Wednesday, April 5, 2017

8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Instructional Building
72 East Concord Street
Hiebert Lounge

#BUSPHSymposia
Live-Streaming Available During Event

Boston University School of Public Health and GE healthymagination have partnered to bring together leaders in health across private and public sectors to explore new approaches for creating healthier cities. Contextualized in Boston, but taking a global perspective on population health, the day will explore how cities, through innovative leadership and data ecosystems, can be a model for generating healthy populations. The day will include presentations and conversations with US and international thought leaders in health from corporations, government, foundations, academia, and civil society.

Afternoon Keynote and Closing Remarks

Agenda

8:30 a.m. – 9 a.m.

Breakfast and Informal Greetings

9 a.m. – 9:15 a.m.

OPENING SESSION: Welcome and Opening Remarks

Sandro Galea

Dean and Robert A. Knox Professor, Boston University School of Public Health

Sue Siegel

CEO, GE Ventures & healthymagination

9:15 a.m. – 9:30 a.m.

KEYNOTE SPEAKER

Monica Valdes Lupi

Executive Director, Boston Public Health Commission

9:30 a.m. – 10 a.m.

COFFEE CONVERSATION: On Population Health in the Service of the Public

Sandro Galea

Dean and Robert A. Knox Professor, Boston University School of Public Health

Sue Siegel

CEO, GE Ventures & healthymagination 

Monica Valdes Lupi

Executive Director, Boston Public Health Commission 

10 a.m. – 10:10 a.m.

Break

10:10 a.m. – 11:10 a.m.

PANEL DISCUSSION I: Developing a Shared Vision for Healthy Cities: Looking Beyond Health Care to Generate Shared Accountability

Bechara Choucair

Senior Vice President and Chief Community Health Officer, Kaiser Permanente 

Karen Hein

Former President, William T. Grant Foundation, and Adjunct Professor, Community and Family Medicine, Geisel School of Medicine, Dartmouth College

George J. Isham

Senior Advisor, HealthPartners, and Senior Fellow, HealthPartners Institute

Dariush Mozaffarian

Dean and Jean Mayer Professor of Nutrition and Medicine, Tufts Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy

Elizabeth Mitchell (Moderator)

President and CEO, Network for Regional Healthcare Improvement

11:10 a.m. – 11:25 a.m.

Break

11:25 a.m. – 12:25 p.m.

PANEL DISCUSSION II: Understanding the Needs of a Population: Building the Right Data Ecosystems and Infrastructure for Population Health

Lisa Berkman

Thomas D. Cabot Professor of Public Policy, Epidemiology, and Global Health and Population, and Director, Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Karen DeSalvo

Former Acting Assistant Secretary for Health, US Department of Health and Human Services

Jonathan Levy

Professor, Environmental Health, Boston University School of Public Health

Lonny Reisman

Founder and CEO, HealthReveal

Steven H. Woolf

Director, Center on Society and Health, and Professor, Department of Family Medicine and Population Health, Virginia Commonwealth University

Susan Dentzer (Moderator)

President and CEO, Network for Excellence in Health Innovation

12:25 p.m. – 1:10 p.m.

Lunch and Networking 

1:10 p.m. – 1:55 p.m.

FIRESIDE CHAT: What Does the Future Hold for Urban Informatics?

Sanji Fernando

Vice President, Optum Labs Center for Applied Data Science

Jascha Franklin-Hodge

CIO, City of Boston

Peter Marx (Interviewer)

Vice President, Advanced Projects, GE Digital, and Adjunct Professor, University of Southern California

1:55 p.m. – 2:05 p.m.

Break

2:05 p.m. – 3:05 p.m.

PANEL DISCUSSION III: Empowering Communities: Lessons from the Field on Spurring Action, Developing Capabilities, and Sustaining Impact

Rick Brush

CEO, Wellville

Jennifer Edwards

Director, Developing Health US, GE Foundation

Tom Grilk

CEO, Boston Athletic Association/Boston Marathon

Rain Henderson

Founder, Elemental Advisors, and Advisor, Clinton Foundation

James S. Marks

Executive Vice President, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

Harold Cox (Moderator)

Associate Dean, Public Health Practice, and Associate Professor, Community Health Sciences, Boston University School of Public Health

3:05 p.m. – 3:15 p.m.

Break

3:15 p.m. – 3:45 p.m.

KEYNOTE SPEAKER

Maureen Bisognano

President Emerita and Senior Fellow, Institute for Healthcare Improvement

3:45 p.m. – 4 p.m.

CLOSING REMARKS

Sandro Galea

Dean and Robert A. Knox Professor, Boston University School of Public Health