Join us for the Primary Care Transformation and Health Equity in the Era of NC Medicaid Expansion conference! Reserve your spot now for this event on June 14. Excited to have Kody Kinsley & Somava Saha, WIN, WE in the World, RISE as our keynotes! 🔗 fmch.duke.edu/education-trai… #NCMedicaidExpansion #HealthEquity

Excited to be with you to talk about ways Medicaid transformation can open up new opportunities for population health equity.

"If we want health care access for all, shouldn't we spend a disproportionate amount on those who have been left behind--Black, native, Latinx people? Isn't that equity?" Sec Kody Kinsley NC Secty of Health and Human Services Roma Family Medicine & Community Health Symposium

Listening to an incredibly powerful group of community residents helping people to really understand what it feels like for youth in North Carolina to navigate a world where they feel threatened because they are Black, LGBTQ, Latinx, etc

WE WIN Together Week 2024 was a time of celebration, healing, and joy. WE are forever changed. Watch the full highlight film here: youtu.be/XDnR7pLR5FU #WWTW2024 #WE4Equity #WEWINTogether #Equity #Change #realchange #BetterAncestor

What a full-circle moment, 85 years in the making! 97-yo Opal Lee, aka the "Grandmother of Juneteenth," has finally received the keys to her new Fort Worth, TX, home — built on the site where her family's house once stood before it was burned down by an angry white mob in 1939.

At Aspen Ideas moderating a session about how healthcare can be transformative in creating generational change, from shifting power in South Texas to health as a human right to shifting political economy Well-Being and Equity in the World

Listening to a powerful panel Aspen Ideas about the harm to black and brown leaders of doing anti racist work in the context of organizations that are not and have not done their work, and why white accomplices are needed

"Aging is not about what you can't do, it's about what you don't have to do anymore" Cheryl Woodson Aspen Ideas

Cheryl Woodson's recipe for living out loud as you age: 1) Primary care prevention 2) Get your money straightened out 3) Stay active - your mind, your body, make new relationships

Listening to Dr. Nadine Gracia of TFAH eloquently describe how inequitable community conditions and the allostatic load of racism and poverty contribute to premature aging and lower life expectancy. Aspen Ideas

Loving the number of speakers who have mentioned indigenous communities as a resource in considering how to think about addressing aging even as the drop in life expectancy is understood and acknowledged.

Good morning and welcome to #APHA2024! As a part of Positive Message Day, make sure you visit Lobby E to take part in Leave a Message, Take a Message!

Minnesota Commissioner of Health Brooke Cunningham powerfully describes how some people are "locked out of health and life opportunity, locked in to bad schools, air & other #vitalconditions, or locked up in prisons rather than being treated." #APHA2024

Look who I found at #APHA2024!

:L's Commissioner of Health Brooke Cunningham articulated it rightly...... “Justice is what love looks like in the public” #APHA2024

A powerful beginning to a crucial keynote from Reed Tuckson at #APHA2024 APHA

I just sent a message to my members of #Congress to protect the #OlderAmericansAct from funding cuts... and it was really easy! Join me in asking Congress to invest in #agingwell for older adults and generations to come. act.ncoa.org/a/oaa?ms=OAA_T…

I just donated to Well-Being and Equity in the World Institute! Will you join me in being a better ancestor? weintheworld.org/donate/