Faith–Health Collaboration
to Improve Community and
Population Health
PROCEEDINGS OF A WORKSHOP
Theresa M. Wizemann, Rapporteur
Roundtable on Population Health Improvement
Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice
Health and Medicine Division
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PLANNING COMMITTEE ON EXPLORING THE ROLE AND POTENTIAL OF FAITH-BASED COMMUNITY ASSETS IN IMPROVING POPULATION HEALTH: A WORKSHOP1
GARY GUNDERSON (Chair), Wake Forest Baptist Health
TERRY ALLAN, Cuyahoga County Board of Health
MUHAMMAD BABAR, KentuckyOne Health
HEIDI CHRISTENSEN, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
BARBARA HOLMES, United Theological Seminary of the Twin Cities
SANNE MAGNAN, University of Minnesota
PRABHJOT SINGH, Mount Sinai Health System
Health and Medicine Division Staff
ALINA BACIU, Roundtable Director
KIMANI HAMILTON-WRAY, Senior Program Assistant (until May 2019)
CARLA ALVARADO, Program Officer (through January 2021)
Consultant
THERESA M. WIZEMANN, Rapporteur
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ROUNDTABLE ON POPULATION HEALTH IMPROVEMENT1
SANNE MAGNAN (Co-Chair), Adjunct Assistant Professor, University of Minnesota, and Senior Fellow, HealthPartners Institute
JOSHUA M. SHARFSTEIN (Co-Chair), Associate Dean for Public Health Practice and Training, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
PHILIP M. ALBERTI, Senior Director, Health Equity Research and Policy, Association of American Medical Colleges
TERRY ALLAN, Health Commissioner, Cuyahoga County Board of Health
JOHN AUERBACH, Executive Director, Trust for America’s Health
CATHY BAASE, Chair, Board of Directors, Michigan Health Improvement Alliance; Consultant for Health Strategy, The Dow Chemical Company
DEBBIE I. CHANG, Senior Vice President, Policy and Prevention, Nemours
CHARLES J. FAZIO, Senior Vice President and Medical Director, HealthPartners
GEORGE R. FLORES, Senior Program Officer, The California Endowment
KATHY GERWIG, Vice President, Employee Safety, Health and Wellness and Environmental Stewardship Officer, Kaiser Permanente
ALAN GILBERT, Director of Global Government and NGO Strategies, GE Healthymagination
MARTHE GOLD, Senior Scholar in Residence, The New York Academy of Medicine
MARC N. GOUREVITCH, Professor and Chair, Department of Population Health, New York University Langone Health
GARTH GRAHAM, President, Aetna Foundation
GARY R. GUNDERSON, Vice President, Faith and Health Ministries, Wake Forest University
WAYNE JONAS, Executive Director, H&S Ventures
ROBERT M. KAPLAN, Professor, Stanford University
DAVID A. KINDIG, Professor Emeritus of Population Health Sciences and Emeritus Vice Chancellor for Health Sciences, University of Wisconsin–Madison
PAULA M. LANTZ, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Professor of Public Policy, University of Michigan
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MICHELLE LARKIN, Associate Vice President and Associate Chief of Staff, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
THOMAS A. LAVEIST, Professor and Chair, Department of Health Policy, Milken Institute School of Public Health, The George Washington University
JEFFREY LEVI, Professor, Milken Institute School of Public Health, The George Washington University
SHARRIE MCINTOSH, Vice President for Programs, New York State Health Foundation
ROBERT MCLELLAN, Chief, Section of Occupational and Environmental Medicine; Medical Director, Live Well/Work Well; Professor of Medicine, Community and Family Medicine, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center
PHYLLIS D. MEADOWS, Senior Fellow, Health Program, The Kresge Foundation
BOBBY MILSTEIN, Director, ReThink Health
JOSÉ T. MONTERO, Director, Office for State, Tribal, Local, and Territorial Support; Deputy Director, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
MARY PITTMAN, President and Chief Executive Officer, Public Health Institute
PAMELA RUSSO, Senior Program Officer, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
MYLYNN TUFTE, State Health Officer, Office of the Governor, State of North Dakota
Health and Medicine Division Staff
ALINA BACIU, Roundtable Director
CARLA ALVARADO, Program Officer (through January 2021)
KIMANI HAMILTON-WRAY, Senior Program Assistant (through May 2019)
ROSE MARIE MARTINEZ, Senior Board Director
Reviewers
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Contents
Organization of the Workshop and Proceedings
2 COLLABORATION AT THE INTERSECTION OF FAITH AND HEALTH
The Foundations of Faith–Health Collaboration
3 FAITH–HEALTH COLLABORATION TO ADVANCE THE SOCIAL DETERMINANTS OF HEALTH
The Center for Faith and Community Health Transformation
4 FAITH–HEALTH COLLABORATION ON HEALTH POLICY
A Perspective on Health Policy: Health Beyond Health Care
Building Faith–Health Bridges for Health-Promoting Public Policy
Boxes and Figures
BOXES
1-1 Planning Committee Statement of Task
2-1 Key Points Made by Individual Speakers and Participants
2-2 Lessons from a Patient’s Funeral
3-1 Key Points Made by Individual Speakers
4-1 Key Points Made by Individual Speakers
5-1 Key Points Made by Individual Speakers
FIGURES
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