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SUMMARY:What Kennedy could do: Reporting on U.S. vaccine policy and the powers of the HHS Secretary
DESCRIPTION:President-elect Trump’s choice for Secretary of Health and Human Services\, Robert F. Kennedy Jr.\, could significantly impact the perception and uptake of vaccines. Whether he or any of Trump’s other vaccine-skeptical nominees receive Senate confirmation\, signs suggest the incoming administration may attempt to change long-established vaccine policy in the U.S.\nThis webinar will cover the ins and outs of how vaccines are approved and recommended\, how vaccine injuries are adjudicated and compensated\, and the powers of the HHS Secretary over those procedures. We’ll cover what the secretary has the power to undo\, what checks and balances exist on those powers\, and what the potential consequences of those actions could be.\nLed by AHCJ Health Beat leader for infectious disease Tara Haelle\, this webinar will prepare reporters for anticipating possible policy moves in the new administration.\nModerator\nTara Haelle\nHealth Beat Leader for Infectious Diseases\, AHCJ\nTara Haelle is AHCJ’s health beat leader for infectious diseases and medical studies. She’s an independent science/health journalist\, author\, speaker\, and photographer. Her work has appeared in the National Geographic\, Scientific American\, Texas Monthly\, Science News\, Medscape/WebMD\, The New York Times\, Wired\, and O Magazine\, among others. She specializes in public health and medical research\, particularly vaccines\, infectious diseases\, maternal and pediatric health\, mental health\, healthcare disparities\, and misinformation. She also covers medical research conferences and edits Long COVID Connection on Medium. Haelle earned a master’s in photojournalism from the University of Texas at Austin\, and her images have appeared in Texas Monthly\, NPR\, the\, Chicago Sun-Times and elsewhere.\nPaul A. Offit\, M.D.\nDirector\, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia Vaccine Education CenterMaurice R. Hilleman Professor of Vaccinology\, University of PennsylvaniaPaul A. Offit\, M.D.\, is the Director of the Vaccine Education Center at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia as well as the Maurice R. Hilleman Professor of Vaccinology and a Professor of Pediatrics at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Offit is currently a voting member on the FDA’s Vaccine Advisory Committee and has previously served on the Advisory Committee for Immunization Practices to the CDC. He is also the co-inventor of the rotavirus vaccine\, RotaTeq\, recommended for universal use in infants by the CDC in 2006 and by the WHO in 2013. This vaccine was estimated recently to save about 165\,000 lives a year. He is also the author of 11 books written for the public about science\, medicine\, and vaccines.  \nDorit Rubinstein Reiss\, LLB\, Ph.D.\nJames Edgar Hervey Chair in Litigation\, UC Law San FranciscoDorit Rubinstein Reiss\, LLB\, Ph.D.  is a professor of law and the James Edgar Hervey Chair in Litigation at UC Law San Francisco (formerly UC Hastings). She specializes in vaccine law and policy\, including exemption laws and tort liability related to non-vaccination. She also teaches administrative law and public health law. She published in law reviews\, peer-reviewed journals and blogs on legal and policy issues related to vaccines and co-authored a book on Vaccines Law and Policy with Professor Y. Tony Yang.
URL:https://connector.casw.org/event/what-kennedy-could-do-reporting-on-u-s-vaccine-policy-and-the-powers-of-the-hhs-secretary/
CATEGORIES:Health Policy,Infectious Diseases,Webinar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241212T130000
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SUMMARY:Lunch and Learn: Jump start your freelance biz into 2025
DESCRIPTION:The new year is the perfect time to reassess your freelance business. Some freelancers formally do this — even holding a solo business retreat at a hotel or other venue\, where they can review their past work\, evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of their freelance business and consider other paths forward. We’ll hear from freelancers who have done this successfully — and discuss other ways to pause and reset for 2025.\nAt AHCJ’s Lunch and Learns\, freelancer members chat about a designated topic over Zoom every third Thursday of the month at 1 p.m. Eastern Time. This event takes place on the second Thursday of the month due to the holidays. The Zoom link is always the same.
URL:https://connector.casw.org/event/lunch-and-learn-jump-start-your-freelance-biz-into-2025/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:Freelancers,Lunch and Learn
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20241209T000000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20241209T235959
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SUMMARY:AACR June L. Biedler Prize for Cancer Journalism
DESCRIPTION:“The AACR June L. Biedler Prize for Cancer Journalism was established by the AACR in 2015 to raise awareness of the critical role that the media play in educating the public about cancer and cancer research.” The award is open to “print\, broadcast\, and online professional journalists whose stories appear in newspapers\, magazines\, websites\, and broadcast platforms that target lay public audiences.” Winners receive a cash prize of $5\,000 and a commemorative award. For the 2024 award\, submissions are due on December 9.
URL:https://connector.casw.org/event/aacr-june-l-biedler-prize-for-cancer-journalism-2/
CATEGORIES:Awards
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241121T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241121T141500
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SUMMARY:'No one can see you now': What states are doing to boost primary care
DESCRIPTION:Evidence abounds that access to primary care improves health and lowers costs. According to one estimate\, the U.S. could save $67 billion a year if everyone saw a primary care provider as their main source of care. And yet\, only 5% of health care spending in this country goes to primary care\, less than in any other Western democracy.\nThis webinar will examine what actions states — which regulate the insurance industry and run the Medicaid programs — have taken to increase spending on primary care and what effect these efforts can have on costs.\nAHCJ Board President Felice Freyer\, an independent journalist\, will lead the discussion with three national experts on the topic.\nRelated webinars\nHow rising health care prices are harming employers and families\nHospital mergers and health care price increases: A primer for reporters\nThis webinar series\, supported by the Peterson-Milbank Program on Sustainable Health Care Costs\, covers the affordability of health care by diving into health care cost drivers and looking at solutions. Journalists will learn about ways that states\, employers and other stakeholders can promote affordable health care and will be able to tell these stories in the context of their state and local communities.\nModerator\nFelice J. Freyer\nIndependent journalistPresident\, AHCJ Board of Directors\nFelice J. Freyer is a health care journalist based in Rhode Island. For 10 years until last spring\, she was a health reporter at the Boston Globe\, where the crisis in primary care was among the topics she covered. Before the Globe\, Freyer was the medical writer at the Providence Journal. Now working independently\, she has published articles in the Boston Globe Magazine and Harvard Public Health Magazine\, as well as teaching journalism at Emerson College. She was elected to the AHCJ board in 2009 and currently serves as its president.\nChristopher F. Koller\nPresident\, Milbank Memorial FundFormer Rhode Island Health Insurance Commissioner\nChristopher F. Koller is President of the Milbank Memorial Fund and Publisher of the Milbank Quarterly. The Fund is a more than 100-year-old operating foundation that improves population health and health equity by connecting leaders with evidence and sound experience.\nBefore joining the Fund in 2013\, he served the state of Rhode Island for eight years as the country’s first health insurance commissioner. Prior to that\, he was CEO of Neighborhood Health Plan of Rhode Island. He has served in numerous national and state health policy advisory capacities and was elected to the National Academies of Science Engineering and Medicine in 2023.  Koller is also a professor of practice in the School of Public Health at Brown University. He resides in East Providence\, R.I. with his wife\, Colette Cook.\nDiane Rittenhouse\, M.D.\, MPH\nSenior fellow\, MathematicaProfessor of family medicine and health policy\, UCSF\nDiane Rittenhouse\, M.D.\, MPH\, has two decades of experience researching health care organization\, delivery\, finance\, and workforce — and translating that research into policy.  She received a Generalist Physician Faculty Scholar award from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and has been recognized in the United States and Europe as a leading primary care researcher. \nCurrently\, she is leading several projects focused on optimizing the primary care team workforce; strengthening the connection between primary care and health equity; diversifying California’s physician workforce; and understanding and supporting independently owned physician practices. She serves as an expert advisor for the development of the Health of U.S. Primary Care Scorecard recommended by the National Academies of Sciences\, Education and Medicine.  Dr. Rittenhouse is a family physician who practiced for 10 years in a community-based faculty practice at the University of California\, San Francisco.\nMatthew Probst\, PA-C\nPhysician assistant and primary care provider\, Sunrise Medical Clinic\nMatthew Probst is a Physician Assistant and Primary Care Provider at Sunrise Medical Clinic in Las Vegas\, New Mexico. He is also Director of Rural Engagement for the University of New Mexico Office for Community Health. In 2019 he was the American Academy of Physician Assistants PA of the Year and recipient of the Primary Care Community Leadership Award and the National Association of Rural Mental Health Schumacher Award for Excellence in Clinical Service.\nIn 2020\, U.S. Sen. Martin Heinrich named him a Hometown Hero\, and New Mexico Magazine recognized him as a True Hero for COVID-19 response. In 2021\, Mr. Probst was the New Mexico Alliance of School-Based Health Center Champion and the National Organization of State Rural Health Offices Community Star. In addition to the National Advisory Committee on Rural Health and Human Services\, Matt currently serves New Mexico on the Health Care Workforce Committee\, the Primary Care Council\, and the Aging and Long-Term Services Division Policy Advisory Committee.
URL:https://connector.casw.org/event/no-one-can-see-you-now-what-states-are-doing-to-boost-primary-care/
CATEGORIES:Event,Insurance,Webinar
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SUMMARY:Lunch and Learn: Do you need an accountability partner?
DESCRIPTION:Accountability partners give each other feedback and encouragement on freelance goals and hold each other accountable for taking the next steps. During this discussion\, we’ll share our freelance challenges\, such as battling procrastination\, re-pitching when a pitch is rejected\, shifting to different outlets and increasing productivity. We’ll also offer tips for finding and keeping an accountability partner. Maybe you’ll find a partner who can help you realize your goals.\nAt AHCJ’s Lunch and Learns\, freelancer members chat about a designated topic over Zoom every third Thursday of the month at 1 p.m. Eastern Time. The Zoom link is always the same.
URL:https://connector.casw.org/event/lunch-and-learn-do-you-need-an-accountability-partner/
CATEGORIES:Freelancers,Lunch and Learn
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20241118T000000
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SUMMARY:Communicating Discovery Science - International symposium
DESCRIPTION:This symposium\, sponsored by the Kavli Foundation\, “aims to deepen understanding of effective public engagement around Discovery Science\, also known as basic or foundational science\, by exploring ways to improve the practice of communicating Discovery Science\, share insights and create a supportive community for scientists and science communication practitioners focused on basic science.”
URL:https://connector.casw.org/event/communicating-discovery-science-international-symposium/
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20241115T000000
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SUMMARY:Good Science Project–Johns Hopkins MA in Science Writing Fellowship
DESCRIPTION:The Good Science Project-JHU MA in Science Writing Fellowship provides $5\,000 reporting grants for feature-length magazine articles on the funding and practice of science in the United States. Grants support articles that “reveal flaws in current science policy\, practice\, or funding and identify ways these challenges might be overcome.” Funded by the Good Science Project.  \nThe 2024 application deadline is November 15.
URL:https://connector.casw.org/event/good-science-project-johns-hopkins-ma-in-science-writing-fellowship/
CATEGORIES:Fellowships & Grants
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20241108
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20241112
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SUMMARY:ScienceWriters 2024
DESCRIPTION:The National Association of Science Writers (NASW) and the Council for the Advancement of Science Writing (CASW) will host their 2024 Science Writing conference in two parts: virtually on October 17 and 18 and in-person in Raleigh\, North Carolina from November 8 through 11\, 2024. This annual meeting serves science writing journalists\, communicators\, and other professionals with professional development sessions\, updates on scientific research\, networking opportunities\, and more. Proposals for conference sessions are due on March 14.
URL:https://connector.casw.org/event/sciencewriters-2024/
LOCATION:Raleigh Convention Center\, 500 S Salisbury St\, Raleigh\, NC\, United States
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20241015
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20241016
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SUMMARY:UK Conference of Science Journalists
DESCRIPTION:This biennial conference\, organized by the Association of British Science Writers (ABSW)\, provides science journalists and writers with professional development and networking opportunities. \nThe 2024 conference will take place on Tuesday\, October 15\, at the Francis Crick Institute in London. Early bird tickets are available through the end of July\, and ABSW also offers diversity scholarships for writers from underrepresented groups.
URL:https://connector.casw.org/event/uk-conference-of-science-journalists/
CATEGORIES:Conference
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20241009T153000
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SUMMARY:Connector Chat: The story behind award-winning stories: A conversation with Usha Lee McFarling
DESCRIPTION:Join us for this special Connector Chat with Usha Lee McFarling\, national science correspondent for STAT. McFarling is the winner of the 2024 Victor Cohn Prize for Excellence in Medical Science Reporting. \nJoining her in conversation will be Steve Padilla\, writing coach and Column One editor for the Los Angeles Times. Padilla and McFarling will talk about elements of great storytelling\, how to blend narrative and science\, and more\, using a few of McFarling’s award-winning stories as examples. \nQuestions will be encouraged throughout the conversation. We will generate a tip sheet from the session\, complete with links to resources recommended by McFarling and Padilla. The session will be recorded\, and all registrants will receive a link to the recording and tip sheet.
URL:https://connector.casw.org/event/connector-chat-the-story-behind-award-winning-stories-a-conversation-with-usha-lee-mcfarling/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:Connector Chat
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SUMMARY:AHCJ U.S. Health System Reporting Fellowship
DESCRIPTION:“Through the U.S. Health System Reporting Fellowship\, supported by The Commonwealth Fund\, you can pursue a significant reporting project related to the U.S. health care system at the local\, regional and/or national level.  \n“This fellowship allows mid-career journalists to maintain their regular employment while working on a major project over a 12-month calendar year. You’ll pursue the projects with the support of your newsrooms or arranged outlets\, which commit to publish or air the work.” \n“The fellowship covers the cost of attending the seminars and the annual AHCJ conference\, as well as a $2\,500 project allowance to defray the cost of field reporting\, health data analysis and other project-related research. In addition\, you will receive a $5\,000 fellowship award upon the successful completion of the project.” \nThe application deadline for 2024 is October 4\, though applications are accepted on a rolling basis.
URL:https://connector.casw.org/event/ahcj-u-s-health-system-reporting-fellowship/
CATEGORIES:Fellowships & Grants
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