Comprehensive policy reform can help combat the Type 2 Diabetes epidemic through efforts directed at disease prevention and management. As part of the Bristol Myers Squibb Foundation’s Together on Diabetes Initiative, the PATHS (Providing Access to Healthy Solutions) project has researchers and attorneys identifying opportunities for impactful policy change with respect to type 2 diabetes in New Jersey and North Carolina.
Join us for a Web Forum that will showcase the work, lessons, goals, and implications of PATHS’ health-motivated policy work. Presenters from the Center for Health Law & Policy Innovation at Harvard Law School (CHLPI) will share the:
- Most urgent statewide issues;
- Process and plan for developing a dynamic advocacy agenda and moving it forward in both locations; and
- National implications for this state-level work.
During the Web Forum, we will also discuss the translation of on-the-ground disease management experience into policy and legislative action, and will introduce the soon-to-be-live CHLPI website intended to be a home for diabetes policy reform resources.
This Web Forum is for all diabetes providers who know that systemic change is necessary for good health outcomes in their patients and clients, as well as local and state-level policymakers, legislators, and advocates.
Presenters
Allison Condra, JD, LLM
Senior Clinical Fellow, Food Law and Policy Clinic, Center for Health Law and Policy Innovation
Harvard Law School
Jamaica Plain, MA
Alli Condra is a Senior Clinical Fellow at the Food Law and Policy Clinic, a division of the Center for Health Law and Policy Innovation of Harvard Law School. She focuses her work on issues affecting producers and food entrepreneurs, including food safety, labor, and other legal issues; diabetes policy;…
Sarah Downer, JD
Associate Director, Whole Person Care, Center for Health Law and Policy Innovation
Harvard Law School
Cambridge, MA
Sarah Downer is a Clinical Instructor at the Center for Health Law and Policy Innovation of Harvard Law School and co-directs the Center’s Whole Person Care Initiative, which seeks to improve care for underserved individuals at every point of interaction with the health care system. She serves as a Special…
Francine Grabowski, MS, RD, CDE
Lead Diabetes Educator
Camden Citywide Diabetes Collaborative
Camden, NJ
Francine Grabowski, MS, RD, CDE, is the lead diabetes educator for the Camden Citywide Diabetes Collaborative. Her responsibilities include diabetes program education design, and citywide leadership of diabetes educators.
She is also Program Manager of Cooper Diabetes Education Program in Cherry Hill New Jersey. Using more than 25 years experience…
Resources
Date Published: Friday, July 11, 2014
PATHS 2014 New Jersey State Report
Date Published: Thursday, July 24, 2014
PATHS 2014 New Jersey State Executive Summary
Date Published: Friday, July 25, 2014
PATHS 2014 North Carolina State Report
Date Published: Friday, July 25, 2014