On Tuesday, November 1, you are invited to join Health Affairs Editor-in-Chief Alan Weil for the next installment of our Policy Spotlight series, featuring Robert Otto Valdez, the new director of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) at the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).
AHRQ is the agency tasked with producing evidence to make health care safer, higher quality, and more accessible, equitable, and affordable. AHRQ works with
partners to make sure that this evidence is well understood and used to implement change.
Among many previous positions in academia, Dr. Valdez was the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) Professor Emeritus of Family & Community Medicine and Economics at the University of New Mexico (UNM) and served as founding Dean at the Drexel University School of Public Health.
From 1985 through 1999, he was Professor of Health Services at the UCLA School of Public Health and served as associate director of the Chicano Studies Research Center.
During a previous stint at HHS, he was Deputy Assistant Secretary for Health and, simultaneously, Director of Interagency Health Policy at the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.
Date: Tuesday,
November 1, 2022
Time: 3:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. Eastern
Place: Online details will be shared with registrants 24 hours in advance of the event
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