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The League of Women Voters Davis Area will be hosting a virtual Community Forum, “Health Reform &amp; Social Justice: Opportunities for Reducing Inequity and Addressing Health Disparities”.<br /><br />The League will be hosting an evening with Dr. Susan Rogers, President of Physicians for a National Health Plan (PNHP). Dr. Rogers’s presentation will include an overview of the U.S. health care system through a social justice lens, followed by a discussion highlighting disparities resulting from our current policies and opportunities to improve inequities through health reform. The forum will conclude with an audience Q&amp;A.<br /><br />Dr. Rogers is a Fellow of the American College of Physicians and currently an Assistant Professor of Medicine at Rush University. She has recently retired from her hospitalist practice in Chicago at Stronger Hospital of Cook County. She has previously served as co-director of medical student teaching at Stronger and as Medical Director of Near North Health Service Corp, a Chicago FQHC. <br /><br />This forum aims to educate voters about our current healthcare model and how it impacts local care access, affordability, quality and equity. Our guest speaker provides insights into how health reform can improve each of these to optimize community health and wellness. The LWVDA supports the National League healthcare positions in support of an affordable, accessible, quality, and equitable health care system, critical for the health, safety and economic security of all communities. Becoming an informed voter is fundamental to ensuring the engagement needed to affect meaningful reform. The future of our community health and healthcare systems will rely upon votes cast by those with a better understanding of current needs and resources and our opportunities to enact needed change.<br /><br />We encourage attendees to please submit concerns, questions, and issues in advance to komalh@lwvdavisarea.org by 10.4.21