Speakers: Dan LaVallee (UPMC Center for Social Impact), Brandy White (Freedom House 2.0 graduate & UPMC), Amanda Van Vleet (North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services), Fred Johnson (DukeHealth), William Bleser (Duke University), Shemecka McNeil (Slice 325)
Moderator: Nameeta Mota (Patient Insight Institute; SIREN)
Description:
This session brought together two communities that are applying a racial health equity lens to on-the-ground social care programs, who each offered lessons learned from multiple perspectives (e.g. health care, lived experience/participant, social services, researcher/evaluator) that attendees could apply to their own initiatives.
1. "Addressing work as a social determinant of health: one Medicaid plan's approach to partnership" [PDF] by Dan LaVallee and Brandy White
2. "Lessons from North Carolina's COVID-19 support services program to address social needs” [PDF] by Amanda Van Vleet, Fred Johnson, Shemecka McNeil and William K. Bleser
University of San Francisco California