Podcast Feature: Health Equity in the Midst of COVID-19
04.19.2021 | Health Leads
Our Chief People & Equity Officer, Jennifer Valenzuela, is a featured guest on the Novartis Foundation podcast discussing health equity and the uptick in food ...
Latest Blog Posts in 2021
What Essential Resource Data Tell Us about our COVID Recovery
11.18.2020 | Damon Francis MD
As we work to to flatten the next COVID-19 curve – the increased demand for essential resources like food, housing and income supports – it is critical that we lean on data to inform the path forward. In this post written with several of our Bay Area partners, we review various data sources to show how social services systems have been impacted by the pandemic and discuss the power of harnessing data in partnership with community input to shape interventions.
Rightnowish: Keeping Yourself and Your Culture Healthy During COVID
08.26.2020 | Health Leads
In this podcast episode of Rightnowish, our very own Chief Clinical Officer Damon Francis discusses his work on the front lines and offers advice for healthy living during COVID-19.
Q&A with Dr. Janice Underwood, Virginia’s first cabinet-level Chief Diversity Officer
08.10.2020 | Health Leads
Since September 2019, Dr. Janice Underwood has served as Virginia’s first cabinet-level Chief Diversity Officer, and she currently leads the Health Equity Task Force. We sat down with Dr. Underwood to discuss the transformative work the Northam administration and her team specifically are doing to fight racial injustice, advance equity across many dimensions of diversity, and build equitable systems in response to racial injustice and the COVID-19 pandemic.
Addressing Community Needs and Preparing for the Secondary Impacts of Covid-19
06.25.2020 | Health Leads
The CEOs of Health Leads and Hopelab provide learnings from the field, and a framework for understanding the dimensions of the growing gap between essential resource needs and the capacity to meet those needs, which includes the ability to effectively coordinate resources and facilitate cross-sector collaboration as we rebuild systems with sustainable solutions.