The UCLA Center for Health Policy Research (CHPR) is bringing together thought leaders in the fight to end homelessness to help identify past successes and lessons learned. Dr. Gary Painter, Director of the Sol Price Center for Social Innovation and the Homelessness Policy Research Center (HPRI) will be speaking at the symposium.

Confirmed speakers and panelists include:

• Bill Purcell, JD, Former Mayor, Metropolitan Nashville and Davidson County
• Libby Schaaf, JD, Mayor, City of Oakland
• Philip Mangano, President and CEO, The American Round Table to Abolish Homelessness
• Isaac Bryan, MPP, California State Assemblymember, District 54
• Margot Kushel, MD, Director, UCSF Center for Vulnerable Populations
• Michelle Cabrera, Executive Director, County Behavioral Health Directors Association
• Kathryn Monet, MPA, CEO, National Coalition for Homeless Veterans
• Leepi Shimkhada, MPP, Director of Housing and Services, Housing for Health, Los Angeles County Department of Health Services
• Gary Painter, PhD, Director, USC Sol Price Center for Social Innovation and Homelessness Policy Research Institute
• Eva Thibaudeau, CEO, Temenos Community Development Corporation
• Nadereh Pourat, PhD, Director, Health Economics and Evaluation Research Program, and Associate Director, UCLA CHPR
• Dana White, Program Officer, True Colors United
• Suzette Shaw, Poet and Advocate, Skid Row from a Women’s Perspective
• Randall Kuhn, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Community Health Sciences, UCLA Fielding School of Public Health
• Andrea Evans, JD, Director, Chronic Homelessness Initiative, Tipping Point Community

…and more to be announced!

Ninez A. Ponce, PhD, MPP, director of UCLA CHPR and professor at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, will provide the opening remarks.

RSVP