1. VANESSA DIXON
PUBLIC HEALTH ADVOCACY (Partial Listing 2000 to 2004)
LEGISLATIVE TESTIMONY
Washington, DC City Council (Chronological Order)
 (1/00): DC Health Care Systems Development Commission: Public Hearing on Health Care
in the District of Columbia
 (4/01): Public Hearing on the Mayor’s Proposed Health Care Plan: The Privatization of DC
General Hospital through Greater Southeast Community Hospital
 (5/01): Public Hearing on the Impact to DC General Employees of the Mayor’s Health Care
Plan
 (6/01): Greater Southeast Community Hospital and Hadley Memorial Hospital Tax
Abatement Act of 2001
 (10/01): Public Oversight Hearing: Department of Fire and Emergency Medical Services in
the District of Columbia
 (10/01): Joint Public Oversight Hearing on District of Columbia Emergency Preparedness
 (12/01): Public Oversight Hearing: Greater Southeast Community Hospital Patients
Interviewed Regarding Their Quality of Health Care Delivery
 (12/01): Public Oversight on the District of Columbia Health Care Alliance
 (2/02): Public Oversight Hearing on the Department of Mental Health
 (3/02): Department of Health Oversight Hearing
 (4/02): Department of Mental Health Budget Hearing
 (5/02): Reservation 13 Draft Master Plan Hearing
 (9/02): Public Hearing on the Budget Deficit
 (2/03): Roundtable Regarding the Cutoff of Prescriptions for Low-Income Seniors Since the
Closure of DC General Hospital
 (3/03): Public Oversight Hearing on the Department of Mental Health
 (10/03): Public Oversight Hearing on the Department of Mental Health
 (3/04): Howard University Hospital at the DC General Site
 (3/04): Public Oversight Hearing on the Department of Mental Health
Maryland General Assembly
 (3/04): Testimony in support of “The Distressed Hospital Act of 2004,” to provide needed
funding for Prince George’s Hospital Center
Prince George’s County Council (MD)
 (3/04): Testimony on behalf of health care workers at Prince George’s Hospital Center to
request council authorization of funding to prevent the probable closure of the hospital.

2. VANESSA DIXON
PUBLIC HEALTH ADVOCACY (Partial Listing 2000 to 2004)
MEDIA (Chronological Order)
 WAMU Radio (2001 – DC Politics Hour – Kojo Nnambi): Selected as a “panelist” to
discuss the impact of the impending closure of DC General Hospital.
 WPFW Radio:
 Heal DC Show (2001–2003 – Joni Eisenberg): Various interviews to discuss the impact
of DC General Hospital closing – prior to and after closure of the hospital.
 Spirit DC Show (2003 – Damu Smith): Interviews to discuss the impact to health care
delivery since the closure of DC General Hospital.
 WTOP Radio (2003 – Mark Plotkin Show): Interviewed to discuss the impact of the closure
of DC General Hospital.
 WJLA TV (2004): Interviewed as part of a special presentation regarding the status of health
care in Washington, DC.
 Quoted in various newspapers regarding public health issues in Washington, DC
(Washington Post, Washington Times, Washington Business Journal, Washington City
Paper, Common Denominator).
CIVIC ASSOCIATION PRESENTATIONS (Alphabetical Order)
 American Public Health Association Annual Conference
 (10/01): Communities in the Wake of Public Hospital Closures
 (11/02): Anthrax and After: The Need for Public Health Services in Washington, DC
 ANSWER (9/01): Focus on Domestic Priorities, Not War (Press Conference and Peace
Rally)
 Black Voices for Peace
 (1/03): What Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Might Have Said about the State of Health
Care in the Nation’s Capital
 (4/03): Focus on Domestic Priorities, Not War
 (10/03): Health Care Delivery in the Nation’s Capital
 (10/03): A Separate and Unequal Health Care System (Rally)
 Code Pink (11/03): Issues of Importance to DC Residents – Health Care
 Community Coalition to Save Prescription Drugs for Seniors (12/03): Why Restoring a
Public Hospital is Imperative
 Democracy Rising (10/03): From the Cradle to the Grave, Health Care is an Issue
 Families USA (1/02): Ground Zero: Public Health Readiness on Two Fronts (Washington,
DC and New York City)—The Case of DC General Hospital in Washington, DC
 Fifty Years is Enough:
 (9/02): Privatization in the Nation’s Capital: The Case of DC General Hospital (Press
Conference)
 (9/02): Corporate Globalization at the Local Level: The Privatization of DC General
Hospital
 (4/04): Corporate Globalization Policies Globally and Locally (Rally)
 League of Women Voters (2003): Facilitated a panel discussion on the state of health care in
the Nation’s Capitol

3. VANESSA DIXON
PUBLIC HEALTH ADVOCACY (Partial Listing 2000 to 2004)
CIVIC ASSOCIATION PRESENTATIONS (Cont’d)
 Metropolitan Washington Public Health Association – Public Health and Labor Forum
(2004): The role of labor unions in addressing disparities
 Mobilization for Global Justice:
 (8/01): The Link Between Global and Local Issues: The Closure of DC General
Hospital
 (9/01): The Privatization of DC General Hospital: Who Benefits?
 (11/01): The Government Response to the 9/11 Crisis (Rally)
 (1/02): The Effects of Privatization: Poverty Politics Practiced Globally and Locally:
The Closing of a Public Hospital
 (4/02 and 9/02): The Effects of Corporate Globalization: Privatization of DC’s Public
Hospital
 (6/02): Put Human Needs First (Rally)
 Statehood/Green Party Annual Conference (4/02): The State of Health in the Nation’s
Capital Since the Closure of the Public Hospital, DC General, and the Planned Use of the
DC General Land
 National Health Insurance For All Conference (4/04): Saving Our Public Health System