From health care reform in the United States to health care costs around the world, the Center is pleased to host leading health policy experts at our lunchtime seminar series.
The seminars take place once a month at the Center’s offices for approximately one hour. The venue address is: 10960 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90024 – Suite 1550. [Map]
Speakers are listed in advance so please check back regularly for updates to our schedule or subscribe to our e-newsletter for instant notification of upcoming seminars.
The Center’s Health Policy Seminar Series is on summer break and will resume in September. Please check back with us here to view upcoming speakers or receive announcements by subscribing to our e-newsletter.
VIEW PAST SEMINARS ON VIDEO:
- May 2013: Nadereh Pourat: "The Role of Dental Practice in Disparities in Access to Dental Care" [View introduction] [View presentation]
- April 2013: Mark A. Peterson: "An Informed Electorate? Perceptions of Health, Positions on Policy, and Asking the Right Questions"
- May 2012: Larry Schneiderman: "The Unbearable Rightness of Rationing: Just Medical Care"
- February 2012: Symposium: "Sustaining and Extending Health Care Reform?"
- November 2011: Thomas Klitzner: "The Pediatric Medical Home: Lessons for System Redesign"
- October 2011: Shana Alex Lavarreda: "Immigration Status Requirements and National Health Care Reform: Who’s Left Out?"
- May 2011: Dani Filc and Nadav Dividovitch: "Privatization Processes in a Universal Health Care System — the Case of Israel"
- April 2011: Sheila Kuehl: "California Budget Health Care Message: Stay Healthy and Don’t Be Old or Poor"
- April 2011: Rep. Karen Bass: "The Impact of Federal Budget Cuts on Medicare, Medicaid, and Health Research"
- March 2011: Mark Litwin: "Caring for the Uninsured in California with Prostate Cancer"
- February 2011: Dylan Roby: "Primary Care Demand and Supply: The Potential Impact of Health Reform"?
- January 2011: Jean Balgrosky and Paul C. Fu: "The Evolving Impact of Health IT on Health Policy"
- December 2010: Allison K. Hoffman: "The Role of Health Insurance Under Health Reform: Mitigating Harms to Health? Wealth? Or Just Bad Luck?”
- November 2010: Robert M. Kaplan: "Priorities of the NIH Office of Behavioral and Social Science Research"
Past speakers include:
- John Ovreteit, director of research and professor of health innovation and evaluation at the Karolinska Institute
- Steven P. Wallace, Center associate director and professor in the UCLA School of Public Health
- Dani Filc and Nadav Dividovitch, senior lecturers, Ben Gurion University, Israel.
- Sheila Kuehl, former chair of the California Senate Health Committee
- Mark Litwin, professor of health services, UCLA School of Public Health, and urology, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA.
- Dylan H. Roby, research scientist, UCLA Center for Health Policy Research; assistant professor, UCLA School of Public Health.
- Jean Balgrosky, a UCLA lecturer on information technology and former SVP and chief information officer for Scripps Health and chief information officer for Holy Cross Health System; and Paul C. Fu Jr., an associate clinical professor in the UCLA Department of Pediatrics and Health Services (where he also serves as director of clinical informatics) and the former chief medical information officer at the Los Angeles County Department of Health Services. Watch the seminar.
- Allison K. Hoffman, faculty associate, UCLA Center for Health Policy Research; acting professor, UCLA School of Law. Watch the seminar.
- Robert M. Kaplan, incoming director of the National Institutes of Health’s Office of Behavioral and Social Science Research. Watch the seminar.
- Gerald F. Kominski, associate director of the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research and professor in the UCLA School of Public Health.
…and many more!