Brian D. Smedley, Vice President and Director of the Health Policy Institute of the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies in Washington, DC, will speak on"Building Stronger Communities for Better Health: Moving from Science to Policy and Practice" December 8th at UCONN’s Low Learning Center 4-5pm.

Dr. Smedley currently oversees all of the operations of the  Health Policy Institute, which was started in 2002 with funding from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation. The Institute has a dual focus: to explore disparities in health and to generate policy recommendations on longstanding health equity concerns. Before that he was Research Director and co-founder of a communications, research and policy organization, The Opportunity Agenda where he led the organization's effort to center equity in state and national health reform discussions and to build the national will to expand opportunity for all. In addition, Dr. Smedley is also a co-editor, along with Alan Jenkins, of a book, All Things Being Equal: Instigating Opportunity in an Inequitable Time.

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