Description
Learn from community leaders in health care, public health and community organizations as they discuss how they’re addressing health in their Cincinnati neighborhoods. Presented in partnership with the Institute for Healthcare Improvement.
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Contributors
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Carley Riley, MD, MPP, MHS, FAAP, Attending Physician, Cincinnati Children’s Division of Critical Care Medicine
Carley Riley, MD, MPP, MHS, is an associate professor in Pediatrics at University of Cincinnati College of Medicine and an attending physician in Critical Care and faculty co-lead of Population and Community Health at Cincinnati Children's Hospital. Her mission is to cultivate the conditions and systems for improving well-being and reducing related inequities for individuals and communities through research, policy, and activism. She has expertise in wellbeing, person-centered outcomes measurement, co-production, community organizing, cross-sector collaboration and community-based improvement science. Dr. Riley is actively involved in multiple national and local endeavors, including the Wellbeing in the Nation Research & Learning Network, the Yale Wellbeing Research Team and the All Children Thrive Learning Network Cincinnati. Dr. Riley received a Bachelor of Arts in English Literature and a Medical Doctorate from Northwestern University, a Master of Public Policy from UCLA, and a Master of Health Science from Yale University. She completed General Pediatric Residency and Chief Residency at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles and Pediatric Critical Care Fellowship at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital. Dr. Riley was a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Clinical Scholar at Yale University from 2013-2015 and is currently a fellow with The Institute for Integrative Health.
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Lauren Bartoszek, PhD, CHES, Assistant Director, Population Health Strategies, The Health Collaborative
Lauren Bartoszek, PhD, MCHES, assistant director, Population Health at The Health Collaborative, helps lead multi-sector, multi-stakeholder strategic partnerships that center equity and focus on addressing the social determinants of health in the Greater Cincinnati region. Lauren graduated from University of Cincinnati with a PhD in Health Education and is a Master Certified Health Education Specialist. She is a member of the Norwood substance abuse coalition, and of the steering committee for Xavier University’s Center for Population Health. In her free time, Lauren teaches fitness at Barre3 Mariemont; enjoys visiting new restaurants with her husband, TC; and hanging out with daughter, Beatrice.
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Jennifer Foster, Community Advisory Board Member
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Shannon Welch, MPH, Senior Project Director, Institute for Healthcare Improvement
Moderator
Shannon Welch, MPH, is a senior director for the Institute for Healthcare Improvement. Her 14 years of experience working in public health and most recent experience in healthcare drives her passion and commitment to equity-focused work. Shannon’s current portfolio of projects includes work on equity and population health initiatives. Shannon recently led IHI’s Merck for Mothers Better Maternal Outcomes: Redesigning Systems with Black Women initiative and the Pursuing Equity Learning and Action Network that aims to reduce inequities in health and health care access, treatment and outcomes by implementing comprehensive strategies to create and sustain equitable health systems. Prior to joining IHI, Shannon worked for the Oklahoma City-County Health Department as the division director of Community Health. During her tenure with the agency, she had primary oversight for a large, 350-member, multi-sector coalition and a portfolio of community health programs. -
Greg Kesterman, MPA, Health Commissioner, Hamilton County Public Health
Greg Kesterman is health commissioner for Hamilton County Public Health, an agency with an operating budget of $20 million serving more than 495,000 citizens in 45 political jurisdictions in southwestern Ohio. Agency responsibilities include epidemiology, immunizations, tuberculosis and sexually transmitted infection control, food service inspection and licensing, plumbing inspection and permitting, waste management, water quality, emergency preparedness and response and health promotion and education. He has been with Hamilton County Public Health since 2006.