YSPH / InnovateHealth Yale: "Innovations In Urban Health"

The health and welfare of urban communities is one of the great public health and medical challenges. Come meet some of the leaders in providing innovative solutions to reduce health disparities. Learn about a peer-to-peer model for improving adolescent health, how an innovation hub generates world-class programs to improve primary care, and a new, software-based platform to integrate community resources with health care providers. The panel will be interactive with lots of opportunities to learn, meet, and share.

Reception to follow.

Featuring: 

Jeannette R. Ickovics -  Samuel and Liselotte Herman Professor of Social and Behavioral Sciences and Professor of Psychology at Yale University. She was Founding Director of Social and Behavioral Sciences at the School of Public Health (2002-2012). Dr. Ickovics is Director of CARE: Community Alliance for Research and Engagement, and Deputy Director for the Yale Center for Interdisciplinary Research on AIDS where she was Director of an NIH training program for pre- and post- doctoral fellows for 15 years (now co-Director). Through her work at CARE, she secured New Haven as the first US site of Community Interventions for Health, a multi-national, multi-sectoral research collaborative focused on the prevention of chronic diseases worldwide. She was founding Chair of the Adherence Committee of the AIDS Clinical Trials Group (NIAID), responsible for the adherence portfolio across 27 AIDS Clinical Trials Units nationwide. Dr. Ickovics is currently PI of a new public-private evaluation with Merck for Mothers (evaluating the use of community health workers for pregnant women with chronic disease) and an NIH-funded randomized controlled obesity prevention trial at 12 middle schools in collaboration with the Rudd Center and the New Haven Public Schools. Dr. Ickovics is the recipient of national awards and recognition, and is author of more than 180 peer-reviewed publications. 

Manik Bhat – A 2012 graduate of Johns Hopkins University and Health Leads alumnus, is the current CEO of Healthify a New York-based startup on a mission to build a world where no one's health is hindered by their need. They are currently focused on helping large healthcare organizations better address the social determinants of health by helping at-risk patients connect to the social services needed to thrive. Their product is used across the country by over 9000 healthcare staff conducting over 100k searches for people in need every year. 

Louise Langheier – In 2003, Louise co-founded Peer Health Exchange, Inc. (PHE) in order to help fill a gap left by underfunded, understaffed health education programs in public high schools nationwide. As Chief Executive Officer, Louise is primarily responsible for leading PHE’s national growth plan, building and managing the PHE Staff and Boards, raising funds, and providing fiscal and organizational oversight. Louise graduated from Yale University with a B.A. in History. While at Yale, she co-founded and directed Community Health Educators, the student volunteer program out of which PHE grew. Louise was selected as a member of the 2011 class of Aspen Entrepreneurial Education Fellows, and was named an Ashoka Fellow in 2012. Louise sits on the Board of Directors of Generation Citizen and America Achieves, and is actively involved with Dwight Hall at Yale-Yale’s Center for Public Service and Social Justice.

Daren Anderson, MD – VP/Chief Quality Officer, Community Health Center, Inc., Associate Professor of Medicine, Quinnipiac University, Director, Weitzman Institute,

Dr. Daren Anderson is a general internist trained in primary care and has worked in safety net practices for his entire career. He currently serves as the VP/Chief Quality Officer of Community Health Center, Inc., a large, multisite community health center providing primary care to over 140,000 medically underserved patients across Connecticut.

Dr. Anderson is also the Director of CHCI’s Weitzman Institute, a research and innovations center dedicated to improving primary care for underserved populations.  The Weitzman Institute provides technical assistance and training in quality improvement to health centers across the country. In addition, Weitzman researchers are engaged in a range of research projects focused on primary care for the underserved. Dr. Anderson is the principle investigator for several of these projects focused on health disparities, healthcare access, primary care redesign, and pain management in primary care. In addition, he leads Weitzman’s successful Project ECHO and eConsult interventions, both designed to use technology to improve access to specialty care for medically underserved patients.