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Building a Culture of Health: The Role of Foundations in Community Development and Health


Tuesday, November 3, 2015 : 2:45 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.

Donald Schwarz, MD, MPH, MBA, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Princeton, NJ

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Since 2010, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation has partnered with regional Federal Reserve offices to host a series of convenings bringing together non-profit community developers and community development finance institutions with health care and public health leaders. At the heart of this initiative has been the recognition of the vital role that place – neighborhood – plays in health outcomes. Through this work and through strategic funding of research, network building, and the Foundation’s 2014 Commission to Build a Healthier America report, RWJF has played an active role in fostering innovative community development that improves community health and well-being by addressing the social determinants of health. In this presentation, I discuss how RWJF has engaged with both the community development and the health sectors to catalyze and support this innovative work.

Learning Areas:

Other professions or practice related to public health

Learning Objectives:
Discuss the links among health, place, and community development, highlighted by RWJF's 2014 Commission to Build a Healthier America and RWJF's partnership with regional Federal Reserves. Explain the role that RWJF, as a foundation, has played in supporting and catalyzing work at the intersection of community development and health, and the implications for deeper public health and health sector involvement.

Keyword(s): Community Development

Presenting author's disclosure statement:

Qualified on the content I am responsible for because: At RWJF I lead efforts to catalyze public demand for healthier people in healthier places. As Philadelphia’s Deputy Mayor for Health and Opportunity and Health Commissioner, I established a unique public-private partnership to construct a health center, recreation center, and library complex serving the diverse South Philadelphia community. I was Vice Chairman of Pediatrics and Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Pennsylvania, and senior fellow at its Leonard Davis Institute for Health Economics.
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.

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