Are you interested in connecting with authors and experts in your field? Our events bring together researchers, practitioners, government officials, and health policy professionals alike to get an an up-close look at at research, methods, and findings.
This month's events include the following Insider-exlcusive programming:
Thomas Dobbs,former
state health officer of the Mississippi Department of Health and state incident commander during the COVID-19 pandemic, and current Dean of the John D. Bower School of Population Health at University of Mississippi’s Medical Center, will join
Health Affairs Senior Deputy Editor Sarah Dine for a detailed discussion of the paper’s data, methods, and policy conclusions.
Using Mississippi’s hospital discharge data, the research examines the decline in elective procedures during the COVID-19 pandemic, as the health care system complied with emergency orders to preserve resources for the
response.
Dobbs and coauthors found a nearly 27 percent decline in intensive care unit (ICU) admissions for elective procedures during these interventions, reducing ICU bed occupancy for elective surgeries by 16.8 percent and freeing up an average of eleven ICU beds each day.
In a recent Health Affairs Health Policy Brief, “Mass Shootings In The United States: Population Health Impacts And Policy
Levers” (September 15, 2022), American University professors Aparna Soni and Erdal Tekin reviewed research about mass shootings and their effect on population health. The brief focuses on mass shootings, not on the broader phenomenon of gun violence.
On March 23, you are invited to join professors Soni and Tekin for an Insider Lunch & Learn session examining policy interventions to reduce the population health harms inflicted by mass shootings and areas for future research. The event will be moderated by Health Affairs Senior Editor Laura Tollen.
Please join us on Thursday, March 30, for an Insider Lunch and Learn event featuring Ninez A. Ponce, Professor and Chair in the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health's Department of Health Policy and Management, Director of the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research, and former Associate Director of UCLA's Asian American Studies Center.
A leader in diversity, equity and inclusion in the field of health policy research for several years, Dr. Ponce is the principal investigator of the California Health Interview Survey (CHIS), the largest state health survey in the United States, and led the first
CHIS effort to measure race/ethnicity, acculturation, physician-patient communication, and discrimination. On March 30, she will discuss her work with the CHIS and her commitment to using evidence to find equitable health policy solutions. Health Affairs Director of Equity Vabren Watts will host.
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