Regular, content-filled events are a vital part of amplifying the health policy work published in Health Affairs and Health Affairs Forefront, bringing together diverse audiences for insightful conversations on the latest health policy topics.
2023 was a banner year, with almost four dozen individual events such as theme issue briefings and forums, plus regular installments of our “Policy Spotlight,” “Lunch and Learn,” "Journal Club,” and “Professional Development” series.
Some events are planned especially for members of our “Insider” program, but many are open to everyone. And videos of all events are archived on HealthAffairs.org.
Below is a rundown of some of our memorable event content from 2023.
January: Insider Lunch and Learn: National Health Care Spending In 2021: Decline In Federal Spending Outweighs Greater Use Of Health Care
Featuring: Alan Weil, David M. Cutler, and M. Kate Bundorf
February: Health Affairs Briefing: Rational Health Care Spending Growth – Can We Get There From Here?
Featuring: William Frist, Emilio Varanini, and Mark Pauly
March: Journal Club: “Surviving The Surge: Non-Urgent Procedures, Intensive Care, And Mississippi’s COVID-19 Waves”
Featuring: Sarah Dine and Thomas E. Dobbs
April: Lunch and Learn: "Workforce Exodus in State and Local Public Health: The Numbers, the Reality, and the Solutions"
Featuring: Alan Weil, Anne Zink, Pramod Dwivedi, and Nicole Alexander-Scott
May: Policy Spotlight: One-on-One with Dawn O’Connell, Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response, US Department of Health and Human Services
Featuring: Alan Weil and Dawn O'Connell
June: Lunch and Learn: State Health Care Spending Growth Targets: 2021 Results and Next Steps
Featuring: January Angeles, Sarah Bartelmann, and Deidre S. Gifford
July: Lunch and Learn: Supreme Court Wrap Up
Featuring: Alan Weil, Sara Rosenbaum, and Thomas Barker
August: “A Health Podyssey” and Policy Spotlight Event
Featuring: Alan Weil and Meena Seshamani
September: Briefing: How The Ownership and Structure of Health Care Entities Affect Clinicians & Patients
Featuring: Alan Weil, Erin C. Fuse Brown, Joseph Bruch, Gary Price, Christopher M. Whaley, and Brady Post
October: Theme Issue Briefing: Tackling Structural Racism in Health
Featuring: Alan Weil and Ryan Petteway
November: Policy Spotlight: One-on-One with Nora Volkow, Director, National Institute on Drug Abuse at the National Institutes of Health
Featuring: Alan Weil and Nora Volkow
December: Lunch and Learn: The Global Impacts of PEPFAR and Consequences of Deprioritization
Featuring: Emily McAndrew and Thomas Kenyon
Readers can also review our lists of the most-read Health Affairs journal articles of 2023; our Editor-in-Chief Alan Weil’s favorite journal articles of the year; our most-read Health Affairs Forefront articles of 2023; and our top podcasts from last year.
Coming tomorrow: the best of Health Affairs Scholar.
