This webinar provides an overview of the Affordable Care Act with emphasis on impacts and opportunities for disparities research. Dr. Brian Smedley addresses implications of the legislation for addressing health inequities and proposes strategies for researchers and communities to work together to address health problems plaguing underserved communities. Dr. Carlessia A. Hussein, director of the Office of Minority Health and Health Disparities for the Maryland Department of Health & Mental Hygiene provides a reaction from the state perspective.
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Faculty: Brian D. Smedley, Ph.D., The Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies; Carlessia A. Hussein, R.N., Dr.P.H., Director, Minority Health and Health Disparities, Maryland Department of Health & Mental Hygiene
Format: On-demand, streaming presentation with voiceover
Duration: 90 min.
Overview: This webinar provided an overview of the Affordable Care Act with emphasis on impacts and opportunities for disparities research. Dr. Brian Smedley addressed implications of the legislation for addressing health inequities and proposed strategies for researchers and communities to work together to address health problems plaguing underserved communities. Dr. Carlessia A. Hussein, director of the Office of Minority Health and Health Disparities for the Maryland Department of Health & Mental Hygiene provided a reaction from the state perspective.
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Brian D. Smedley, Ph.D. is Vice President and Director of the Health Policy Institute of the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies in Washington, DC. In this position, Dr. Smedley oversees all of the operations of the Institute, which was started in 2002 with funding from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation. The Institute has a dual focus: to explore disparities in health and to generate policy recommendations on longstanding health equity concerns. Formerly, Dr. Smedley was Research Director and co-founder of a communications, research and policy organization, The Opportunity Agenda (www.opportunityagenda.org), where he led the organization's effort to center equity in state and national health reform discussions and to build the national will to expand opportunity for all. To that end, Dr. Smedley is a co-editor, along with Alan Jenkins, of a book, All Things Being Equal: Instigating Opportunity in an Inequitable Time. Prior to helping launch The Opportunity Agenda, Dr. Smedley was a Senior Program Officer in the Division of Health Sciences Policy of the Institute of Medicine (IOM), where he served as Study Director for the IOM reports, In the Nation's Compelling Interest: Ensuring Diversity in the Health Care Workforce and Unequal Treatment: Confronting Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health Care, among other reports on diversity in the health professions and minority health research policy. Dr. Smedley came to the IOM from the American Psychological Association, where he worked on a wide range of social, health, and education policy topics in his capacity as Director for Public Interest Policy. Prior to working at the APA, Dr. Smedley served as a Congressional Science Fellow in the office of Rep. Robert C. Scott (D-VA), sponsored by the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Among his awards and distinctions, in 2004 Dr. Smedley was honored by the Rainbow/PUSH coalition as a "Health Trailblazer" award winner; in 2002 he was awarded the Congressional Black Caucus "Healthcare Hero" award; and in August, 2002, was awarded the Early Career Award for Distinguished Contributions to Psychology in the Public Interest by the APA. Dr. Smedley holds an undergraduate degree from Harvard University and a Ph.D. in psychology from UCLA.
Carlessia A. Hussein, R.N., Dr.P.H. completed graduate studies in Nursing and a Public Health Doctorate at the University of California, School of Public Health at Berkeley. Her professional career has included inpatient and public health nursing, health planning and regulation. She served as both the Associate Dean at the University Of California School Of Public Health and the Chairperson of the Community Health Nursing Program at Berkeley. Dr. Hussein currently directs the office of Minority Health and Health Disparities (MHHD) in the office of the Maryland Secretary of Health. The MHHD office is responsible for instituting programs that will reduce and eventually eliminate health disparities among minorities in Maryland. The office has established a website, held five annual health disparities conferences, developed a comprehensive state plan to eliminate health disparities and partners with various stakeholders in the state to develop and maintain an equitable healthcare system. Dr. Hussein also serves as the Director of the Maryland Cigarette Restitution Fund Program (CRFP) and continues oversight of the program that uses State tobacco settlement funds to reduce smoking, control cancer in Maryland and reduce cancer and tobacco related health disparities in Maryland.