Access to attend the live, virtual learning sessions, on January 23-25, 2024.

On January 26, 2024, from 10:00am-2:00pm, join us at the Eagle Eye Banquet Center, in Bath, MI for networking and lunch!

Lt. Governor Garlin Gilchrist II will provide a keynote.

Networking time will be coordinated so that attendees can meet potential partners and visit with the exhibitors.

A buffet lunch will be provided with gluten free, and vegan options.

Three days of virtual learning sessions.

Select the sessions you'd like to attend. You can switch sessions later by logging into your Eventsquid account and adjusting your registration.

Select this bundle to purchase tickets to both the virtual learning sessions (January 23-25) and the luncheon (January 26).

The menu for the luncheon will be available on the event webpage. The luncheon will be a buffet and allergen warnings will be provided.

In 2022, the Northwest Michigan Community Health Innovation Region (CHIR) Learning Community sponsored the Community Empowerment Project (CEP), a pilot project designed to empower residents to advance the Northern Michigan Community Health Innovation Region's vision of healthy people in equitable communities. The CEP provides a tangible, local example of community partners engaging in shared learning and co-creation to close the gap between traditional decision-makers and those experiencing the problem. The following presentation describes the motivations behind the CEP, what the project was, and how it centered equitable grantmaking practices. It also shares the stories of four grant recipients and offers recommendations, based on lessons learned, to other institutions interested in funding resident-led community-based projects.

Professional Medical Corporation is an independent physician organization located in Flint, Michigan and the surrounding community comprised of over 400 primary care and specialist physicians serving over 100,000 community members. Strategic thinking, planning, and execution was required for a broad approach to supporting patients with their SDOH needs due to each independent practice having different operations, EHRs, practice support, and patient needs. PMC implemented the use of shared "Social Needs Coordinators" who have built relationships with the practices and the medical and social community to best support patients with their needs and coordinate services and communication, ensuring patients receive their needed care, all while minimizing cost and technological burdens to the medical practice.

Over the past 2 years, Feeding MI Families has documented the food access and food assistance experiences of over 1,400 rural and urban Michigan families with the goal of identifying critical and creative ways to improve food security across our state. In this session, members of our academic-community partnership will share our project approaches, findings, and parent-driven recommendations for change. After this session, attendees will be able to explain the value of including and elevating individuals with lived experience in improving food policies and programs.

Cross-sector partnerships are key to the success of benefit enrollment interventions. State Medicaid agencies can provide important expertise, policy options, tools, and multi-program data to simplify outreach, assistance, and enrollment processes. Additionally, Medicaid MCOs are well positioned to help increase their members’ participation in public benefit programs but leveraging existing relationships with clients and community partners. State Medicaid contracts often require MCOs to assist their members with social needs through service coordination, referrals, and other social interventions.  Benefits Data Trust (BDT) in collaboration with the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services conducted a 12-month discovery and design initiative to identify opportunities to increase the enrollment of Medicaid beneficiaries into additional public benefits like the Food Assistance Program (FAP). BDT surveyed 16 Michigan Medicaid health plans and integrated care organizations (ICOs) to better understand how they support benefits access among their members and consider social drivers of health (SDOH) when developing strategies and initiatives. BDT is proposing to share results of this discovery and design project along with policy and process recommendations that the state in collaboration with MCOs, ICOs, CBOs and additional stakeholders, can undertake to advance to connect Medicaid beneficiaries to additional public benefits.

This presentation will showcase the value of transdisciplinary partnerships to address Social Determinants of Health, with an emphasis on alleviating transportation as a barrier to health. Attendees will understand how transportation, or lack thereof, is a Social Determinant of Health, and barriers to transportation can lead to negative health impacts. Presenters will showcase the positive impact of transdisciplinary partnerships across multiple sectors through increased positive well-being as self-reported by participants of the Mobility Wallet Program in Michigan. Attendees will be able to identify at least 3 opportunities to create transdisciplinary partnerships in their own communities that will further their own mission.

The real-time availability of Emergency Medical Services (EMS) data about the health status of patients could be vital to enhancing public health surveillance, strengthening disaster and pandemic preparedness and coordination of response efforts, and evaluating the effectiveness of public health interventions. While EMS data could provide important insights to health and social care organizations, researchers, and policymakers, EMS clinicians have historically been poorly represented in many conversations around interoperability due in part to the fragmented nature of health care and poor data quality of EMS demographic data elements. Little coordinated work has been done to address the unique technical and infrastructure challenges of EMS data, including the lack of understanding around data standards conformance. In a review of aggregated EMS data at agency, state, and national levels, CHRT identified concerning trends related to the quality of health equity-related demographic data elements in EMS, such as race, ethnicity, sex, and gender identity. This presentation will discuss the potential of EMS data to identify and address health and racial disparities in real-time at the community level. EMS clinicians are well positioned to contribute encounter and screening or assessment data about individual patients and communities that can help clinical and social care providers spot patterns, make better decisions, and identify care gaps and potential risks that remain invisible to those locked into traditional health care settings–particularly in relation to underserved and marginalized populations.

This session discusses how doulas can positively affect SDOH outcomes and reduce disparities in infant mortality among babies of color. Partnerships with multiple community partners will be discussed and how these partnerships can be collaborative and not duplicate services given. Attendees will have increased knowledge to describe doula care as a non-medical intervention to improve SDOH outcomes. Attendees can discuss doula relationships with the community to influence positive SDOH results. Attendees will also be able to list methods doulas use to help their clients to build positive relationships. 

This presentation will discuss findings from a CDC funded program entitled Racial and Ethnic Approaches to Community Health (REACH) which supports increased access to healthy food among low-income, underserved communities. This 2-year implementation occurred in Flint, Michigan which has large populations of racial and ethnic minorities with chronically insufficient availability of healthy foods, high poverty rates, and high rates of chronic disease and associated morbidities. Moreover, Flint has undergone decades of economic setbacks, policy-driven exacerbation of detrimental social determinants of health and, since the onset of the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic, a recent spate of inflation and healthy food supply chain issues that collectively impair the local food system. The featured REACH activities in Flint include the set up or improvement of static local food pantries and mobile food markets (for both pop-up food distributions and new enrollments in state and federal food benefits programs such as Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program/SNAP and Double Up Food Bucks/DUFB). Insights into challenges encountered, lessons learned, promising practices, and sustainability are shared.

We seek to answer this question: How can the development, implementation, and evaluation of a Guaranteed Income Program support the health and well-being priorities of caregivers of children (ages 0-18 years) experiencing housing, food, or financial instability? Our project will examine the impact of regular, unconditional, and unrestricted cash assistance and join a growing group of Guaranteed Income pilots throughout the United States. We will provide participants with information on the history, impact, and future/state of cash assistance programs as learned from Guaranteed Income and Universal Basic Income pilots and programs throughout the United States. We will also share preliminary data gathered in a series of focus groups and community conversations with Lighthouse patrons who are caregivers of youth (ages 0-18 years) in Oakland County, Michigan, to inform the development, implementation, and evaluation of a guaranteed income (GI) program.

Housing is an important social determinant of health (SDOH) and poor housing quality puts occupants at risk of falls which could result in an ED visit or lengthy hospital admission. Henry Ford Health (HFH) in Detroit, Michigan is committed to addressing patient’s wholistic health and consequently has developed strong community partnerships to address patient SDOH needs.  This presentation will describe the Return Home Safe (RHS) Program, which is a partnership among HFH, Habitat for Humanity Detroit (HFHD), and Baldwin Society Supporting Older Adults (BSSOA), to ensure that patients who are discharged from medical care return home to a safe environment. RHS specifically focuses on fall prevention and aims to promote aging in place and reduce falls, injuries, emergency department visits, hospital readmissions, and cost of care by providing minor home safety repairs and modifications and private duty aide services for low-income older adults in eastern Wayne County.  The presentation will detail the closed-loop referral mechanism embedded within HFH’s electronic medical record system. To date, over 100 patients have benefitted from home safety interventions such as installing grab bars, fixing handrails, installing motion sensor lights. Patients served overwhelmingly belong to groups that historically experience persistent health inequities (i.e. 100% are low-income, 90% are people of color). Among 44 patients surveyed, 39 (88%) reported no falls within the 30 days after home repairs were completed. 95% strongly agreed or agreed that this program reduced their fear of falling at home.  This patient-centered program represents best practices in leveraging community partner strengths and a closed-loop referral mechanism to address housing as a SDOH.

Port Huron, MI is significantly impacted by income disparity, a lack of available behavioral health care and treatment, and higher than average medical provider-to-patient ratios. About 24% of adults report engaging in binge drinking, over 6% higher than state average (2021 Community Health Needs Assessment), and St. Clair County (SCC) is in the top third for opioid prescription rate and non-fatal overdoses and eighth highest in fatal overdoses (MDHHS Substance Use Vulnerability Index). Port Huron and SCC lack a sufficient recovery-oriented system of care for substance use disorders (SUD). Strong resistance from long-term residents and civic leaders to efforts that address SUD service gaps are further exacerbated by the lack of accessible SUD data that demonstrates the extent of the need for Port Huron and SCC. The Flint and Genesee County Health Equity Report Card (HERC) began in 2022 to provide disaggregated health disparity data for Flint and Genesee County in an easy to understand format. The HERC uses a report card format to help researchers, public health practitioners, community workers, and policy makers more easily operationalize action steps to address systemic causes of structural inequities. This presentation demonstrates the success of the first attempt to implement the HERC model in a different location (Port Huron, Michigan), population density (rural) and demographic (primarily White), and for a specific health outcome (substance use disorders). The SUD-HERC is an easily digestible way to increase local knowledge of and support for a full continuum of SUD services based on local data.  To date, over 30 health indicators have been compiled from multiple data sources (e.g., health departments, MDHHS, US Census) and organized into 4 different categories (demographics available health services and access, socioeconomics, and substance use) by location (U.S., Michigan, St. Clair County, and Post Huron). The SUD-HERC has been designed to help identify data gaps that will inform the improved collection, reporting, and availability of publicly accessible data. The SUD-HERC is easily understandable to the layperson and provides verbiage that can be copied and dropped into reports, presentations, articles, publications, and grant applications community organizations, policy makers, public health providers and other professionals. 

MI Community Care (MiCC) is a Regional Health Collaborative serving Livingston and Washtenaw counties that operates a community care coordination program to identify individuals with complex medical and social needs and provide care coordination and complex case management services. MiCC includes local hospitals, a federally qualified health center, community mental health agencies, and several community organizations with expertise in addressing social determinants of health needs such as housing, food, and transportation. The collaborative works to increase access to needed services, help individuals meet their health and social goals, locally optimize allocation of resources to reduce inefficiencies and duplication, and improve the local care delivery system to positively impact community health. Over the last few years, MiCC has been focusing on integrating community-based providers, such as community health workers and community paramedics. Community Paramedicine (CP) is a care model that utilizes paramedics with supplemental training to address non-emergent medical and social needs in the patient’s home, rather than transporting patients to hospital emergency departments. CP programs are often informed by and tailored to community needs. Specific CP activities may include assessing individual health and social needs, helping patients avoid complications following hospital discharge, connecting patients with primary care and social services, and providing specialized care to patients with chronic or post-acute care needs. As CPs deliver place-based care (often in a patient’s home), they are able to observe firsthand whether patients are living in an environment conducive to managing their own health.  Recognizing the value of place-based care providers to fill gaps in complex case management, MiCC began to partner with Huron Valley Ambulance (HVA) to integrate CPs into the collaborative. This presentation will include an overview of the HVA CP and MiCC models, a description of the CP role within MiCC, and an examination of case studies that demonstrate the importance of place-based care in addressing complex needs.

Food is an integral theme that spans across initiatives to promote outcomes related to health and wellbeing for families. This presentation will introduce Keep Growing Detroit’s core programs, including the Garden Resource Program and Grown in Detroit, and uplift how we work in collaboration across the early childhood landscape to connect partners and families to Detroit’s thriving good food ecosystem. These efforts are rooted in decades of community-led efforts and evidence-based outcomes and most importantly, center racial equity as they focus on health and wellness outcomes initiated by and for Detroit’s families.

Refugees, migrants, and asylum-seekers remain among the most vulnerable groups worldwide facing inadequate access to health services with several physical and mental health problems. These populations are disproportionately affected by TB, hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection, HIV infection, and some tropical or parasitic infections (e.g. malaria and Chagas disease) (WHO, 2018). Lack of medical insurance, language barriers, poor health education, and problems in accessing culturally competent (migrant-friendly) healthcare are core reasons behind limited access to affordable healthcare among migrant populations (WHO, 2018). We conducted over 100 interviews with recent immigrants in Michigan from varied age groups. 70% of the respondents expressed struggles in finding free/affordable healthcare resources in the US along with reporting improper health education and knowledge on what information one should have while navigating the American health system. Among the respondents, difficulty in finding healthcare and health professionals who are culturally competent was also a major issue. Over 80% of interviewees agreed that migration to foreign countries is mentally stressful. We are creating ImmiHealth, a health-technology platform that connects migrants, refugees, asylum seekers, and people who are new in the country to culturally competent, free/affordable healthcare, including but not limited to Direct Primary Care (D.P.C.) centers, Federally Qualified Health Centers (F.Q.H.C.), and free health clinics. We hypothesize that ImmiHealth will enhance healthcare accessibility among migrants. As of now, ImmiHealth offers a platform using which culturally competent, free/affordable health clinics and programs can be found by simply inputting the user’s zip code or location. 

One in four individuals in the United States, or about 61 million people, have a disability which impact their health and functioning. In Michigan, these numbers are closer to 1 in 3 adults. People with disabilities have higher rates of more preventative chronic conditions, poorer health outcomes, and poorer access to care than individuals without disabilities. Across disability groups, Social Determinants of Health – including race, education, income and environmental quality play a role in both health behaviors and health outcomes, with people of color consistently experiencing the worst outcomes. However, too often, individuals with disabilities – and particularly those from marginalized communities – are not counted and their needs remain unseen and unaddressed. During the pandemic, individuals with disabilities were more likely to die of COVID and continue to be impacted by isolation and increased health risks brought by this virus; however, because data about this group is not regularly collected the actual rates of hospitalization and death in Michigan are unknown.

Sustainable solutions are one that are created by and integrated into the communities themselves. They cannot imposed upon communities form outside without ongoing financial funding. The model that we present reflects the engagement and support of communities both to inform health disparities and to create their own solutions to address it. After attending this session, participants will be able to discuss the lack of identification of disability status impacts effective health care access and treatment as well as health outcomes for individuals with disabilities. Participants will also be able to understand the importance of healthcare organizations working in partnership with community members and organizations to develop relevant and effective approaches. Lastly, participants will be able to identify three responsibilities of healthcare systems in the creating accessible environments and processes.

Providing referrals to meet essential needs is key in addressing social determinants of health and building a community information exchange but there’s a lot more work than creating a list. Agencies must have the right people, the right training, and the right infrastructure in place to make sure that a usable directory is possible. After attending this session, attendees will be able to describe the specific need and complications of directory maintenance which includes local relationships, scale, training and the recommendations for directory needs for community information exchange. Attendees will also be able to discuss resource-data-as-a-service as well as Open Referral’s data standards which help to ensure resource data sharing is scalable. Finally, attendees can describe how domain specific partnerships can contribute to success and discuss how this directory information should be provided as a public good and not saleable by tech companies.

Community health nurses are critical to improving health literacy in their communities. Health literacy refers to an individual's ability to understand and effectively use health information to make informed decisions about their health. Community health nurses contribute to enhancing health literacy in underserved populations. After attending this session, participants can define community health, as well as the scope of responsibilities and the significance of community health nurses in improving overall community health.

The Momentum Center for Social Engagement is an innovative approach to serving individuals with mental illness, addictions, and other disabilities by addressing the social determinants of mental health. The Momentum Center is creating a community where every person is fully visible and connected. We work to fill the gaps between the person and clinical or therapeutic services - offering supports, companionship, and positive programming that helps individuals cope with their challenges as they seek effective solutions to their problems. Our broader work emphasizes the social determinants of health so that together we can create a more equal and just society for everyone. These determinants include at the outermost level the social structures, policies, and economic systems that affect mental health outcomes for individuals. By viewing systemic and social issues along with individual issues, we can get a fuller picture of what affects mental health and can work to reduce risk factors and help individuals heal and thrive.

Recognizing the core deliverables under Michigan’s Roadmap to Healthy Communities, this session will introduce Produce Prescription Programs as a healthy behavior intervention that bridges the gap between healthcare and food access. The Michigan Farmers Market Association (MIFMA) will lead our discussion around Produce Prescriptions and their growing landscape in Michigan with support from Meridian Health Plan and the Fresh Prescription Network of Detroit, as they share the inspiring work they are collectively doing to equitably address food insecurity and chronic disease with diabetes patients in their community. Attendees will understand how Produce Prescription programs can be a solution to address diet-related chronic disease and food security. Attendees can define and differentiate a Prescription Produce Program from other food security initiatives. Attendees can also identify 3 ways they can support the expansion of access to and funding for this evidence-based intervention addressing Social Determinants of Health within their own spheres of influence.

This is an innovative partnership between a health system and a community-based partner to address housing as a social determinant of health (SDOH) by offering comprehensive health services within a permanent supportive housing setting, and speakers from both Henry Ford Health and Ruth Elis Center This program has resulted in the delivery of integrated healthcare and social services to LGBTQ+ young people experiencing housing insecurity via creation of two collaborative Health & Wellness Centers (HWC). The first HWC opened in 2018 and is co-located at the Ruth Ellis Dro-In Center in Highland Park. The second HWC opened in February 2023 and is located inside of the new Ruth Ellis Clairmount Center 43-unit permanent supportive housing (PSH) development in Detroit, where most of the tenants have experienced chronic homelessness and have a physical or mental health disability. This presentation will focus primarily on the latter Ruth Ellis Clairmount HWC, including our experiences designing and operationalizing an innovative, integrated, patient-centered, and trauma-informed health care delivery model in a safe, trusted, and supported community environment. Both partners’ expertise provides a complementary integrated service delivery model: HFH provides a primary care model and LGBTQ+ clinical expertise; REC is a trusted space, has effective community outreach channels, and provides behavioral health, health navigation, and housing case management services. In this setting, home becomes the place of health – where tenants stop in to see trusted staff in the new first-floor HWC whether it be for gender affirming care, STI testing, an art therapy session, or a flu shot. This partnership aims to increase healthcare access and utilization as well as housing stability for LGBTQ+ young people in the Detroit area, with a long-term goal of improving health outcomes and equity.

We will present the results of the Successful Nutrition Programs Across the Lifespan project (SNP-AL) funded by the Michigan Health Endowment Fund. The purpose of SNP-AL was to pilot a Roadmap for establishing sustainable grassroots community collaboratives. The Roadmap led the sites through a series of steps that promoted building lasting relationships based on trust, respect and inclusion of all voices. The two SNP-AL sites will describe how they used the roadmap process to form their collaborative, determine the need to address, and implement a program that addressed the need.

Learn how a Muskegon County collaborative partnered with community on this project to improve food access and foster community empowerment in Muskegon Heights, Michigan. The Muskegon Community Health Innovation Region (CHIR) worked with over 100 residents and food entrepreneurs within a participatory process to create a holistic and systematic map of the food system serving this under resourced community, in addition to a comprehensive overview of resident identified food priorities and barriers.

This is a joint presentation by The Farm at Trinity Health Ann Arbor and Trinity Health Ann Arbor Lifestyle Medicine. This presentation will provide a brief overview of The Farm at Trinity Health and go into detail about how the farm addresses the SDOH through: a Farm Share Assistance program, an on-staff Community Health Worker, an on-site food pantry, and various programming designed to address health and wellbeing. We will then move into a deeper dive into the impact of one a collaborative program between The Farm and Trinity Health Ann Arbor Lifestyle Medicine: Nutrition Buddies. This innovative program matches food insecure youth with medical residents for culinary education and mentorships. Residents learn first-hand about SDOH in our community and all participants receive fresh, healthy food from The Farm at Trinity Health.

Chronic kidney disease (CKD) health disparities are well established, most evident in the 1.3-fold increased risk for Hispanic individuals of developing end-stage renal failure than white counterparts. Hispanics or Latinos are the largest racial/ethnic minority population in the US. About 1 in 8 (12.5%) Hispanics have diabetes and are almost twice as likely as whites to be diagnosed with diabetes by a physician. Diabetes is even more prevalent in older Hispanics. Almost 1 in 4 (22.5%) Hispanic adults has high blood pressure. Because CKD is silent, awareness is low and usually is undetected in early stages, prevention and management of diabetes and high blood pressure, the two leading causes of CKD, are critical.   To reduce kidney disease health disparities experienced by racial and ethnic minorities, the National Kidney Foundation of Michigan (NKFM) works at the community level and takes a bidirectional learning approach to engage and partner with diverse stakeholders. This approach has helped expand our reach and collaboration with Hispanic communities. As the NKFM continues to learn, we are committed to integrating health equity into our goals to prevent CKD. Our approach has included:  Outreaching through community engagement working collaboratively with and through those who share similar situations, concerns, or challenges.  Delivering evidence-based programs that are culturally and linguistically appropriate.  Building partnerships with a foundation of trust, shared purpose, and shared power.   This presentation intends to share our community engagement experiences, lessons learned, and gaps we have noticed in serving the Hispanic communities and contribute to the overall goal of reducing racial and health disparities affecting individuals with a higher risk of CKD. Each community has unique barriers to obtaining optimal health and well-being, and by sharing our journey serving Hispanic communities, we invite others to share theirs, so we learn from each other.

Building the Pipeline: A CHW Framework to Promote Social Mobility and Economic Growth The Long-term goal of the model is cementing the Community Health Worker profession as a viable and attractive career option through the creation of a model where those who wish to enter the field have equitable access to training and career advancement opportunities, organizations and leaders regard CHWs as valued members of healthcare and public health teams and invest in their development both financially and through policy interventions, thus allowing for CHWs to serve as trusted sources of information and connectors to valuable resources for their respective communities. After attending this session participants will identify feasibility for model to coordinate and employ CHW’s at partner sites as well as describe social and economic opportunities for advancing their role as a CHW.

Cancer and heart disease are the leading causes of death for Michigan women, and to tackle this issue the Cancer Prevention and Control Section of the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services (MDHHS) has screening programs for women. To promote these programs, the Women’s Health Partnership exists to partner with organizations to: Enroll women for lifesaving health screenings. Engage women in services for themselves and their families. Help women take advantage of FREE health services in the communities they serve. The Women's Health Partnership began in 2022, as a campaign to identify community partners to help promote lifesaving services available to Michigan women. The Partnership and its work has grown through the input of workgroup members, with a focus on reaching diverse communities.

The Aging in Place Efficiently Pilot Program engaged multiple nonprofit and public sector partners to pair cross-sector innovative strategies to improve the health, safety and comfort of seniors, reduce energy burdens and carbon emissions, and stabilize housing intergenerationally.

The adoption of classroom-based physical activity interventions in elementary schools is nearly universal (92%), but fewer than 22% of teachers who implement activity breaks achieve a dose of 10 min/day. Dissemination and implementation science frameworks provide a systematic approach to identifying and overcoming barriers likely to impede successful adoption and fidelity of evidence-based interventions. This presentation will highlight the development and subsequent tailoring of a classroom-based physical activity intervention, Interrupting Prolonged sitting with ACTivity (InPACT), for delivery in low-resource schools using implementation science frameworks focused on equity. Unlike most classroom physical activity interventions, tailored InPACT includes a suite of implementation strategies (methods or techniques that support adoption, implementation, and sustainment of a program or practice) and, thus, has been designed for dissemination. These strategies were focused on increasing teacher self-efficacy and reducing multilevel implementation barriers in low-resource schools to promote intervention fidelity, effectiveness, and sustainment.

A look into how Detroit is responding to HIV surveillance networks by utilizing a community-based mobile health initiative. MDHHS, Detroit Health Department, and collaborators via the “Pull Up Project” provide a status-neutral approach to HIV prevention and care services including gender-affirming care, supportive services, mental health, substance use treatment, as well as case management services for LGBTQ+ persons. This project facilitates a network of CBOs and hospital-based systems that serve priority populations and other community members. This mobile unit health initiative has expanded to offer access to traditional and nontraditional medical care services.

Pathways to Potential began in 2012 as a partnership between the State and local schools in five counties to address chronic absenteeism. Today, we have 209 FIS Success Coaches serving schools in 38 counties. Addressing chronic absenteeism, grade retention, and graduation rates through an SDOH lens allows our Success Coaches to share first-hand knowledge of the intersectionality and impact of the social determinants of health. In this session we will share real-time examples of the school transportation crisis and its impact on food security for vulnerable families; share strategies that are trying to address the issue; and seek feedback from participants on additional opportunities for partnership.

Welcome from Governor Gretchen Whitmer

Keynote from Dr. Joneigh Khaldun

Dr. Khaldun will talk about her role in addressing social drivers of health through her leadership within the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services and as Chief Health Equity Officer of CVS Health. This will illustrate how multisector partnerships can create equitable access to healthcare for communities.

In this session, state public health leaders and policy makers will discuss a focused approach to tackle health disparities by addressing the underlying causes of disparities through upstream actions and offering solutions through midstream interventions. 

Embracing the BOLD: The Future of Public Health and the Social Determinants

Understanding and addressing the social determinants of health allows public health professionals to implement preventive measures ad interventions that can improve health outcomes and reduce the burden of diseases at a population level. In this session, participants will explore the dynamic intersection of public health and social determinants of health, unraveling the factors that underpin health disparities, and charting a visionary path forward.

Attendees will learn the urgency for housing solutions in Michigan; the link between housing and health, including healthcare costs; the face of the unhoused-it’s not what you think; and how medical respite for the homeless could be an impactful solution.

Hassan Hammoud has been able to facilitate and sustain collaborations at the state and local levels for most of his career. Hassan will speak about the importance of partnerships and what can be accomplished when we collaborate

9:15am-9:30am     Produce Prescription Pilot Program (P4) - Addressing Food Security with Cultural Competency: Ninah Sasy and Caroline Stoner

9:30am-10:00am   Supporting Access to Traditional Food Through Nutrition Initiatives: Shelby Brueck, Erin Stark, Nickole Keith

NHBP has several initiatives in place that support access to traditional foods. Staff members from NHBP will be sharing how these initiatives support the health of the NHBP tribal community. 

This session brings together representatives from the Michigan Department of Labor and Economic Opportunity, Michigan Department of Economic Development, the Michigan State Housing Development Authority to explore the integration of health considerations into various policy areas. Our aim is to promote a holistic approach to improving public health outcomes across the state.

Phase III will bring together the efforts of Phase I and II as we build a framework to better support and sustain community led efforts through SDOH Hubs. This framework was developed through statewide engagement and leadership including recommendations from our Community Information Exchange (CIE) Taskforce, Community Health Worker (CHW) Subcommittee, and our local health departments through the SDOH Planning Grants. 

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