Upcoming Events

The Primary Care Development Corporation, in collaboration the SAMHSA Center of Excellence for Integrated Health Solutions, is engaging in a year-long virtual initiative focused on addressing sleep and related social and health needs through enhancing integrated primary and behavioral health care. This initiative will include live virtual learning opportunities, free tools and resources, and linkage to experts in the field. An anchor for the year will be a monthly webinar series focused on building foundations and advanced applications of sleep knowledge.

Webinar sessions are 60 minutes each with a follow-on open "office hour" for Q&A with experts and will range in topics including:

• Foundations in sleep and health outcomes (comorbidity, connection to COVID-19, social determinants of health, and opportunities for integrated care teams)
• Perspectives of persons with lived experiences (including patients, parents of children with sleep difficulties, older adults)
• Health disparities and sleep
• Behavioral assessment and intervention in sleep
• Medical assessment and intervention in sleep (including OSA, medication, addressing medical comorbidity)
• Addressing sleep ourselves as healthcare providers (including sleep/work balance, creating sleep-conducive spaces, sharing of experiences, role of sleep in our work, etc.)

Sleep: One Good Night: Experiences of Insomnia for Patients and Families Across the Lifespan

Thursday, March 4, 2021
1p.m to 2:30p.m. ET

Panel style and video presentations focused on lived experiences including perspectives on older adults and parents of children with sleep difficulties.

Digital health solutions, including telehealth, text-message and app-based health interventions have the potential to be barriers to accessing care and improve health outcomes.The California Initiative for Health Equity & Action will convene an expert panel to discuss their research focused on expanding digital health solutions for low-income Californians during the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond. Panelists will also discuss the policy implications of their research on improving digital health equity, workforce development, and tailoring and disseminating digital health interventions for Black and Latinx Californians who have suffered disproportionately from the COVID-19 pandemic. Panelists will include:

• UC Berkeley Professor Adrian Aguilera
• Dr. Mary Reed from Kaiser Permanente Division of Research
• UC Davis Professor Dr. Katherine Kim.

The panel will be moderated by the Executive Director of HealthTech for Medicaid, Adimika Arthur, with opening remarks from Assemblymember Cecilia Aguiar-Curry. 

This briefing is hosted by The California Initiative for Health Equity & Action with cosponsorship from the Office of Assemblymember Cecilia Aguiar-Curry and HealthTech for Medicaid. Financial support is provided by the Blue Shield of California Foundation.

Four-part series to share perspectives on the national, organizational, and policy-level shifts needed to transform public health and advance health equity. Every Friday in March, the webinars will feature keynote presentations from nationally recognized thought leaders, followed by breakout discussions led by state health equity and minority health leaders. The webinar series will help public health professionals reimagine what equity-driven leadership means for their public health agencies and the community. 

Transforming Public Health Through Leadership, Justice, and Racial Healing

This session will feature state and local health officials discussing how they managed multiple crises over the past year during heightened government mistrust while steadfastly working to accomplish their agencies’ missions. This conversation will focus on how public health agencies can support efforts that move the country towards racial healing.

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An Urban Institute survey during the pandemic showed that more than one in three U.S. adults – most with chronic conditions – delayed getting treatment, either over fear of the virus or because of COVID-19-related limits on services. Even as the public health emergency continues, studies are raising alarm about missed care in primary care, behavioral health, and dental care and within specific minority communities. What are the implications for individual patients – adults and children – and populations from forgoing regular checkups, preventive screenings and routine vaccinations? How can primary care address this potential new crisis while also helping to bring the COVID-19 emergency to an end? In this webinar, a panel of experts from a range of areas will address these questions and more.

The Medical Director Leadership Institute is six-month virtual program that provides healthcare leaders with critical skills to thrive in their role, achieve organizational goals, and manage during times of uncertainty. The program features a half-day interactive and didactic session at the beginning of each month followed by an opportunity to apply learning back at their workplace. Participants come together again at the end of each month for a reflection and discussion with faculty and their peers. Designed and taught by medical directors and healthcare leaders, this program equips participants with concrete tools, strategies, and techniques to tackle the challenges and uncertainty ahead. 

This half-day virtual meeting is the culmination of a webinar series in March titled Leading Equity: Changing the Narrative Through Public Health Leadership. The webinar series shared perspectives on the national, organizational, and policy-level shifts needed to transform public health and advance health equity. The webinars featured keynote presentations from nationally recognized thought leaders, followed by breakout discussions led by state health equity and minority health leaders. The webinar series will help public health professionals reimagine what equity-driven leadership means for their public health agencies and the community. 

The summit, hosted in partnership with CDC’s Office of Minority Health and Health Equity and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, will provide a forum for state and territorial health practitioners to learn about emergent public health issues and apply evidence-based practices to address structural racism and reduce racial and ethnic disparities. The convening will highlight real-world case examples from the field that can be applied to current public health challenges.

The Medical Director Leadership Institute is six-month virtual program that provides healthcare leaders with critical skills to thrive in their role, achieve organizational goals, and manage during times of uncertainty. The program features a half-day interactive and didactic session at the beginning of each month followed by an opportunity to apply learning back at their workplace. Participants come together again at the end of each month for a reflection and discussion with faculty and their peers. Designed and taught by medical directors and healthcare leaders, this program equips participants with concrete tools, strategies, and techniques to tackle the challenges and uncertainty ahead. 

The Medical Director Leadership Institute is six-month virtual program that provides healthcare leaders with critical skills to thrive in their role, achieve organizational goals, and manage during times of uncertainty. The program features a half-day interactive and didactic session at the beginning of each month followed by an opportunity to apply learning back at their workplace. Participants come together again at the end of each month for a reflection and discussion with faculty and their peers. Designed and taught by medical directors and healthcare leaders, this program equips participants with concrete tools, strategies, and techniques to tackle the challenges and uncertainty ahead.