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Disability & Health

We invite you to join us for a full month of events highlighting our upcoming October 2022 issue of Health Affairs, "Disability & Health." The issue provides a comprehensive look at the relationship between disability and health and we expect it to help shape the agenda for research and policy for many years to come.

Get access to the full breadth of Health Affairs events on Disability & Health. Use discount code HAInsider10 to get $10 off your membership to Health Affairs Unlimited.

Events on the topic of Disability & Health include a free Virtual Symposium where panels of distinguished authors and experts from the issue will present their work and engage in discussions on a range of topics related to disability and health:

A free in-person, community-based event and video premiere at Main Street Connect
An accessible and inclusive apartment complex and community center in Rockville, Maryland
A Journal Club with the author of an October 2022 paper on assessing self care needs and worker shortages in rural areas
A Professional Development event on disability, health, and accessibility in health services research.

More than thirty years after the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) was signed into law, people with disabilities continue to face inequities in the health care system with respect to access and outcomes. Disparities in education, employment, housing, and transportation are also barriers to achieving health equity.

The October 2022 issue of Health Affairs provides a comprehensive, scholarly look at the relationship between disability and health. You are invited to join us on Monday, October 3, 2022, from 1:00 p.m. – 4:30 p.m. for a virtual symposium at which panels of distinguished authors and experts will present their work and engage in discussions on a range of topics.

Confirmed speakers include:

Ilhom Akobirshoev, Research Scientist, Lurie Institute for Disability Policy, Heller School for Social Policy and Management, Brandeis University
Richard E. Besser, President and CEO, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Laurin Elizabeth Bixby, PhD Student, University of Pennsylvania
Susan A. Chapman, Professor, Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, UCSF School of Nursing
Alina Engelman, Associate Professor, Department of Public Health, California State University, East Bay
Rocco Friebel, Director, Global Surgery Policy Unit, London School of Economics and Political Science
Jean P. Hall, Director, Institute for Health and Disability Policy Studies, University of Kansas
Willi Horner-Johnson, Associate Professor, OHSU-PSU School of Public Health, and Associate Professor, Institute on Development and Disability, School of Medicine, Oregon Health & Science University
Lisa Iezzoni, Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital, Advisor
Tyler G. James, Research Fellow, Department of Family Medicine, Center for Disability Health and Wellness and Michigan Mixed Methods Program, University of Michigan
Colin Killick, Executive Director at Disability Policy Consortium
Tara Lagu, Director, Institute for Public Health and Medicine, Center for Health Services & Outcomes Research, and Professor of Medicine (Hospital Medicine) and Medical Social Sciences, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University
Linda Long-Bellil, Assistant Professor, E.K. Shriver Center and Department of Family Medicine and Community Health, University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School
Lisa M. Meeks, Director, DocsWithDisabilities Initiative, and Assistant Professor, Department of Learning Health Sciences and Family Medicine, Center for Disability Health and Wellness, University of Michigan
Daniel Mont, Co-Founder and CEO, Center for Inclusive Policy
Ari Ne’eman, Senior Research Associate, Harvard Law School Project on Disability, Harvard University
Willyanne DeCormier Plosky, Program Manager, Multi-Regional Clinical Trials Center of Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard University
Javier Robles, Professor of Kinesiology and Health and Co-Chair, Rutgers University Disability Studies Committee, Rutgers University, Advisor
Madeline Smith-Johnson, Doctoral Student and Graduate Research Assistant, Department of Sociology Rice University, Doctoral Student and Graduate Research Assistant, Department of Sociology Rice University

Date: Monday, October 3, 2022
Time: 1:00 p.m. – 4:30 pm Eastern
Access: Open to all

Join us Thursday, October 6, for an in-person, community-based event at Main Street Connect, an accessible and inclusive apartment complex and community center in Rockville, Maryland.

The evening will include a panel discussion about unmet needs in Montgomery County's disability community and ways to address them, led by Health Affairs Director of Health Equity Vabren Watts, PhD. The event will also include screening of a short film featuring disability rights activist Judy Heumann.

The event will be livestreamed on LinkedIn.
Confirmed panelists include:

Carol Beatty, Secretary of Disabilities, Maryland Department of Disabilities
Stacey Herman, Assistant Vice President of Neurodiversity and Community Workforce Development, Kennedy Krieger Institute
Odile Bruntetto, Chief Aging and Disability Services at the Montgomery County Department of Health and Human Services
James Bridgers, Acting Chief Health Officer at the Montgomery County Department of Health and Human Services
Gabe Albornoz, Montgomery County Councilmember, Council President, Chair of the Health and Human Services committee, and member of the Public Safety Committee
Craig Rice, Montgomery County Councilmember, Chair of Education and Culture Committee and member of Health and Human Services Committee
Others to be announced

Date: Thursday, October 6, 2022
Time: 6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m. (EST)
Place: Main Street Connect, 50 Monroe Place, Rockville, Maryland 20850
(Rockville Metro Station on Red Line)
Access: Open to all

Parking is available at 51 Monroe Street Garage, 51 Monroe Place, Rockville, Maryland 20850

Please join Health Affairs Director of Health Equity Vabren Watts and Director of Digital Strategy Patti Sweet as they share lessons for health policy content producers gleaned from the year-long publication process of the October 2022 Health Affairs thematic issue on Disability & Health.

Topics will include how to evaluate and improve internal procedures, technical capabilities, publications, websites, and more to ensure that they meet established best practices for equity and accessibility across the range of disabilities.

Date: Monday, October 17, 2022
Time: 4:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Access: Health Affairs Insiders

The centerpiece of the Health Affairs Journal Club meeting in October is “Personal Care Aides: Assessing Self Care Needs and Worker Shortages in Rural Areas.” Using 2013–17 data from the American Community Survey and the Office of Management and Budget, the authors analyzed the need for personal care aide (PCA) services among adults and the supply across the US, and found the gap to be largest in the southern United States.

On October 20, please join coauthor Susan A. Chapman of the University of California San Francisco for a detailed discussion of the paper’s data, methods, and policy conclusions. Health Affairs Senior Editor Ellen Bayer will host.

Date: Thursday, October 20, 2022
Time: 3:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. Eastern
Access: Health Affairs Insiders

Don't Forget To Register For These September Events

Don't forget to sign up for our three upcoming events next week: a Professional Development event on peer review for Peer Review Week, a free Briefing on physician burnout, workforce strain, and lessons from COVID-19 in partnership with the Physician's Foundation, and a free Policy Spotlight event with Jonathan Blum, the Principal Deputy Commissioner and Chief Operating Officer of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) at the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).

Additionally, in October we will also feature a free one-on-one event with Dave Chokshi, former NYC Health Commissioner, on topics including the ongoing response to and long-term implications of COVID-19, policies to increase access and promote racial health equity through primary care, strategies for prevention of overdoses and suicide, and broadly, the future of public health policy.

Trusted peer reviewers are the backbone of scholarly journals like Health Affairs.

On September 20, Health Affairs Executive Editor Don Metz will discuss the qualities we seek in reviewers, what is asked of those who agree to contribute, issues that arise in the review process, and the benefits of reviewing not only for your personal professional growth, but the future of scholarly publishing.

Health Affairs Executive Publisher Jane-Hiebert White will host.

Date: Tuesday, September 20, 2022
Time: 1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. Eastern
Access: Health Affairs Insiders

In 2016, in partnership with the Physicians Foundation, Health Affairs launched the Practice of Medicine article series focusing on important health policy issues affecting physicians.

The effort has produced a comprehensive collection of policy research in the field.

On Thursday, September 22, Health Affairs Editor-in-Chief Alan Weil will host an online forum examining “Physician Burnout, Workforce Strain, and Lessons from COVID-19,” focusing on recent work featured in the Practice of Medicine series and broader issues confronting medical professionals.

The event will take place just a week after National Physician Suicide Awareness Day (September 17).

Date: Thursday, September 22, 2022
Time: 2:00 p.m. – 3:00 pm Eastern
Access: Open to all

On Friday, September 23, you are invited to join Health Affairs Editor-in-Chief Alan Weil for the next installment of our Policy Spotlight series, featuring Jonathan Blum, the Principal Deputy Commissioner and Chief Operating Officer of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) at the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).

In this dual role, he oversees CMS’s program policy planning and implementation and day-to-day operations of the entire agency.

Mr. Blum has more than 25 years of public and private-sector experience working in health care policy and administration.

He was an Executive Vice President for Medical Affairs at CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield, a professional staff member at the Senate Finance Committee, a program analyst at the Office of Management and Budget, and has worked as a strategy and management consultant.

Earlier at HHS, he was the Deputy Administrator and Director of the Center of Medicare, leading the agency’s Medicare payment and delivery reform strategies and the policy and program management of the Medicare program.

Date: Friday, September 23, 2022
Time: 3:00 p.m. – 4:00 pm Eastern
Access: Open to all

On Tuesday, October 25, you are invited to join Health Affairs Editor-in-Chief Alan Weil for the next installment of our Policy Spotlight series, featuring Dave A. Chokshi, the former Commissioner of the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, and currently a visiting fellow at the New York Health Foundation. Dr. Chokshi became well known in New York over the past few years for his strong but measured leadership responding to the COVID-19 pandemic, and in 2020, co-authored two commentary articles for Health Affairs on New York City’s response to the unprecedented public health emergency.

Trained as a primary care physician at the University of Pennsylvania, before his appointment as New York’s 43rd Health Commissioner, Dr. Chokshi served as the inaugural Chief Population Health Officer at NYC Health + Hospitals. Earlier, he worked at the New York State Department of Health and the Louisiana Department of Health, before and after Hurricane Katrina. He also served as a White House Fellow and was the principal health advisor to the U.S. Secretary of Veterans Affairs.

Date: Tuesday, October 25, 2022
Time: 3:00 – 4:00 p.m. Eastern
Access: Open to all

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