Healthy neighborhoods: Covering new approaches to well-being

Recorded May 25

Public health experts from Purpose Built Communities and Build Healthy Places Network will offer journalists insights into growing efforts to tackle the social determinants of health with an eye on communities at-large.

Amid increasing recognition that one’s neighborhood can impact health as much as – if not more than – other medical factors, this webcast will look at specific steps some cities and other areas are taking to address health with a more holistic lens by looking at space, redevelopment, affordable housing and more.

Carol Naughton, president of Purpose Built Communities (@PurposeBuiltCS), a nonprofit consulting firm aimed at helping localities redevelop poor, urban neighborhoods into healthier ones with a focus on mixed-income housing, education and wellness facilities. Naughton previously led the East Lake Foundation, a nonprofit group aimed at revitalizing Atlanta’s East Lake Community, and served as general counsel for the Atlanta Housing Authority.

Dr. Doug Jutte, executive director of Build Healthy Places Network (@BHPNetwork), an organization that aims to draw together community developers and health practitioners by encouraging collaboration, examining case studies and more. Jutte, a pediatrician, also works at the University of California, Berkeley School of Public Health as a professor and public health researcher whose work examines how the social determinants of health impact children, and how policy and finance affects families and communities.

Participants will gain a better understanding about how immediate surroundings can impact health struggles as well as what specific steps some areas have taken to address the health gaps. This webcast will help provide context for covering health in communities where health inequity exists, as well as story ideas on this emerging trend of addressing health through the community lens.

Susan Heavey, AHCJ’s topic leader for social determinants of health care, will moderate the webcast, which will include time for questions from AHCJ members.

• Carol Naughton is the president of Purpose Built Communities, responsible for leading the consulting teams that support revitalization in 16 cities such as Atlanta and Oakland, as well as the teams vetting opportunities in 35 additional communities. The work she has led has been recognized as uniquely successful by many, including Warren Buffett, Ben Bernanke, the White House Office of Neighborhood Revitalization, the Urban Land Institute, Mutual of America, Wells Fargo, Bank of America, the Education Trust, the Low Income Investment Fund, the San Francisco Federal Reserve Bank and the Secretaries of the U.S. departments of Housing and Urban Development and Education. Prior, she served as executive director of the East Lake Foundation and spent time as General Counsel and Deputy Executive Director for Legal and Nonprofit Affairs for t he Atlanta Housing Authoring.

• Douglas Jutte, M.D., M.P.H., is executive director of the Build Healthy Places Network, a newly formed national organization that catalyzes and supports collaboration across the community development and health sectors. Jutte is a pediatrician, professor and population health researcher at the University of California, Berkeley School of Public Health, where he teaches in the UC Berkeley-UCSF Joint Medical program. His research focuses on the impact of the social determinants of health on children’s wellbeing through the lifespan and the policy levers and financial tools that can intervene to protect families and communities.

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