2016 State of Population Health Report – Now Available
The 2016 State of Population Health Report is now available on our website. Please visit here to see the report and presentations delivered at the recent Population Health Forum.
The 2016 State of Population Health Report is now available on our website. Please visit here to see the report and presentations delivered at the recent Population Health Forum.
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The 2017 Population Health Forum was held on March 13, 2017, at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago – Detroit Branch. This year’s theme “The Impact of Spatial Racism on Health” featured presentations by john powell, Director of the Haas Institute for a Fair and Inclusive Society at the University of California, Berkeley, Professor Peter Hammer, Director of the Damon J. Keith Center for Civil Rights and Professor of Law at Wayne State University School of Law and Mouhanad Hammami, M.D., the Health Officer and Chief of Health Operations for the Wayne County Department of Health and Human Services.
Keynote speaker, Brian Smedley, Ph.D, Co-founder and Executive Director of the National Collaborative for Health Equity, gave a presentation titled “Place, Race, and Chronic Disease: Addressing the Roots of Health Inequities”. Following his presentation all the speakers, along with Mr. Steve Gold, Director of the Macomb County Department of Health and Human Services, held an open panel discussion and took questions from the audience.
Speaker presentations can be found at http://www.authorityhealth.org/community-groups/population-health-council/documents/.
Read the new population health working paper “Analyzing the impact of race, income and education on selected health indicators in Wayne County and the City of Detroit”.
The 2017 Population Health Forum: The Impact of Spatial Racism on Health will be held on Monday, March 13, 2017 from 8a – 12p at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago – Detroit Branch. Dr. Brian Smedley will be the keynote speaker this year. Pre-registration is required due to security precautions at the Federal Reserve.
To register please visit goo.gl/XmFMh3 by Monday, March 6th.
In an ever-changing health care landscape, data is of utmost importance in promoting health. Elected officials, public health professionals, and other stakeholders of population health will convene on Monday, March 2 at the annual Population Health Forum. The event will be held at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago – Detroit Branch, 1600 East Warren Avenue, Detroit. The event is free, but advanced registration is required. To register, visit http://www.eventbrite.com/e/2015-population-health-forum-registration-15667484869.
The forum is co-sponsored by the Greater Detroit Area Health Council and the Detroit Wayne County Health Authority. A national expert on health impact assessments, Jonathan Heller, PhD, will be the guest speaker.
Heller is co-founder of Human Impact Partners, a public health consulting firm. He has worked on more than a dozen health impact assessments (HIA), conducted many HIA trainings, and mentored others on how to conduct HIAs. Prior to moving into public health, Heller worked for nine years in the biotech industry.
Heller received his bachelor’s degree from Harvard University and his doctorate from University of California, Berkeley. He served in the Peace Corps in Papua New Guinea. Heller currently serves as the chair of the Provisional Steering Committee for the newly formed Society of Practitioners of Health Impact Assessment (SOPHIA) and as chair of the board of the Center for Community Change.
“We’re very pleased to bring Jonathan Heller to Detroit for this event,” explained Chris Allen, CEO, Detroit Wayne County Health Authority. “His expertise in health impact assessments and advocacy around health in all policies will provide valuable insight for our civic leaders and extended public health community.”
“The health care landscape is dramatically evolving while the needs of the entire population grow in southeast Michigan,” said Kate Kohn-Parrott, president and CEO, Greater Detroit Area Health Council. “The opportunity next month for stakeholders to come together to discuss health impact assessments, hear from national expert Jonathan Heller and present the 2014 State of Population Health Report is vitally important.”
Read more about forum guest speaker Heller at: http://www.humanimpact.org/author/jonathan/#sthash.SYO74RGN.dpuf. For more information on the Council visit www.healthaccess1.org/community-groups/population-health-council.
Pre-registration is required for the free-to-attend 2015 Population Health Forum at www.gdahc.org. Questions regarding the forum may be directed to Bryan Peckinpaugh with the Greater Detroit Area Health Council at 313-965-4123 or bpeckinpaugh@gdahc.org.
About the Population Health Council
The Population Health Council is a group of public health officials, community health advocates, community development, academic, and other stakeholders in population health, organized under the auspices of the Health Authority. Funded through the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, the Council produces an annual State of Population Health for Wayne County and provides a post-graduate fellowship in population health. The State of the Population Health report will be presented at the March forum.
Mouhanad Hammami, M.D., health officer for the Wayne County Department of Health and Human Services, and john a. powell, executive director of the Haas Institute for a Fair and Inclusive Society, are co-chairs of the Council.
Contacts:
Dennis Archambault
Detroit Wayne County Health Authority
313-871-3751
darchambault@dwcha.org
Bryan Peckinpaugh
Greater Detroit Area Health Council
313-965-4123
bpeckinpaugh@gdahc.org
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Representatives from various public and private health organizations are beginning work on an initiative to develop one or several health improvement plans for Detroit and Wayne County. The goal of the initiative is to identify and gain acceptance for strategies and to focus resources to measurably reduce negative health indicators, such as high levels of infant mortality, avoidable hospital re-admissions, and the negative effects of the social determinants of health.
“Despite the prevalence of high quality hospital and community health resources, and one of the nation’s largest medical schools, Detroit and Wayne County remains one of the sickest regions of the state. It’s clear that we need to do something differently, and that it will take more than one health system and more than one community health initiative to move us effectively in the right direction,” said Chris Allen, CEO of the Detroit Wayne County Health Authority. “The Health Authority is pleased to facilitate this process that will be inclusive of all providers. One of the important objectives of this initiative is bringing together public and private health decision-makers to focus and optimize deployment of community resources.”
David Goldbaum, MA, MSc, PMP, serving as Executive-In-Residence for Health Data Analytics at the Health Authority, will oversee the initiative, together with Sarah Lewis, Kellogg Population Health Fellow. The Detroit-Wayne County Health Improvement Plan initiative will have three main objectives:
While the initiative is expected to result in a single series of analyses describing the current state of community health and health delivery resources, one or more Health Improvement Plans may emerge depending on the areas of focal interest among the initiative collaborators. The initiative, as currently designed, is expected to take about three years to complete, according to Goldbaum.
The project scope includes:
“This initiative is especially timely considering the George Washington University community needs assessment project that is getting under way nationally, with Detroit one of the eight cities selected to participate,” Lewis explained. Health providers and community agencies will advise George Washington University on the efficacy of its new standardized needs assessment tool. “This information, along with analytics developed from hospital discharges, vital records and surveys, will contribute to the initiative painting a rich picture of local health status and resource distribution.”
This initiative is being led by the Health Authority, with community stakeholders from various organizations. For more information on this project, contact David Goldbaum at 313-871-3751.