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Posted On December 18, 2020 11:14 pm
Director of Community Engagement Thrive, Inc. FOCUS Ronneal Mathews is a public health professional with over 20 years of experience. Her primary focus areas are improving maternal health of Black women, advancing reproductive justice, increasing accessibility of doulas, and helping organizations implement comprehensive diversity, equity, and inclusion frameworks. Mrs. Mathews is building connections with professionals… View Article
Posted On December 18, 2020 11:12 pm
Research Programs Manager Center for Sexuality and Health Disparities FOCUS The three main areas that Renee would like to focus on in building a Culture of Health include health communication and information dissemination, aiding in building a pipeline for future Black clinicians and community engagement. She believes that these are areas within her sphere of… View Article
Posted On December 18, 2020 10:51 pm
Executive Director New York State Office of Resilient Homes and Communities FOCUS Katie’s vision for a Culture of Health is a world of silo-breaking, efficient, effective government. It is a world of common sense solutions. Today, doctors cannot write a prescription for affordable housing. But they could. With a prescription for affordable housing- a safe,… View Article
Posted On December 18, 2020 10:44 pm
City Medical Specialist New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene FOCUS Dr. Watkins is a public health professional and clinician deeply concerned about the mass trauma inflicted by the COVID-19 pandemic. He firmly believes that communities will need new and creative pathways to healing to recover from the COVID-19 pandemic. He also believes… View Article
Posted On March 5, 2020 10:43 pm
Prevention and Care Manager Black AIDS Institute FOCUS Saron is based in Los Angeles and works at the intersection of racial justice and public health. Her vision of a Culture of Health is one free of structural oppression and full of structures, systems, and policies that facilitate health and opportunity. She is currently applying this… View Article
Posted On March 5, 2020 10:35 pm
Program Director Multicultural AIDS Coalition FOCUS Immigrant communities are overpoliced, face unprecedented levels of surveillance, and are unjustly detained or deported at increasing rates. Black, LGBTQ and Muslim communities are disproportionately vulnerable to these acts of structural violence due to racism, heterosexism, transphobia, and Islamophobia. And, at the same time, these communities stay resilient, productive,… View Article
Posted On July 24, 2019 5:32 pm
ENGAGING COMMUNITIES TO DEVELOP LOCAL LEGISLATION THAT PROMOTES HEALTHY COMMUNITIES FOCUS Our team is focused on the overlapping areas of structural racism in policing and under-investment in communities of color. We aim to push back against the agenda of austerity budgeting in both Chicago and Illinois, and focusing on advancing health care access for immigrants… View Article
Posted On July 23, 2019 2:33 am
Founder Transpire Trainings & Consulting, LLC FOCUS In America, both LGBTQ youth and adults face disproportionate levels of victimization, substance use, mental/physical illnesses, and suicidality. And with trans people being four times as likely as cisgender people to make less than $10,000 a year, commercial and survival sex work is prevalent in trans/non-binary communities. As… View Article
Posted On July 23, 2019 2:06 am
Executive Director National Association of Community Health Workers FOCUS I have already completed my three year culture of health leader program. True of health for me is the advancement of the community health worker profession, with equitable policies, that respect, protect, and authentically partner, with community health, workers to address the social drivers of well-being,… View Article
Posted On July 23, 2019 2:04 am
Lifeline Program Manager Metropolitan Transportation Commission FOCUS “Innovation Brokering to Link Transportation and Health.” Bridging the nexus between transportation and health means that all people reap the community benefits of cleaner air, access to affordable and reliable transportation, and the ability to efficiently get to destinations that matter for their health—jobs, a trip to the… View Article