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Culture of Health and Lessons Learned from Social Movement Development


Tuesday, November 3, 2015 : 1:10 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.

Anita Chandra, Dr.P.H., Justice, Infrastructrure and Environment, RAND Corporation, Arlington, VA
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation has worked over the past year, in collaboration with the RAND Corporation, to develop a Framework and set of Measures that support a national strategy and movement to Build a Culture of Health. We have collaborated with leaders across sectors and in communities across the nation to mobilize the vision into action. It will guide our investments over the next 20 years in research and programmatic innovation. This Panel with present examples of the type of cross sector partnerships we believe will improve health and wellbeing across the nation. Session Objectives: Describe the new RWJF Culture of Health strategy and the role of collaborative partnerships with organizations in and outside of the health sector.

Learning Areas:

Diversity and culture
Planning of health education strategies, interventions, and programs
Provision of health care to the public
Public health or related public policy
Public health or related research
Systems thinking models (conceptual and theoretical models), applications related to public health

Learning Objectives:
Describe how other large-scale social change efforts provide insight for Culture of Health. Evaluate lessons about measurement of these efforts and what is transferable to culture of health analysis.

Presenting author's disclosure statement:

Qualified on the content I am responsible for because: I have been a Public Health Researcher for over 15 years, and have been working closely with the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation for the last few years on developing the Action Framework for the Culture of Health.
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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