Full description of Session 1:
An Overview of SDoH for Health Outcomes
This session will provide an introduction to the symposium. ISOQOL Past President, Joanne Greenhalgh, will discuss the relevance of this topic to our organization. The primary presenters at this first plenary will provide an introduction to SDoH, including conceptualizations and perspectives of SDoH. The relevance of SDoH to HRQL and its application in addressing outcomes for persons with chronic disease will be discussed.
Objectives:
Learn how the topic is relevant to HRQL and ISOQOL
Provide an introduction to and perspectives of SDoH
Understand how SDoH play a role in chronic disease and health outcomes
Speakers:
Joanne Greenhalgh, PhD, Professor of Applied Social Research Methodology, University of Leeds, United Kingdom
Ghazala Mir, PhD, Professor of Health Equity and Inclusion, University of Leeds, United Kingdom
Alyson Mahar, PhD, Assistant Professor, Health Quality Program, Queen’s University, Canada
Description of Session 2:
Addressing SDoH to Improve Health and Well-Being
Representatives from the CDC and NIMHD will discuss conceptualizations of SDoH and strategies for addressing SDoH from research and programmatic perspectives. A community-level intervention to address blood pressure will be used as an example to highlight how clinic and community linked interventions can address SDoH and improve outcomes.
Objectives:
Discuss strategies, challenges and opportunities for addressing SDoH
Describe examples of federal approaches to addressing SDoH from program and research perspectives
Understand challenges and opportunities for clinic and community linked interventions
Speakers:
Karen Hacker, MD MPH, Director, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, CDC, United States
Deborah Duran, PhD, Senior Advisor Data Science, National Institutes of Health, United States
Shari Bolen, MD MPH, Professor of Medicine, The MetroHealth System
Full desription of Session 3:
Methodological Approaches to Quantify SDoH
This session will address methodological approaches to measuring SDoH. Methodology topics include composite summary indexes, geocoding, and complex systems modeling of causal effects.
Objectives:
Learn how to define SDoH for inclusion in research studies
Introduction to novel methodologies such as geocoding and complex systems modeling
Understand the social predictors of several HRQL outcomes according to machine-learning and other advanced models
Speakers:
David Cella, PhD, Professor and Founding Chair, Department of Medical Social Sciences, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, United States
Jarrod E. Dalton, PhD, Director, Center for Populations Health Research, Cleveland Clinic, United States
Lisa Lines, PhD MPH, Senior Health Services Researcher, RTI International, United States
Session 4: Research in Chronic Conditions
This session will follow a series of clinical and public health research presentations documenting the relationship between SDoH and HRQL for individuals living with diverse chronic illnesses.
Objective:
Based on research, learn how SDoH applies to HRQL and health outcomes in persons with cardiovascular disease, autoimmune inflammatory disorders, mental illness, and for transgender and gender-diverse individuals.
Speakers:
Foster Osei Baah, MS-PhD RN, Assistant Professor, Emory University, United States
Justin Abbatemarco, MD, Assistant Professor at the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine, Staff Physician at the Mellen Center, United States
Manraj Kaur, PhD, Investigator, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, United States
Jan R. Boehnke, PhD, Reader, University of Dundee, United Kingdom
Online, 16th & 17th July:
"Measuring what matters in social determinants of health"
[register by 15.07.]
www.pathlms.com/isoqol/cours...
Over two days, 16 speakers, and in five sessions the symposium invites discussion around how SDoH relate to #HRQL and addressing health outcomes.
#MWMsymposium
![Session 2: Addressing SDoH to Improve Health and Well-Being
Representatives from the CDC and NIMHD will discuss conceptualizations of SDoH and strategies for addressing SDoH from research and programmatic perspectives. A community-level intervention to address blood pressure will be used as an example to highlight how clinic and community linked interventions can address SDoH and improve outcomes.
Objectives:
Discuss strategies, challenges and opportunities for addressing SDoH
Describe examples of federal approaches to addressing SDoH from program and research perspectives
Understand challenges and opportunities for clinic and community linked interventions
Speakers:
Karen Hacker, MD MPH, Director, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, CDC, United States
Deborah Duran, PhD, Senior Advisor Data Science, Analytics and Systems, the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD) at the NIH, United States
Shari Bolen [cut short....]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:necfmyeaeynf2wlfallc6d53/bafkreigtlwxtd6jd46ozurx2jm6eni7uqebx4gbb4lrd2pa7mm5qpn66xm)
![Session 1: An Overview of SDoH for Health Outcomes
This session will provide an introduction to the symposium. ISOQOL Past President, Joanne Greenhalgh, will discuss the relevance of this topic to our organization. The primary presenters at this first plenary will provide an introduction to SDoH, including conceptualizations and perspectives of SDoH. The relevance of SDoH to HRQL and its application in addressing outcomes for persons with chronic disease will be discussed.
Objectives:
Learn how the topic is relevant to HRQL and ISOQOL
Provide an introduction to and perspectives of SDoH
Understand how SDoH play a role in chronic disease and health outcomes
Speakers:
Joanne Greenhalgh, PhD, Professor of Applied Social Research Methodology, University of Leeds, United Kingdom
Ghazala Mir, PhD, Professor of Health Equity and Inclusion, University of Leeds, United Kingdom
Ifeolorunbode A. Adebambo, MD, Associate Professor of Family [unfortunately cut off due to lack of space]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:necfmyeaeynf2wlfallc6d53/bafkreib2q4oaaz5ccpdjm2vl6lcjgizlkwgj3msqgbqwpgptfru43qkbve)
