The Quality Institute’s spring All-Council conference is the place to be next week. Our multi-stakeholder membership will be gathering to learn from national experts and network with one another.
This year’s conference focuses on health care issues and the views of voters, an especially timely topic with congressional, senate, and presidential elections ahead — and a gubernatorial election next year. As a nonpartisan organization that works with all leaders who want to advance health care safety, quality, and affordability, we seek to understand the opinions of New Jersey voters on important issues related to health care.
That’s why we commissioned our latest poll in the New Jersey Health Matters series by the Quality Institute in partnership with the Eagleton Center for Public Interest Polling at Rutgers University. Our poll explored what voters think about abortion from a health care perspective. Those results were released today, and you can read more here. On May 14, the day of our conference, we will release our results on how voters feel about their ability to afford health care for themselves and for their families.
At the conference, we plan to dig deeper into affordability and the role of price transparency. Our first keynote speaker, health economist Christopher M. Whaley, Ph.D., Associate Director of the Center for Advancing Health Policy at Brown University, will share his research on pricing, including recent results that contain New Jersey Employer Sponsored Insurance data. I encourage you to checkout our Take Five with Dr. Whaley in this newsletter to learn more.
Our second keynote speaker is Anand Parekh, MD, MPH. Dr. Parekh is Chief Medical Advisor at the Bipartisan Policy Center, a national not-for-profit organization that ensures policymakers work across party lines to craft bipartisan solutions. Recently, Dr. Parekh published an article in JAMA that explored the top health care issues voters care about and how he expects these issues to be framed in the national elections. In a recent interview with Conversations on Health Care, Dr. Parekh shared his insights on how the Bipartisan Policy Center works to find commonality and acceptable solutions in health care across parties. Check it out and then come hear Dr. Parekh in person.
Our moderator will be Ben Dworkin, M.A., Ph.D., the founding Director of the Rowan Institute for Public Policy and Citizenship. Professor Dworkin is no stranger to the active political landscape ahead for New Jersey voters at both the state and national level. Join us to learn new information, get an informed look at the top health care issues to come, and spend time networking with other leaders working to improve health care. The conference is for members and invited guests. You can register here.