PAST CDC Co-SPONSORED EVENTS
The Institute has developed a bimonthly lecture series, entitled Health System Transformation, in partnership with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, to create a larger forum of discussion regarding health system transformation, health care reform, and health policy. Through these seminars, participants will gain a broader knowledge and understanding of critical elements of the U.S. health system, health security, and the role of public health and health policy. The presentations and discussions have encouraged exploring possibilities for policy change and opportunities for health leadership across sectors.

JANUARY 31, 2008
"The Healthiest Nation" by Julie Gerberding, M.D., M.P.H., Director, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (watch video here)

Discussants: Kenneth E. Thorpe, PhD, Executive Director, Institute for Advanced Policy Solutions, and Robert W. Woodruff Professor and Chair, Department of Health Policy and Management, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University

Gregory P. Marchildon, PhD, Research Chair in Public Policy and Economic History, Johnson-Shoyama Graduate School of Public Policy, University of Regina, Canada, and Health Policy Fellow, Institute for Advanced Policy Solutions, Emory University


MARCH 24, 2008
Ron Sims, King County Executive, delivered the second presentation in the Health System Transformation Lecture Series, "King County Equity and Social Justice Initiative."

Discussants: Robert O. Valdez, PhD, MHSA, Fellow, Institute for Advanced Policy Solutions, Emory University, and Executive Director, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Center for Health Policy, Albuquerque, New Mexico

Karen J. Minyard, PhD, MSN, Executive Director, Georgia Health Policy Center, Associate Research Professor, Public Administration and Urban Studies


APRIL 28, 2008
"The Missing Link in Health Reform" by Kenneth E. Thorpe, PhD, Executive Director, Institute for Advanced Policy Solutions. (watch video here)

Discussants:
Ron Z. Goetzel, PhD, Research Professor and Director, Emory University, Institute for Health and Productivity Studies; Vice President of Consulting and Applied Research, Thomson Healthcare

Janet L. Collins, PhD, Director, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Coordinating Center for Health Promotion, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

SEPTEMBER 18, 2008
Neal Halfon, MD, MPH, Director, Center for Healthier Children, Families, and Communities, and Professor of pediatrics in the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, drew from his groundbreaking work with The Blue Sky Initiative to examine and analyze problems facing the health system from a broader perspective.

OCTOBER 15, 2008
Dr. Steve Schroeder, Distinguished Professor of Health and Health Care, University of California at San Francisco, addressed material in his Shattuck Lecture “We Can Do Better – Improving the Health of the American People.”

DECEMBER 8, 2008
Hosted by the Emory University's Institute for Advanced Policy Solutions. Fred Sanfilippo, MD, PhD, Executive Vice President for Health Affairs, CEO of Woodruff Health Sciences Center, and Chairman of Emory Healthcare, was the speaker for the fifth Health System Transformation Lecture: “Getting From Here to There: Health System Transformation in Three Easy Steps!"

Discussant:
Bradley Perkins, MD, MBA, Chief Strategy and Innovation Officer, and Chief, Office of Strategy and Innovation (OSI), Office of the Director, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

ADDITIONAL PAST EVENTS
NOVEMBER 12, 2007
Comprehensive Health Reform in the United States Prospects for meaningful health reform in today's political environment and the essential elements of reform.

Tom Daschle, Former Senate Majority Leader and Senate Minority Leader, Distinguished Fellow at American Progress, a Visiting Professor at Georgetown University, founding member of the Bipartisan Policy Center, Co-Chair of the ONE Vote '08 Campaign

Discussant:
Kenneth E. Thorpe, PhD, Executive Director, Institute for Advanced Policy Solutions, and Robert W. Woodruff Professor and Chair, Department of Health Policy and Management, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University


JANUARY 29, 2008
Should the U.S. Adopt the Canadian Model? Solidarity, Efficiency, and Effectiveness on the Front Lines

Roy Romanov, Former Head of Royal Commission on the Future of Health Care in Canada, Former Premier of Saskatchewan

Discussants:
Kenneth E. Thorpe, PhD, Executive Director, Institute for Advanced Policy Solutions, and Robert W. Woodruff Professor and Chair, Department of Health Policy and Management, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University

Dr. Richard Saltman, Professor of Health Policy and Management, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University; Research Director, European Observatory on Health Care Systems.


JUNE 25-27, 2008
WHO European Ministerial Conference-Tallinn, Estonia

IAPS Executive Director Richard B. Saltman, PhD, participated in the WHO European Ministerial Conference on Health Systems. The conference brought together ministers of health from the 53 Member States in the WHO European Region. Nearly 500 participants- high-level delegations, health systems partners, experts, observers and representatives of international and civil society organizations and the media - attended the two-and-a-half day event designed to place health systems high on the political agenda June 25-27, 2008.

Visit conference web site: http://www.euro.who.int/healthsystems2008
See conference interviews: http://www.whoconference2008.org/interviews


OCTOBER 15, 2008
Webinar– IAPS Chief of Staff Lydia Ogden participated in the Webinar: Best Practices for Communicating with Policymakers sponsored by the Coalition for Health Services Research and AcademyHealth. http://www.chsr.org/impact101.htm

OCTOBER 17, 2008
Grand Rounds – IAPS Executive Director Ken Thorpe spoke to Family Medicine residents and faculty at the Medical University of South Carolina about the issue of chronic disease.

DECEMBER 11, 2008
"Rhetoric to Reality: The Urgency of Health Reform" (watch videos here)

The Partnership to Fight Chronic Disease (PFCD) hosted a major forum on health reform, featuring discussion from some of the most influential players in health care. The event was co-sponsored by Emory's Institute for Advanced Policy Solutions, AARP's Divided We Fail, and Partnership for Prevention. More than 220 attendees from business, health care, media, and Capitol Hill talked about what is at stake for health reform in 2009 in light of the changes in Congress and the Administration, and how feasible it will be to build consensus for comprehensive reform.

FEBRUARY 2-3, 2009
Conference- AcademyHealth "How Will the Country's Current Economic Crisis Affect Future Health Care Reform?

AcademyHealth presented a comprehensive and detailed look at the nation's health policy agenda with insight from experts such as administration officials, members of Congress, state officials, executives from the health care industry, and campaign pollsters. Ken Thorpe lead the plenary session "The Role of Prevention in Health Care Reform."
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View event agenda: http://www.academyhealth.org/nhpc/agenda.htm

APRIL 20, 2009
Screening of I.O.U.S.A.: One Nation. Under Stress. In Debt.

Hosted by Emory's Center for Entitlement Reform with special guest David Walker, President & CEO of the Peter G. Peterson Foundation.

APRIL 24, 2009
Inaugural Michael M.E. Johns Lecture in Health Policy

Guest lecturer Dr. Robert J. Blendon, professor of health policy and political analysis at the Harvard School of Public Health and the Harvard Kennedy School discussed "Leaders and the Public in the Health Care Reform Debate"

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