Hello, Public Health Sciences students! Thank you all for your interest in the upcoming Saward-Berg lecture event. This year, the Saward-Berg Lecture will be held on Friday, March 15th, 11 AM to Noon at the University of Rochester Medical Center Helen Wood Hall Auditorium. We are excited to have Dr. Andre Chappel as our Saward-Berg speaker this year.
To help us better prepare for the event, we kindly ask that you fill out this registration form. Please let us know if you will be attending the lecture, and if you have any specific questions for Dr. Chappel (profile can be found below). Food and beverages will be provided at the reception after the talk. Please also let us know if you have any allergies or dietary restrictions that we should be aware of. Thank you for your participation, and hope to see you all at the lecture.
Dr. Andre Chappel is the Director of the Public Health Services Division for the Office of Health Policy in the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation (ASPE) at HHS. He leads a team of economists and policy and social science analysts who do research and provide expertise on a wide array of public health care safety net programs and topics such as the health center program, maternal health, health workforce, social determinants of health, HIV/AIDS treatment and prevention, health care delivery for American Indian and Alaska Native populations, rural health care, preventive services, health disparities, health care data infrastructure, among other topics. His team has lead department-wide strategic planning efforts on maternal health, social determinants of health, and kidney health. Prior to joining the Public Health Services team, Andre worked in the Division of Healthcare Financing Policy, where his research focused on health care spending trends in Medicare and the private insurance market, health care market structure, competition, and performance, accountable care organization payment systems and their spillover effects, and the value of health insurance. He also led an initiative to develop and test the value of a multi-payer claims database to support comparative effectiveness research.
Please save the following link for virtual access if you cannot make the event in-person: https://urmc.zoom.us/j/96251772940
