Friday, September 15, 2023
8 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis Campus Center Theater
420 University Blvd.
Indianapolis, IN 46202
"The Urgency of Now: Advancing Health Policy Through Education, Research, and Leadership" is designed to ignite bold advocacy and empower attendees to respond to the urgent need for engagement in various health policy and advocacy arenas.
The morning session features three panels of professionals who elevated their voices and created changes in health policies at local, state and national levels. You won't want to miss the thought-provoking perspectives of these transformational leaders. Scroll to meet our guest panelists who will discuss:
Panel I: Using Personal Stories and Passion to Foster Your Health Policy Roles
Panel II: Innovative Strategies to Integrate Health Policy and Advocacy into Academia
Panel III: Creating Effective Advocacy Through Stakeholder Policy Analysis
The afternoon session includes unique opportunities for you, the attendee, to enhance professional growth and career advancement through one selected track of programming. The tracks will support sharing information in smaller, topic-focused groups. Conference facilitators will use collaborative, interactive activities to support attendees’ engagement in the following tracks:
Track 1 – Academia: Integrating Policy and Advocacy into Courses, Clinicals, and Civic-based Experiential Learning Opportunities
Track 2 – Research: Enhancing the Bridge Between Policy and Research
Track 3 – Leadership: Leading Health Policy and Bolstering Advocacy in Health Systems, Professional Organizations, and Boards
Attendees, you will have the opportunity to identify individual goals and create strategies to lead policy and advocacy advancements.
Please Note: Registration requires the attendee to select a specific track for the afternoon session. Click below for additional descriptions of the tracks.
IUPUI Campus Center Theater Foyer & TV Lounge
Located in the Campus Center's Lower Level
IUPUI Campus Center Theater
Located in the Campus Center's Lower Level
Greeting from Dr. Robin Newhouse, Dean of the Indiana University School of Nursing.
Conference overview by Dr. Sharron Crowder, conference coordinator.
IUPUI Campus Center Theater
Located in the Campus Center's Lower Level
Guest panelists include:
Moderated by Sandra Chapman, media and communications specialist, investigative journalist (formerly of WTHR and WISH-TV, both in Indianapolis), content developer and author.
Feel free to take a brief break before Panel II: Using Innovative Strategies to Integrate Health Policy and Advocacy into Academia.
IUPUI Campus Center Theater
Located in the Campus Center's Lower Level
Guest panelists include:
Feel free to take a brief break before Panel III: Creating Effective Advocacy Through Stakeholder Policy Analysis.
IUPUI Campus Center Theater
Located in the Campus Center's Lower Level
Guest panelists include:
IUPUI Campus Center Theater Foyer & TV Lounge
Located in the Campus Center's Lower Level
Lunch will be provided, and we will transition to our afternoon breakout sessions.
Attendees will pre-select tracks 1, 2, or 3 during registration. Each track will feature facilitated dialogue and unique professional development opportunities.
Track 1: ACADEMIC
IUPUI Campus Center Theater
Integrating Policy and Advocacy into Courses, Clinicals, and Civic-based Experiential Learning Opportunities
This track explores the integration of policy and advocacy into courses, clinicals, and civic-based experiential learning opportunities. Attendees will have the opportunity to share strategies being used to thread and map health policy and advocacy into curricula.
Track 2: RESEARCH
IUPUI Campus Center Room 405
Enhancing the Bridge Between Policy and Research
This track will spur dialogue among researchers regarding opportunities to align their research with key state and national policy initiatives. Facilitators will also lead conversations about gaps in evidence-based policy decisions. Faculty and doctoral students will be able to illustrate the policy implications and advocacy roles associated with research and evidence-based practice.
Track 3: LEADERSHIP
IUPUI Campus Center Room 409
Leading Health Policy and Bolstering Advocacy in Health Systems, Professional Organizations, and on Boards
This track will highlight roles to lead health policy and bolster advocacy in health systems, professional organizations and on boards. Participants will explore the positive aspects and support needed while serving in roles so vital to the changes needed today.
Please take a brief break and return to IUPUI Campus Center Theater, located on the lower level, for the IGNITE Session and Closing.
IUPUI Campus Center Theater
Located in the Campus Center's Lower Level
Join us in this culminating session as we combine your ah-ha moments and key takeaways of the day leaving you empowered to achieve your personal and professional goals.
Clinical Associate Professor; Special Assistant to the Dean for Health Policy Initiatives, IU School of Nursing IUPUI
Director of Policy, American Association of Colleges of Nursing
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health Policy Fellow; Faculty, University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Nursing
Director, Indiana University Center for Aging Research, Regenstrief Institute; Faculty, Indiana University Schools of Nursing and Medicine; Co-Director, IUPUI RESPECT Signature Center
Assistant Dean for Faculty Affairs and Professional Development, IU School of Medicine; Associate Professor of Communication Studies, IUPUI
Professor, University of Texas Health San Antonio School of Nursing and Department of Psychiatry
Director of Emergency General Surgery, Associate Professor of Surgery and Nursing, and Vice Chair of Clinical Operations, The Johns Hopkins Hospital
The Beverly Flynn Endowed Fund for Health Policy Leadership was created to invest in people for the purpose of providing them with educational experiences allowing them to explore health delivery systems, the philosophy of health policy and international health issues as well as provide exposure to various cultures for the purpose of understanding, enlightening and empowering students and faculty in furthering their knowledge of health care policy, health care delivery systems and/or providing health care (service learning) to population groups.
Beverly C. Flynn, Professor Emeritus, had a distinguished career in education and research in her 29 years of service as a faculty member at Indiana University School of Nursing. Beverly’s contributions as a teacher, mentor, and faculty colleague were evident within the school, the university and countless global communities. Professor Flynn was among the first to forge interdisciplinary partnerships on the campus and to promote primary health care for all. She worked tirelessly with communities large and small across our nation and the world.
