Dialogue About
the Workforce for
Population Health
Improvement
PROCEEDINGS OF A WORKSHOP
Melissa Maitin-Shepard and Carla Alvarado, Rapporteurs
Roundtable on Population Health Improvement
Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice
Health and Medicine Division
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PLANNING COMMITTEE ON DIALOGUE ABOUT THE WORKFORCE FOR POPULATION HEALTH IMPROVEMENT1
KEVIN BARNETT, Senior Investigator, Public Health Institute, and Co-Director, California Health Workforce Alliance
NISHA BOTCHWEY, Associate Professor, School of City and Regional Planning, Georgia Institute of Technology
GARY R. GUNDERSON, Vice President, Faith Health, Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center; Professor, School of Divinity, Wake Forest University
PHYLLIS D. MEADOWS, Senior Fellow, Health Program, The Kresge Foundation
JEREMY MOSELEY, Director of Community Engagement, FaithHealth Division, Wake Forest Baptist Health
KAREN MURPHY, Executive Vice President and Chief Innovation Officer, Founding Director, The Steele Institute for Health Innovation, Geisinger
JOSHUA M. SHARFSTEIN, Associate Dean for Public Health Practice and Training, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
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1 The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine’s planning committees are solely responsible for organizing the workshop, identifying topics, and choosing speakers. The responsibility for this published Proceedings of a Workshop rests with the workshop rapporteurs and the institution.
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ROUNDTABLE ON POPULATION HEALTH IMPROVEMENT1
SANNE MAGNAN (Co-Chair), Adjunct Assistant Professor, Division of Medicine, University of Minnesota
JOSHUA M. SHARFSTEIN (Co-Chair), Associate Dean for Public Health Practice and Training, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
PHILIP M. ALBERTI, Senior Director, Health Equity Research and Policy, Association of American Medical Colleges TERRY ALLAN, Health Commissioner, Cuyahoga County Board of Health
JOHN AUERBACH, Executive Director, Trust for America’s Health
CATHY BAASE, Chair, Board of Directors, Michigan Health Improvement Alliance; Consultant for Health Strategy, The Dow Chemical Company
DEBBIE I. CHANG, Senior Vice President, Policy and Prevention, Nemours
KATHY GERWIG, Vice President, Employee Safety, Health and Wellness and Environmental Stewardship Officer, Kaiser Permanente
MARTHE GOLD, Senior Scholar in Residence, The New York Academy of Medicine
MARC N. GOUREVITCH, Professor and Chair, Department of Population Health, New York University Langone Health
GARTH GRAHAM, President, Aetna Foundation
GARY R. GUNDERSON, Vice President, Faith Health, Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center; Professor, School of Divinity, Wake Forest University
WAYNE JONAS, Executive Director, Integrative Health Programs, H&S Ventures
ROBERT M. KAPLAN, Professor, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University
DAVID A. KINDIG, Professor Emeritus of Population Health Sciences, Emeritus Vice Chancellor for Health Sciences, School of Medicine and Public Health, University of Wisconsin–Madison
SALLY A. KRAFT, Vice President, Population Health, Dartmouth-Hitchcock
PAULA M. LANTZ, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Professor of Public Policy, Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, University of Michigan
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MICHELLE LARKIN, Associate Vice President, Associate Chief of Staff, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
THOMAS A. LaVEIST, Dean, School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, Tulane University
JEFFREY LEVI, Professor, Department of Health Policy & Management, Milken Institute School of Public Health, The George Washington University
SHARRIE McINTOSH, Vice President for Programs, New York State Health Foundation
PHYLLIS D. MEADOWS, Senior Fellow, Health Program, The Kresge Foundation
BOBBY MILSTEIN, Director, ReThink Health
JOSÉ T. MONTERO, Director, Office for State, Tribal, Local, and Territorial Support, Deputy Director, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
KAREN MURPHY, Executive Vice President and Chief Innovation Officer, Founding Director, The Steele Institute for Health Innovation, Geisinger
MARY PITTMAN, President and Chief Executive Officer, Public Health Institute RAHUL RAJKUMAR, Senior Vice President and Chief Medical Officer, BlueCross BlueShield of North Carolina
LOURDES J. RODRIGUEZ, Director, Community-Driven Initiatives at Dell Medical School; Associate Professor, Department of Population Health, The University of Texas at Austin
PAMELA RUSSO, Senior Program Officer, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
MYLYNN TUFTE, State Health Officer, North Dakota Department of Health
HANH CAO YU, Chief Learning Officer, The California Endowment
Health and Medicine Division Staff
ALINA BACIU, Roundtable Director
CARLA ALVARADO, Program Officer (until January 2021)
KIMANI HAMILTON-WRAY, Senior Program Assistant (through May 2019)
BRITTANY DAVENPORT, Senior Program Assistant (until December 2019)
ROSE M. MARTINEZ, Senior Board Director, Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice
Consultant
MELISSA MAITIN-SHEPARD, Rapporteur
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Contents
Organization of the Workshop and Proceedings
2 BUILDING A HEALTH WORKFORCE FOR THE FUTURE: LESSONS FROM A MULTI-STAKEHOLDER STATEWIDE INITIATIVE
3 PERSPECTIVES FROM PROFESSIONAL AND ACCREDITING ORGANIZATIONS
Public Health Workforce Interest and Needs Survey
Role of Essential Hospitals in Assessing Population Health Needs
State of Public Health Education
Local Public Health Workforce Considerations
Physician Education and Health Equity
4 THE COMMUNITY HEALTH WORKFORCE
Standardized, Scalable, and Effective Community Health Worker Programs to Improve Population Health
Community Health Worker Workforce Development and the Oregon Community Health Workers Association
Community Health Worker Training and the Future of the Profession
Population Health Workforce Support for Disadvantaged Areas Program
5 CROSS-SECTOR WORKFORCE: NATIONAL AND LOCAL EXAMPLES
TRAIN Learning Network and Competencies for Population Health Professionals
Nontraditional Student Training Through the Bloomberg American Health Initiative
Health in All Policies in Fairfax County, Virginia
6 BREAKOUT SESSION: MOVING TOWARD A POPULATION HEALTH WORKFORCE EXERCISE
7 REFLECTIONS ON THE DAY AND CLOSING REMARKS
C Biosketches of Speakers, Moderators, and Planning Committee Members