Government Events: Week of November 1 – 5, 2010
EVENTS:
Monday, November 1: The Economic Club of Washington
A meeting on "The Mid-Term Election Results a Day Early."
Participants: Mark Halperin, editor at large and senior political analyst at Time magazine; Claire Shipman, senior national correspondent at ABC News; and Jim Vandehei, executive editor and co-founder of Politico
Location: The Fairmont Hotel, 2401 M Street NW, Washington, D.C., 11:30am
Contact: Judi Irastorza, 703-765-6881, media@economicclub.org
The Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)
A discussion on the national HIV/AIDS strategy, a comprehensive plan for fighting the HIV/AIDS epidemic in the United States.
Participants: Jeffrey Crowley, director of the Office of National AIDS Policy and senior adviser on disability policy at the White House
Location: CSIS, 1800 K Street NW, B-1 Conference Level, Washington, D.C., 2:30pm
Contact: Andrew Schwartz, 202-775-3242, aschwartz@csis.org; http://www.csis.org
Tuesday, November 2:
Health Affairs
A discussion on "Designing Insurance to Improve Value in Health Care."
Participants: Mark Smith, CEO of California HealthCare Foundation (by phone); Karen Ignani, president and CEO at America's Health Insurance Plans; Niteesh Choudhry, assistant professor at Harvard Medical School; James Robinson, distinguished professor at the University of California Berkeley School of Public Health; Matthew Maciejewski, research career scientist at the Center for Health Services Research in Primary Care of Durham VA Medical Center; Daryl Wansink, director of research and evaluation at Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina; and Marjorie Ginsburg, executive director at the Center for Healthcare Decisions
Location: National Press Club, 14th and F Streets NW, Washington, D.C., 9:30am
Contact: Debbie Boylan, 301-347-3911, debbie.boylan@eastcapitol.net
The Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA)
A media briefing to discuss new research on challenges to care for the aging population.
Participants: Catherine DeAngelis, editor in chief of JAMA; and Margaret Winker, deputy editor and online editor at JAMA; Thomas Gill of Yale University School of Medicine; Chad Boult of Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
Location: National Press Club, 14th and F Streets NW, Zenger Room, Washington, D.C., 10:00am
Contact: Jann Ingmire, 312-464-5262, mediarelations@jama-archives.org
The Embassy of the Republic of Korea
A lecture and luncheon.
Participants: Lawrence MacDonald, vice president of communications and policy outreach at the Center for Global Development
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