantages other individuals...