Public health professionals will get an inside look at the implications of the new U.S. health reform law at the closing session of APHA’s 138th Annual Meeting in November.
The session, which will cap off five days of presentations, networking, learning and social activities at the nation’s premier public health event, will explore the way health reform is expected to change health systems at the local, state and federal levels. The session panel will discuss how states will implement the new law, expansions of Medicaid and the State Children’s Health Insurance Program, pitfalls of the law and other issues.
Session speakers hail from both the public and private sector, including John Colmers, MPH, Maryland’s secretary of health and mental hygiene, and Sara Rosenbaum, JD, chair of the Department of Health Policy at the George Washington University School of Medicine and Law. The session will be held Wednesday, Nov. 10, from 2:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.
The closing session panelists are just a few of the many high-profile health leaders who will be speaking at events during the APHA Annual Meeting. The meeting’s opening session, to be held Sunday, Nov. 7, will feature Cornel West, PhD, a civil rights activist, author and philosopher, and Bill Jenkins, PhD, MPH, MS, a biostatician and epidemiologist who helped end the infamous Tuskegee syphilis study.
Registration and housing are now open online for the APHA Annual Meeting, which will be held Nov. 6–10 in Denver. Participants who register by the Aug. 27 early-bird rate can save more than $50.
To find out more, visit www.apha.org/meetings or call 202-777-2742.
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