Costich to Represent Kentucky at National Press Club Forum

LEXINGTON, Ky. (July 28, 2014) --  University of Kentucky College of Public Health Professor Julia Costich will represent the University and the Commonwealth at a forum at the National Press Club in August.  The presentation, which is a collaborative effort of the Rockefeller Institute of Government of SUNY, the Fels Institute of Government at the University of Pennsylvania, and the Brookings Institution, will feature new reports on the ways Southern states have implemented and responded to the Affordable Care Act (ACA). 

Costich, who teaches in the Department of Health Management and Policy, will speak for the Kentucky team of analysts, which includes UK College of Public Health faculty member Glen Mays, at the Aug. 25 event.

Attendees of the program will learn of the 35-state implementation of the ACA and will, specifically, hear an overview of the implementation efforts of southern states.  Following the presentation, a panel of field researchers, including Costich, will provide reports on the individual implementation efforts of each participating state.  These reports will then be discussed further by a second panel who will consider the issues each has raised.  This second panel will feature representative from the Rockefeller Institute, the Brookings Institution, the Heritage Foundation, and Vox.com.

MEDIA CONTACT: Mallory Powell, mallory.powell@uky.edu