HEALTH CARE PROGRAMS AND RESOURCES 

DPE is sponsoring a series of Lunch and Learn programs and discussions on the state of the health care system and proposals for change.  Participants have included representatives from labor, government, academia, consumer, community and women’s organizations, public health groups, foreign embassies, and think tanks.  For information about participation, email:   pwilson@dpeaflcio.org 

Information about the programs follows.
Please click on any underlined item to see the materials or a source relating to the topic. 

• Health Consequences of the War in Iraq

A program and discussion featuring Barry Levy, M.D., co-editor of War and Public Health; Terrorism and Public Health: A Balanced Approach to Strengthening Systems and Protecting People and most recently, Social Injustice and Public Health; Past-President, American Public Health Association; former executive director of International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War; and a union panel, including Nancy Wohlforth, Secretary-Treasurer, Office and Professional Employees International Union, Co-Convener of U.S. Labor Against the War; Brooks Sunkett, Vice-President, Communications Workers of America, and Greg Junemann, President, International Federation of Professional and Technical Engineers.     (February 23, 2006) 

• Katrina Reveals: The Broken Health Care System; The Need for Labor-Community Coalitions

A program and discussion featuring Georges Benjamin, M.D., Executive Director, American Public Health Association, and a panel of union representatives, including Patrick Morrison, Director, department of Occupational Health and Safety, International Association of Firefighters; Denise Bowles, Industrial Hygienist, American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees; Ellie Engler, Special Representative, Program Coordinator and Industrial Hygienist, United Federation of Teachers, and Adele Stan, Communications Specialist, American Federation of Government Employees.      (November 9, 2005)      

• What’s Wrong With the Pharmaceutical Industry? A program and discussion led by Marcia Angell, M.D., former Editor-in-Chief of the New England Journal of Medicine and author of The Truth about Drug Companies, and current member of the Department of Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School.     (September 15, 2005)
   
• Focus on Women: Pro-Active Strategies for Longer and Healthier Lives

Program and discussion led by Marilyn Gaston, M.D., former Assistant Surgeon General, and Gayle Porter, Ph.D. (licensed clinical psychologist), Co-Directors of the Gaston & Porter Health Improvement Center; and Carolyn Jacobson,  Cervical Cancer Awareness Works, for the Coalition of Labor Union Women.     (August 18, 2005) 

• For Universal Health Care in America, Look Beyond the Beltway: States Are Leading the Way

Program and discussion led by Mark Blum, Executive Director, America’s Agenda: Health Care for All and Barbara Roop and Michael Carr, Co-Chair and Campaign Manager respectively of Health Care for Massachusetts.     (June 7, 2005) 

• Getting and Keeping Health Insurance (or Finding Affordable Care When You’re Uninsured)

Program and discussion led by Jim Brown, Director, Health Insurance Resource Center, The Actors’ Fund.     (May 12, 2005) 

• Do We Get What We Pay For? International Comparisons in Health Care

Program and discussion led by Gerard Anderson, Ph.D., Professor of Health Policy and Management and International Health, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University.     (October 19, 2004) 

• Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health Care

Program and discussion led by Brian Smedley, Ph.D., Study Director, Institute of Medicine and Sheila Thorne,  President and CEO, Multicultural Healthcare Marketing Group.      (August 24, 2004) 

• Understanding the Power of the Health Insurance Industry

Program and discussion led by Jon Gabel, Vice President of Health Systems Studies at the Health Research and Educational Trust and Gail shearer, Director of Policy Analysis, Consumers’ Union      (May 11, 2004) 

• The Physicians’ Proposal for Single Payer National Health Insurance

Program and discussion led by Quentin Young, M.D., National Coordinator, Physicians for a National Health Program.      (February 5, 2004) 

For further information about the series contact Pamela Wilson by phone: 202/638-6684 or email, pwilson@dpeaflcio.org