Designing a System of Prevention to Advance
Health, Safety, and Wellbeing for All
Wednesday, October 2, 2019
11 AM to 12 PM Pacific
2 PM to 3 PM Eastern

Across the country, a growing number of local health agencies and community organizations are reorienting their work to intentionally advance health equity. In some of these locales, health leaders are partnering with community organizations to build power and momentum for systemic change—fundamental change in policies, processes, relationships, and power structures, as well as transformative shifts in deeply held values and norms—to address structural factors that have produced health inequities. This systems approach to developing comprehensive solutions is not yet the norm. Developing such an approach—one that addresses the interrelationships of multiple factors—may create some of the biggest opportunities to achieve health, safety, and wellbeing, and reduce health inequities.

During this web forum, Prevention Institute will share its System of Prevention framework, which explains how systems shape health and equity and builds on lessons learned from prevention and health equity initiatives that have dramatically increased the length and quality of people’s lives. The event will also feature leaders of HIP-Cuyahoga, a county-wide health improvement partnership of over 100 agencies, community groups, and organizations that are taking a systems approach to advancing health equity and racial justice. The web forum is designed to encourage health practitioners and their partners to think about how they can work together to redesign systems and intentionally produce health, safety, and equity.

Registration is free and closed captioning is available to all attendees. This event is for anyone working in public health, including: local and state health departments, non-profit organizations, advocacy, business, community-based organizations, education, faith-based organizations, hospitals/health systems, insurance, housing, harm reduction, and other interested parties.

Presenters
Juliet Sims, RD, MPH, Associate Program Director, Prevention Institute
Greg Brown, MS, Executive Director, PolicyBridge; Co-Chair, HIP-Cuyahoga
Heidi Gullett, MD, MPH, Associate Professor at the Center for Community Health Integration, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine; Medical Director, Cuyahoga County Board of Health; Co-Chair, HIP-Cuyahoga 

Moderator
La’Quana Williams, MPH, Associate Program Manager, Prevention Institute

This web forum is hosted by Dialogue4Health, a project of the Public Health Institute that conceives, builds, and shares strategies to improve the Public’s Health. It partners with local, national and global organizations to host Web Forums and share critical resources.
 
For more information about the System of Prevention framework, including access to the e-book and information about trainings on using the framework, please visit our website.
 
This event and the development of the System of Prevention framework were made possible by support from The California Endowment.