On Thursday, January 19, you are invited to join Health Affairs Editor-in-Chief Alan Weil for the next installment of our Policy Spotlight series, featuring Benjamin Sommers, the Deputy Assistant Secretary in the Office of Health Policy at the US Department of Health and Human Services.
Dr. Sommers is also the Senior Official Performing the Duties of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation (ASPE), a key office at HHS for policy coordination, legislation development,
strategic planning, policy research, evaluation, and economic analysis.
Prior to joining the Biden Administration, Dr. Sommers was the Huntley Quelch Professor of Health Care Economics at the Harvard School of Public Health, and professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School and Brigham & Women’s Hospital. He is a health economist and primary care physician whose main research interests are health policy for vulnerable populations and the health care safety net. He has published more than 40 articles in Health Affairs.
Date: Thursday, January 19, 2023 Time: 2:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. Eastern Access: Open to All
As a reminder, we will also host a Lunch and Learn tomorrow for Health Affairs Insiders to discuss national health care spending in 2021.
Learn more about how you can become an Insider and unlock an all-access pass to our events.
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