NPC Heads to AcademyHealth's 2024 Annual Research Meeting

Saturday, June 29 | 2:15 PM - 3:30 PM ET

Special Session: Navigating the Changing DEIA Landscape as Organizations, Leaders, and Researchers

Pushback against diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility initiatives in health services research institutions and the field at large has grown in recent years and become more acute as the election nears. Join DEIA Community of Practice leaders in a discussion of how we as researchers and research institutions are staying true – or not – to our commitments to DEIA. The interactive conversation will include hands-on exercises for participants to connect with each other and apply in their work. Supported in part by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.

Session Chair:

• Danielle DeCosta, AcademyHealth

Speakers: 

• Gabri'el Shabazz, National Pharmaceutical Council
• Brynne Presser Funderburg, Ohio Colleges of Medicine Government Resource Center
• Dorcas Lind, Mezala Consulting
• Jenni Lane, Weitzman Institute

Saturday, June 29 | 2:15 PM - 3:30 PM ET

Late-Breaking Session: Emerging Evidence on Racial and Ethnic Disparities

This late-breaking session focuses on emerging evidence on health disparities by race and ethnicity. The work explores disparities in the context of prenatal care, hospice, prescription drug use and spending, and breast cancer outcomes. The session will explore critical evidence on drivers of disparities in these clinical areas with a particular focus on how geography interacts with disparities in access and outcomes. The session will include a presentation of a study conducted by NPC and the University of Washington's Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation on "Variation in Prescription Drug Utilization and Spending by Race/Ethnicity and US State, Payer, and Health Condition."