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Posted On December 18, 2020 11:33 pm
EVOLVES Program Attorney and Clinic Facilitator, Volunteer Lawyers Project Nebraska State Bar Association FOCUS Shannon is passionate about bridging the civil legal justice gap, particularly where it precludes health equity such as in landlord-tenant, domestic violence, and mental health law. Individuals are not constitutionally guaranteed right to counsel for civil legal matters—even when they are… View Article
Posted On December 18, 2020 11:10 pm
Assistant Professor of Psychiatry University of Arizona FOCUS Noshene Ranjbar, MD, is originally from Iran and now lives in Tucson, Arizona. She is an assistant professor of psychiatry, training director of the Integrative Psychiatry Fellowship and medical director of the Integrative Psychiatry Clinic at the University of Arizona. Additionally, she serves as faculty with the… View Article
Posted On December 18, 2020 10:51 pm
Chief of Staff New Jersey Housing and Mortgage Finance Agency FOCUS Katie envisions a world of silo-breaking, efficient, effective government at the state and national level. Her guiding principal is her belief that housing is health care. Housing is intersectional—integration, environmental justice, school district, access to food and transit, environmental and mental stability. It is… View Article
Posted On December 18, 2020 8:08 pm
Network Strategy Lead Cityblock Health FOCUS Brandon Batiste’s vision for a Culture of Health is an inclusive, patient-centered, and community-focused integrated system of care that is built on evidence-based practice, wellness, and recovery. He aims to build economic and health care delivery systems that create access to behavioral health, substance abuse, and associated therapies for… 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 10:25 pm
Director of Addiction Response North Colorado Health Alliance FOCUS MJ (they, them, theirs) believes that all people should have equitable access to quality mental health and substance use care, that these systems are centered around populations facing systemic oppression and discrimination, and that systems take accountability and work to positively change their impact. MJ got… View Article
Posted On February 26, 2020 11:42 pm
Project Director, Just Say Yes Franklin County Health Department FOCUS Amelia Berry believes that health requires connectedness—to family and community, to one’s own valued purpose, and to equitable public goods and services that put well-being within reach for all. Amelia leads Yes Arts, a non-profit in Frankfort, Ky., that mobilizes the power of community and… View Article
Posted On January 31, 2020 11:21 pm
CEO Sostento FOCUS Joseph founded and grew Sostento, a nonprofit organization with a mission to help front-line health workers save lives. The vision was to build an organization that would listen to the needs of front-line healthcare workers in underserved communities and deliver appropriate solutions that would help them eliminate health disparities. Since Sostento received… 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 2:10 am
Vice President Health Equity Spectrum Health – BHSH System FOCUS Lynn’s vision for a Culture of Health is one in which all communities, regardless of racial or ethnic identity, socioeconomic status, sexual orientation, gender identity, physical and cognitive disability, and neighborhood residence, are able to achieve optimal health. Her vision is one in which all… View Article