Member Spotlight: Patty Purpur de Vries, MS; Director of Strategy, Outreach and Innovation for Stanford’s BeWell Program
Patty Purpur de Vries, MSDirector of Strategy, Outreach and Innovation for Stanford’s BeWell Program and an Ambassador for Stanford’s WellMD Center Born and raised in Grand Forks, North Dakota, Patty graduated from Stanford University in 1989 after receiving a full-athletic scholarship. She was a 9-time NCAA All-American in the Shot …
The ABCs of Change
Courtesy of The Avarna Group, www.theavarnagroup.com, 5/25/2019 June 19th, 2020 “Health is not just the sense of completeness in ourselves but also is the sense of belonging to others and to our place; it is an unconscious awareness of community, of having in common.” ~ Wendell Berry On May 25th, 2020, …
2020 Fall Think Tank Meeting
Hypertension management in the workplace: Evidence from a RCT clinical trial in China (JAMA, March 2020)
For a long time, few clinical trials were completed addressing the effects of workplace-based wellness intervention programs on the management of high blood pressure (BP). From January 2013 to December 2014, a cluster randomized clinical trial of a hypertension management program was conducted in 60 workplaces across 20 urban regions …
Use of Social Strategies Linked to More Effective Health and Well-being Initiatives
Megan Flanagan is a Wellness Consultant with PacificSource Health Plans in Portland, Oregon. She works with private and public-sector employers throughout the state to implement successful workplace wellness programs. As a Master’s of Public Health graduate from Utah State University, Megan served on the Utah Health Improvement Plan Committee and is a …
HERO May Briefs
Bright Spots Responses to the global pandemic are varied. Individually, we may cycle through anxiety, hope, exhaustion, joy, repeat. And we see it in the faces of the healthcare workers-each one a hero–some of whom volunteer to leave their families to travel to work in areas of high demand. With …
Member Spotlight: Lauren (Schulte) Remspecher, MPH, CHES Senior Director, Member Engagement & Communications – St. Louis Area Business Health Coalition
Lauren (Schulte) Remspecher, MPH, CHES; Senior Director, Member Engagement & Communications – St. Louis Area Business Health Coalition Lauren (Schulte) Remspecher is senior director, member engagement and communications for the St. Louis Area Business Health Coalition (BHC), a non-profit collaborative supporting over 70 leading employers in their efforts to improve …
Shared Value in Community Partnerships: Measures that matter to results-oriented stakeholders
Somava Saha, MD, Director, Executive Lead, Well-being and Equity (WE) in the World and Well Being In the Nation (WIN) Network Somava Saha, MD, serves as founder and executive lead of Well-being and Equity in the World (WE in the World), as well as executive lead of the Well Being …
The Employer’s Role in Community Health: What’s working and not working in public-private partnerships
Marna Canterbury, Director, Community Health, HealthPartners Marna has been a leader in community health improvement for more than 25 years for health plans, clinics, nonprofits and schools. As Director of Community Health for HealthPartners, Marna provides leadership in convening of community in the development, implementation and evaluation of community needs …
Being Safe Versus Safer When We Go Back to Work
Normalizing masks and hard-earned lessons from the AIDS pandemic. Though CDC guidelines recommend wearing cloth masks to reduce the spread of COVID-19, you can expect public adherence to vary as much as expert opinions and role modeling from political leaders varies. We need to be concerned about the latter because …