HERO March Briefs
Celebrate Women’s History Month! Last week at our regular HERO team Zoom meeting, we had a celebration. As each person logged in to the meeting the screen filled with the faces of our team members, culminating in a perfect 3×3 “Brady Bunch” grid of women’s faces, and we took the …
Call for Committee Volunteers!
HERO Study Committees entered 2021 developing refreshed charters affording new opportunities to get involved! As a HERO member, one of the best ways to contribute and network is through volunteer committee work. Based on member interest and industry needs, study committees discuss, analyze and investigate topics aligned with HERO’s research priorities …
HERO February Briefs
“Every day we write the future.” Photo by Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, used under CC BY 2.0 / Cropped from original In this month of honoring the significant contributions of Black Americans to our shared history, my attention has been on the young Black woman who is …
Genetic Testing in Health and Wellness Programs: Results of a Recent NIH-Funded Study
Patricia A. Deverka, MD, Executive Manager, Deverka Consulting Marc S. Williams, MD, Director Emeritus Genomic Medicine Institute, Geisinger The science behind genetic testing and the applicability of such tests in managing population health is expanding at a rapid pace. At the same time, the costs of tests are coming down. …
Reply Below with Your Best Books of All Time for Health Promotion Professionals
Assembling a best books list of any kind is fraught with the potential to disappoint, dissimulate and devolve into controversy about what books did and did not make the list. I must say up front, I just love that! What better way to provoke thought about what has brought us …
New well-being assessment provides a tool to measure broader health and well-being impact
New well-being assessment provides employers and their collaborators with a brief, validated tool to measure broader health and well-being impact By IHI authors in collaboration with Karen Moseley and Jessica Grossmeier at HERO Years ago, employers and industry collaborators first approached HERO with a request to identify the core metrics …
HERO November Briefs
HERO’s Move Benefits Local Food Pantry This year has taught us so much and challenged us to think differently about a number of areas, among them work and community. Pre-COVID, the HERO team — spread from East Coast to West Coast — was already working remotely most of the time, …
New Insights on the Role of Incentives in Workplace Well-being
Financial incentives continue to be a core component of workplace well-being initiatives, with 78% of larger employers offering them in some form. While past research has shown that incentives are effective in driving participation in some components of wellness programming, a new HERO study assesses the impact of incentive design …
A Barber, a Professor and an Entrepreneur Walk into a Room: Health Equity and the Strength of Weak Ties
Perhaps, like me, you get invitations to meetings where you’re not convinced it will be time well spent, but you acquiesce nevertheless. Minnesota nice is my excuse. When a health futurist comes calling, the temptation to invent excuses looms larger still. And as much as I’m hard pressed to say …
Ryan Bojrab, DPT, LSSBB; Senior Director of Health Strategy, First Person
Ryan Bojrab, DPT, LSSBBSenior Director of Health Strategy, First Person Ryan Bojrab brings almost ten years of combined experience in healthcare administration, clinical practice and wellness program management to First Person Advisors. He channels those skills to fulfill his passion for building evidence-based healthcare solutions that help organizations meet their …