Meetings
The Healthier America Summit
Trust for America's Health
June 12, 2007
The Healthier America Summit was held June 12, 2007, at the Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center in Washington, D.C. The summit focused on efforts to make disease prevention and protection from public health threats national priorities. Trust for America's Health (TFAH) hosted the event. Participants Dr. Gail Christopher. Gov. Mitchell E. Daniels, Jr. (R-IN) and former Gov. Mark Warner (D-VA) delivered keynote remarks about public health policies and practices that can help Americans live healthier lives.
Agenda
June 12, 2007
The Healthier America Summit was held June 12, 2007, at the Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center in Washington, D.C. The summit focused on efforts to make disease prevention and protection from public health threats national priorities. Trust for America's Health (TFAH) hosted the event. Participants Dr. Gail Christopher. Gov. Mitchell E. Daniels, Jr. (R-IN) and former Gov. Mark Warner (D-VA) delivered keynote remarks about public health policies and practices that can help Americans live healthier lives.
Agenda
Health Disparities in Child Health
Topics in Health Disparities in Child Health: Why are Expansions in Coverage Important?
May 2, 2007
Dr. Christopher was a guest on the Kaiser Family Foundation's "Today's Topics In Health Disparities" live webcast series on May 2, 2007. Dr. Christopher joined other experts discussing how the lack coverage affects disparities in children's access to quality health care. The panelists also discussed national and state efforts underway to expand coverage to children and their parents.
Podcast
Transcripts
Webcast
Birth Disparities Meeting
February 20, 2007
The Joint Center Health Policy Institute and the University of Michigan, Roadmap Initiative Disparities Center invite you to attend a day-long round-table February 20th at the National Press Club to discuss solutions to racially and ethnically linked disparities in pregnancy outcome.
Save the Date Card
Agenda
Pollutant Exposures & Birth Outcome Disparities
National and Regional Trends in African American Birth Outcomes
African-American Women’s Lifelong Minority Status, Stress, & Pregnancy Outcome
Relationality, Misogyny, Relationality, Misogyny, & Infant Mortality
Transcript: Lunch Speaker - Angela Glover Blackwell
Transcript: Roundtable - Dissemination Beyond Providers
Transcript: Relationality -A Response To Misogyny & Infant Mortality; African-American Women’s Lifelong Minority Status, Stress, & Pregnancy Outcome; Pollutant Exposures & Birth Outcome Disparities
Transcript: Welcome - Kris Siefert & Gail Christopher; Jane Williams; Caya B. Lewis; Introductions - Gail Christopher
Transcript: National & Regional Trends In African-American Birth Outcomes
Transcript: Roundtable - Bridging Policymaking & Research
The Joint Center Health Policy Institute and the University of Michigan, Roadmap Initiative Disparities Center invite you to attend a day-long round-table February 20th at the National Press Club to discuss solutions to racially and ethnically linked disparities in pregnancy outcome.
Save the Date Card
Agenda
Pollutant Exposures & Birth Outcome Disparities
National and Regional Trends in African American Birth Outcomes
African-American Women’s Lifelong Minority Status, Stress, & Pregnancy Outcome
Relationality, Misogyny, Relationality, Misogyny, & Infant Mortality
Transcript: Lunch Speaker - Angela Glover Blackwell
Transcript: Roundtable - Dissemination Beyond Providers
Transcript: Relationality -A Response To Misogyny & Infant Mortality; African-American Women’s Lifelong Minority Status, Stress, & Pregnancy Outcome; Pollutant Exposures & Birth Outcome Disparities
Transcript: Welcome - Kris Siefert & Gail Christopher; Jane Williams; Caya B. Lewis; Introductions - Gail Christopher
Transcript: National & Regional Trends In African-American Birth Outcomes
Transcript: Roundtable - Bridging Policymaking & Research
Health Coverage for All Children Campaign as CHIP Reauthorization Comes up in 2007
October 24, 2006
A meet to discuss the urgent need to ensure health coverage for all children in 2007 as SCHIP * the State Children’s Health Insurance Program * comes up for reauthorization and in light of the continuing health and mental health crisis faced by Katrina’s children.
This meeting explores a proactive leadership strategy and vision for what all children need for a healthy start or a defensive hold the line strategy more likely to protect these crucial child health programs and help children left behind? Should children’s advocates seize CHIP’s reauthorization as an opportunity to push for and achieve health care for all children rather than simple reauthorization which may result in moving backwards?
Health Insurance for Children
The Role of Medicaid and SCHIP as an Insurance Safety Net
Changes in Children’s Health Insurance Status, 1996–2005
SCHIP Enrollees With Special Health Care Needs And Access To Care
The Number of Uninsured Americans Is At An All-Time High
A meet to discuss the urgent need to ensure health coverage for all children in 2007 as SCHIP * the State Children’s Health Insurance Program * comes up for reauthorization and in light of the continuing health and mental health crisis faced by Katrina’s children.
This meeting explores a proactive leadership strategy and vision for what all children need for a healthy start or a defensive hold the line strategy more likely to protect these crucial child health programs and help children left behind? Should children’s advocates seize CHIP’s reauthorization as an opportunity to push for and achieve health care for all children rather than simple reauthorization which may result in moving backwards?
Health Insurance for Children
The Role of Medicaid and SCHIP as an Insurance Safety Net
Changes in Children’s Health Insurance Status, 1996–2005
SCHIP Enrollees With Special Health Care Needs And Access To Care
The Number of Uninsured Americans Is At An All-Time High
Helping Troubled Youth: Juvenile Justice, Medicaid and Behavioral Health
October 15, 2006
An important meeting hosted by the National Academy for State Health Policy, with support from the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. With more than 2 million arrested every year. These are among our nation’s most vulnerable and troubled youth: most are medically underserved, and a majority suffer from mental health and substance abuse problems. The great majority of these young people are minorities and male. Without efforts to address their problems and reconnect them to insurance and services when they leave the system, most will be re-arrested.
Preconference Agenda
PowerPoint Presentation
An important meeting hosted by the National Academy for State Health Policy, with support from the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. With more than 2 million arrested every year. These are among our nation’s most vulnerable and troubled youth: most are medically underserved, and a majority suffer from mental health and substance abuse problems. The great majority of these young people are minorities and male. Without efforts to address their problems and reconnect them to insurance and services when they leave the system, most will be re-arrested.
Preconference Agenda
PowerPoint Presentation
Dismantling Heath Disparities through Awareness, Leadership & Action
The Joint Center Health Policy Institute and Institute for the Advancement of Multicultural & Minority Medicine (IAMMM)
May 18-19, 2006
The Joint Center Health Policy Institute and IAMMM co-sponsored a comprehensive interactive workshop for media professionals, local, state, and municipal legislators, and emerging civic leaders May 18-19, 2006. Participants gained knowledge and practical skills to help them become effective advocates for the elimination of health disparities among African Americans and other communities of color.
Agenda
Attendees by Category
Fact Sheet Enclosure
Health Disparities and the Minority-Majority
Your Health: The Key to Family & Community
National Council of Negro Women
TOWN HALL MEETING
Thursday, December 1, 2005
Combined Bios
Town Hall Meeting Agenda
PowerPoint Presentation
Healthy Communities - A Health Policy Forum
On Issues Facing Public
Housing Residents
Thursday, September 8, 2005
The Joint Center Health Policy Institute sponsored a joint forum with the District of Columbia Housing Authority to address issues of health related to housing resident from across the country. Participants included resident council officers, directors of resident programs; recipients of HUD grantees, resident commissioners, and other stakeholders.
Health Services for Public Housing Residents Fact Sheet
Public Housing Forum Agenda
Combined Biographical Sketches of Panelists
Health and Housing Presentation Popkin
Health Policy Forum 9.8
Thursday, September 8, 2005
The Joint Center Health Policy Institute sponsored a joint forum with the District of Columbia Housing Authority to address issues of health related to housing resident from across the country. Participants included resident council officers, directors of resident programs; recipients of HUD grantees, resident commissioners, and other stakeholders.
Health Services for Public Housing Residents Fact Sheet
Public Housing Forum Agenda
Combined Biographical Sketches of Panelists
Health and Housing Presentation Popkin
Health Policy Forum 9.8
Medicaid in Crisis: It's Not Somebody Else's Problem
May 9, 2005
The Joint Center Health Policy Institute co-sponsored a Medicaid Forum, Medicaid in Crisis: It's Not Somebody Else's Problem, with the American Public Health Association. Co-moderated by The Honorable Louis W. Sullivan, M.D. and Gail C. Christopher, D.N., Director, Joint Center Health Policy Institute, the forum focused on Medicaid's counter-cyclical nature and its impact on the economy. The panelists included: Warren A. Jones, M.D., F.A.A.F.P., Executive Director, Mississippi Division of Medicaid -Stan Dorn, J.D., Senior Policy Analyst, Economic and Social Research Institute -Georges C. Benjamin, M.D., F.A.C.P., Executive Director, American Public Health Association.
The Joint Center Health Policy Institute co-sponsored a Medicaid Forum, Medicaid in Crisis: It's Not Somebody Else's Problem, with the American Public Health Association. Co-moderated by The Honorable Louis W. Sullivan, M.D. and Gail C. Christopher, D.N., Director, Joint Center Health Policy Institute, the forum focused on Medicaid's counter-cyclical nature and its impact on the economy. The panelists included: Warren A. Jones, M.D., F.A.A.F.P., Executive Director, Mississippi Division of Medicaid -Stan Dorn, J.D., Senior Policy Analyst, Economic and Social Research Institute -Georges C. Benjamin, M.D., F.A.C.P., Executive Director, American Public Health Association.
People of Color with Significant Disabilities & Their Families: Prevalence, Challenges, & Successes
TASH Annual Conference
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
2005
This conference was co-sponsored by the Joint Center Health Policy Institute and TASH. Meeting participants discussed the un-addressed issues, pertinent to people of color, especially African Americans, about disability rights and social justice. The purpose of the People of Color Strand is to highlight health, educational, and community/social service issues and challenges faced by people of color with significant disabilities and their families.
Conference Brochure
Conference Proceedings
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
2005
This conference was co-sponsored by the Joint Center Health Policy Institute and TASH. Meeting participants discussed the un-addressed issues, pertinent to people of color, especially African Americans, about disability rights and social justice. The purpose of the People of Color Strand is to highlight health, educational, and community/social service issues and challenges faced by people of color with significant disabilities and their families.
Conference Brochure
Conference Proceedings