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Axios' Improving Health in North Carolina: Local Strategies for the Road Ahead

Improving Health in North Carolina: Local Strategies for the Road Ahead

Thursday
, 
April 
16
, 
2026
9:00am
 - 
10:30am
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North Carolina is rising in rankings of the nation’s healthiest states, with recent drops in drug deaths, smoking and drinking and increases in physical activity and cancer screenings signaling a positive outlook for the state’s overall health trajectory. At the same time, leaders are working to elevate health care access and reduce complex barriers to care, which can vary greatly across the state.

Join Axios Live in Raleigh for an event looking at the key issues shaping the health and well-being of North Carolinians. We’ll look at the impacts of local and federal health care policies, the funding debates on care and coverage, and the ways local leaders are working to improve health outcomes in North Carolina communities from the Triangle to rural counties.

8:30am | Doors open
9:00am - 10:00am | Mainstage conversations
10:00am | Event concludes

Axios Raleigh reporter Mary Helen Moore and Axios senior policy reporter Caitlin Owens will moderate one-on-one conversations with: 

Josh Dobson

CEO, North Carolina Health Care Association

Tina C. Gordon

CEO, North Carolina Nurses Association

Danielle Gray

Executive Vice President Corporate & External Affairs, UnitedHealth Group

*View From the Top moderated by Axios' Nicholas Johnston

Margaret Sauer

Director, The North Carolina Office of Rural Health

Meg Zomorodi, PhD, RN, ANEF, FAAN

Professor & Senior Associate Provost for Academic Excellence, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

*View From the Top moderated by Axios' Nicholas Johnston

*Denotes panel segment

Additional speakers to be announced.

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