National Symposium: Community Agency & Health
May 2017
A two-day symposium in Oakland, CA, that explored the link between the health sector and local communities, including the importance of community agency
Delivered through my former nonprofit, Bridging Health & Community, Inc, and in collaboration with Community Science, the Insight Center for Community Economic Development and MIT Community Innovators Lab, this symposium sought to showcase work illustrating how the health sector might need to change to respond to communities. Its major sponsors were The California Endowment, Kaiser Permanente and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and its editorial partners included Active Living By Design and ISAIAH. See below for more.
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May 2017
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Erin Hagan offers some straight-talking feedback on how our May 2017 symposium did not quite hit the mark and how we need to shift our approach
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Community Health. Healthy Community. Semantics?
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Connecting the Dots
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Listening As A Radically Obvious Act
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Elizabeth Slade reflects on how health care often focuses on the latest, shiniest technology, and doesn’t leave much space for the basic human needs of our stories being acknowledged
The Healing of Exploitation
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Carl Baty, a presenter at our May 2017 symposium, shares why he got emotional during his talk and explores whether he was being exploited
The Cost of Learning
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Reflecting on our Symposium, Community Agency & Health
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Building Healthy Communities, South Kern
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In this post, Annalisa Robles illustrates how policies can bias against rural communities and how the people of South Kern, CA, are organizing – often to achieve the basics
Practicing Agency: The ‘Art’ of the How (Symposium 2017)
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Navigating Power in Health and Community Partnerships
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Symposium 2017: Facilitating Connections
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In this post, Bridget B Kelly, Co-Founder of Bridging Health & Community, describes how we’ll be helping symposium participants connect with each other
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How One Foundation Hopes to Help Local Leaders Listen
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Symposium 2017: Who Are You, Really?
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In this post, Leigh Carroll, a member of the Planning Committee of the forthcoming symposium, describes some of the relationship-building activities that we’ll be weaving into the agenda, and why
How UnitedHealthcare is Connecting Federal to Local
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The California Endowment, Kaiser Permanente & RWJF: Announcing our Symposium Sponsors
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In this post we hear from Tony Iton of The California Endowment, Bechara N Choucair of Kaiser Permanente, and Alonzo Plough of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Symposium 2017: New Pricing Reflecting What We’ve Learned
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Announcing a US$300 ticket for community-based organizations, community residents & students, a US$500 ticket for government, nonprofit & universities, and options for supporters
Symposium 2017: A Candid Conversation About Failure: Part II
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S Leonard Syme, Professor Emeritus of Epidemiology and Community Health at the Berkeley School of Public Health, describes how his profession has failed to apply what it has learned about social risk factors
Using Participatory Research & Evaluation
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Creating Leadership Capacity for Long Term Change
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Symposium Speakers, Case Studies and Breakouts
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