This is the first segment of a web forum series dedicated to highlighting state-level, evidence-based strategies across sectors to improve health. States can improve their residents’ health and well-being, and lower healthcare costs, by implementing a range of policies in sectors beyond healthcare. The Promoting Health and Cost Control in States (PHACCS) initiative focuses on 13 state-level policies that can be adopted and implemented to promote health and control cost growth.Please join this web forum hosted by Trust for America’s Health for a panel discussion with public health leaders as they highlight the current legal landscape of tobacco pricing strategies, the health impacts of tobacco pricing strategies, and how advocates are working at the local and state level to reduce tobacco use.
Every year, smoking-related illnesses cost the United States more than $300 billion, including approximately $170 billion in medical care. However, one of the most effective evidence-based strategies for state policymakers to consider reducing tobacco use is decreasing access to, and increasing the price, of tobacco products.The panelists will also discuss the latest research and public health efforts focused on tobacco control programs. The web forum session will include time for audience Q&A.This web forum is free for all participants. It is recommended for those working in public health, advocacy, education, community-based organizations, faith-based organizations, hospitals, health systems, insurers, and local and state health officials.
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This is the final segment of Trust for America’s Health’s 4-part web forum series: Taking Action to Promote Health Equity—Using the Lessons from Cutting-Edge Practices to Improve Health and Well Being.
Leadership is an essential ingredient in making lasting change to advance equity and population health. The last web forum in our series will feature two nationally known leaders discussing the connection between racism and health inequity and sharing insights about engaging all members of a community—including your own organization—in the common purpose of a just society with equitable opportunity.
The web forum speakers are Dr. Gail Christopher, the chair of the Board of Directors of Trust for America’s Health, and a longtime leader in philanthropy and the movement to eliminate discriminatory barriers to progress; and her daughter, Heather McGhee, the immediate past president and now a Distinguished Senior Fellow at Demos and a frequent national media contributor.
For the first time in a national forum, these two inspiring leaders will discuss how change is created at the individual, community, organizational and systems levels. They will offer concrete examples of how leaders can experience “inside out change” in order to be effective equity leaders. They will also focus on our nation’s unfinished work toward racial equity and the need to change the narrative and beliefs that fuel inequities. In addition, Dr. Christopher will discuss the W.K. Kellogg Foundation’s Truth, Racial Healing and Transformation initiative and Ms. McGhee will share insights about Demos’ internal Racial Equity Organizational Transformation process, what she’s learned from her friendship with a now-reformed racist C-SPAN caller, as well as Demos’ new research on how to talk about race and class.
This event is recommended for anyone working in public health, advocacy, community-based systems, education, faith-based organizations, hospitals/health systems, insurers, local and state health officials, and housing.
This is the third installment of TFAH’s 4-part Web Forum series: Taking Action to Promote Health Equity—Using the Lessons from Cutting-Edge Practices to Improve Health and Well Being.
Ensuring lasting community health and equity calls for innovation, collaboration, and a multifaceted approach that addresses underlying determinants of health, including discrimination and poverty. By adopting strategies that include criminal justice reform, local purchasing, job training, community investment, and other endeavors, W.K. Kellogg-funded organizations are contributing to efforts that create equitable opportunity and better meet broader community needs, priorities, and challenges. Please join us for an engaging Dialogue4Health discussion during which leaders and partners describe why they have taken this approach and how it benefits not just their organizations, but the surrounding areas they serve, and ultimately improves health equity.
This event is recommended for anyone working in public health, advocacy, community-based systems, education, faith-based organizations, hospitals/health systems, insurers, local and state health officials, and housing.