<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><item href="/news/blog/2025/healthcare-affordability-and-accessibility-panel.php" dsn="blogs"><type>Internal</type><external_link/><featured/><category>The Charger Blog</category><pubDate>12/03/2025</pubDate><title>MPH Students Reflect on Experience at Healthcare Affordability and Accessibility Panel</title><description>Panelists from Yale New Haven Health, Gaylord Hospital, and Optimus Healthcare visited the University of New Haven’s School of Health Sciences to discuss the most pressing issues shaping access and affordability in today’s healthcare system.</description><hide-description/><author>Pooja Arugula ’27 MPH, Joshua Dennis Krah ’27 MPH, and Chandira Malla ’27 MPH</author><author-details/><hide-author/><date>December 3, 2025</date><image><img src="https://newhaven.edu/_resources/images/health-sciences/news/2025/mph-panel-3.jpg" alt="mph-panel-3"/></image><image-caption>(Left to right) Panelists Deremius Y. Williams, Sonja LaBarbera, Karen Daley, JD, MBA, RN, , and Dave Fusco, MS ’93. </image-caption><hide-image/><tags><tag>News</tag><tag>college-health-sciences</tag><tag>news-all</tag><tag>news-blog</tag><tag>program-grad-public-health</tag><tag>year-2025</tag></tags></item>