Centennial Conference InequalityFROM EqualityTO Policies and Programs that Work Thursday, September 29, 2016 8:30 am – 4:30 pm New York Academy of Medicine 1216 Fifth Avenue (at 103rd Street) New York, NY 10029 FROM Inequality Policies and TO Programs Equality that Work PROGRAM 12:15 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. NETWORKING LUNCH 8:30 a.m. – 9:00 a.m. Registration and Continental Breakfast 1:30 p.m. – 2:45 p.m. 9:00 a.m. – 9:15 a.m. Housing and Homelessness: Increasing Availability Welcome and Opening Remarks and Access to Affordable Housing in New York City Annette Choolfaian, President The current debate on affordable housing in New York Women’s City Club of New York City revolves around Mayor Bill de Blasio’s “Housing New York” plan to preserve or build 200,000 units of Jacqueline M. Ebanks, Executive Director affordable housing over ten years. A significant part of Women’s City Club of New York this plan involves controversial zoning changes and 9:15 a.m. – 9:35 a.m. inclusionary requirements. The panelists will discuss Opening Keynote how the City is addressing the issues of availability, affordability, and financing of housing, as well as the Ana Oliveira, President and CEO critical issue of neighborhood stability in the face New York Women’s Foundation of gentrification. 9:35 a.m. – 10:50 a.m. 2:45 p.m. – 2:55 p.m. BREAK Health Care: From Health Disparities to Good Health for All 2:55 p.m. – 4:10 p.m. New York State opted into the Affordable Care Act Employment: How Can New Yorkers Gain Access of 2010, expanding access to healthcare for over to Jobs That Provide a Living Wage and Work-Life 400,000 people. Yet disparities remain, rooted in Balance? social determinants that reflect social, economic New York City continues to suffer from the job loss and and political inequalities. The panelists will discuss economic retrenchment of the 2008 recession. Many existing interventions that address disparities, of the jobs on which the middle class and working class current reforms targeted inside and outside the depended have moved overseas or to lower-wage areas health care system, and the policy and population of the country. The “replacement” jobs pay less and offer health framework that will move us toward good fewer benefits, and technology — an indispensable tool, health for all. toy and economic driver — remains on the other side of 10:50 a.m. – 11:00 a.m. BREAK the digital divide for many New Yorkers. The panelists will discuss the how employers and policy makers are adapting 11:00 a.m. – 12:15 p.m. to the changing economy and what that means for the Education: Improving Access to Effective, average working New Yorker. High-Quality Public Education in New York City 4:10 p.m. – 4:30 p.m. New York City administers the largest public Wrap Up, Next Steps school system in the U.S. with close to a million Mary C. Murphree, Ph.D., Vice President, students and a budget of $27.6 billion. Each Public Policy, Women’s City Club of New York new administration initiates reforms that are “guaranteed” to fix all that ails the system, yet problems persist in the quality of the education provided. The panelists will discuss New York City’s experience of reforms and highlight policies and initiatives designed to genuinely improve education from Pre-K through college. OPENING KEYNOTE Ana Oliveira, President and CEO, The New York Women’s Foundation The New York Women’s Foundation is the third largest women’s fund in the world with an annual giving of $6 million. Prior to joining the Foundation, Ms. Oliveira led the Gay Men’s Health Crisis as its first woman and Latina Executive Director and directed innovative community-based programs at Samaritan Village and The Osborne Association. She also developed acupuncture detoxification clinics at Kings County Hospital and Lincoln Medical Center. Ms. Oliveira currently serves on the New York City Commission on Human Rights, and on the boards of Philanthropy New York and the Women’s Funding Network, and the advisory boards of the Museum of the City of New York and the Independent Budget Office. She was a member of the New York City HIV Planning Council and the New York City Commission on AIDS. She has chaired the New York City Commission for LGBTQ Runaway and Homeless Youth. Ana holds an M.A. in Medical Anthropology and an honorary doctorate from the New School for Social Research. MODERATORS AND PANELISTS Health Care: From Health Disparities to Good Health for All Moderator Panelists Katherine S. Lobach, M.D., Professor Emerita of Paloma Hernandez, President and CEO Pediatrics, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Urban Health Plan Montefiore Medical Center; Board Member Women’s City Club of New York Urban Health Plan, Inc. is a network of community health centers located in the South Bronx and Queens. Dr. Lobach is a former director of the Comprehensive Ms. Hernandez is committed to reducing the health Family Care Center in the Bronx and retired as disparities in the communities served by Urban Health Assistant Commissioner for Child and Adolescent Plan, which has received several awards for service Health at the New York City Department of Health. excellence. Ms. Hernandez is president of the board of the She initiated the development of New York’s citywide Community Health Care Association of New York State immunization registry, one of the first of its size, and (CHCANYS). She also serves on multiple professional collaborated with colleagues at Columbia University on and community boards and organizations, including the state-of-the-art asthma care in child health clinics. She NYC Primary Care Development Corporation, the New also established a large-scale program linking high-risk York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene newborns with primary care providers and tracking their Advisory Council, the Community Health Care developmental progress. Dr. Lobach is a member of Association of New York State, The Joint Commission WCC and has held leadership positions in various WCC Ambulatory Care Advisory Council and Affinity Health health initiatives. She prepared WCC’s health policy Plan. She was as a member to the New York City Com- statements on universal health care, the need for school- mission for Economic Opportunity, an appointed task based health centers, and the importance of physical force that developed innovative anti-poverty approaches education in New York City public schools. She served in New York City. Ms. Hernandez received her under- on the boards of the Citizen’s Committee for Children of graduate degree from Boston College and holds master’s New York and the Bronx Community Health Network and degrees from Teachers College and the Mailman School on the Advisory Councils of several other child health- of Public Health at Columbia University. related organizations. Dr. Lobach graduated from Smith College and received her M.D. from Columbia University. From Inequality to Equality: Policies and Programs that Work 1 Panelists (continued) and several community-based HIV/AIDS organizations. Dr. Sandman received his B.A., Phi Beta Kappa, from Neil Calman, M.D., F.A.A.F.P., President and CEO Haverford College, and his M.P.A. and Ph.D. from New The Institute for Family Health York University’s Wagner School of Public Service. Since 1983, Dr. Calman has led the Institute in developing Associate Commissioner, New York family health centers in the Bronx, Manhattan and the Yvonne Graham, Hudson Valley. Under his leadership, the Institute has State Department of Health; Director, Office of established professional training programs in medicine, Minority Health and Health Disparities Prevention nursing, administration and mental health and has been Ms. Graham is responsible for ensuring that Health designated by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) Department programs provide access to needed services as a National Center of Excellence in the Elimination of and resources regardless of recipients’ ethnic or racial Disparities. Dr. Calman is Professor and Chair of the background or geographic location. Prior to assuming this Department of Family Medicine and Community Health role, Ms. Graham was Deputy Borough President of at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. His Brooklyn with primary responsibility for health policy and published essay, “Out of the Shadows” (Health Affairs, human services. She co-founded several organizations Jan/Feb 2000) details his experiences in dealing with that work to reduce health disparities: the Brooklyn Health racism in the care of his patients and he has authored Disparities Center, the Brooklyn Community Transformation numerous scientific articles. Dr. Calman is a member Coalition, the Brooklyn Public Health Funding Task Force, of the New York State Council on Graduate Medical and the Brooklyn Young Women’s Leadership Initiative. Education, the Board of the Community Health Care She also was Founder and Executive Director of the Association of New York State, and the Executive Caribbean Women’s Health Association, which provides Committee of the New York Health Collaborative. comprehensive, culturally sensitive healthcare and social He was appointed by the Obama Administration as support services. Ms. Graham served on the Mayor’s an expert in the care of vulnerable populations to the Committee on Immigration, the New York City HIV Human Resources and Services Administration’s Health Planning Council, and the Mayor’s Commission on the Information Technology Policy Committee where he now Status of Women and has received numerous awards for co-chairs the Subcommittee on Consumer Engagement. her work in the community. Ms. Graham is a registered Dr. Calman is the recipient of many awards for leadership nurse and holds a B.A.