DIALOGUE4HEALTH

• Provide updates on the status of ACA community prevention provisions;
  
• Share next steps and actions that community health advocates can take to inform elected officials and key decision-makers about the value of community prevention; and
  
• Share recent examples of community prevention successes

PRESENTERS

Susan L. Polan, PhD
Associate Executive Director
Public Affairs and Advocacy
American Public Health Association

Susan Polan, PhD, is associate executive director for public affairs and advocacy with the American Public Health Association. She oversees the Association's departments of government relations and affiliate affairs, communications and membership. She is responsible for planning and directing APHA's legislative, regulatory and legal activities, communicating those initiatives and Association news to members and the public, and overseeing membership recruitment and retention and Affiliate, Caucus and Section relations. (www.apha.org)

Larry Cohen, MSW
Executive Director
Prevention Institute
Oakland, CA

Larry Cohen, MSW, is the Executive Director and founder of Prevention Institute. Prevention Institute is a national non-profit dedicated to creating systematic, comprehensive strategies that change the conditions that impact community health. An important focus of Mr. Cohen’s work has been to develop local policies that support health and wellness and spur legislation at the state and federal levels. (preventioninstitute.org)


Richard Hamburg, MPA
Deputy Director
Trust for America’s Health
Washington, DC

Richard Hamburg is Deputy Director at TFAH. He oversees public policy initiatives, advocacy campaigns, and internal operations and has more than 25 years of experience as a leading health policy advocate. He has led TFAH's efforts to ensure disease prevention is a centerpiece of health reform, and has been instrumental in TFAH's work on obesity prevention, building national pandemic flu and public health emergency response capabilities, and increasing support for public health priorities and budgets. (healthyamericans.org)

Jeffrey Levi, PhD
Executive Director
Trust for America's Health
Washington, DC

Jeffrey Levi, PhD, is Executive Director of Trust for America's Health, where he leads the organization's advocacy efforts on behalf of a modernized public health system. Dr. Levi oversees TFAH's work on a range of public health policy issues, including its annual reports assessing the nation's public health preparedness, investment in public health infrastructure, and response to chronic diseases such as obesity. (healthyamericans.org)

Amanda M. Navarro, DrPH, MPH
Associate Director
PolicyLink
Oakland, CA

Amanda M. Navarro, DrPH, is an Associate Director at PolicyLink in New York, NY. Dr. Navarro currently leads efforts within the national Convergence Partnership—a collaboration of funders aimed at achieving healthy people living in health places through environmental and policy change. She provides research, technical assistance, and training on collaborative, multi-field strategies to improve community environments particularly in low income communities and communities of color. (www.policylink.org)

MODERATOR

Matthew Marsom
Director of Public Policy
Public Health Institute
Oakland, CA

Matthew Marsom is the Director of Public Health Policy and Advocacy for the Public Health Institute (PHI). The Public Health Institute (PHI) is an independent, nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting health, well-being and quality of life for people throughout California, across the nation and around the world. Mr. Marsom is responsible for designing and implementing PHI strategy for monitoring and influencing public policy, legislation and regulations affecting PHI projects and public health policy relevant to PHI interests. (www.phi.org)