On September 24, 2018, the committee on Integrating Social Needs Care into the Delivery of Health Care to Improve the Nation’s Health will host a workshop in the E Street Conference Room at the Keck Center of the National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine. The workshop will be jointly hosted by the Health and Medicine Division’s Board on Health Care Services and the National Academy of Medicine’s Culture of Health program. The committee will examine the potential for integrating services addressing social needs and the social determinants of health into the delivery of health care to achieve better health outcomes and to address major challenges facing the U.S. health care system.

Confirmed speakers include:

• Kristie Kulinski, Aging Services Program Specialist, Administration for Community Living
• Michelle M. Washko, Acting Director, National Center for Health Workforce Analysis, Health Resources and Services Administration
• Susan Reinhard, SVP & Director, AARP Public Policy Institute
• Rev. Debra Hickman, Co-founder and CEO, Sisters Together and Reaching, Inc., Baltimore, MD
• Roberta Waite, Executive Director, Stephen and Sandra Sheller 11th Street Family Health Services of Drexel University
• Kathryn Haslanger, CEO, JASA, New York, NY
• Kelly Craig, Chief Strategy and Information Officer, Camden Coalition of Healthcare Providers, NJ
• Laura Taylor, National Director of Social Work, Department of Veterans Affairs

For more information, please contact Abigail Mitchell at socialneedscare@nas.edu

This consensus study is part of the NAM’s Culture of Health Program.

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