142nd APHA Annual Meeting and Exposition

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Building Blocks for Building a Culture of Health

142nd APHA Annual Meeting and Exposition (November 15 - November 19, 2014): http://www.apha.org/events-and-meetings/annual
Monday, November 17, 2014 : 10:30 AM - 10:50 AM

Abbey Cofsky, MPH , The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Princeton, NJ
The RWJF Culture of Health Prize honors and elevates US communities that are making great strides on their journey toward better health. This presentation will explore the six criteria that underpin prize winning communities’ work including a broad focus on health, a strategic policy-oriented approach, equal opportunity for health, the collective power of leaders and partners, creative use of resources, and measurement of progress.

Learning Areas:

Diversity and culture
Public health or related organizational policy, standards, or other guidelines
Public health or related public policy
Systems thinking models (conceptual and theoretical models), applications related to public health

Learning Objectives:
Describe the six criteria used to select RWJF Culture of Health Prize winners.

Presenting author's disclosure statement:

Qualified on the content I am responsible for because: I am a senior program officer at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and have led the RWJF Culture of Health Prize work since its inception in 2011. I have worked with community health organizations across the nation and hold a MPH.
Any relevant financial relationships? No

I agree to comply with the American Public Health Association Conflict of Interest and Commercial Support Guidelines, and to disclose to the participants any off-label or experimental uses of a commercial product or service discussed in my presentation.