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The National Association of Chronic Disease Directors (NACDD) released a new, groundbreaking Social Justice Framework (https://chronicdisease.org/nacdd-releases-transformative-social-justice-framework-to-guide-public-health-practice/), which was created to provide public health practitioners with a blueprint for embedding social justice into the work of chronic disease programs. For American Heart Month 2024, we sit down with Robyn Taylor, NACDD's VP of the Center for Social Justice to understand how the framework could be applied to cardiovascular disease prevention and health promotion.

This month's episode features Drs. Stephanie McGrath and Kelsey Hake from the University of Pittsburgh School of Pharmacy (Million Hearts Health Equity Implementation funding recipients) and Troy Trygstad from the Community Pharmacy Enhanced Services Network highlighting successes and lessons learned in state and national pharmacy engagement strategies for cardiovascular disease prevention and health promotion.

In this episode, Dr. Letitia Presley-Cantrell from the CDC and Dr. Karol Watson from UCLA have a dynamic discussion about the health disparities African American women experience in cardiovascular health.

As we close out American Heart Month, the NACDD CVH Team remains committed to invigorating the field of cardiovascular disease and health promotion and helping to set direction for the future. We’re excited to share the inaugural episode of The Heart of the Matter, a new podcast to highlight best practices and innovation in cardiovascular disease prevention and health promotion. Learn more about John Hopkins employee wellness strategies: https://millionhearts.hhs.gov/partners-progress/hospitals-health-systems/johns-hopkins.html.

Episode 3: Board President Kristi Pier begins the conversation with Julia Caplan and Holly Nickel from the Public Health Institute where they focus on community resilience and wellbeing.

Questions asked:

1. Tell me about Health in All Policies. How does it support well-being in all communities?
2. I understand your Health in All Policies work has evolved over the years to focus more on racial equity. What can you tell us about that shift? In an ideal world, what would Health in All Policies look like? What is your vision of a community where health in all policies has been fully adopted?
3. Your program, State of Equity at the Public Health Institute, facilitates the Capitol Collaborative on Race & Equity (CCORE) that arose from your Health in All Policies work. What is the high-level overview of that work? How can or do states engage with CCORE to support cross-sector partnerships?
4. Tell us more about how PHI defines a healthy community? What is the significance of addressing racial equity in supporting resilience in community health?
5. How do the relationships developed through the CCORE training cohorts support community resilience? Are there ways this is being measured or tracked?
6. What are some lessons learned from implementing HiaP and CCORE in California? What recommendations or advice do you have for states and organizations who are just getting started?

Learning Objectives

· Define what makes a resilience-centered program
· Identify areas in which organizations and staff can increase resilience in their teams and communities
· Apply lessons learned from resilience-focused leaders in public health to current and future programs

The 2022 NACDD Board President’s Challenge Podcast examines how to build resilience at all levels of the socioecological model. In this seven-part series Board President Kristi Pier interviews leaders from across the country who are working in public health at the societal, community, interpersonal, and individual levels to learn promising practices and next steps to building environments supportive of resilience and well-being.

Episode 5: Board President Kristi Pier interviews Dan Foy of Gallup to look at resilience and wellbeing and the interpersonal level and how organizations can support employee wellbeing in practice.

Questions asked:

1. Gallup is an a global analytics and advice firm working with leaders to understand and address opportunities within their organizations. They have a wealth of knowledge around trends in the workplace, having collected data on employee engagement from 35 million people across the world. Dan, tell us about your work with Gallup. What are your focus areas? What energizes you most about your role?
2. As we are in year 3 of experiencing a global pandemic, there are more conversations happening around resilience which impacts us on an individual level, but also impacts us at work. Can you tell us more about what’s being tracked related to employee resilience and wellbeing?
3. Have you changed what you’re looking at as a result of changing work environments in response to COVID?
a. Probe: how are you looking at employee wellbeing (social-emotional, physical, financial, intentions to leave or stay with company, connection with colleagues and work etc.)
4. What stands out to you as the most important factor organizations need to attend to if they are going to successfully support employee wellbeing?
5. Gallup recently (March 2022) released new data showing the shift in employee perceptions of their organizations caring about employee wellbeing. What can you tell us about that?
6. What do you see as some of the biggest factors impacting the shift in perceptions? What can be done to address this shift? What are the potential implications if organizations don’t address this?
7. What do you see as the biggest challenges organizations will need to address moving forward as it related to employee resilience and wellbeing? How might they begin tackling these challenges? How can leadership at all levels support organizational efforts to improve resilience and wellbeing?
8. Based on the data, what’s next? What are the next steps organizations should be taking based on resilience and wellbeing?

Learning Objectives

· Define what makes a resilience-centered program
· Identify areas in which organizations and staff can increase resilience in their teams and communities
· Apply lessons learned from resilience-focused leaders in public health to current and future programs

The 2022 NACDD Board President’s Challenge Podcast examines how to build resilience at all levels of the socioecological model. In this seven-part series Board President Kristi Pier interviews leaders from across the country who are working in public health at the societal, community, interpersonal, and individual levels to learn promising practices and next steps to building environments supportive of resilience and well-being.