New Opportunities to use Civil Rights as a basis for Public Accountability in Health Care Delivery

The 3rd and final webinar will be held on Thursday, June 26. The presention will be recorded and a link will be placed on the blog.

The final webinar will feature Brian Smedley and Bob Griss. Brian Smedley is the Research Director of The Opportunity Agenda, and former Staff Director of the IOM Report "Unequal Treatment". Bob Griss is the Executive Director of the Institute of Social Medicine and Community Health. Bob has served as moderator for the other two webinar presentations.

Some resources to check out:
The Opportunity Agenda Web site (Brian Smedley, Research Director): http://www.opportunityagenda.org

From the Commonwealth Fund, "Identifying and evaluating equity provisions in state health care reform": http://www.commonwealthfund.org/publications/publications_show.htm?doc_id=679040

From the Institute of Medicine, Unequal Treatment: Confronting Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health Care: http://www.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=10260

Families USA, "Universal and equal: Ensuring equity in state health care reform": http://www.familiesusa.org/assets/pdfs/universal-and-equal.pdf