In this All In: Data for Community Health webinar, learn about top takeaways from the new BUILD Health Challenge data sharing report and hear what strategies teams use in the face of real-world challenges. Susan Millea of Children’s Optimal Health and Kim Foreman of Environmental Health Watch will share their experiences and how they worked with their collaboration partners to tackle these barriers.
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Webinar: Research and Application: Measuring Social Needs and Outcomes
During this All In webinar, Caroline Fichtenberg of SIREN reviewed the current landscape of assessment tools and outcomes measures for social needs. Karis Grounds of 2-1-1 San Diego explained how they incorporated social needs assessment into their Risk Rating Scale, which helps them better serve clients while showing the impact of their services.
Webinar: Empowering Cross-sector Data Sharing to Improve Health and Public Safety
This All In: Data for Community Health webinar featured communities that are leveraging partnerships between public health, mental health, and law enforcement agencies to share data across sectors and develop strategies that drive population health solutions.
Webinar: Effectively Stewarding Multi-Sector Partners for Health System Transformation
Much has been learned about how multi-sector partnerships can effectively lead their work, build and enact comprehensive strategies, and develop approaches for sustainable financing. This webinar offered insights from ReThink Health’s research and fieldwork about the conditions under which health system transformation can occur and shared practical resources that health leaders can use to advance their efforts.
Webinar: Using Electronic Health Data for Community Health – Parts 1 and 2
This All In webinar featured presentations from leadership at Johns Hopkins University and the Network for Public Health Law. As authors of a recent deBeaumont Foundation report, Using Electronic Health Data for Community Health, they discussed the legal underpinnings of data sharing between health systems and public health departments.
Webinar: Innovative Strategies for Engaging Residents in Community Health Improvement Planning
On this All In webinar, representatives from Public Health Seattle-King County, WA, and Garrett County, MD shared how they developed and tailored processes and strategies for engaging residents in community health improvement planning as well as some of the barriers and opportunities encountered along the way. Continue Reading
Webinar: Food for Health: Improving Community Health by Addressing Food Insecurity
The webinar featured two projects that are creating new linkages between health systems and food systems to better serve their communities. While promoting individual health is a primary aim, these projects are demonstrating how focusing on food security can reap benefits for the healthcare sector and the community as a whole. By forming community partnerships and data systems linking social service providers, food banks, hospitals/health systems, and other sectors, these projects are fostering environments that improve food access and ultimately lead to better health outcomes and lower costs.
Webinar: Improving Precision in Public Health through Innovative Data Sharing Approaches
The webinar featured two projects that are creating a culture of innovation in their communities by using collaborative, data-driven approaches to examine health trends at the local level and prevent negative health outcomes. These projects are led by health departments that are forming new partnerships with universities, hospitals, and community organizations to create data sharing systems that use methods like predictive analytics and hotspotting to target resources and programs more efficiently for the greatest impact.
Webinar: Big Cities, Big Data, Big Lessons! Leveraging Multi-Sector Data in Public Health to Address Social Determinants of Health
This webinar featured four community collaborations, led by health departments, working to integrate data from sectors that influence individual and community health, such as housing, education, social service, economic development, and safety. These health departments include the New York City Department of Mental Health and Hygiene, Allegheny County Health Department, Baltimore City Health Department, and Public Health Seattle & King County. Each panelist discussed how they are accessing, analyzing and leveraging big data to address public health priorities.
Webinar: Using Big Data and Analytics to Improve Public Health
The webinar featured two projects actively working to leverage multiple big data sets and apply advanced analytics to better identify issues, prioritize interventions and policies, and allocate resources. These collaborations, led by researchers and public health departments, are at the forefront of the movement to leverage big data to drive community health improvement.