Roundtable on Population Health Improvement: 2017 Annual Report (2018)

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Roundtable on Population Health Improvement Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice 2017 Annual Report 

MESSAGE FROM THE CO-CHAIRS  George Isham and Sanne Magnan The roundtable’s fifth year represented a productive continuation of its role as a preeminent national forum for building the population health field. Members and outside colleagues reported that research pursuits, program activities, and new collaborations were inspired and informed by the roundtable’s work. In 2016, the roundtable developed a theory of change to illustrate its process and goals. The theory of change is that the activities organized by roundtable—such as workshops, perspectives, and collaboratives—and tactics that include raising awareness, framing issues, posing questions, and making connections can catalyze actions to improve population health. The theory of change includes a structured exploration of the six conditions of influence to help shape and inform the field: resources, relationships, policy, communication, metrics, and research. Through strategic planning, the roundtable members decided to focus 2017 and 2018 efforts on highlighting the following determinants of health: equity, education, and economics, or the three Es. Following its 2016 workshop Framing the Dialogue on Race and Ethnicity to Advance Health Equity, the roundtable also committed to making health equity a permanent lens for all activities. Through strategic planning, The roundtable hosted four workshops in Washington, DC, Prattville, AL, New York the roundtable members City, and Oakland, CA. Topics ranged from health implications of climate change decided to focus 2017 and to the ways that tax policies could be designed to support population health improvement. To extend the work, we focused on multi-sector collaboration; e.g., 2018 efforts on highlighting we invited education experts to participate in a dialogue on common ground for the following determinants of effect and collaboration. We also organized our workshops to include practical health: equity, education, and experiences and tools, such as a small group exercise on how to develop a tax or tax credit policy. economics, or the three E’s.