Roundtable on Population Health Improvement
The Roundtable on Population Health Improvement brings together multiple sectors and disciplines to broaden the national conversation about the factors that shape our health and to inform and support cross-sector relationships and engagement to transform the conditions for health across U.S. communities. By hosting workshops, spurring individually-authored papers, and organizing action collaboratives, the roundtable brings together members and outside experts, practitioners, community members, researchers, and decision makers in dialogue about models and frameworks, good practices and tools, and the evidence to provoke and catalyze urgently needed multi-sector community engaged collaborative action.
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Evidence demonstrates that health and quality of life for all are shaped by interdependent historical and contemporary social, political, economic, environmental, genetic, behavioral, and health care factors. The Roundtable on Population Health Improvement exists as a forum for practitioners, researchers, and decision makers from different sectors and disciplines to examine, discuss, and make progress in addressing how those factors can further equitable health and well-being, including through community-engaged collaborative action. Since its founding in 2013, the roundtable has hosted over 40 workshops, each yielding one or more publications and associated activities. The roundtable’s publications have been used for strategic planning, in public health curricula, and for other purposes.
The roundtable membership includes leaders from the social sector, health care, government, philanthropy, and academia. Members work to highlight critical issues in population health, share new and emerging information, and collaborate across sectors and disciplines. View committee.
Like other roundtables and forums of the National Academies, the roundtable provides a communal environment to foster dialogue across sectors and institutions. The Roundtable on Population Health Improvement organizes its work in accordance with the following thematic priorities:
The population health ecosystem and partnerships
Effective narratives and communication
Strategy about what drives population health
Equity-centered values and norms
Government and democracy
Although roundtables and forums do not produce consensus recommendations, their work may result in the establishment of a separate consensus study report committee, may further the implementation of prior National Academies recommendations, or illuminate issues for exploration by the National Academies or other stakeholders. Learn more about the National Academies study process.
The Roundtable brings together members and outside experts, practitioners, community leaders, researchers, and decision makers in dialogue about models and frameworks, practices and tools, and the evidence about actions that can contribute to building a thriving, healthful, and equitable society. Members and invited speakers have made valuable connections and initiated new partnerships through their involvement in Roundtable activities.
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Description
The Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice will establish a multidisciplinary Roundtable on Population Health Improvement. The Roundtable will engage in dialogue and discussion that will emphasize exploration of cross-cutting issues pertinent to population health improvement strategies and activities.
The Roundtable will have the following functions: 1. To provide a core group of governmental and private sector stakeholders an ongoing, regular, evidence-based, impartial, scientific setting for the multidisciplinary exchange of information and ideas concerning strategies to improve population health; 2. To illuminate for the National Academies' consideration policy, research, and practice priorities worthy of further study or investment; and 3. Through workshops that would be separately organized and undertaken by the National Academies at the Roundtable’s request, to become informed on the scientific basis of population health improvement strategies and their implementation.
Contributors
Committee
Co-Chair
Co-Chair
Mariana Arcaya
Member
Thomas E. Dobbs, III
Member
Member
Member
Member
Member
Member
Rishi Manchanda
Member
Member
Jamila Michener
Member
George Nicholas
Member
Kenneth Reid
Member
Member
Ex Officio Member
Ex Officio Member
Ex Officio Member
Ex Officio Member
Ex Officio Member
Ex Officio Member
Ex Officio Member
Ex Officio Member
Ex Officio Member
Sponsors
Association of American Medical Colleges
Blue Shield of California Foundation
California Endowment
Kresge Foundation
Nemours
NYU School of Medicine Department of Population Health
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
The Rippel Foundation
Thomas Jefferson University
Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center
Staff
Alina Baciu
Lead
Stephanie Puwalski
Magdaline Anderson
Allie Andrada Silver
Amy Geller
Major units and sub-units
Center for Health, People, and Places
Lead
Health Care and Public Health Program Area
Lead