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Developing our future leaders with programming that emphasizes the role structural inequities play in our health

Communicating Through the Enterprise

To help inform our key stakeholders, including leaders, licensed practitioners, and staff, about our progress to reduce identified health care disparities, the Dalio Center for Health Justice provides updates on health equity related work through several communication channels.

Additionally, health equity updates are provided quarterly to the NewYork-Presbyterian Board of Trustees’ Community Mission & Health Justice Committee, ad-hoc to the NewYork-Presbyterian Board of Trustees’ Committee on Quality and Patient Safety, and monthly to the Dalio Center’s executive steering committee.

Our Communications Channels

  • The Annual Progress Report is posted to both NewYork-Presbyterian’s external website and the Infonet
  • Updates are included in monthly “MD Topline”, a physician-facing NewYork-Presbyterian newsletter
  • Quarterly newsletters are sent to all NewYork-Presbyterian Vice Presidents for distribution to their staff, and copies of the newsletter are available on the NYP Infonet
  • The Dalio Center presents at Patient Centered Academies across campuses each quarter
  • Dalio Center maintains an email account ([email protected]), where staff can pose questions or suggest projects
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Participated in over

30
events about the Dalio Center for
Health Justice, health equity, and
diversity in medicine

Health Equity Conference, Events, and Website

The Dalio Center has created a wide variety of content to help educate our staff and our community about health disparities and the role structural inequities play in our health.

In 2022, we continued to expand our public facing website (www.nyp.org/daliocenter), launching three new videos on the social determinants of health, a new site dedicated to sickle cell disease, our Health Equity report, and a video about the Dalio Center’s work, which was featured at the American Public Health Association’s 2022 TV Thought Leadership Film Series.

In addition to these digital resources, Dr. Iyasere and other team members have participated in over 30 community discussions, hospital presentations, and external events about the Dalio Center for Health Justice, Health Equity, and Diversity in Medicine.

Featured Community Discussions & Events

  • Black History Month keynote address for the Fashion Institute of Technology
  • Guest lectures at Columbia Business School, Columbia Mailman School of Public Health, and NYU Stern School of Business
  • Panelist for the New York Hall of Science and Elmcor Youth Community Forum’s Public Health Careers with Black and Latino Youth session
  • Keynote address for the New York Academy of Medicine’s New Fellows
  • Discussion with Alexis McGill at the Planned Parenthood Annual Spring Luncheon
  • Faculty for the Hospital Association of New York’s ‘Foundation for Equitable Care’ lecture series
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Over

400

attendees at our inaugural conference
on Race, Racism, & Health

Inaugural NYP Dalio Center for Health Justice Conference

Race, Racism, and Health

On October 3rd, 2022, the Dalio Center for Health Justice held its inaugural conference: Race, Racism, and Health at the Brooklyn Museum. Over 400 people attended, with more than over 200 people attendees in person. Our keynote speaker, Heather McGhee, shared her thoughts on solutions to inequity in America while other speakers highlighted racial disparities in healthcare and presented ways for healthcare systems to take action. We look forward to the next conference in 2023.

Featured Talks

Leadership Education and Development (LEAD) for Physicians

The LEAD program at NYP was launched in July 2017, in collaboration with Columbia’s Business School and the Department of Health Policy & Management (HPM) at Columbia’s Mailman School of Public Health. LEAD delivers strategic management and health policy training to rising-star physicians in the NYP health system. Following the launch of the Dalio Center for Health Justice, the LEAD curriculum and programs were re-evaluated and revised to incorporate programming that emphasizes the role structural inequities play in our health.

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Class of 2022-23 LEAD Physicians

Responding to Epidemics and Crises in Health (REACH) Fellowship

The Dalio Center, in collaboration with ICAP at Columbia University, the global center at Mailman School of Public Health, has launched the REACH Fellowship. This innovative, one-year program provides a select group of NYP staff across a variety of disciplines an opportunity to learn how to predict, manage, and lead robust responses to complex health emergencies, including emerging infectious diseases and other health crises.

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2022 REACH Fellows

Book Club

In 2022, we launched our Dalio Center Book Club with the aim to engage our Dalio Team members and NYP colleagues in health justice and anti-racism discourse. Each quarter we have one book focused on a specific topic and feature a review of it in our newsletter, as well as have an annual event centered around one of our book topics. Our 2022 Books are:

  • Quarter 1: Caste by Isabel Wilkerson
  • Quarter 2: The Sum of Us by Heather McGhee
  • Quarter 3: Men Explain Things to Me by Rebecca Solnit
  • Quarter 4: There, There by Tommy Orange

Dalio Center Distinguished Fellows and Recognition Awardees

Launched in December 2022, the Dalio Center for Health Justice Distinguished Fellows and Recognition Awards recognize the work of our CUIMC and WCMC faculty partners and NYP staff in identifying and addressing inequities and health justice at NYP and our surrounding communities.

Distinguished Fellows

  • Himabindu Ekanadham, MD (CUIMC)
  • Shashi Kapadia, MD (WCMC)
  • Rebecca Leeds, MD (CUIMC)
  • Lucy Torres-Deas, MD, FACP (CUIMC)
  • Gina Villani, MD (WCMC)

Recognition Awardees

  • Luisa Santos, Program Manager, NYP/Weill Cornell
  • Lisia Constanzo, Program Coordinator, NYP/Columbia