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NABJ's Media Institute on Health, Health Policy and Health Inequities is the only conference of its kind to focus exclusively on health disparities in communities of color and provide print, broadcast and digital journalists with tools to effectively report on the impact of health care reform and health policy on underserved communities. Journalists and media professionals will leave with resources to inform and empower readers and viewers to action.

This 5th Annual Media Institute has garnered headlines and the attention of newsmakers in the fight to bring awareness to health and health care disparity. Previous keynote presenters at the conference have included; Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius, U.S. Surgeon General Regina Benjamin, M.D., Former U.S. Surgeon General David Satcher, M.D., Marian Wright Edelman, founder and president of the Children's Defense Fund, and Phill Wilson, founder of the Black AIDS Institute.

Topics addressed at the Media Institute will include the social determinants of health, creative community solutions to health care access and prevention, newly enacted provisions of the Affordable Care Act and HIV/AIDS in the black community. Previous conference have addressed mental health, childhood obesity, and infant mortality.

On Thursday, April 4th, registered attendees will participate in a White House Briefing on Consumer Health from Administration officials. Each registrant who wishes to attend this portion of the program should call NABJ Membership Manager Veronique Dodson at (301) 405-0554 with their Social Security number, date of birth, full name and current address as listed on valid government-issued identification by March 27 to be added to the security clearance list.(NOTE: You will not be able to attend the tour or briefing if you are not registered for the Health Conference, if you miss the security clearance deadline, if you are not approved by the White House or if the government-issued ID presented on April 4th has expired.)

Click HERE to view the White House Briefing Schedule.

      Regina M. Benjamin, MD, MBA                   Kathleen Sebelius                                  Valerie Jarrett
           U.S. Surgeon General                                  HHS Secretary                      Senior Advisor to the President

 Confirmed conference speakers include:

  Randall Pinkston (CBS News)            Danielle Nottingham (CBS News)          Craig Melvin (MSNBC)

Pre-Registration by March 28, 2013
Member: $79 $35
Nonmember: $129 $60

Onsite Registration after April 3, 2013
Members: $129
Non-members: $159



Program Chair
Cindy George, Houston Chronicle reporter and NABJ Parliamentarian

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