This Google Hangout discussed key findings from the "Global Public Systems Innovations: A Scan of Promising Practices" report, which reviewed and synthesized promising approaches to public health systems innovations in other countries.

Free

 

Friday, March 20, 2015, 12:15-1:15 p.m. 

Overview: Despite spending more money on health care than many other countries, Americans lead poorer, sicker lives than their global peers. As the United States continues to experience health challenges, there is much to be learned from global examples, particularly through innovations that have advanced organizational capacity and policies to improve population health.

In an attempt to discover how other countries' health improvement efforts could inform similar efforts in the United States, AcademyHealth, with support from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF), produced a report in which it reviewed and synthesized promising approaches to public health systems innovations in countries that are responding to changing population needs by bridging their public health, health care, and social service systems. This Google Hangout discussed key findings from the report and reflected upon their applicability to U.S. efforts to transform its broader health system.

Google Hangout Recording: Here
YouTube Recording: Here 

Course Level: 101 (Introductory)


This Google Hangout developed from the report Global Public Health Systems Innovations: A Scan of Promising Practices.

Faculty Bios:

 

Margo Edmunds, Ph.D., is the Vice President for Evidence Generation and Translation at AcademyHealth, where she oversees its portfolios in information infrastructure, research translation and dissemination, and population health. A health policy analyst with a clinical background in disease management, Dr. Edmunds has directed a variety of projects and initiatives on health information technology and health information exchange, public health preparedness, consumer and public health informatics, cultural competency in health care, and healthcare coverage and access under Medicare, Medicaid, and CHIP. Her clients have included federal and state agencies, foundations, and associations. 
  David Fleming, M.D., M.P.H., is PATH's vice president of Public Health Impact, which houses its programs in reproductive health, maternal and child health and nutrition, noncommunicable diseases, malaria control and elimination, and HIV/AIDS and tuberculosis. He also oversees cross-programmatic collaboration at PATH, which seeks to maximize the impact of work across the value chain in critical health areas, including maternal and neonatal health, diarrheal disease, and malaria. Before joining PATH in 2014, Dr. Fleming served as the director and health officer for Public Health—Seattle and King County (PHSKC), and prior to that, Dr. Fleming was director of Global Health Strategies at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, overseeing a grant portfolio of more than $1 billion in vaccine-preventable disease, nutrition, maternal and child health, leadership, emergency relief, community health programs, and human resources and health information. 
 

Paul Keuhnert, DNP, RN, is a director leading the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's efforts to build connections between health, social sectors, and health care to address the multiple factors—social, environmental, economic, behavioral and clinical care—that shape our health. He became a public health nurse early in his career, and serving children and parents in St. Louis' Head Start Program ignited his passion for community-focused health promotion and advocacy. As an executive leader for the past twenty years, Paul has led both governmental and community-based organizations in order to help people lead healthier lives. In the late 1980's he was a founder and later CEO of Community Response, Inc., one of the Chicago-area's largest housing, nutrition and social service providers for people living with HIV/AIDS. 
  David Ross, ScD, is the director of the Public Health Informatics Institute (PHII). He became the Director of All Kids Count; a program of PHII supported by The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF), in 2000, and subsequently began PHII, also with funding from RWJF. Ross's experience spans the private healthcare and public health sectors. Before joining the Task Force, he was an executive with a private health information systems firm, a public health service officer with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and an executive in a private health system. 
  Arpana Verma, Ph.D., MBChB, M.P.H., FFPH, is the director of the Manchester Urban Collaboration on Health, in the Centre for Epidemiology in the Institute of Population Health and is principal investigator (PI) of the European Urban Health Indicator System project (EURO-URHIS 2). She is also president of the European Public Health Association section on Urban Health and PI on a number of health service research projects, primarily in hepatitis C and blood borne virus prevention, infection control, immunization including MMR and HPV vaccine. Many of these projects involve data linkage of health indicators, risk factors and the wider determinants of health to help understand the urban challenges to health both within the UK and globally. Her recent EU grant consists of investigating health ageing in cities and has been asked to be an expert for the World Health Organization, which has led to several publications. 


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