By Jim Cochrane Things take time to gestate, and there is no guarantee they will make it. They will need good earth and water to grow well and strong. This is one way of seeing the work of Chicanos Por La Causa (CPLC), whose newly appointed Clinical Director, Elias Burboa […]
By Teresa Cutts To hear a human, it may work better to listen with your heart than your ears. It’s even more powerful if a community health worker, a physician champion and CEO, a former school principal all listen with their hearts. That’s the success in San Bernardino, CA at Loma […]
“Medicine is a social science, and politics is nothing more than medicine on a large scale.” —Rudolf Virchow By Jim Cochrane You probably think heart disease or stroke is a major medical issue, and for the South Eastern San Diego Disparities Project (SESD-DP) it really is—with an extraordinary vision for what […]
Four Leading Cause of Life Fellows — Jim Cochrane, Jeremy Moseley, Teresa (TC) Cutts and Gary Gunderson — with the “Winnebago” RV in San Diego that will take us across the US South. We love the dog but she’s not real!
San Diego Harbor across from where the American Public Health Association met. By Gary Gunderson If hospital systems are like yacht clubs, public health people would live unnoticed in one of the Winnebago’s across the parking lot (that’s ours on the left)). Why would anyone choose a career so likely to end up in […]
By Gary Gunderson I headed north in order to head west in order to drive east. The day in Hartford with one of the great insurance companies in the land turned out to give me a key to the whole trip. Hartford is not a party town with entire city blocks dense with actuaries thinking […]
By Gary Gunderson One thing clarified Tuesday; we have get out from behind our screens and go talk to some humans. And not in large groups with microphones and PowerPoints. We have to go, see, and listen where the life of the community is trying to break through, and how grown-ups […]
Dr. Rishi Manchanda is President and CEO of HealthBegins, a mission-driven consulting and technology firm that helps healthcare and community partners improve care and the social factors that make people sick in the first place. His career is marked by a commitment to improving care and social determinants of health for vulnerable populations. […]
Kevin Barnett is a Senior Investigator at the Public Health Institute. He has led research and fieldwork in hospital community benefit and health workforce diversity at PHI for over two decades, working with hospitals, government agencies, and community stakeholders across the country. Recent work includes a study of community health assessments and implementation strategies […]
By Gary Gunderson You can learn a lot when talking across someone’s kitchen table. Especially when the table is on wheels moving at 65 miles an hour across Texas. (Maybe you can join us for stretch of highway!) This is why Stakeholder Health and 100 Million Healthier Lives are collaborating to do something preposterous and […]
