Course Information
- Audience: Public Health Professionals
- Format: Recorded Webinar
- Date/Time: Thursday, April 27, 2023, 12:00 PM – 1:30 PM ET
- Price: Free
- Length: 1.5 hours
- Credential(s) eligible for contact hours: Sponsored by New England Public Health Training Center (NEPHTC), a designated provider of continuing education contact hours (CECH) in health education by the National Commission for Health Education Credentialing, Inc. This program is designated for Certified Health Education Specialists (CHES) and/or Master Certified Health Education Specialists (MCHES) to receive up to 1.5 total Category I continuing education contact hours. Maximum advanced-level continuing education contact hours are 0. Provider ID: 1131137 Event ID: SS1131137_TFPHPART2.
If you are not seeking CHES/MCHES contact hours, if you complete the evaluations, you will receive a Certificate of Completion. The Certificate will include the length of the course.
- Competencies: Policy Development and Program Planning Skills
- Learning Level: Awareness
- Companion Trainings: The Future of Population Health (Part 1)
The Future of Population Health (Part 3) - Supplemental materials:None
- Pre-requisites: None
About this Recording
This conversation is the second program in a three-part series convening contributing authors from The Milbank Quarterly’s special issue celebrating its 100th anniversary, titled, “The Future of Population Health: Challenges and Opportunities”.
The first session is “Public Health Systems and Structures” and the final session, “Policy, Governance, and Structural Determinants of Health.”What you'll learn
At the end of the recording, participants will be able to:
- Discuss the importance of a society of engagement and partnerships across sectors
- Recognize the role of education in shaping health and the dynamic association between education and health
- Evaluate the historical and current perspectives of climate change and the strategies for solutions
- Discuss the challenges we have implementing population health solutions and strategies to overcome these challenges
Moderator
Barbara Moran
Correspondent, Climate and Environment, WBUR
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Jamie Ducharme is a correspondent at TIME magazine, where she covers health and science. Her work has won awards from the New York Press Club, the Deadline Club, and the Newswomen’s Club of New York. Previously, she was the health editor at Boston magazine. Her first book, Big Vape: The Incendiary Rise of Juul, was published by Henry Holt on May 25, 2021. It’s a deep-dive into the e-cigarette company Juul Labs and an exploration of the complicated search for an alternative to cigarettes.
Subject Matter Experts
Georges Benjamin
Executive Director, American Public Health Association
Magdalena Cerdá
Professor and Director, Center for Opioid Epidemiology and Policy, NYU Grossman School of Medicine
Mateo Farina
Postdoctoral Scholar, USC Davis School of Gerontology; Research Affiliate, University of Texas at Austin
Amruta Nori-Sarma
Assistant Professor, Boston University School of Public Health-
Georges C. Benjamin is known as one of the nation’s most influential physician leaders because he speaks passionately and eloquently about the health issues having the most impact on our nation today. From his firsthand experience as a physician, he knows what happens when preventive care is not available and when the healthy choice is not the easy choice. As executive director of APHA since 2002, he is leading the Association’s push to make America the healthiest nation. He came to APHA from his position as secretary of the Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene. Benjamin became secretary of health in Maryland in April 1999, following four years as its deputy secretary for public health services. As secretary, Benjamin oversaw the expansion and improvement of the state’s Medicaid program. Benjamin, of Gaithersburg, Maryland, is a graduate of the Illinois Institute of Technology and the University of Illinois College of Medicine. He is board-certified in internal medicine and a master of the American College of Physicians, a fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration, a fellow emeritus of the American College of Emergency Physicians, an honorary fellow of the Faculty of Public Health and an honorary fellow of the Royal Society of Public Health. An established administrator, author and orator, Benjamin started his medical career as a military physician in 1978 where he trained in internal medicine at the Brooke Army Medical Center. In 1981 he was assigned to the Madigan Army Medical Center in Tacoma, Washington, where he managed a 72,000-patient visit ambulatory care service as chief of the Acute Illness Clinic and was faculty and an attending physician within the Department of Emergency Medicine. A few years later, he was reassigned to the Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, D.C., where he served as chief of emergency medicine. After leaving the Army, he chaired the Department of Community Health and Ambulatory Care at the District of Columbia General Hospital. He was promoted to acting commissioner for public health for the District of Columbia and later directed one of the busiest ambulance services in the nation an interim director of the Emergency Ambulance Bureau of the District of Columbia Fire Department. His academic career has consisted of the full range of academic endeavors from teaching, policy research and academic program development and management. Benjamin has combined his practice and academic experience as an emergency physician with public health to become one of the nation’s experts in public health emergency preparedness. At APHA, Benjamin also serves as publisher of the nonprofit’s monthly publication, The Nation’s Health, the association’s official newspaper, and the American Journal of Public Health, the profession’s premier scientific publication. He is the author of more than 200 scientific articles and book chapters. His recent book Public Health Under Siege: Improving Policy in Turbulent Times explores the impact of policy on our nation’s health and offers specific actions to improve health and extend life expectancy. He is also the author of The Quest for Health Reform: A Satirical History is an exposé of the nearly 100-year quest to ensure quality affordable health coverage for all using political cartoons. Benjamin is an active member of the National Academy of Medicine (Formally the Institute of Medicine) of the National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine. and the National Academy of Public Administration. He serves on the boards of many nonprofit organizations including Research!America, the Truth Initiative, the Reagan-Udall Foundation for the FDA, the Environmental Defense Fund and Ceres. Dr. Benjamin is also a former member of the National Infrastructure Advisory Council, a council that advises the president on how best to assure the security of the nation’s critical infrastructure. In 2008, 2014 and 2016 he was named one of the top 25 minority executives in health care by Modern Healthcare Magazine, in addition to being voted among the 100 most influential people in health care from 2007-2018 and in 2021-2022.
Magdalena Cerdá is a Professor and Director of the Center for Opioid Epidemiology and Policy, at the Department of Population Health at NYU Grossman School of Medicine. She obtained her doctorate from the Harvard University School of Public Health in 2006, and is a former Robert Wood Johnson Health and Society Scholar. Her research focuses on the effects that state and national drug and health policies have on substance abuse trends, and on the ways the urban context shapes violence. Current funded research focuses on the impact that national, state and local cannabis, opioid prescribing and harm reduction laws and programs have on substance use and overdose in the United States. In addition, she is evaluating the impact that urban violence prevention programs have on firearm violence in cities across the United States.
Mateo Farina is a Postdoctoral Scholar at the University of Southern California Davis School of Gerontology and will be an Assistant Professor in Human Development and Family Sciences at the University of Texas at Austin in Fall 2023. His research interests include life course origins of cognitive and biological aging, examining race inequalities in later life health, and evaluating social determinants of health (especially education). Supported by an NIA K99 grant, his current work examines the role of epigenetics in impacting cognitive health and aging in later life.
Amruta Nori-Sarma is an Assistant Professor in the Environmental Health Department at Boston University School of Public Health, where she studies the relationship between environmental exposures associated with climate change and health outcomes in vulnerable communities. Her previous work has examined the impact of heat waves and air pollution on health in vulnerable communities in India, South Korea, and across the US. Her current research aims to understand the impacts of interrelated extreme weather events on mental health across the US utilizing large claims datasets. She also has an interest in evaluating the success of policies put in place to reduce the health impacts of climate change.
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Acknowledgement: This project is supported by the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) as part of award 2 UB6HP31685‐05‐00 “Public Health Training Centers.” The contents are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily represent the official views of, nor an endorsement, by HRSA, HHS or the U.S. Government.