Please join Senator Eldridge, Rep. Gentile, and three guest speakers (see below) at “Reimagining Healthcare: A Community Forum”
When: Thursday, February 27th 2025 at 7pm
Where: Goodnow Library, 21 Concord Rd, Sudbury, MA 01776
The forum, hosted by the Sudbury, Maynard, Lincoln, and Wayland Democratic Town Committees, will feature three experts on healthcare and an in-depth discussion and Q&A on universal healthcare and Medicare-For-All.
Please RSVP here: www.tinyurl.com/reimagininghealthcareforum
The panelists:
Kimberley Connors is the Executive Director of the Massachusetts Campaign for Single Payer Health Care. A Maynard resident, she has a strong background in Massachusetts progressive politics and the Single Payer movement. She chairs the Maynard Democratic Committee and is a member of the Progressive Mass Issues Committee and Three Rivers Progressive Mass, where she was Chair. Connors’s interest in health care reform started in 2015 when she was diagnosed with breast cancer, and since then, she has been an organizer for Medicare-For-All.
Michael Doonan, PhD, is Professor and Associate Dean for Academics and Online Learning for The Heller School for Social Policy and Management, Brandeis University. He is the Executive Director of the Massachusetts Health Policy Forum and Director Schneider Institute Collaboration Committee. Michael founded the Heller School’s Master’s in Public Policy (MPP) program and served as Program Director for sixteen years. His Ph.D. from Brandeis is in both Political Science and Health Services Research. His research and publications focus on issues related to access to health care reform, federalism, Medicaid, federal/state relations, public health, and the politics and economics of health system change.
Vivian Kobusingye Birchall, MSc, is the founder of Health Care Blind Spots, an initiative dedicated to identifying overlooked areas in healthcare and proposing effective solutions to enhance the well-being of all individuals, particularly those often neglected in traditional healthcare interventions. An Acton resident, she is a health and medicine communication expert with an MSc in Media, Medicine, and Health from Harvard Medical School, and has over six years of experience in healthcare communication and biotech business management.