This month’s issue briefing event highlights a cluster of papers in the July 2022 issue of Health Affairs examining how we can prevent diabetes and improve care and outcomes for patients, and features authors and analysts discussing issues including care management, quality measures, nonmedical interventions, payment models, and prevention.

The number of Americans diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes has risen by more than 40 percent over the last decade, and the July issue of Health Affairs is devoted to papers discussing how we can prevent diabetes and improve care and outcomes for patients.

Join us on July 19 when a group of authors and analysts gather online to present their work and participate in a discussion of issues including care management, quality measures, nonmedical interventions, payment models, and prevention.

Confirmed speakers include:

Mohammed Ali, Professor, Hubert Department of Global Health, Emory University, and Health Affairs Theme Adviser, on Diabetes And The Fragmented State Of US Health Care And Policy

Maria Liliana Alva, Assistant Research Professor, McCourt School of Public Policy Massive Data Institute, Georgetown University, on The Diabetes Prevention Gap And Opportunities To Increase Participation In Effective Interventions

Kelly Copes-Anderson, Associate Vice President and Head of Diversity Equity and Inclusion, Eli Lilly and Company

Thomas S. Bodenheimer, Professor Emeritus, Family and Community Medicine, University of California San Francisco, on Care Management For Patients With Type 2 Diabetes: The Roles Of Nurses, Pharmacists, And Social Workers

Leonard E. Egede, Professor of Medicine and Inaugural Milwaukee Community Chair in Health Equity Research, Medical College of Wisconsin, on Type 2 Diabetes Nonmedical Interventions: Evidence, Actionable Strategies, And Policy Opportunities

Felicia Hill-Briggs, Vice President of Prevention and Simons Distinguished Chair in Clinical Research, Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research, Northwell Health

Sabrina Wang, Research Associate, NORC, and M.D. Candidate, University of Chicago, on Can Alternative Payment Models And Value-Based Insurance Design Alter The Course Of Diabetes In America?

Others to be announced
Date: Tuesday, July 19, 2022
Time: Noon – 2:00 p.m. Eastern
Access: Open to All

Health Affairs is grateful to Eli Lilly and Company for its support of the cluster and briefing.