June 2021 Briefs
Meet HERO’s New Director of Communications! June marks a new era as our nation formally recognizes Juneteenth (June 19th), a day of immense celebration for the Black community and allies like HERO, hoping to make strides in diversity, equity, and inclusion. Juneteenth recognizes the day that the last slaves, living …
What’s new in Version 5 of the HERO Scorecard?
The HERO Health and Well-being Best Practices Scorecard in Collaboration with Mercer© (HERO Scorecard) is a free online survey that was designed as an educational and benchmarking tool to help employers identify and assess their use of practices that support more effective health and well-being initiatives. Since the initial launch …
HERO May Briefs
Shine a Light: May is Mental Health Month “I wasn’t just in darkness. I had become the dark.” These powerful words were penned by my friend, Cooper Thornton, who just last week released his 13-chapter essay in which he shares very personally his experience with depression and treatment during the …
HERO April Briefs
HEROForum21: Something for everyone! Early in life, I learned that you can’t please everyone all of the time, or even some of the time. While I still believe that to be true, I think we’re very close to a variety of options for HEROForum21 that will satisfy even the harshest …
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 …