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Health Affairs is announcing new events for November which will cover the following topics:

Policy Spotlight with AHRQ Director Robert Valdez (11/1)
Issue Briefing: COVID-19 Economic Supports (11/8)
Q & A Session: Tips for Submitting an Abstract for upcoming Issue on Racism & Health (11/14)
Insider Journal Club: "Racial And Ethnic Inequalities In COVID-19 Mortality Within Carceral Settings: An Analysis Of Texas Prisons" (11/21)
Insider Professional Development: Writing for Narrative Matters (11/29)

Scroll down for more details on our upcoming events.

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
Access: Open to all

The November 2022 issue of Health Affairs features a collection of papers exploring the health impacts of economic security policies that were enacted during the COVID-19 pandemic.

You are invited to join us on Tuesday, November 8, 2022, from 2:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. Eastern, for a virtual briefing event at which selected authors and experts will present their work and engage in discussions on these issues.

Featured speakers are:

Abdinasir Ali, Doctoral Student, Department of Health Management and Policy, University of Iowa College of Public Health, on State Eviction Moratoriums Associated With Improvement in The Mental Health Of People Who Rent
Elizabeth Ananat, Mallya Professor of Women and Economics, Barnard College on Racial And Ethnic Disparities In Access To Pandemic-Era Unemployment Insurance: Implications For Health And Well-Being
Erin Arango-Escalante, Administrator, Division of Early Care and Education, Wisconsin Department of Children and Families
Emily Dore, Doctoral Student, Emory University on Easing Cash Assistance Rules During COVID-19 Was Associated With Reduced Days Of Poor Physical And Mental Health
Benjamin Glasner, Postdoctoral Research Scientist, Center on Poverty and Social Policy, Columbia University, on Effect Of The Child Tax Credit Expansion On The Wellbeing And Mental Health Of Parents Is Unclear
Rita Hamad, Associate Professor, Family Community Medicine, University of California San Francisco School of Medicine, Health Affairs adviser
Caitlin Lowery, Doctoral Student, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill on Changes In Grocery Purchases Associated With A COVID-Relief Produce Incentive For SNAP Participants In North Carolina
Alina Schnake-Mahl, Assistant Professor, Dornsife School of Public Health, Drexel University, on Higher COVID-19 Vaccination And Narrower Disparities In US Cities With Paid Sick Leave Compared To Those Without
Shao-Chee Sim, Vice President for Research, Innovation and Evaluation, Episcopal Health Foundation
Brian Smedley, Equity Scholar, Urban Institute
George Wehby, Professor, John W. Colloton Chair, and Head, Department of Health Management and Policy, University of Iowa College of Public Health, on State Eviction Moratoriums Associated With Improvement in The Mental Health Of People Who Rent
Rachel Wick, Senior Program Officer, Blue Shield of California Foundation
Others to be announced

Date: Tuesday, November 8, 2022
Time: 2:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. Eastern
Access: Open to all

Health Affairs is planning an upcoming issue on Racism & Health, intended to deepen and extend the scholarship on the relationship between racism, health, and health care, with a focus on new topics and evidence of interventions that address racism and health.

A follow up to our February 2022 issue, the new issue – planned for October 2023 -- will also feature original research, analyses, commentaries, and personal narrative. The deadline to submit abstracts is December 19, 2022.

You are invited to join Health Affairs on November, 14, 2022, for an informal Q&A session, “Tips for Navigating our Request for Abstracts (RFA) Process: Racism and Health,” to reach the most diverse audience of authors and make the process as accessible as possible.

The Q&A will be hosted by Health Affairs Senior Editor Jessica Bylander. She will be joined by Rachel Hardeman, associate professor and Blue Cross Endowed Professor of Health and Racial Equity at the University of Minnesota.

Dr. Hardeman was an advisor on the first Racism & Health theme issue, and will share her thoughts on what makes a successful abstract and her advice for someone hoping to publish in Health Affairs.

Date: November 14, 2022
Time: 1:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m. Eastern
Access: Open to all

The centerpiece of the Health Affairs Journal Club meeting in November is, "Racial And Ethnic Inequalities In COVID-19 Mortality Within Carceral Settings: An Analysis Of Texas Prisons.”

Using a unique data set from the Texas Department of Criminal Justice and medical examiner records, the authors analyzed mortality patterns of the population incarcerated in Texas state prison facilities before and during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic. The authors determined that during the first year of the pandemic, mortality rates for Black and Hispanic people in Texas prisons were 1.61 and 2.12 times higher, respectively, than for White people.

On November 21, please join co-author Neal Marquez, a PhD student in sociology at the University of Washington, for a detailed discussion of the paper’s data, methods, and policy conclusions. Health Affairs Senior Editor Jonathan Bor will host.

Date: Monday, November 21, 2022
Time: 4:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. Eastern
Access: Health Affairs Insiders

Since 1999, Health Affairs popular “Narrative Matters” series has used first-person essays to draw the attention of the public and policy makers to issues that have mainly been explored in a quantitative and analytic fashion.

On November 29, Health Affairs Narrative Matters Editor Jessica Bylander will host a professional development session for aspiring contributors, offering tips on how to write a powerful policy narrative, and ensure that submissions contain not just compelling personal stories, but also clear policy implications.

Date: Tuesday, November 29, 2022
Time: 3:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. Eastern
Access: Health Affairs Insiders

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