UCLA Anderson Forecast In COllaboration with
UCLA Health presents
March 2021 Economic Outlook
There is a new administration in Washington and the Pandemic still rages. Economic relief, stimulus and infrastructure spending proposals are going to be debated in Congress. And the pandemic will have profound implications for the health care industry including technology, tele-medicine, and supply chains. How these will affect the economic outlook and the business of health care are topics to be explored at the March UCLA Anderson Forecast conference.
8:30 - 8:40a | Welcome + Introductions Jerry Nickelsburg, Ph.D., Director, UCLA Anderson Forecast |
8:40 - 9:45a | UCLA Anderson Forecast for the Nation and California Leo Feler, Ph.D., Senior Economist, UCLA Anderson Forecast Jerry Nickelsburg, Ph.D., Director, UCLA Anderson Forecast Edward Leamer, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus, UCLA Anderson William Yu, Ph.D., Economist, UCLA Anderson Forecast Leila Bengali, Ph.D., Economist, UCLA Anderson Forecast |
Q + A with the Forecast Team | |
9:45 - 9:55a | Break |
9:55 - 10:40a | Keynote Address Sandra R. Hernández, MD, President & CEO, California Health Care Foundation |
10:40 - 11:25a | Panel: Pandemic Induced Change in the Business of Health Care Moderator: Leila Bengali, Ph.D., Economist, UCLA Anderson Forecast Elaine Batchlor, M.D., CEO, Martin Luther King Jr. Community Hospital Desert Horse-Grant, Senior Director, Research and Innovation, UCLA Health & Co-Executive Director, UCLA Biodesign Omkar Kulkarni, MPH, Chief Innovation Officer, Children's Hospital Murray Ross, Ph.D., Vice President, Kaiser Foundation Health Plan, Inc.; Director, Kaiser Permanente Institute for Health Policy Leah Vriesman, Ph.D., Executive Director, Executive Education Programs in Health Policy and Management, Center for Healthcare Management, UCLA Fielding School of Public Health |
11:25 - 11:30a | Closing Remarks Jerry Nickelsburg, Ph.D., Director, UCLA Anderson Forecast |
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As more people get vaccinated, what will be the path of the economic recovery? |
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What will be the economic impact of the Biden Administration's fiscal stimulus and infrastructure programs? |
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What explains the variation of death rates due to COVID-19 across the country? |
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How were economic forces driving trends in the health care sector before the 2020 recession? |
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How has the 2020 recession changed or accelerated health care trends? |