Centering the Work of Public Health Around Health Equity

In this conversation with Dr Gabriel Kaplan, Dr. Ed Ehlinger, past Commissioner of Health at the Minnesota Health Department talks about his tenure at the department and how he elevated awareness of health equity and the achievement of racial equity in the work of public health programs.

Ed Ehlinger, MD, MSPH

Past Commissioner, Minnesota Department of Health

Acting Chair, HHS Secretary's Advisory Committee on Infant Mortality

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Dr. Gabriel Kaplan, NACDD Board President, interviews Dr. Elizabeth Cuervo Tilson, State Health Director and the Chief Medical Officer for the Department of Health and Human Services. They discuss North Carolina’s integration of population health and Medicaid

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DOWNLOADABLE TRANSCRIPT: https://cdn.ymaws.com/www.chronicdisease.org/resource/resmgr/website-2020/commstools/podcast/transcriptions/socially_determined-integrat.pdf

Dr. Gabriel Kaplan, NACDD Board President, interviews Dr. Douglas Jutte, Executive Director of the Build Healthy Places Network. They discuss the relationship between housing, the physical resources located in a community, and the lack of economic opportunity and health.

https://www.phi.org/focus-areas/?program=build-healthy-places-network

https://www.buildhealthyplaces.org

DOWNLOADABLE TRANSCRIPT: https://www.chronicdisease.org/resource/resmgr/website-2020/commstools/podcast/transcriptions/Socially_Determined_Build_He.pdf

Dr. Gabriel Kaplan, NACDD Board Past President, interviews Dr. Monica Bharel, Commissioner of the Massachusetts Department of Public Health, and Ben Wood, Director of the Office of Community Health Planning and Engagement within the Department of Public Health. They discuss Massachusetts’s unique approach to addressing the social determinants of health, especially their adaptation of the Determination of Need program. For more information on this program, please visit: https://www.mass.gov/service-details/community-health-initiative-chi-requirements

DOWNLOADABLE TRANSCRIPT: https://cdn.ymaws.com/www.chronicdisease.org/resource/resmgr/website-2020/commstools/podcast/transcriptions/socially_determined_adapting.pdf

Dr. Gabriel Kaplan, NACDD Board President, interviews Dr. Anthony Iton, Senior Vice President at the California Endowment, about how political power, or lack of it, impacts the health of the public. Additional resources:

www.buildinghealthycommunities.org

www.calendow.org

http://barhii.org/

DOWNLOADABLE TRANSCRIPT: https://cdn.ymaws.com/www.chronicdisease.org/resource/resmgr/website-2020/commstools/podcast/transcriptions/socially_determined_politica.pdf

Dr. Kaplan speaks with Jodi Spicer, the Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) Consultant for the Division of Chronic Disease and Injury Control at the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services. They discuss how adverse childhood experiences relate to and impact overall health. Ms. Spicer also shares some tangible ways her department of health incorporated work on ACES into their programming. Additional resources: http://www.michigan.gov/traumatoxicstress

DOWNLOADABLE TRANSCRIPT: https://cdn.ymaws.com/www.chronicdisease.org/resource/resmgr/website-2020/commstools/podcast/transcriptions/socially_determined_adverse_.pdf

Dr. Gabriel Kaplan, NACDD Board President, interviews Dr. Len Nichols, the Director of the Center for Health Policy Research and Ethics (CHPRE) and a Professor of Health Policy at George Mason University. They discuss the economics of public health and how an economic lens can help public health professionals address the social determinants of health. Additional resources: http://chpre.org

https://capgi.gmu.edu

DOWNLOADABLE TRANSCRIPT: https://cdn.ymaws.com/www.chronicdisease.org/resource/resmgr/website-2020/commstools/podcast/transcriptions/socially_determined_applying.pdf

Dr. Gabriel Kaplan, NACDD Board President, and Ana Novais, Executive Director at the Rhode Island Department of Health discuss how Rhode Island has leveraged multiple funding sources to support the state’s cutting edge approach to furthering health equity.

DOWNLOADABLE TRANSCRIPT: https://cdn.ymaws.com/www.chronicdisease.org/resource/resmgr/website-2020/commstools/podcast/transcriptions/socially_determined_braiding.pdf