How Modeling Can Inform Strategies to Improve Population Health Workshop Summary (2016) / Chapter Skim
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to coordinate the development and evaluation of and to advance the use of predictive 1The planning committee's role was limited to planning the workshop, and the workshop summary has been prepared by the workshop rapporteurs as a factual summary of what occurred at the workshop. Statements, recommendations, and opinions expressed are those of individual presenters and participants, and are not necessarily endorsed or verified by the Institute of Medicine, and they should not be construed as reflecting any group consensus.
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In his introductory remarks to the workshop, IOM President Victor Dzau commented on the importance of having multiple sectors work together to create the right environment to improve health. He noted that the audience at the workshop included members of many fields, such as education, philanthropy, health care, and private industry, among o thers, and that there is a need for all of these sectors to work together to make healthier communities and a healthier population.
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Dzau said that modeling can be used as a tool to support population health decisions by communicating uncertainty to those who make decisions that can affect public health and by helping to sort out the complexity. The public health field, though, is behind many others in its use of modeling to making informed policy decisions, Dzau said.
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The planning committee consisted of Ana Diez Roux, Dean of the Drexel University School of Public Health; Marthe Gold, Visiting Scholar at the New York Academy of Medicine and Professor Emerita of Community Health and Social Medicine at the City College of New York; David endez, Associate Professor of Health Management and Policy in M the Department of Health Management and Policy at the University of M ichigan School of Public Health; Bobby Milstein, Director of ReThink Health; Pasky Pascual, an environmental scientist, lawyer, and former Director of the Council for Regulatory Environmental Modeling at EPA; Louise Russell, Distinguished Professor at the Institute for Health, Health Care Policy and Aging Research and the Department of conomics at E R utgers University; Steven Teutsch, former Chief Science Officer at the Los Angeles County Public Health; and Steven Woolf, Director of the Virginia Commonwealth University Center on Society and Health. Teutsch served as the planning committee chair.
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In addition, the organizing committee's role was limited to planning the workshop. The workshop summary has been prepared by workshop rapporteurs Joe Alper and Amy Geller as a factual summary of what occurred at the workshop.
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