We’re pleased to announce three major sponsors of our May symposium, Community Agency & Health:
Before we reflect on their sponsorship, let’s hear from their people.
Tony Iton
We’re pleased to partner and support Bridging Health & Community in their efforts to shine a light on the importance of agency to health. The symposium’s focus on the practicalities of this work – through case studies and breakouts – is immensely important to growing this nascent field of practice – one that is vital to the future of health.
Senior Vice President for Healthy Communities, The California Endowment
Bechara N Choucair
Improving the health of our communities is at the heart of Kaiser Permanente’s mission. As much as health systems like ours have to offer, our efforts will fall short if we fail to understand and respond to the perspectives of the people we hope to serve. We’re very pleased to join with Bridging Community & Health in highlighting and learning from the best and most novel approaches to acting on the health needs our communities see as most important.
Senior Vice President & Chief Community Health Officer, Kaiser Permanente
Alonzo Plough
Achieving health equity through engagement and action at the community level is a core strategy of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Culture of Health Framework. The Community Agency & Health symposium aligns well with the type of dialogue and knowledge sharing we feel is essential to building a national movement to improve health and well-being.
Vice President for Research and Evaluation and Chief Science Officer, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
We’re pleased that Tony, Bechara and Alonzo (and their respective organizations) see the value of our work.
Reflecting
We very much believe that the process of connecting health systems and local communities is, as Tony says, a nascent field of practice. We hope to help it develop through the kind of practical knowledge sharing that Alonzo has mentioned, which we’ve done to date through our reports (the last one being Eleven Principles for Creating Health) and are now doing through the symposium. And we’re pleased that people in health care, such as Bechara, understand that the system will fall short unless it learns to respond to the perspectives of the people it seeks to serve.
Get Your Tickets
Don’t forget that early bird registration ends March 17th and the revised pricing (with early bird) is:
- US$250: Community-Based Organizations, Community Residents & Students
- US$450: Government, Nonprofit & University
- US$1000: Standard
Go to Eventbrite to get your tickets.
Thanks
My thanks to Tony, Bechara and Alonzo for their foresight and leadership, and to their numerous team members who made it all happen. My thanks also to my Co-Founder, Bridget B Kelly, who did all of the leg work to secure the grants.
