Building Bridges: Success stories in closing the gap in public health and care systems

Public health and health care delivery may seem to go hand in hand to the public they exist to serve. But partnerships for the public good often are complicated by a patchwork of elaborate administrative practices, ownership, funding models, and other systemic barriers resulting in less effective results despite a shared mission of serving healthy, thriving communities.

Knocking down the silos to collaborative health systems that drive improved outcomes is vital to addressing our most pressing public health issues. The Common Health Coalition and the National Press Club Journalism Institute produced a conversation highlighting research on high-impact public health and care delivery system partnerships while addressing the core components of their success.

Resources

Special themed issue of NEJM Catalyst

Featured initiatives were published in a special themed issue of NEJM Catalyst, guest edited by Dr. Nicholas Stine. The edition includes articles, case studies, and research reports on coordination across public health and care delivery, COVID 19 response, tuberculosis screening, the 2022 mpox outbreak, pediatric asthma intervention, abortion and reproductive

Common Health Coalition

The Common Health Coalition is uniting America’s leading health care organizations in pursuit of a reimagined health system: one in which the nation’s health care and public health systems work hand in hand. View resource

Special themed issue of NEJM Catalyst

Agenda

Speaker titles and organizations are reflective of the time of event (September 27, 2024)

Building Bridges: Success stories in closing the gap in public health and care systems

Moderator:

Dr. Nicholas Stine, University of California, Berkeley

Speakers:

Alice Abernathy, MD, MSHP, Assistant Professor of Obstetrics & Gynecology, Perelman School of Medicine; Senior Fellow, Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics, University of Pennsylvania
Dave Chokshi, MD, MSc, Chair,Common Health Coalition
Susannah Graves, Director and Tuberculosis Controller,Tuberculosis Prevention and Control Section,San Francisco Department of Public Health
Ingrid Johansen, MN, MPH, RN, TCRN, CEN, PHN, Director, Community Clinical Care, Community Advancement, Fairview Health Services
Mary P. Mercer, MD, MPH, Chief of Medical Staff, Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital; Director, Emergency Medical Services and Disaster Medicine Section, University of California San Francisco Department of Emergency Medicine; and Professor, Emergency Medicine, University of California San Francisco School of Medicine
Yolande Pengetnze, MD, MS, Vice President, Clinical Leadership, Parkland Center for Clinical Innovation
Ed Prewitt, Editorial Director, NEJM Catalyst
Marcia Wong, Medical Epidemiologist, New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene