Announcing the 2023 Annual Meeting
Pre-Conference Speaker
Wednesday, June 14, 2023
2:00 – 3:15PM on Zoom
AUPHA is pleased to announce the 2023 pre-conference speaker, Daniel E. Dawes, JD.
Professor Dawes is a widely respected healthcare and public health leader, health policy expert, educator, and researcher who serves as the Senior Vice President and Executive Director for the Institute of Global Health Equity at Meharry Medical College. He is the author of two groundbreaking books, 150 Years of ObamaCare and The Political Determinants of Health, both published by Johns Hopkins University Press. His many achievements include being an instrumental figure in developing and negotiating the Mental Health Parity Act, the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act, the Americans with Disabilities Act Amendments Act, and the Affordable Care Act’s health equity-focused provisions, among other landmark federal policies, as well as serving as the principal investigator for the nation’s first health equity tracker. Professor Dawes was also co-founder of the Health Equity Leadership and Exchange Network (HELEN), and co-principal investigator of the HHS National COVID-19 Resiliency Network. Professor Dawes is an elected member of the National Academy of Medicine and an elected fellow of the New York Academy of Medicine. He serves as an advisor to The White House COVID-19 Health Equity Task Force, an appointed member of the CDC’s Advisory Committee to the Director and co-chair of the CDC’s Health Equity Working Group, as well as the NIH’s National Advisory Council for Nursing Research.
We are grateful to the National Association of Health Services Executives (NAHSE) for sponsoring this pre-conference event.
