Fall 2020 Forum

 Michigan Health Policy Forum

September 14, 2020

1:00 pm to 3:00 pm

ZOOM CONFERENCE

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When Racism Intersects Health.The next Michigan Health Policy Forum will be held on September 14 beginning at 1:00 pm. The title is “When Racism Intersects Health.” This Forum will examine what we have learned from the disproportionate impacts that  Covid 19 has had on communities of color and the underlying factors, both within and external to the health care system, that have fueled these results. This will be a ZOOM Conference and registrants will receive the information to log onto this Forum during the week of September 7.
 
We hope you will be able to join our expert panel on September 14 to discuss this timely issue.  If you have any questions, please contact us at paradis@msu.edu or stiffl14@msu.edu.

 

Link to Agenda

 

Speakers

Garlin Gilchrist II

Lt. Governor

Lt. Governor Garlin Gilchrist has dedicated his career to fixing problems for hardworking families. From spearheading campaigns for equality and justice to harnessing technology to solve everyday problems for Detroiters, his focus has consistently remained on serving the public by getting things done.
Bringing Michigan’s state government fully into the 21st century is a top priority for Lt. Governor Gilchrist. He brings a lifetime of experience to the task, receiving his first computer at age five and setting up a computer lab in the community recreation center using computers that he built himself at age 16. Lt. Governor Gilchrist studied computer engineering and computer science at the University of Michigan, graduating with honors, and later had a successful career as a software engineer at Microsoft, helping to build SharePoint into the fastest growing product in the company’s history.
During his time in Seattle, Gilchrist served as Social Media Manager for the 2008 Obama campaign in Washington, where he helped launch a national text message program to recruit volunteers. He later served as the first Director of New Media at the Center for Community Change in Washington, D.C., and spent three years as National Campaign Director at MoveOn.org, where he spearheaded equity and justice campaigns, including fighting to expand Medicaid in states with Republican governors, like Michigan.
This eventually led to his serving as the first ever Director of Innovation & Emerging Technology for the city of Detroit, where he used public data and technology to address every day concerns the community was facing – including an app to report issues such as broken fire hydrants, potholes and broken street lights. This mindset of harnessing technology to solve problems will play a critical role in finding solutions to improve the lives of people across the state.
A native of Detroit, Lt. Governor Gilchrist’s parents are proud lifelong Detroiters. His mother worked at General Motors for 32 years and his father worked in defense contract management for the Department of Defense. His family was active in the community, including serving in leadership roles within their various neighborhood associations, as well as the church. Lt. Governor Gilchrist began speaking at Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Detroit at age four, and later honed his skills under Dr. Frederick G. Sampson at Tabernacle Missionary Baptist Church.
Lt. Governor Garlin Gilchrist and his wife, Ellen, currently reside in Detroit where they are raising their twins, Emily and Garlin III, and newborn daughter, Ruby.

Aron Sousa, MD, FACP

Interim Dean - College of Human Medicine

Aron Sousa, MD, FACP, has been appointed interim dean of the College of Human Medicine, effective October 25, 2019. He previously served as interim dean in 2015 and 2016, prior to Norman J. Beauchamp Jr's appointment as dean.
In his previous role, Sousa served as senior associate dean for academic affairs at the Michigan State University College of Human Medicine, a post he's held since 2006. He was responsible for the educational programs of the college across the seven community campuses across the state. During that time he managed the doubling of the college’s class size, and converting its two-year, 60 student Grand Rapids campus into a four-year, 350 student campus. He also led the creation of a pair of new, two-year clinical campuses in Traverse City and Midland. During 2015 and 2016 he served as the interim dean of the college.
The majority of Dr. Sousa’s work is in medical education and curriculum. He led the design of the college’s new and highly successful Shared Discovery Curriculum, which is characterized by robust clinical experiences in each year of medical school, promotion based on progress testing, and content organized by chief complaint rather than organ system or discipline. Dr. Sousa leads the college’s accreditation activity and regularly serves as a site team member for the Liaison Committee on Medical Education. As the leader of the college’s $30 million expansion in Flint, Dr. Sousa was the PI on the C.S. Mott grants that led to the college establishing the CHM building and the creation of the Division of Public Health in Flint.
Dr. Sousa is a practicing general internist. He received his bachelor’s in chemistry and his medical degree from Indiana University School of Medicine. He then served as both a resident and chief resident in internal medicine and completed a Primary Care Fellowship at Michigan State University.

Dr. Renée Branch Canady

Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of MPHI

Dr. Renée Branch Canady serves as Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of MPHI; a Michigan-based and nationally engaged non-profit public health institute dedicated to advancing population health through public health innovation and collaboration.
Dr. Canady has been recognized as a national thought leader in the areas of health inequities and disparities, cultural competence, and social justice. She has published and presented broadly on these topics and her passion for this work is evident in her personal, academic, and professional life. Dr. Canady has been highly influential in broadening the discussion of health equity and social justice while serving on numerous national boards, review panels, and advisory groups.
Dr. Canady has been an outstanding public health advocate, researcher, educator, and facilitator, and is a highly sought after speaker. Her career path has also included serving as Directed of Student Affairs in the College of Nursing at MI State University and Assistant Area Director in the Department of Residence Life at the University of North Carolina. She earned her PhD in Medical Sociology from Michigan State University, a master’s degree in Public Administration from Western Michigan University and a bachelor’s degree in Public Health Nutrition from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Vernice Davis Anthony, BSN, MPH

CEO VDA Health Connect/Anthony & Associates, LLC

Ms. Anthony has years of executive and board leadership experience and a proven track record of success in health policy development, creating collaborative health care solutions, community health impact strategies, access to care models and health related business solutions. This has involved working in operations, senior management capacities and as CEO. Her various positions have spanned healthcare systems, state, local and national appointments. In fact, Ms. Anthony is a first in having served as the health officer at three levels of government, city, county and state. She has also held several high-level board seats, including Governor Emeriti of Wayne State University, Western Michigan University Board Chair and Chair of the Detroit Wayne County Airport Authority. In addition her recognitions and awards for her community service are many, including Distinguished Alumni Awards from both Wayne State University and University of Michigan, School of Public Health, Michigan Women’s Foundation Humanitarian Award, Crain’s Detroit Business 100 Most Influential Women and 100 most Influential Blacks, Michigan’s Most Powerful Women from Corp! Magazine and Alternative for Girls Role Model Award. She received the highly prestigious recognition as a 2019 “Distinguished Warrior” from the Detroit Urban League and was inducted into the Michigan Women’s Hall of Fame.

Sarah Lyon-Callo, MS, PhD

Bureau of Epidemiology and Population Health

Sarah Lyon-Callo administers the Bureau of Epidemiology and Population Health staff to assure that programs meet operational and grant objectives. She oversees four divisions: Communicable Disease, Environmental Health, Lifecourse Epidemiology and Genomics, and Vital Records and Health Statistics. She works with senior leaders from each division to set objectives and define strategies that best utilize staff’s strengths in achieving program goals.
Sarah serves as the State Epidemiologist and is responsible for reviewing staff technical reports and publications for scientific accuracy and implications for public health practices. She provides epidemiologic knowledge to staff in response to outbreaks and chemical events. She mentors MPH and doctoral students, Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists (CSTE) fellows, and Epidemic Intelligence Services (EIS) Officers with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Sarah has served as an epidemiologist at MDHHS more than 15 years, working in areas of environmental health, maternal and child health, health disparities, and chronic disease. Sarah has a Masters of Science in Epidemiology and Biostatistics from University of Massachusetts at Amherst and a PhD in Epidemiologic Science at the University of Michigan School of Public Health.

 

Recording of the 9/14/2020 Michigan Health Policy Forum

 

Background/Resources

 

Slide presentations from the September 2020 Forum