2016 UAA Annual Conference

Increasingly, the health sector is recognizing that community development is an essential ingredient for local action on the social determinants of health. This panel convenes experts from medicine, community development, finance, and public health to consider opportunities for increasing collective impact at the intersections of health and development in the post- Affordable Care Act context of health system transformation. The presentations collectively support rethinking the drivers of this type of intersectoral activity, how the history of the Community Reinvestment Act and its affects in low-income neighborhoods can offer lessons for the navigating the current context, institutional transparency, and strategies for investing to advance health and social equity. Specific subtopics addressed include: addressing the complexity of simultaneously acting on multiple determinants of health, metrics and measures of success, evidence-based community building, fiscal mechanisms to capture and reinvest health care savings, and workforce considerations.


Moderator: Shauneequa Owusu, New York Academy of Medicine

CRA Modernization and Community Benefit: Insights on Investing for Health Impact
John Moon, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco

Promoting Co-Location and Collaboration to Address Place-Based Determinants of Health
Amy Gillman, Local Initiatives Support Coalition

Neighborhood Adversity, Child Health, and the Role for Community Development
Douglas Jutte, Building Healthy Places Network and UC Berkeley-UCSF Joint Medical Program, University of California; Jennifer Miller, Building Healthy Places Network; David Erickson, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco

New York State Hospital “Community Building” Investments: Will They Advance Health Equity?
Kimberly Libman, The New York Academy of Medicine

Lessons on Leadership and Sustainability for Building Healthy Neighborhoods
Cherise Fong, East Bay Asian Local Development Corporation