CHCD is often invited to present and discuss its work related to health care reform or improving end-of-life care:

Presentations on issues related to health care reform

• Center for Health Improvement Health Policy Forum: Leveraging Public Reports of Health Care Provider Performance to Improve Quality. Sacramento, November 2009
  
  
• UC Irvine Center for Health Care Management and Policy Conference: Comparative Effectiveness: Lessons from Abroad. Irvine, October 2009
  
  
• AcademyHealth Annual Research Meeting: Citizens' Priorities for Healthcare Coverage. Chicago, June 2009
  
  
• Association of Health Care Journalists Annual Meeting: Explaining Costs in Health Stories. Seattle, April 2009
  
  
• AARP/Consumers Union, Solutions Forum: What Do Consumers Have To Gain From Comparative Effectiveness Information? Panel on Patient and Consumer Perspectives. Wash DC, October 2008
  
  
• Intermountain Medical Ethics Conference on Setting Priorities for Healthcare in Utah.  If We Can’t Have It All: Seeking Public Input on “Basic’ Coverage. Salt Lake City, October 2008.
  
  
• State Coverage Initiatives, Summer Workshop for State Officials.  Using CHAT to identify citizens’ coverage priorities.  San Francisco, August 2008.
  
  
• AcademyHealth, Annual Research Meeting.  Panel on comparative effectiveness: What does this mean to citizens?  Washington DC, June 2008.
  
  
• National Governors Association, Center for Best Practices.  Conference on Defining Benefit Packages in Health Reform.  Lunch speaker: How Consumers View Benefit Design.  Philadelphia, March 2008.
  
  
• New America Foundation, Capitol Briefing.  Health Insurance: What Should Everyone Be Covered For? Washington DC, November, 2007.
  
  
• American Society of Bioethics & Humanities, annual conference. Panelist: Priority Setting in Four Countries, Wash. DC, October 2007.
  
  
• California Health Care Leaders Network, Spring Meeting. Panelist: Health Insurance for California: What is Basic for All, Los Angeles, April 2007.
  
  
• Kaiser Permanente 16th Annual Regional Ethics Symposium. Bringing the Public’s Voice to Health Care Policy, San Ramon, March 2007.
  
  
• California HealthCare Foundation, Capitol Briefing.  Designing Coverage: Uninsured Californians Weigh the Options, Sacramento, July 2007.
  
  
• The Permanente Medical Group Board of Directors meeting, Just Coverage project results, Dec. 2006.
  
  
• County Health Executives Association of California, annual meeting, Just Coverage Project, Oct. 2006.
  
  
• International Conference on Priorities in Health Care, Just Coverage: Defining Basic Healthcare When Resources Are Limited and Cost-Effectiveness as a Coverage Criterion: Assessing American’s Views. September 2006, Toronto.
  
  
• National Association of Insurance Commissioners, B Committee (Health Insurance), Results of the Just Coverage Project, June 2006, Washington DC.
   
• Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, expert panel on cost-effectiveness, Getting Good Value: Assessing Consumers’ Views about Cost-Effectiveness as a Coverage Criterion, May 2006. Maryland.
  
  
• Washington State, Insurance Commissioner’s Hearings on Health Care. When Options Exceed Resources: How Consumers Make Decisions, November 2005.
  
  
• Employee Benefit Research Institute’s Spring Policy Forum, “Importance of Consumers to Evidence-Based Decision Making,” Washington DC, May 2003.
  
  
• Southern California Permanente Medical Group Regional Bioethics Symposium, “Consumer Preferences and Cost/Benefit Trade-offs,” Long Beach, November 2002.
  
  
• Health Net Strength of Quality Conference, “Visible Fairness: Physician and Consumer Perspectives on Using Cost-Effectiveness as a Medical Treatment Criterion,” Palm Springs, May 2002.
  
  
• California Retired Teachers Association, annual state convention, “Rising Healthcare Costs: The Challenges We Face,” Sacramento, May 2002.
  
  
• Kaiser Permanente 11th Annual Regional Ethics Symposium, plenary session: “The Visible Fairness Project”, Oakland, March 2002.

Presentations on end-of-life care

• “End-of-life Issues in the Workplace,” audio web seminar, National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization, 2008.
  
  
• “Death and Dying – Is It a Personal Journey,” panel, Final Journeys conference, 2007.
  
  
• “The Clinical Realities and Advance Care Conversations That Count,” workshop, American Society on Aging/National Council on Aging, 2006.
  
  
• “Working with Faith Communities on End-of-Life Issues,” national Rallying Points conference, 2003.
  
  
• “Leadership Update from the Front Lines—Engaging Leaders from California’s Latino and Chinese Communities,” Rallying Points Leadership Development Workshop, 2003.
  
  
• “Helping People Prepare: Advance Care Planning,” California Long-Term Care Ombudsman Annual Training Conference, 2003.
  
  
• “Talking About Dying Won’t Kill You,” American Library Association Annual Conference, 2002.
  
  
• “Helping People Prepare,” national Health Ministries Association Annual Meeting, 2002.
  
  
• “Taking Care of our Communities: Working with Moyers’ On Our Own Terms,” California Hospice Foundation Annual Meeting, 2001.
  
  
• “Reaching Diverse Populations,” Rallying Points: Improving Community End of Life Care Through Coalitions summit, 2001.
  
  
• “Helping People Prepare: Assisting the Public with End-of-Life Inquiries,” California Association of Information and Referral Specialists annual meeting, 2000.
  
  
• “Difficult Decisions” panelist, With Eyes Open, companion program to On Our Own Terms produced by KQED San Francisco, 2000.
  
  
• “Developing Resources at the End of Life,” International Rural Clergy Church Leaders Conference, 2000.
  
  
• “Talking It Over: Preparing for End-of-Life Decisions,” California Senior Center Directors annual conference, 1999.
  
  
• “Tough Choices at the End of Life: Helping People Prepare,” Health Ministry Association annual meeting, 1999.