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Subject:“Health Reform & Social Justice: Opportunities for Reducing Inequity and Addressing Health Disparities” October
6
Date:Monday, September 20, 2021 8:14:21 AM
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“Health Reform & Social Justice: Opportunities for Reducing Inequity and Addressing Health
Disparities”.
On Wednesday October 6 from 6:00pm - 8:00pm PT, The League of Women Voters Davis
Area will be hosting a virtual Community Forum, “Health Reform & Social Justice:
Opportunities for Reducing Inequity and Addressing Health Disparities”.
For this event, the League will be hosting an evening with Dr. Susan Rogers, President of
Physicians for a National Health Plan (PNHP). Dr. Rogers’s presentation will include an
overview of the U.S. health care system through a social justice lens, followed by a discussion
highlighting disparities resulting from our current policies and opportunities to improve
inequities through health reform. The forum will conclude with an audience Q&A.
Dr. Rogers is a Fellow of the American College of Physicians and currently an Assistant
Professor of Medicine at Rush University. She has recently retired from her hospitalist
practice in Chicago at Stroger Hospital of Cook County. She has previously served as co-
director of medical student teaching at Stroger and as Medical Director of Near North Health
Service Corp, a Chicago FQHC. Most recently, Dr. Rogers spoke at the June California
League of Women Voters Annual Convention, providing the presentation: “Health Care:
Inequities and Opportunities”.
This forum aims to educate voters about our current healthcare model and how it impacts local
care access, affordability, quality and equity. Our guest speaker provides insights into how
health reform can improve each of these to optimize community health and wellness. The
LWVDA supports the National League healthcare positions in support of an affordable,
accessible, quality, and equitable health care system, critical for the health, safety and
economic security of all communities. Becoming an informed voter is fundamental to ensuring
the engagement needed to affect meaningful reform. The future of our community health and
healthcare systems will rely upon votes cast by those with a better understanding of current
needs and resources and our opportunities to enact needed change.
To help speakers best address your concerns, questions, and issues, we encourage attendees to
please submit them in advance to komalh@lwvdavisarea.org before October 4.
The Davis Area LWVC Health Care Committee thanks co-sponsors LWV of Washington DC,
LWV of Amherst Massachusetts, LWV of Greater Hartford Connecticut, LWV of Teaneck
New Jersey, LWV of Ashville-Buncombe North Carolina, LWV of Charlotte Mecklenberg
North Carolina, LWV of Manatee County Florida, LWV of Philadelphia Pennsylvania, LWV
of Bucks County Pennsylvania, LWV of Oakland Michigan, LWV of Johnson County
Kansas, LWV of Licking County Ohio, LWV of Tarrant County Texas, LWV of Tacoma-
Pierce County Washington, LWV of Benton-Franklin Washington, LWV of Seattle Kings
County Washington, LWV of Napa California, LWV of Alameda California, LWV of Santa
Barbara California, and the LWV of Long Beach California.
Register at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/173140998387