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SESSION HIGHLIGHTS
NEW OPENING PLENARY
RACE, ETHNICITY, AND HEALTH: THE ROLE OF RESEARCH
Sunday, June 26, 8:45–10:00 a.m.
The opening plenary will examine the many ways that health services and policy research (HSR) can and should address questions of race and ethnicity to inform policy and practice and ultimately improve health and the performance of the health system. The format will be a facilitated conversation with Eduardo Sanchez will serve as the moderator.
MASSACHUSETTS HEALTH REFORM: 10 YEARS LATER
Sunday, June 26, 2:00–3:30 p.m.
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Chair: John E. McDonough, Dr.P.H., M.P.A.
Professor, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health
This special session will revisit the landmark and bipartisan universal coverage law that provided the conceptual model for the key private health insurance expansions and reforms of the Affordable Care Act. What was the Massachusetts experience pre-and-post implementation? What key lessons does the Massachusetts experience provide for the nation? How has the Massachusetts pivot to cost control and health system transformation played out? John E. McDonough will chair this session, and speakers will offer data and commentary to tell the story.
LUNCH PLENARY - FEATURING PETER ORSZAG
Monday, June 27, 1:15–3:00 p.m.
Peter R. Orszag is a nationally renowned economist. He previously served as the Director of the Office of Management and Budget in the Obama administration, and as Director of the Congressional Budget Office. He is also a Contributing Columnist at Bloomberg View, a Distinguished Scholar at the NYU School of Law, and a Nonresident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution. He is a member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies of Sciences, and serves on the Board of Directors of the Peterson Institute for International Economics, the Mt. Sinai Medical Center in New York, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the Russell Sage Foundation, New Visions for Public Schools, and ideas42.
