National Action Agenda

About Neighborhood and Physical Environment

Scope of Work

This workgroup focused on: food/nutrition, housing, transportation, safety, recreational facilities, geographic/zip code issues.

Neighborhood and Physical Enviornment Core Team

Eric Marcus | Group Lead | Health Choice Arizona
Clare Tanner | Group Co-Lead | Michigan Public Health Institute | Data Across Sectors for Health (DASH)
Peter Eckart | Data Across Sectors for Health (DASH)
Lorene Nelson | Stanford University School of Medicine
Robyn Bussey | Atlanta Regional Collaborative for Health Improvement (ARCHI)
Leah Hostetter | Cerner Corporation
Brian D. Handspicker | PracticalMarkets, Inc.
Richard Lafayette | Stanford University Medical Center
Lisa Sloane | Technical Assistance Collaborative (TAC)
Sarah DeSilvey | The Gravity Project

Susan Fox | SJF Solutions, LLC
Jennifer Lopez | All Children Thrive California (ACT-CA) / UCLA
Naomi Cytron | Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
Eric Jahn | Alexandria Consulting
Diana Yazzi Devine | Native American Connections
Rhonda McClinton-Brown | Technical Assistance Collaborative (TAC)
Kaylee Allyssa Roberts | UC Santa Cruz
C.J. Eisenbarth Hager | Vitalyst Health Foundation
Richard Sheward | Children's HealthWatch
Amanda Taylor | Group Liaison | SOCI

Latest Discussions

Initial Thoughts on Neighborhood and Physical Environment Discussions Questions

In anticipation of our first Neighborhood and Physical Environment workgroup meeting on September 25, 2020, I have taken the liberty of putting together a list of discussion questions for consideration by the team. This is by no means intended as…

Latest Resources

Law and Policy Pathways to Preventing Housing Instability

Overview: Housing instability is a public health problem that both causes and exacerbates health problems, erodes communities, and drives health inequities. Eviction specifically imposes damaging health consequences that can last lifetimes, or even…

A Social-Return-On-Investment Analysis Of Bon Secours Hospital’s ‘Housing For Health’ Affordable Housing Program

Abstract: Community health programs aimed at addressing the social determinants of health often face challenges demonstrating their impact through traditional economic evaluation methods of return-on-investment analysis, cost-effectiveness analysis,…