Show Airs Friday, March 30, at 7:30 p.m. and repeats Sunday, April 1, at 7 a.m.
UNM and New Mexico will soon be at the forefront of the national health policy discussion, thanks to an $18.5 million gift from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. This week’s edition of KNME-TV’s public affairs series, In Focus, will center on where that money will go and how the University of New Mexico hopes the Center will bring Hispanic and Native American voices into the discussion. Titled “UNM & New Mexico’s Health Policy,” In Focus will air Friday, March 30, at 7:30 p.m. on Channel 5. This week’s show will repeat Sunday, April 1, at 7 a.m.
Featured guests include Reed Dasenbrock, UNM Provost and Executive Vice President of Academic Affairs, and Richard Santos and William Wiese, MD, both associate directors of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Center for Health Policy at UNM.
In Focus is an in-depth, television news magazine focusing on the events, topics and issues that shape people’s lives in the Southwest. It covers issues that New Mexicans want to know more about and is a fusion of KNME’s award-winning journalistic, documentary and cultural local production. The producer of In Focus is Kevin McDonald. The host is journalist Kate Nelson, managing editor of the Albuquerque Tribune.
The McCune Charitable Foundation has provided support for the 39-week season of In Focus. Closed Captioning of In Focus has been made possible by a gift from Mrs. Elspeth G. Bobbs.
Media Contact: Evy Todd, (505) 277-1218; e-mail: etodd@unm.edu
Posted by scarr at March 29, 2007 03:00 PM