Health Care Conferences
Health Care in America: Confronting the Future
About the Project
The project has included a series of conferences beginning in 2004. More than 850 policy makers, journalists and other leaders from the private and public sectors took part in the first programs.
Programs were chaired by former Assembly Members Joe Nation, Ph.D. (D-San Rafael) and Keith Richman, M.D. (R-Northridge). This series was made possible through major funding from The California Endowment and more than a dozen other institutions and more than 700 individuals.
UCLA Conference
More than 250
participants from government, media, labor, and business took part in the first conference Oct. 4, 2004 at UCLA. Policy makers on the state and local level took part. Presenters included Sandra Shewry, director of California Department of Health Services; Tom Garthwaite, Los Angeles County Director of Health Services; and California state legislators. Journalists from every major newspaper in the four-county Los Angeles region attended. Broadcast media included NBC.View Faculty and Agenda.
Fresno State University
Nearly 200 participants, including policy makers, business and community leaders, journalists, and health care experts, took part in the Nov.18 conference at Fresno State University. The conference focused on health care in the Central Valley and immigrants.
View Faculty and Agenda.
Berkeley Conference
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rly 250 participants attended the Dec. 1 conference at UC Berkeley. Those attending included policy makers, business, labor, government, consumers, media, health care providers, and nearly every major news organization in the nine-county San Francisco Bay Area. View Faculty and Agenda.
San Diego Conference
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ore than 100 participants attended the Feb. 8, 2005 conference at the Institute of the America's Copley Auditorium on the UCSD campus. The conference was cosponsored by the University of California, San Diego, San Diego State University, and the University of California, Irvine. The conference featured scholars from all of the cosponsoring unversities along with RAND. View Faculty and Agenda.