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Learn first hand about what matters today and what's on the horizon in the world of health and health policy and how Philip R. Lee IHPS makes a difference

July 24, 2008, 3:00 p.m.
Room 263 Conference Room
UCSF Laurel Heights Campus

Please join us for our PRL-IHPS Grand Rounds - an informal lunch-time gathering of PRL-IHPS faculty and research and administrative staff.

Our speaker will be Dr. Annette Gardner, whose talk is entitled:

"Looking at Access From Both Sides Now: Achieving Universal Coverage One County at a Time"

Dr. Gardner’s current research focuses on access to care, including strengthening the safety net through increased representation in the policy process. She is the Principal Investigator of a multi-year evaluation of The California Endowment’s Clinic Consortia Policy and Advocacy Program. Now in its sixth year, the focus of the evaluation is on advocacy activities undertaken by 18 grantees to achieve policy gains benefiting California clinics and their communities. Additionally, Dr. Gardner has been conducting research projects on the county-level factors important to expanding health care insurance and/or services, including the evaluation of the California HealthCare Foundation’s Step By Step Program, a funding opportunity directed to local California agencies undertaking health care insurance expansions in their communities. Her talk will focus on the broad range of coverage initiatives—from services to insurance—to increase access to care for California’s uninsured and the implications of these efforts for state and federal policy.