The National Academy of Medicine (NAM) held the first webinar in its Culture of Health Webinar Series on November 29, 2018. 

Date/Time: November 29, 2018, 4:00 – 5:00 pm EST

The National Academies report Communities in Action: Pathways to Health Equity identified 9 social determinants of health and how these determinants impact our health and the health of our communities. The report also defined health equity as the state in which everyone has the opportunity to attain full health potential and no one is disadvantaged from achieving this potential because of social position or any other socially defined circumstance.

Health equity is crucial and health inequity is costly. All actors in society—residents and community-based organizations, in partnership with businesses, state and local government, anchor and faith-based institutions—have the power to change the narrative and help promote health equity. But where and how can communities begin to unpack the social determinants of health in order to achieve health equity?

Join the NAM for a one hour webinar where field leaders will explore the meanings of both social determinants of health and health equity and what it means to apply these terms to enact change in the real world.

Webinar Objectives

1. Discuss how public health officials and others working in communities conceptualize the terms social determinants of health and health equity and how this knowledge is applied to their work.
2. Explore the Bay Area Regional Health Inequities Initiative’s (BARHII) Framework for Reducing Health Inequities and the Initiative’s approaches to working with partners to create healthy communities.
3. Provide an overarching perspective of how communities are addressing the social determinants of health and health equity while highlighting the City Heights neighborhood of San Diego, California.
   

Audience Q&A will give webinar attendees the opportunity to engage with the webinar speakers.

Webinar speakers include:

• Otho Kerr, Partner of Encourage Capital, LLC and Advisor to the Culture of Health Program (Moderator)
• Renae Badruzzmaman, Program Manager, Health Equity Investments and Business Systems Integration, Bay Area Regional Health Inequities Initiative (BARHII);
• Steve Eldred, Senior Program Manager, California Endowment

Questions? Please email Ivory Clarke at IClarke@nas.edu.

Related Resources

• Communities in Action: Pathways to Health Equity
• A Framework for Educating Health Professionals to Address the Social Determinants of Health
• Framing the Dialogue on Race and Ethnicity to Advance Health Equity: Proceedings of a Workshop
• Exploring Equity in Multisector Community Health Partnerships: Proceedings of a Workshop [space height=”10″]

About the Culture of Health Webinar Series

The Culture of Health  Webinar Series will be held over the next year to provide exemplars and resources to help build the capacity of communities to advance a culture of health. The series will host experts working across national, state, and local levels to highlight and share tools and tactics that communities can leverage  to advance health equity.

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