Sunday 7 September 2008

Addressing A Health-Care System In Crisis

�On September 8, the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health will host the U.S. Healthcare System in Crisis: Achieving Universal Coverage panel, the first of a yearlong series examining the state of the U.S. health care system and efforts to ameliorate coverage. The symposium, sponsored by several Johns Hopkins University and Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health departments and bookman organizations, is designed to promote discussion and explore approaches to developing universal health care.



Featured speakers include:




The Honorable John Conyers, Jr., U.S. Rep., D-Mich.

Chairman, House Committee on the Judiciary

U.S. House of Representatives



Mary M. Newman, MD, FACP

Governor, Maryland Chapter American College of Physicians

Vice Chair, Medical Services Committee ACP



Barbara Lancelot, MEd

Professional Educator, Uninsured

Montgomery Health Care Action of Maryland



Moderated by:




Lisa Dubay, PhD, ScM

Associate Professor, Health Policy Management

Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health



Laura Morlock, PhD

Professor, Health Policy Management

Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health



What:




The U.S. Healthcare System in Crisis: Achieving Universal Coverage



When:




Monday, September 8, 2008

12:00 PM - 1:30 PM



Where:




Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

Sheldon Hall, W1214

615 N. Wolfe Street

Baltimore, MD 21205





Source: Natalie Wood-Wright

Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health



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