Health Affairs Events: Los Angeles Briefing on Violence & Health

Attend Live or Online!

October 23, 2019

9:00 am – 12:00 pm Pacific

Town & Gown Ballroom, USC Campus – 665 Exposition Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90089

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Access the Violence and Health issue

Join us in Los Angeles for a forum on Violence & Health – subject matter covered in the October Health Affairs issue. View Table of Contents

The forum will feature authors from a select group of studies contained in the issue, as well as community leaders, policy makers and residents who are developing and deploying strategies for combating violence in their daily lives:

• Raymond Baxter, President and CEO, Blue Shield of California Foundation
• Judy Belk, President and CEO, California Wellness Foundation
• Genevieve Flores-Haro, Associate Director, Mixteco/Indigena Community Organizing Project
• Sandra Henriquez, CEO, CalCASA (California Coalition Against Sexual Assault)
• Hannah Laqueur, Assistant Professor, Emergency Medicine, University of California, Davis, on “Alcohol-Related Crimes And Risk Of Arrest For Intimate Partner Violence Among California Handgun Purchasers”
• Robert Riewerts, Chair, Care Delivery Workgroup, Kaiser Permanente Task Force on Firearm Injury Prevention
• Anne Tremblay, Director, Gang Reduction & Youth Development (GRYD), Office of Mayor Eric Garcetti, City of Los Angeles
• Elizabeth Tung, Instructor of Medicine, University of Chicago School of Medicine, on “Social Isolation, Loneliness, And Violence Exposure In Urban Adults” and “Keeping Your Guard Up: Hypervigilance Among Urban Residents Affected By Community And Police Violence”
• Briana Woods-Jaeger, Assistant Professor, Behavioral Sciences and Health Education, Emory University, on “Mitigating Negative Consequences Of Community Violence Exposure: Perspectives From African American Youth”

 *Additional speakers to be announced.

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