Facilities for Illness Management and Prevention defines Well being in All Insurance policies as “a collaborative strategy that integrates and articulates well being issues into policymaking throughout sectors to enhance the well being of all communities and folks.”
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2022 Well being in All Insurance policies Summit: Collaborations for Higher Well being
Within the Davidson County-Nashville space, Well being in All Insurance policies initiatives are throughout the Metro Authorities departments. Many group companions are concerned in collaborative work below totally different “umbrellas” and buildings, which creates an intensive alternative to share experiences and techniques to help higher well being outcomes for all folks in Nashville. Contemplating this, the Metro Public Well being Division management crew and the Board of Well being proposed the growth of Well being in All Insurance policies efforts city-wide. This effort will systematically and explicitly think about the well being implications of selections made, goal vital social determinants of well being, and establish synergies between well being, different core targets, and the work we do with companions.
On September 9, 2022, the Metro Public Well being Division will host its first Wholesome Nashville 2022 Well being in All Insurance policies Summit on the Downtown Nashville Library in Nashville, Tennessee. The free, full-day occasion, starting at 9 a.m., will welcome roughly 200 (200) attendees from all sectors in Nashville, together with authorities, non-governmental organizations, for-profit companies, nonprofits or NGOs, community-based organizations, and academia.
With the title, “Collaborations for Higher Well being,” the occasion will function an introductory level-setting alternative to develop the Well being in All Insurance policies initiatives city-wide to encourage motion in direction of strengthening present collaborations and establishing new partnerships throughout sectors to enhance the well being of all folks in Nashville.
Targets
- Develop an understanding of Well being in All Insurance policies as a collaborative strategy to enhancing the well being of all folks in Nashville, specializing in root causes of social determinants and fairness in decision-making.
- Determine methods and instruments to embed well being and fairness into cross-sector choices.
- Encourage motion in establishing and strengthening partnerships throughout sectors to enhance the well being of all folks in Nashville.
Agenda
Registration and Networking
Bulletins: Bryan Heckman
Welcome: Gill Wright
Setting the Stage for Well being in All Insurance policies in Nashville: Julia Caplan
Understanding Determination Help Instruments: Jimmy Dills
Stretch Break
Belongings Round Us: Classes Realized: Panel shows
- John Vick: Livability Collaborative
- Raquel de la Huerga: Well being Lens Pilot
- Meg Morgan: Root Nashville Marketing campaign
- T Gonzales: Louisville Middle for Well being Fairness
- Melody Gibson: Civic Design Middle
Lunch break
Power in Collaborations: Breakout periods
Stretch Break
Name to Motion: Allysceaeioun Britt
Closing remarks: Bryan Heckman
Adjournment
Registration
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Audio system and Presenters
Bryan Heckman, PHD
Director, Middle for the Examine of Social Determinants of Well being at Meharry Medical Faculty
Emcee/Moderator
Gill C. Wright, III, MD, MMM, FAAFP
Director of Well being, Metro Public Well being Division
Speaker
Dr. Wright obtained his Bachelor and Medical Diploma from the College of Nebraska. He did his first 12 months of Household Apply Residency in Cheyenne, WY and completed his final 2 years on the College of Kansas. He obtained his Grasp’s in Medical Administration from Carnegie-Mellon College.
Dr. Wright began his profession in rural Nebraska the place he spent 8 years as certainly one of two physicians in a city with a inhabitants of 1700. He did Household Drugs that included OB with C-sections and preformed minor surgical procedure.
Dr. Wright moved to Nashville in 2014 the place he was the Medical Director of the Metro Nashville IOD clinic for 3+ years previous to shifting to the Metro Nashville Well being Division because the Affiliate Medical Director, Medical Companies and Civil Service Medical Examiner (CSME).
Dr. Wright has served as MPHD’s lead for COVID response since February 2020, served because the Interim Chief Medical Director of Well being since December 2020, and was appointed Director of Well being September 2021.
Julia Caplan
Govt Director, State of Fairness (a program of the Public Well being Institute)
Speaker
Julia Caplan is the Govt Director of State of Fairness (a program of the Public Well being Institute). State of Fairness transforms public establishments to advance racial fairness and well being by capability constructing, authorities accountability, and group partnerships. During the last 12 years, Ms. Caplan has performed a lead function in constructing the California Well being in All Insurance policies Process Drive from the bottom up, in partnership with the California Strategic Progress Council and Division of Public Well being. In 2018, she and her crew joined with authorities and non-governmental companions to launch the Capitol Collaborative on Race & Fairness (CCORE), the nation’s first state-level multi-sectoral racial fairness capability constructing cohort, in partnership with the Authorities Alliance on Race and Fairness (GARE). Via these initiatives she and her crew have supported over 50 state departments, companies, places of work, and commissions to combine well being and racial fairness into their packages, practices, and insurance policies. Ms. Caplan additionally offers Well being in All Insurance policies workshops for native governments and native well being departments and co-authored Well being in All Insurance policies: A Information for State and Native Governments in 2013. Ms. Caplan has over twenty-five years’ expertise in group constructing, social change, and public coverage management, and holds masters’ levels in public coverage and public well being from the College of California, Berkeley. Ms. Caplan lives in Oakland, California along with her spouse, daughter, and their “pandemic-pup” Rocket, and is an occasional accordion participant in her free time.
Jimmy Dills
Senior Analysis Affiliate, Georgia Well being Coverage Middle
Speaker
Jimmy Dills is a senior analysis affiliate on the Georgia Well being Coverage Middle (GHPC). He works to enhance public well being by advancing a Well being in All Insurance policies perspective of decision-making. His areas of experience are methods considering, well being affect evaluation (HIA), and wholesome group design.
At GHPC, Dills leads a number of maternal and youngster well being (MCH) initiatives, together with administration of GHPC contributions to the Nationwide MCH Workforce Improvement Middle, the Nationwide Maternal Well being Studying and Innovation Middle, and the Maternal Telehealth Entry Venture. He additionally leads work on a number of HIA initiatives and the availability of coaching and technical help to native, state, and nationwide companions associated to Well being in All Insurance policies. Lately, his initiatives have centered on integrating well being into reasonably priced housing insurance policies and follow, offering technical help to HIA groups in Kentucky and Mississippi, and supporting CDC’s Coverage Implementation Lab geared toward rising uptake of the Earned Revenue Tax Credit score as an strategy to inhabitants well being enchancment. He additionally helps GHPC’s work with Georgia’s Multi-Stakeholder Opioid and Substance Use Response Plan, led by the state Division of Public Well being, and is a technical help supplier for Georgia Form grantees implementing vitamin and bodily exercise methods in colleges throughout the state.
Dills serves on the steering committees for the Society of Practitioners of Well being Influence Evaluation and the Georgia Wholesome Houses Coalition. He’s additionally a frequent visitor lecturer on constructed atmosphere and well being subjects at Emory’s Rollins Faculty of Public Well being and Georgia Tech’s Faculty of Metropolis and Regional Planning.
John Vick, Ph.D.
Director, Workplace of Major Prevention at Tennessee Division of Well being
Panelist
John Vick is an utilized researcher, strategist, and educator working to deal with the social and environmental components that affect our well being. His work is interdisciplinary and collaborative, reaching throughout sectors to develop and leverage partnerships with authorities companies, universities, non-profits, and group teams. John holds a Ph.D. in Group Analysis and Motion from Vanderbilt College, and a B.A. in Psychology from the College of Tennessee, Knoxville.
Raquel de la Huerga, BS
Coverage Coordinator, Bureau of Well being Fairness at Metro Public Well being Division
Panelist
Raquel de la Huerga (she/her) is the Coverage Coordinator for the Bureau of Well being Fairness on the Metro Public Well being Division (MPHD). Raquel works on the Well being in All Insurance policies crew at MPHD and has supported the design and construct out of their Well being Lens Device pilot undertaking. Earlier than MPHD, Raquel interned for the Middle on Finances and Coverage Priorities on their Join the Dots crew, the place she researched insurance policies that lie on the intersection of well being and housing. Her skilled expertise additionally contains growing packages in incapacity rights schooling and homeless well being providers in Washington, DC, and her hometown of Albuquerque, New Mexico. Raquel graduated from American College with a Bachelor of Science in Public Well being with a minor in Training Research.
Meg Morgan
Root Nashville Marketing campaign Supervisor, Cumberland River Compact
Panelist
Because the Root Nashville Marketing campaign Supervisor on the Cumberland River Compact, Meg Morgan manages the operations and outreach of this public-private partnership to plant 500,000 bushes in Nashville by 2050. She facilitates grassroots group management, working in direction of the imaginative and prescient of extra equitable, wholesome, climate-resilient neighborhoods. In 2020, Meg obtained the Nashville Rising Chief Award within the Setting and Sustainability class offered by the Nashville Space Chamber of Commerce.
T Benicio Gonzales, MSW
Director, Middle for Well being Fairness on the Louisville Metro Division of Public Well being and Wellness
Panelist
T Gonzales is the director of the Middle for Well being Fairness on the Louisville Metro Division of Public Well being and Wellness.
T started working on the Middle for Well being Fairness in 2010 to coordinate the division’s Racial Therapeutic and Fairness Initiative. He’s supporting the division’s technique to deepen its concentrate on the foundation causes of well being by genuine group engagement, strategic partnerships, addressing information gaps and challenges, and thru coverage evaluation and improvement. As an energetic group member, T is dedicated to quite a few organizations, initiatives, boards, and group campaigns. He has different pursuits, together with LGBTQ rights and well being, racial fairness, crafting, and watching any TV present with Gordon Ramsay.
T is a local of Texas and has known as Louisville, Kentucky, house since 2006. T is a graduate of the College of Houston the place he earned a Grasp of Social Work with a coverage focus. He holds a Bachelor of Arts in Social Work from St. Edward’s College in Austin, Texas. T is at present a PhD scholar on the College of Louisville Faculty of Public Well being and Info Sciences within the Division of Well being Administration and Methods Sciences. His high strengths are deliberative, analytical, connectedness, relator, and learner.
Melody Gibson, MA
Training Director, Civic Design Middle
Panelist
Melody Gibson is the Training Director on the Civic Design Middle the place she developed the youth teaching programs Design Your Neighborhood (DYN) and the Nashville Youth Design Group (NYDT). After receiving a Bachelor of Structure on the College of Tennessee, Melody developed her distinctive ardour for empowering youth to assist form the areas they inhabit when she taught highschool math. She then pursued a Grasp of Arts in Curriculum and Instruction to deepen her interdisciplinary work of pre-college structure and planning curriculum improvement. Melody was a 2020 Nashville Rising Leaders Award Finalist for her progressive work with DYN and NYDT. Melody was just lately revealed as a contributing writer to the Handbook on Participatory Motion Analysis and Group Improvement the place her work serves as a sensible instance of how communities are empowering themselves to result in systemic change. Melody’s work addresses the necessity for variety in design professions by exposing 1000’s of younger folks to design at a younger age, which she moreover contributes to by serving on the AIA Tennessee Chapter’s Justice, Fairness, Range, and Inclusion Committee the place she leads the Minority Licensure Scholarship program.
Allysceaeioun D Britt, PhD, MPH
Interim Vice President, School Affairs and Improvement, Meharry Medical Faculty
Speaker
Dr. Allysceaeioun D. Britt is a public well being practitioner with greater than 21 years of public service in native and state authorities with concentrate on coverage addressing inhabitants well being engagement to deal with social determinants well being for Medicaid populations and underserved communities. She has led initiatives for State Medicaid growth and steady enrollment (Oklahoma), state enrollment help program for pregnant Medicaid eligible ladies inside native rural and metropolitan well being departments and a statewide growth, integration and sustainability of an evidence-based smoking cessation program focused for pregnant ladies (Tennessee).
Dr. Britt at present serves because the Interim Vice President of School Affairs and Improvement and Assistant Professor in Faculty of Graduate Research and Analysis at Meharry Medical Faculty. She additionally serves as an adjunct professor at Trevecca Nazarene College Skinner Faculty of Enterprise Training and Know-how -Well being Care Management Program. She is the founding father of IMPAACT Well being which offers help to community-based organizations by creating progressive fashions which promote, advocate, and advance a group’s well being for tomorrow.
She holds a Bachelor of Science in Biology from Florida State College, Grasp of Public Well being – Well being Care Administration and Coverage from College of Oklahoma Well being Sciences Middle and Doctorate in Public Well being – Group Well being from Walden College.
In her free time, she enjoys singing in her church choir, enjoying the piano, and touring along with her household.
