Why NOW?

We have initiated the action steps in this unique effort because:

• A national agenda focused on the Social Determinants of Health and Well-Being (particularly on “upstream” activities in communities nationwide) is long overdue. It should be a critical component of post-coronavirus rebuilding activities.
• Covid-19 has had a broad and deep impact throughout society, contributing to troubling public health, economic and social problems. Pointedly, the people most negatively impacted are those who already were underserved and under-resourced.
• The need to work more explicitly for equity, in health and more broadly, is clear. Interoperability is a critical way to pursue that goal by routinely providing the data needed both to understand the impact of racial/socioeconomic disparities and to address them.
• This is a historic opportunity to make fundamental, generational changes that will help to drive progress in many concrete ways.

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Action Agenda Timeline

• Webinar Launch of National Action Agenda (August 14, 2020)
• Form 6 Social Determinants of Health Workgroups (Late August 2020)
• Workgroup Leaders/Co-Leaders Kick-Off Meeting (September 25, 2020)
• Monthly Workgroup Sessions (September 2020 – January 2021)
• Monthly Cross-Group Synthesis Meetings (September 2020 – January 2021)
• Produce Drafts of “The Social Determinants: A Call to Action for Making Tangible Progress” for ongoing comment and refinement; to be used to help shape agenda for the national symposium (Q2, Q3, Q4 2020)
• Stewards of Change Institute Virtual Convening (January 25-26, 2021)
• Finalize “The Social Determinants: A Call to Action for Making Tangible Progress,” as a product of the Symposium and workgroups (April 2021)
• Begin implementation (April 2021)

  Featured Resources

• Presentation Slides - November 16 National Action Agenda Third Session Meeting
• Presentation Slides - October 16 National Action Agenda Second Session Meeting
• Presentation Slides - September 25 National Action Agenda Kickoff Meeting
• Presentation Slides - September 15 SOCI 2020/2021 National Action Agenda to Advance Upstream Social Determinants and Race Equity Action Plan
• Issue brief - Beyond Health Care: The Role of Social Determinants in Promoting Health and Health Equity
• Public health objective - Healthy People 2030
• Report - FORESIGHT Resident Engagement Findings: What should a healthy and equitable future include?

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 Featured Webinars

• December 11, 2020 - Fourth National Action Agenda Meeting
• November 13, 2020 - Third National Action Agenda Meeting
• October 16, 2020 - Second National Action Agenda Meeting
• September 25, 2020 - National Action Agenda Kickoff Meeting
• September 15, 2020 - SOCI 2020/2021 National Action Agenda to Advance Upstream Social Determinants and Race Equity Action Plan Meeting
• August 14, 2020 - Launching an Action Agenda to Advance Health Equity

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Core AA members

• Karen Smith, M.D., M.P.H., (former) Director of California Department of Public Health
• Pierre-Gerlier Forest, PhD, Professor and Director, James S. and Barbara A. Palmer Chair in Public Policy, School of Public Policy, University of Calgary
• David H. Rehkopf, ScD, MPH, Associate Professor of Medicine (Primary Care and Population Health) and, by courtesy, of Health Research and Policy (Epidemiology); Co-director of the Stanford University Center for Population Health Sciences
• Lesley Sept, Executive Director of Population Health Sciences, VPHS-Population Health Sciences
• Daniel Stein, MBA, President, Stewards of Change Institute

Synthesis Advisors

• David Aylward, JD, Assistant Clinical Professor of Family Medicine, University of Colorado School of Medicine
• Alina Baciu, PhD, MPD, Senior Program Officer, National Academy of Sciences
• Dan Chavez, Executive Director, San Diego Health Connect
• Toby Ewing, Executive Director, CA Mental Health Services Oversight and Accountability Commission (MHSOAC)
• Caroline Fichtenberg, Managing Director, Social Interventions Research and Evaluation Network (SIREN), UCSF Center for Health and Community
• Stacy Shwartz Olagundoye, MS, Program Manager, California Alliance of Child and Family Services, The Catalyst Center
• Michael Wilkening, Special Advisor or Innovation & Digital Services, Office of Governor Gavin Newsom (CA)

• Evelyn Gallego, MBA, MPH, CPHIMS, Found & CEO at EMI Advisors, LLC, SIREN/HL7 Gravity Project Program Manager at Health Level Seven International (HL7)
• Ryan Howells, Principal, Leavitt Partners
• Nick Macchione, Agency Director and Deputy Chief Administrative Officer, San Diego Department of Health and Human Services
• Kshemendra Paul, Chief Data Officer at U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Mission and Strategy Cloud Action Officer & Deputy Director at Department of Homeland Security
• David Ross, ScD, President & CEO, The Task Force for Global Health Inc., (former) Director of the Public Health Informatics Institute
• Ken Kaplan, MSW, MARCH/HP, Founding Partner, Health Community Ventures, Inc.
• Uma Ahluwalia, Managing Principal, Health Management Associates