The second hour of the future of health care summit. Id like to thank our sponsor for their support of todays great program. We spent the first out on lessons we learn from the coronavirus pandemic. Will expand to look at policymaking breakthroughs and innovation in the face of seen and unseen challenges. Before we get underway a few housekeeping notes. You can tweet as at hashtag the Health Health and taking questions. Ive got a bunch that already come in. Speakers beware. If your experience, with a live stream lees refresh the page. It should be a quick fix. Thats what they say. Lets get started. Im please enter it is my first guest dies Health Official in the land alex faison sect of health and human services. Secretary azar has a a breadthf expense of both public and private sectors. His key areas of focus include healthcare reform, research and innovation come all of which have assumed added significance in the coronavirus era. Well, thanks for joining us today. We had a fantastic
About. Dr. Blackstock i formed the organization in response to Racial Health inequities that i have seen practicing over 10 years in the Emergency Department. We have some very concerning statistics. Life men have the shortest expectancy, black women have the highest Maternal Mortality rate, and i wanted to work with health and related organizations around these Racial Health inequities. Host how do you propose to go about doing that . What is your organization doing . Dr. Blackstock i partner with these organizations and i do talk, training, consulting. The training is about racism in health care, unconscious bias in health care, to make clinicians and organizations more aware of how we are trying to be wonderful physicians and clinicians to people and sometimes our biases influence the way we care for people and we have data that shows that. Working with organizations to ensure they are meeting their Health Equity goals, ensuring that all patients have the Optimal Health outcomes as
House. And later, advancing Health Equity founder and ceo dr. Uche blackstock joins us to discuss covid19s impact on minority communities. Another ruling on the Affordable Care act, the Supreme Court ruled 72 yesterday in favor of a 2017 Trump Administration rule extending the exemption to the Affordable Care acts birthcontrol mandate. It is thursday, july 9, 2020. Good morning, and welcome to washington journal. We open the show and ask whether support employers decided denying contraceptive health care to employees. Here is how to join the conversation. If you support the exemptions, two of 274s 88000. Two748pose, it is to 80001. Commentsost additional at facebook. Com cspan. , specificallyting on that case, the New York Times this morning with a graphic on how justices voted and how people for it feel about where the public stands on this issue. They write the Affordable Care act requires Health Insurance plans for women include coverage for contraceptives, Birth Control, but the Tr
Supervisor mandelman thank you, chair peskin, supervisor safai, and supervisor haney. I know weve had a long meeting, but i think this is important and i want to thank you for making time for this today. Earlier this year, massive rainfalls resulted in flooding along the embarcadero and other low lying areas of our city. Folks, Climate Change isnt coming, its already here. Last year, a group of climate advocates, some of whom are here today asked my office to work with them on declaring a Climate Emergency in San Francisco. Other communities had already taken the steps of declaring a Climate Emergency and those areas saw San Francisco as a local model should join them. The resolution called for the San Francisco department of the environment along with the Mayors Office and relevant city agencies to develop and submit a report on department the findings. I do think its worth noting that San Francisco has already done a good bit of proactive report to combat Climate Change. Between 1990
Vehicles. We know that we can expand this Public Charging Network particularly in the gaps you see in the map known as charging deserts. [please stand by] specific actions in six strategic areas that well meade to implement well need to implement that goal. And electricity is the fuel of the future and we need to implement it in existing modes. Last slide oops. It was your last slide. [laughter]. So ill make it up. So renewable electricity, will get us to a netzero system which is crucial to become a net carbon city. And our 2030 goals are 35 of certification and sustainable modes will help to get us there. In closing with the necessary capital, political and public support, we can meet these goals and along with our complementary goal of zero traffic fatalities to not only achieve our 2030 goal but to improve the lives of all. Thank you. Thank you, mr. Chu. That gets us through electricity and transportation and we still have buildings. Barry cooper . From the department of the enviro