Public Lecture: “The Affordable Care Act and the Latino Community: How Health Reform will Impact the Health and Well-Being of Latino Families”

by Mayra E. Alvarez, Director of Public Health Policy in the Office of Health Reform at the Department of Health and Human Services

Co-Sponsored by the Center for US-Mexican Studies and Planned Parenthood of the Pacific Southwest

March 13, 2012

3:30 PM

Location: UC San Diego, Institute of the Americas Complex, Weaver Center

There is no cost of admission.

Event is open to the public.

For location information and directions, click on the following link: http://usmex.ucsd.edu/about/maps-and-directions.htm

The lecture will be given by Mayra E. Alvarez, who is the Director of Public Health Policy in the Office of Health Reform at the Department of Health and Human Services, where she has primary oversight responsibility for coordinated and timely implementation of the public health, prevention, and healthcare workforce policy provisions in the Affordable Care Act. She completed her graduate education at the School of Public Health at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and her undergraduate education at the University of California at Berkeley. Ms. Alvarez served as a Legislative Assistant for Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL), the Majority Whip of the U.S. Senate, where she advised the Senator and helped develop his legislative agenda on health issues. Ms. Alvarez began her work in Washington D.C. as a David A. Winston Health Policy Fellow in the office of then-Senator Barack Obama.

For additional information, visit http://usmex.ucsd.edu/events/event_2012021472952.htm or call Mr. Greg Mallinger at (858) 822-1696