Michael Fisher
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96 appearances
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first heard Sep 2019
last heard Sep 2019
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Elevating the importance of children and children's health, not only on the altruistic and moral grounds, but for the benefit of society is really important.
And so we think we've got a big role to play to bring our content knowledge and our passion and our expertise to convene various parties, whether it's social service agencies, government entities, certainly schools and businesses to the table.
Another thing that we have to work on every day, but I think it's really important to this work, and that's trust.
Getting a parent, a child or an adolescent, and all of these other partners to come together, to stay together, to work on these kinds of issues together, I think is the work that we're talking about to address some of these social determinants.
I think to the notion of economic sustainability of some of this work, we are fortunate to have philanthropic support, foundation support, and some well-meaning businesses helping us on those kind of things.
I know in our state, we've been working with the state on home visitation for at-risk first-time moms, maybe some help on the mental health provider support, both in school and other settings, and then on the core policy piece of that, particularly for the children on Medicaid.
I think at an institution like ours, we also
are an enormous research institution.
And so I think our ability to provide these kinds of partnerships and interventions and do learning that is publishable, that might warrant research funding so that we can come up with evidence-based interventions as opposed to really altruistic ones.
And I personally have been very involved in is a multi-sector approach in our community called the Child Poverty Collaborative.
And I think what we've been able to make the case increasingly to our friends in the business community is this is good for their business to have children who grow up to be capable employees, to have citizens who are productive and sharing best practices about how to overcome transportation barriers for people with their job needs or other kinds of interventions that employers will see in their self-interest for a more productive, more stable, more growing workforce.
Well, I think it's a work in progress.
And I think the incentive is children.
So how can we come together around some shared goals for those children?
How can we learn from each other?
How can we share some of these improvement tools so that we're all using similar methodologies to try to drive that?
So one area I know our team
has been working on is using geomapping and other techniques to look at particulate matter.
And it may be more condensed near a highway, for example, or near a former industrial site, for example.
And we know those neighborhoods are going to have higher incidence of asthma and other kinds of respiratory diseases.
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