July 12, 2024 | Daniel E. Dawes, J.D., DHL (Hon.)
Description:
The intersection of policy and health equity is critical. It is important to consider the implications and direct and indirect links and impacts policy has on climate, health, and equity. In this webinar, healthcare attorney Daniel E. Dawes, Senior Vice President and Founding Dean of the School of Global Health and Executive Director of the Institute of Global Health Equity at Meharry Medical College, will address his Political Determinants of Health (PDOH) framework that evaluates the origins of these health-related disparities and assess the ways policy and structural institutions can be used to reverse past and current harms and how physicians can contribute to and support solutions.
This activity has been approved for AMA PRA Category 1 credit (s) ™
* Note: CME is available until March 2025
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Daniel E. Dawes, J.D., DHL (Hon.)
Senior Vice President, Global Health & Founding Dean, School of Global Health at Meharry Medical College
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Daniel E. Dawes, moderator for this activity has no financial relationships with ineligible companies* to disclose and has indicated that the presentations or discussions will not include off-label or unapproved product usage.
Non-faculty contributors and other involved in the planning, development and editing/review of the content have no relevant financial relationships to disclose with ineligible companies*.
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Speaker Bios:
Daniel E. Dawes, J.D., DHL (Hon.), is a widely respected healthcare and public health leader, health policy expert, educator, and researcher who serves as Senior Vice President of Global Health at Meharry Medical College and Founding Dean of the School of Global Health. He previously served as Vice President and Executive Director of the Satcher Health Leadership Institute at Morehouse School of Medicine. A trailblazer and nationally respected voice in the health equity movement, his scholarship and leadership, particularly the innovative political determinants of health framework that he pioneered, have resulted in increased policies and laws prioritizing health equity. By tackling upstream determinants of health, he has ventured into such uncharted territory as the intersection between equity and the social and political determinants of health to change the course of domestic and global policies for the better.
His groundbreaking works, 150 Years of ObamaCare, which document the health equity movement in America and elevates the health equity-focused provisions of the Affordable Care Act that he led in negotiations and formulation, and The Political Determinants of Health, which provides an in-depth lens on the root causes of inequities, both published by Johns Hopkins University Press are now nationally and internationally recognized and used as top health policy books. His passion for addressing health inequities is exemplified in his unyielding commitment to building collaboratives, including the HHS grant-funded National COVID-19 Resiliency Network and the Health Equity Leadership & Exchange Network. He led the development of nation’s first Health Equity Tracker.
Professor Dawes is an elected member of the National Academy of Medicine and an elected fellow of the New York Academy of Medicine. He serves as an advisor to The White House COVID-19 Health Equity Task Force and was appointed to the CDC’s Advisory Committee to the Director and the NIH’s National Advisory Council for Nursing Research. In addition, he serves or served on several boards, commissions, and councils focused on improving health outcomes and elevating health equity in the United States and around the world, including the National Football League/National Football League Players Association – National Committee on the Racial Disparities of COVID-19, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Policies for Action National Advisory Committee, the Hogg Foundation for Mental Health National Advisory Council, and the Children’s Mental Health Network National Advisory Council.