The College of Public Health will host a national health policy conference on April 22 at the College of Public Health Building.

“Creating a Population Health System: Innovation Opportunities” is a conference to identify economic incentives and new models to promote health, minimize costs, and improve quality.

The conference will address:

• What the shift to population health means for traditional health care payers and providers.
• Innovation ideas, new health policy approaches, critical partnerships and leading the charge for fundamental system transformation.

Keynote presenters include:

• Alice Rivlin, Director, Center for Health Policy, Brookings Institution
• Jim Weinstein, Chief Executive Officer and President of Dartmouth-Hitchcock Health System

The conference is sponsored by the Institute for Public Health and Research Policy and the Concord Coalition. See the conference website for a program and more details.