Community health centers play an important role in ensuring the quality and availability of primary and preventive healthcare services, including family planning services, for low-income women. I’m pleased to announce a special webinar program on Monday, April 30 from 2:30 p.m. – 3:45 p.m. Eastern, titled Community Health Centers and Family Planning in an Era of Policy Uncertainty. This webcast will feature expert speakers from the Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF) and the Department of Health Policy at Milken Institute School of Public Health at the George Washington University, co – authors of a recent study that provides an update and comprehensive look at the provision of reproductive health care to low-income women by community health centers; they will be joined by health center clinical leadership. The speakers will address the study findings on the availability of family planning services at health centers and discuss implications for practice, quality, funding and policy. Our panelists for this special event are:

  • Alina Salganicoff, Ph.D., Vice President and Director, Women’s Health Policy, KFF
  • Susan F. Wood, Ph.D., Professor of Health Policy & Management and of Environmental & Occupational Health and Director of the Jacobs Institute of Women’s Health, Milken Institute SPH
  • Sara Rosenbaum, J.D., Harold and Jane Hirsh Professor of Health Law and Policy, Milken Institute SPH
  • Warria Esmond, M.D., Chief Medical Officer, Settlement Health (New York, N.Y.)

Please join us for this free, live webcast event with our expert colleagues. CME credit is available. Note that the webinar will be recorded and archived so that you may listen to it at a later date if you are unable to participate. To register, please click on this link to the registration page on our partner site at Clinical Directors Network.

As always, our objective is to advance the dialogue on the critical importance of community health centers in providing comprehensive, high-quality care, and support CHC-related research and programming. We anticipate having ample time for discussion and look forward to your comments, questions and observations. I hope that you will find this session enlightening and useful, and look forward to your participation and comments.