Chuck and his foundation made big bets on promising ideas like the $21 million he gave to Alameda Health System, Oakland Unified School District, and Alameda Health Care Services Agency to build pathways into healthcare careers for under-represented youth and young adults. The Atlantic Philanthropies funded so, so many great programs, including HealthPATH, the program I ran at Alameda Health System. Today, Chuck Feeney, the philanthropist billionaire who gave away almost his entire net worth during his lifetime through his foundation The Atlantic Philanthropies, passed away. This Is So Awkward by Cara Natterson, MD, Vanessa Kroll Bennett: 9780593580950 | : Books Talking about any of this is awkward! But it’s also critical for the health, happiness, and safety of today’s kids. Gens Z and Alpha are also contending with a whole host of thorny issues that parents didn’t experience in their own youth but nonetheless need to understand: everything from social media and easy-access pornography to gender identities and new or newly-potent drugs. It starts, on average, two years earlier and stretches through high school. As the mother of two teenage sons-age 16 and 14-their insights were so eye-opening and so helpful in understanding what my kids are going through and how I can support them.Īlmost everything about puberty has changed since today’s adults went through it. and Vanessa Kroll Bennett this week about their new book This Is So Awkward: Modern Puberty Explained. This Is So Awkward.I happened to catch the KQED Forum interview with authors Cara Natterson, M.D. #healthequity #socialdeterminantsofhealth #healthoutcomes It focuses primarily on federal-level interventions, but I found it to be a useful framework that can be applied to the state, local, and organizational levels to equitably improve health outcomes. Support Backbone Organizations: Support the development of community backbone organizations and other infrastructure to link health care systems to community-based organizations. Support Flexible Funding to Address Social Needs: Identify how flexible use of funds could align investments across sectors to finance community infrastructure and encourage coordinated use of resources to improve health outcomes.ģ. Expand Data Gathering and Sharing: Advance data collection and interoperability among health care, public health, social care services, and other data systems.Ģ. The report is organized around three pillars:ġ. It's a hefty read, but departs from many other reports that document how social circumstances affect health outcomes, but say little about practical solutions for addressing the silos between health care and social needs. Playbook to Address Social Determinants of Health. This month the Biden-Harris Administration released The U.S. New Report on Addressing the Social Determinants of Health Grace for the Gaps | Milbank Memorial Fund #healthequity #healthdisparities #systemschange I am acutely aware of the opportunity to advance health equity afforded to me in this role, not only by influencing who and what kinds of programs are funded with significant state dollars, but-just as importantly-improving systems that have evolved in ways that perpetuate health inequities. My year in public service has been eye opening, at moments challenging, but always interesting. Yesterday was my one year anniversary as Assistant Deputy Secretary of Healthcare Workforce for the CA Labor & Workforce Development Agency. This quote from a recent article by the Milbank Memorial Fund resonated with me. It’s about inviting patients and constituents affected by government-funded programs into conversations to build them, even inviting criticism to be able to better see the barriers in our systems.'

'Health equity work in government is about weaving grace into the systems and programs that affect the lives of millions.

Roger bennett vanessa kroll