![]() ![]() We have over 300,000 colleagues that are really foundational to our ability to advance health equity at the company. ![]() Khaldun went from a key role in Michigan's COVID-19 response to writing a health equity strategy for one of the nation's largest health solutions organizations. And not just people who are on the health equity team, are reporting to the chief equity officer, but really across the entire company. And we've also been able to build a team that's really committed to delivering on this work. The thing I'm most proud of is really the way that, over the past year, we've been able to really work across the company to build on a strategy with specific initiatives, outcomes, and goals. Joneigh Khaldun is celebrating her first year on the job as vice president and chief health equity officer at CVS Health. Vorha's article about the Illinois pandemic experience using the link in the show notes.ĪSTHO alum Dr. And we have to make sure that we continue to prioritize public health because understanding that our best work is done behind the scenes. But in order to decrease those health inequities, we have to think about chronic disease, we got to think about mental health and behavioral disorders-because we saw that those things suffered as well during the pandemic. I think the mission for all of us-and it can't just be public health leaders, it has to be something that society really invests in-is rebuilding the future of public health and not just mobilizing around respiratory diseases that we saw with COVID-19. Vorha considers the pandemic a call to action. And it really took an effort unlike we have ever seen to combat that. They had worse hospitalizations, they had worse deaths. ![]() And we saw really early on, so powerfully, that individuals in the Latinx community, in the Black African American community, they were infected with the disease more than white Americans. But the way your health was affected really depended often on race, socioeconomic characteristics, geography. Like so many others in public health, Vorha is taking note of the inequities laid bare by COVID-19.īut just that idea that even a disease that, for many reasons, affected everybody in this country. And I, along with, you know, our dedicated team at Illinois Department of Public Health, wanted to use that moment three years from that first case to really talk and take a deeper look about the lessons that we've learned-the lessons that we're continuing to learn-from the COVID-19 pandemic, and how we could use those things that make both Illinois and our country healthier moving forward. That case happened in Chicago, was the second case in the entire country. So, Illinois had its three-year anniversary of its first COVID-19 case on January 24. Sameer Vorha, director of the Illinois Department of Public Health, reflecting on the pandemic in a new column written for the Chicago Sun-Times. Well, I think for many it's felt like a lot more than three years.ĭr. Now, today's news from the Association of State and Territorial Health Officials. This is Public Health Review Morning Edition for Friday, February 24, 2023. Public Health Infrastructure and Systems Improvement Association of State and Territory Health Officialsīreastfeeding and Early Life Nutrition Support ![]()
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