team from USU
team from Georgetown
team from Howard
team from UMD
Congratulations to our four winners!
🏅 USU (Grand Prize)
🏅 Georgetown (Interprofessional Prize)
🏅 @howard.edu (Practicality Prize)
🏅 @umaryland.edu (Wildcard Prize)
Your solutions shine for what’s possible when health + data + innovation meet community need.
#dcphcc #PopHealthRT
Congrats to all seven teams in this year’s DC Public Health Case Challenge!
Teams from across the area tackled this year’s theme: Strengthening Health Resilience for Chronic Disease in DC Through Technology and Data Solutions. nam.edu/news-and-ins...
#PublicHealth #TechForGood #dcphcc #PopHealthRT
Join us on September 29 for a virtual public workshop exploring #TaxPolicy as a structural driver of health. Participants will explore how tax policies at different levels of government shape health during the life course. #PopHealthRT #SDOH
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Join us on September 29 for a virtual public workshop exploring #TaxPolicy as a structural driver of health. Participants will explore how tax policies at different levels of government shape health during the life course. #PopHealthRT #SDOH
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Join us on September 29 for a virtual public workshop exploring #TaxPolicy as a structural driver of health. Participants will explore how tax policies at different levels of government shape health during the life course. #PopHealthRT #SDOH
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Our Feb 2025 workshop explored how changes at the intersection of #democracy and the #economy can help improve #populationhealth and well-being. Read here: buff.ly/AKwl302 #PopHealthRT #SDOH
Appreciative of closing remarks by George Isham on broader narratives we didn't touch on too explicitly today re: assumptions about values of winners / losers in tax policy and the role of government to achieve a healthy society #pophealthRT
We like seeing real examples by @annedebiasi showing how we need to braid funding streams...e.g., Colorado school behavioral health services came about by braiding Medicaid, SAHMSA grants, and state grants along with taxing recreational marijuana #pophealthrt
Super interesting example by @annedebiasi on using a Family Justice Model to leverage new market tax credits, community benefit / hospital loan, and state building commission funds to fund domestic violence programs, medical services, & behavioral health #pophealthrt
Thank you, Linda Rudolph of @USCHAlliance, for asking why we're not talking about focusing on something we know is working, like the Earned Income Tax Credit to tackle income inequality! #pophealthrt
We're so happy that the first question is about WHY we're framing the ROI in terms of dollars instead of social value! #pophealthRT #ValuesMatter
A4 - Today we’ve learned that many in the #publichealth community are already aware that #taxpolicy is health policy! We look forward to continuing this conversation--and the work--with you! #TaxesAreGood #pophealthrt
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A1 - Tax policy can promote #pophealth by ensuring that tax revenues support resources for all communities, not just those with the most wealth. We need the kind of tax reform that will allow everyone the opportunity to thrive. #TaxesAreGood #pophealthrt
"We can't afford to be one issue advocates!" Aysha from @ChangeLabWorks closing out the morning #pophealthrt
"Need to combine community education with community partnership" Aysha from @ChangeLabWorks on the importance of reframing the conversation away from 'it's bad for X people' to put people most impacted at the forefront of convo #pophealthrt
"There's economic 'perfect,' there's public health 'perfect,' and there's political 'good.'" @DRX_CA on how to win strategically #pophealthrt
"Pollution is a text-book externality. Without regulation, institutions and people don't consider it in their behaviors" Meredith Fowlie from UC Berkeley diving right into her talk on cap and trade #pophealthrt
"Leading with health justice and having folks at the table will significantly transform the tax policy campaign..to transform community education and build power" @DRX_CA #pophealthRT
Tips for success from @DRX_CA: structure grantmaking so it allows community-based programs to achieve sustainable success = set up grantmaking for 2 years to start #pophealthrt
We love that @DRX_CA is leading with HEALTH JUSTICE, not just equality, not even just health equity! #pophealthrt
"Why we took on the soda tax in Berkeley: we wanted to address health inequities. The idea was to fund nutrition and education programs in Berkeley schools with the soda tax...but also healthy food access to communities most burdened" @DRX_CA #pophealthRT
Aysha from @ChangeLabWorks breaking down this slide to highlight how we need to flow resources back into community with direct input from folks from the community to achieve health equity #pophealthrt
"Local governments' ability to innovate on taxes vary by state and by commodity. The use of preemption by states or the federal government limit localities' power" Aysha from @ChangeLabWorks #pophealthrt
Loving Aysha's opener on how the frame of of 'sin taxes' can be detrimental to our goals, almost as bad as the 'nanny state.' Let's reimagine taxes as a public health tool! #pophealthrt
Sin taxes = selective excise taxes. Examples include tobacco, alcohol, up-and-coming cannabis, gas, etc. - learning from Aysha from @ChangeLabWorks #pophealthrt
Next discussion is Key Opportunities for Shaping Incentives and Creating a Pipeline of Financing Population Health: Exploring Sin Taxes & Population Health Tax Credits w moderator @KathyGerwig #pophealthrt
We're appreciative of the recurring questions and comments on property taxes and who they benefit vs. how they limit access to homeownership vs. how they perpetuate wealth gap #pophealthrt
Whatever the federal government ends up doing, it should be a wake up call for states to legislate their own tax solutions #pophealthrt
