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Health Affairs Event: Culture of Health: Housing and Health
- Thursday, November 7, 2019
- 9:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m. Eastern
- W Hotel Washington, 515 15th Street, NW, Washington, DC
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Since 2015, Health Affairs has published work related to a "Culture of Health." With support from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, on November 7 we will highlight a subset of that work focused on the relationship between housing and health at a convening in Washington, DC.
Featuring panels of authors who have contributed to this work and practitioners who are meeting the challenges in communities, you are invited to join us for a robust discussion of how of community and place play an important role in promoting health and preventing disease.
Date: Thursday, November 7, 2019
Time: 9:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.
Place: W Hotel Washington, 515 15th Street, NW, Washington, DC
Breakfast will be served.
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CONFIRMED SPEAKERS INCLUDE
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David Adler
Senior Program Officer, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation |
Robin Clark
Professor of Family Medicine and Community Health and of Population and Quantitative Health Sciences, University of Massachusetts Medical School, on "Infants Exposed To Homelessness: Health, Health Care Use, And Health Spending From Birth To Age Six" |
Bob Cowell
City Manager, Roanoke, Virginia
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Kacie Dragan
Lead Analyst, Wagner Policies for Action Hub, NYU Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service, on "Gentrification and the Health of Low-Income Children in New York City" |
Erica Eliason
PhD Student, Columbia University School of Social Work, on "Can Medicaid Expansion Prevent Housing Evictions?"
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Rahwa Ghirmatzion
Executive Director, PUSH Buffalo (People United for Sustainable Housing) |
Dan Treglia
Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Pennsylvania School of Social Policy and Practice, on "When Crises Converge: Hospital Visits Before and After Shelter Use Among Homeless New Yorkers"
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