Panel on Health Disparities:

Discussion on national efforts to eliminate health

disparities and advance health equity
April 17, 2015
Honorary Hosts:

Rep. Barbara Lee

(Co-Chair, CAPAC
Healthcare Taskforce)

Rep. Michelle Lujan

Grisham
(Co-Chair, CHC
Healthcare Task
Force)

Rep. Robin Kelly

(Chair, CBC Health
Braintrust)

Rep. Ami Bera, M.D.

(Co-Chair, CAPAC
Healthcare Taskforce)

Rep. Raul Ruiz, M.D.

(Co-Chair, CHC
Healthcare Task
Force)

Featuring speakers from leading organizations to discuss how minority communities remain more likely to be
uninsured than their white counterparts and face disproportionately negative health care outcomes as a result of
their race, ethnicity, socioeconomic status, and geographic location.
When: Friday, April 17, 2015
Time: 1:00pm 2:00pm
Where: 121 Cannon House Office Building; Washington DC

Brian Smedley PhD,

Executive Director,
National Collaborative
for Health Equity

Isha Weerasinghe,
Senior Policy Analyst,
Association of Asian
Pacific Community
Health Organizations

Seth Holmes PhD, MD,

Martin Sisters Assistant
Professor, Health and
Social Behavior at UC
Berkeley

Susie Saavedra ,
Senior Legislative
Director, National
Urban League
Washington Bureau