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Spring 2024
Fixing Unintended Pandemic Medicaid Policy Consequences: Lessons Learned and Insurance Coverage Implications for Recipients
Experts in Medicaid policies and practices discussed:
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FALL 2022
Public Gain and Private Profit - Earned Value in Social Enterprise
Public-private partnerships have a new player at the table. Social entrepreneurs are
building new value propositions that use private investment to produce sustainable
social change organizations while delivering direct cost reductions to governmental
support for social services. By directly quantifying the economic value that is earned
through positive social change, these social enterprises are bringing new life and
much-needed balance to an oft-criticized strategy for improving the human condition.
Our keynote speaker provided the context on public and private financing for social
entrepreneurs and organizations committed to social change. Our panel of experts contributed
a brief case study followed by perspectives born of their experiences in the public
and private sector funding.
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Amma Felix, president and CEO, Collegiate Directions, Inc.
Darius Graham, program director, The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation
Will Anderson, managing director and co-founder, Impact Principals
SPRING 2022
Confronting Healthcare Inequities Through Entrepreneurship and Innovation
Inequities in access to care, services received, and outcomes have a long history prior to the current pandemic. However, the pandemic revealed stark healthcare differences by race, ethnicity, and socio-economic class. While there are attempts to eliminate these through national legislation, political divisions make the ultimate outcome uncertain.
The energy of the private sector, particularly of entrepreneurs, demonstrates how specific disparities can harness the potential of technology, addressing diversity, equity, and inclusion even prior to legislative action.
Our panel consisted of experts with the vision, energy, and courage to found businesses that can fill gaps and connect patients with culturally appropriate services and care.
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SPRING 2021
The Coronavirus Pandemic and Sustained Peak Loads for First Responders: Promoting Resilience and Care for Burnout
First responders must respond to the concurrent economic, social and medical crises confronting our society. Their work ranges from security and law enforcement to medical interventions and social work. It tests the limits of their capacities, and is unrelenting. The panel addressed evidence-based strategies to promote first responders’ resilience, and, when those are not sufficient, treatment and wellness for their recovery.
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TOPIC: Promoting Resilience to Protect and Prevent
View Dr. Lora Peppard's PowerPoint presentation.
TOPIC: Care Services: From Stress & Trauma to Treatment & Wellness
SPRING 2019
Opioids & Addiction: A Public-Health Approach to Change
Trend data on overdose deaths and judicial proceedings show the tragedy of the opioid crisis, its blight on rural and urban America and the failure to resolve it. Where initiatives have made a positive difference, they include a bundle of evidence-based public health, criminal justice and policy actions. The panel of experts addressed the core of a public-health approach to changing the trends in addiction, incarceration and death from opioids.
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View Jennifer Martin's PowerPoint presentation.
FALL 2017
Developing Performance Management Systems for Public-Private Partnerships
Public-private arrangements are increasingly used to address large and complicated endeavors. Managing the performance of these initiatives, however, requires special technical and managerial tools. This dialogue brought together an Italian expert on such performance management systems with experts at the federal and state levels in the U.S. Our U.S. experts used real estate as the focus for their comments.
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SPRING 2017
The Opioid Addiction Epidemic: Causes, Consequences and Treatments
Pain management and the promotion of prescription medicines led many patients to addiction and the nation to a crisis in managing it. Public- and private-sector experts held an interactive and in-depth discussion of the opioid crisis, sharing insights into lessons learned and next steps followed by an audience Q&A.
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FALL 2015
Cybersecurity: Is Patient Privacy Extinct? Lessons Learned for Secure, Reliable Public-Private Systems
Privacy breaches to electronic health records and related financial data are happening faster and more frequently than ever. Recently, a breach at a major provider gave unauthorized access to the personal health information of 78.8 million. In light of this and other disturbing developments in the realm of health care privacy, academic and public- and private sector experts led an interactive and in-depth discussion about patient privacy, discussing the issue as it relates to the interaction between public-sector laws and private-sector initiatives and offering insight into lessons learned and next steps.
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SPRING 2013
Public-Private Partnerships in an Age of Austerity: State-Local and Federal-State Dynamics
The Rosenberg Dialogue Series explores opportunities for the private sector to work in partnership with the public and nonprofit (nongovernmental organization) sectors to create a vibrant and economically strong society. This dialogue delves into how federalism and intergovernmental relations influence the type and extent of such partnerships.
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FALL 2012
Maryland Hospitals and Environmental Sustainability: Green Health-Care Facilities
Health care is a vital component of Maryland's economy, but health-care facilities face many worksite and environmental challenges. Economic, social and environmental health impacts of energy consumption; water usage; material purchase, use and wastage; as well as the quantity and toxicity of the chemicals used in and for health care must be managed concurrently.
For health-care providers, there is also a moral imperative—an ethical obligation—to create a resilient health-care system that benefits citizens as well as organized stakeholders. Achieving this balance within resource constraints requires management efficiency, operational effectiveness, cost containment while maintaining quality of care, and ensuring employees' health, general safety and environmental sustainability.
How can these goals be achieved affordably and reliably? What are the opportunities for public-private-sector collaboration?
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SPRING 2012
Access to Pharmaceutical Products and Services for Underserved Populations: Public- and Private-Sector Roles in the United States and India
The front line of our public health system is not a doctor's office, an emergency room or even a clinic, but our local pharmacies. The community pharmacist is the first and often most frequent point of contact that many people have with the organized health-care system. Medicine shortages are the most visible consequence of a changed and interconnected world, but underserved populations confront unmet needs for access to pharmacist services and clinical information.
Education for community pharmacists' clinical roles continues to require significant curricular change and mentored experiential education. This has led to an undersupply of pharmacists globally, with implications for unmet medical needs and avoidable drug interactions that manifest in other areas of the health-care system: crisis visits to emergency rooms; hospitalizations; and secondary, perhaps chronic, disabilities.
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The Henry A. Rosenberg Dialogue Series is made possible by the generous support of the Henry and Ruth Blaustein Rosenberg Foundation and the University of Baltimore Foundation.