Industry Events Calendar

Technologies and procedures that would have been science fiction are now the reality of medicine. Our 2021 STAT Breakthrough Science Summit will take you inside these innovations, examining how they’re being developed, adopted, and paid for. We’ll also take a look at the breakthroughs that haven’t yet hit the market, but have the potential to redefine health and medicine in the years to come.

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AI technology advances and its implementation in the enterprise has been accelerating at a breathtaking pace. Organizations are using AI as a tool for generating value, and increasingly that value is coming in the form of revenues. This year’s AI World Executive Summit will help keep you ahead of the curve and focus on how the best and brightest enterprises are truly innovating and achieving high-performance results from AI.

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TEAM Vaccinate’s Conquer Covid-19 Conference will take place on July 21-22, 2021, both virtually and in-person in Washington, D.C. Keynote speakers and panelists will include representation from government leaders, physicians, academic and scientific researchers, and most importantly, representatives from underserved communities. Harvard University Medical School Faculty are among those serving on TEAM’s Advisory Board. An award-winning film producer will be producing a documentary of TEAM Vaccinate’s masked & socially distanced engagement with underserved communities throughout the United States. This documentary will be released at the Conquer Covid-19 Conference on July 21, 2021.

Among TEAM Vaccinate’s many activities, programs, and communications is TEAM Vaccinate’s L.E.A.R.N initiative: Listening, Elevating, Advancing, Recovering, and Navigating with underserved communities. We are engaging underserved and vulnerable communities to help in vaccination and overcome the Covid-19 pandemic together. Nationally recognized diversity, equity, and inclusion leaders will be participating in the Conquer Covid-19 Conference. If you, your company, or organization is interested in participating in one of the confirmed Conference issue panels below, or a panel currently being planned, please contact TEAM Vaccinate as availability is extremely limited:

Listening, Visiting, and Elevating Underserved Communities
Expanding health literacy and preventive care through building trust
Broadband access and vaccination equity
Transportation and vaccination equity
TEAM Vaccinate will announce the conference program in early spring

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The Congressional Social Determinants of Health (SDOH) Caucus is hosting a launch event on July, 21 from 11AM – 12 PM ET. The SDOH Caucus will explore opportunities to improve the impact of services delivered to address social determinants with the support of federal funding.

The webinar will feature Caucus conveners Reps. Cheri Bustos (D-IL), G.K. Butterfield (D-NC) , Tom Cole (R-OK) and Markwayne Mullin (R-OK) to highlight the opportunities for coordination to improve health outcomes and maximize existing and future federal investments in health, food, housing, transportation and other important drivers of health.

Members will also be joined by speakers to hear about the value this caucus will bring to addressing SDOH from the health and community-based organization perspective.

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The 14th Annual Massachusetts Life Sciences Innovation (MALSI+) Day is the biggest day for life sciences startups and innovation in the Commonwealth. MALSI+ 2021 is a hands-on event that brings together scientists, post-docs, professors, entrepreneurs, innovators, and venture capitalists. Barbara Fox, CEO of Rheos Medicine, will keynote the event which features panels on pharmaceutical innovation and the investor perspective, an innovators’ marketplace, poster competition with prizes, 1:1 curated connections, and networking on the Goldcast platform.

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With vaccines against COVID-19 widely available in the U.S., colleges and universities face a profound question — should they require vaccination for their students and employees? This webinar brings together top experts from multiple disciplines and different points of view. They will debate the ethical, legal, and policy issues raised by COVID vaccine mandates. Reflecting on the history of public health and realities of the COVID-19 pandemic, they will consider the effectiveness of mandates in advancing community health, the legal basis, and the impact on equity and trust.

In this highly interactive webinar, panelists will discuss the issues, debate solutions, and respond to audience questions.

Panelists are:

Michael T. Osterholm, PhD, MPH
Director, Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy (CIDRAP)
University of Minnesota

Bio: Michael T. Osterholm, PhD, MPH, is Regents Professor, McKnight Presidential Endowed Chair in Public Health, and Director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy (CIDRAP) at the University of Minnesota. He is a global authority on infectious disease and public health and member of the National Academy of Medicine as well as the Council on Foreign Relations. From June 2018 through May 2019, he served as Science Envoy for Health Security for the U.S. Department of State. In November 2020, Dr. Osterholm was appointed to President-elect Joe Biden’s 13-member Transition COVID-19 Advisory Board. He is a frequent consultant to the World Health Organization, National Institutes of Health, Food and Drug Administration, Department of Defense, and CDC.

Stephen B. Thomas, PhD
Director, Center for Health Equity
University of Maryland

Bio: Stephen B. Thomas, PhD, is Professor of Health Policy & Management, University of Maryland; Director of the Maryland Center for Health Equity; and Principal Investigator (with Dr. Sandra Quinn) for the NIH-NIMHD Center of Excellence in Race, Ethnicity & Health Disparities Research. One of the nation’s leading scholars in the effort to eliminate racial and ethnic health disparities, Dr. Thomas has applied his expertise to address a variety of conditions from which minorities generally face far poorer outcomes, including cardiovascular disease, diabetes, obesity and HIV/AIDS. Dr. Thomas has received numerous awards for his professional accomplishments, and over the years, his work has become recognized as one of the scholarly contributions leading to the 1997 Presidential Apology to Survivors of the Syphilis Study Done at Tuskegee. His current research focuses on the translation of evidence-based science on chronic disease into community-based interventions designed to eliminate racial and ethnic disparities in health and health care.

Lawrence O. Gostin, JD
Director, O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law
Georgetown University

Bio: Lawrence O. Gostin, JD, is University Professor, Linda D. & Timothy J. O’Neill Professor of Global Health Law, and Professor of Medicine at Georgetown University. He is also Professor of Public Health at Johns Hopkins University. Prof. Gostin directs the O’Neill Institute for National & Global Health Law and the World Health Organization Collaborating Center on National and Global Health Law. He has been at the center of public policy and law through multiple epidemics from AIDS and SARS, to Ebola, MERS, and Zika. He currently works closely with the Biden administration and global institutions like WHO, the World Bank, and Gavi on the COVID-19 response. He is a member of the National Academy of Medicine, a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and a fellow of The Hastings Center.

Moderated by:

Susan M. Wolf, JD
Chair, Consortium on Law and Values in Health, Environment & the Life Sciences
University of Minnesota

Bio: Susan M. Wolf, JD, is Regents Professor; McKnight Presidential Professor of Law, Medicine & Public Policy; Faegre Baker Daniels Professor of Law; and Professor of Medicine at the University of Minnesota. She chairs the University’s Consortium on Law and Values in Health, Environment & the Life Sciences and serves as co-lead of the Minnesota COVID Ethics Collaborative (MCEC). Prof. Wolf is a member of the National Academy of Medicine (NAM), fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), member of the American Law Institute, and fellow of The Hastings Center.

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