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Our COVID-19 Response: A Prescription for Enabling Real Progress on Health Equity – and a Request for Your Support to Make it Happen!

Posted by Hub Admin on July 27, 2020 at 1:15pm

We invite you – individually or through your organization – to join us in pursuing this mission by personally participating in, contributing financially to, or in other ways supporting SOCI’s new National Action Agenda to Advance Upstream Social Determinants and Health Equity.

A Global Perspective on Corona-19: Moving Forward without a Roadmap

Posted by Hub Admin on June 15, 2020 at 11:56am

The assessment about Covid-19 from one of our presenters at last week’s NIC webinar was quite straightforward. “We don’t know what to do,” said Pierre-Gerlier (PG) Forest, Director of the School of Public Policy, Calgary University.

The Pandemic Puts More Children at Risk of Abuse. Where’s the Aid for Them?

Posted by Adam Pertman on April 23, 2020 at 10:41am

By Adam Pertman

Senior Consultant, Stewards of Change Institute

The coronavirus crisis has put children in foster care – and those who need to be there – at serious risk in numerous, unnerving ways. To date, however, they and their families have barely been mentioned as potential victims of the pandemic, and the federal government has done too little to help them. That has to change as quickly as possible, either with targeted resources in the next economic stimulus bill or in separate legislation

A Need for Collaboration – and an Agenda for Progress – at a Time of Isolation

Posted by Hub Admin on April 1, 2020 at 9:54am

As daily life changes for everyone, we are all learning how to function in different, more-flexible ways. It is a learning exercise that feels – and often is – both individual and isolating. There’s an additional way to look at the lessons of the coronavirus crisis, however, and the title of last Friday’s (3/27/20) NIC webinar/discussion describes it: “Collaborating to Deal with Today – While Preparing for Tomorrow.”

When It Comes to SDOH, American Exceptionalism (Alas) is the Exception

Posted by Hub Admin on March 23, 2020 at 4:26pm

The situation in the United States is unique because of the wall that exists between health and social policy. The former is consuming close to 18 percent of U.S. GDP and, despite its terrible shortcomings, is a global symbol of medical prowess and innovation. Meanwhile, the latter is underfunded and underserviced as we can clearly see – unfortunately – during the current coronavirus crisis.

Lessons from the Coronavirus Crisis: A Call to Arms for Real Action on the Social Determinants

Posted by Hub Admin on March 17, 2020 at 5:30pm

The coronavirus pandemic was front-and-center, of course, but the National Interoperability Collaborative (NIC) also had another broad, long-term objective in mind when it started planning this convening months ago, when the words “worst public health crisis in modern US history” referred to the opioid epidemic. Today, NIC’s objective remains the same; that is, to create a National Policy Action Agenda by year’s end designed to improve our nation’s too-siloed health-related systems by meaningful

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Our COVID-19 Response: A Prescription for Enabling Real Progress on Health Equity – and a Request for Your Support to Make it Happen!

A Global Perspective on Corona-19: Moving Forward without a Roadmap

The Pandemic Puts More Children at Risk of Abuse. Where’s the Aid for Them?

A Need for Collaboration – and an Agenda for Progress – at a Time of Isolation

When It Comes to SDOH, American Exceptionalism (Alas) is the Exception

Lessons from the Coronavirus Crisis: A Call to Arms for Real Action on the Social Determinants

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