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The Hon. G.K. Butterfield
The Hon. Sanford D. Bishop, Jr.
The Hon. Corrine Brown
The Hon. Julia Carson
The Hon. Donna Christian-Christensen
The Hon. Yvette Clarke
The Hon. William Lacy Clay, Jr.
The Hon. Emanuel Cleaver II

The Hon. James E. Clyburn
The Hon. John Conyers, Jr.
The Hon. Elijah E. Cummings
The Hon. Artur Davis
The Hon. Danny K. Davis
The Hon. Keith Ellison
The Hon. Chaka Fattah
The Hon. Al Green
The Hon. Alcee L. Hastings
The Hon. Jesse L. Jackson, Jr.
The Hon. Sheila Jackson Lee
The Hon. William J. Jefferson
The Hon. Hank Johnson
The Hon. Eddie Bernice Johnson

The Hon. Stephanie Tubbs Jones
The Hon. Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick
The Hon. Barbara Lee
The Hon. John Lewis
The Hon. Kendrick B. Meek
The Hon. Gregory W. Meeks
The Hon. Juanita Millender-McDonald
The Hon. Gwendolynne Moore
The Hon. Eleanor Holmes Norton
The Hon. Barack Obama
The Hon. Donald M. Payne
The Hon. Charles B. Rangel
The Hon. Bobby L. Rush
The Hon. David Scott
The Hon. Robert C. Scott
The Hon. Bennie Thompson
The Hon. Edolphus Towns
The Hon. Maxine Waters
The Hon. Diane E. Watson
The Hon. Melvin L. Watt
The Hon. Albert Russell Wynn


2008 Congressional Black Caucus
Spring Health Braintrust


CBC Health Braintrust Issue Forum:
The Indirect and Direct Costs of Health Disparities: The Economics of Prevention and Why and How Companies Are Making It Their Business

September 25, 2008
Washington Convention Center, Washington, DC


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Moderator

Julia Elam
Louis Stoke Urban Health Policy Fellow

Panel I - Septmber 25, 2008
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Dr. Valerie Montgomery Rice
Senior Vice President for
Health Affairs and
Dean of the School of Medicine Meharry Medical College

Dr. Montgomery Rice highlights the value of public-private partnerships to address health and wellness in the communities most affected by health disparities to ensure health equity and improved health outcomes and thus life opportunities

 


Rachel Davis
Managing Director
The Prevention Institute

Ms. Davis focuses on key findings from two recent reports: one of which focuses on the return-on-investment in prevention that public and private health care payers could save; and the other, which highlights prevention's fiscal track record.
Prevention Reports
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Remarks
Congresswoman Donna M. Christensen, Chair
Congressional Black Caucus Health Braintrust
     
     

Dr. Georges Benjamin, Executive Director American Public Health Association

Dr. Benjamin will deliver remarks which highlight the actual economic causes and consequences of racial and ethnic health disparities.
 

Dr. Mike O'Grady
Health Policy, LLC

Dr. O'Grady presents research from a new study - commissioned by Novo Nordisk's National Changing Diabetes® Program and entitled, "Changing Federal Scoring in Healthcare Reform" - which assess the current federal legislative scoring process and the limitations of present approaches to scoring health prevention activities
     
     

Dr. Rodney Armstead
Senior Vice President
Western Region Plan Operations
for AmeriChoice

Dr. Armstead highlights the role that health insurance plans can and are playing in efforts to not only measure and monitor health disparities, but to reduce them by ensuring that thehealth providers covered under their networks are championing equality in quality in the health care they provide to beneficiaries and their families and dependants.
     
     
Discussion with Audience and Questions and Answers
 
Prevention Reports:
 
For more information, call Office of Congresswoman Donna M. Christensen, Chair, CBC Health Braintrust, at 202-225-1790
 
 

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