Showcase Presenter: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Showcase title:
Practical Playbook: Supporting Partnerships to Improve Health Outcomes
Presentation:
Practical Playbook: Supporting Partnerships to Improve Health Outcomes
Presenter Bios:
Denise Koo, MD, MPH
- Advisor to the Associate Director for Policy, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- Advisor to the Acting Assistant Secretary for Health, Department of Health & Human Services
Denise Koo, MD, MPH, is Advisor to the CDC Associate Director for Policy. In the Office of the Associate Director for Policy, she has led the development of the recently released CDC Community Health Improvement Navigator (www.cdc.gov/CHInav), which provides an important unifying framework and tools to support hospitals, health systems, public health, and other community organizations and stakeholders that are interested in improving the health of their communities.
Dr. Koo was graduated from Harvard University with a BA in Biochemical Sciences. After combining medical school at the University of California, San Francisco, with an MPH in epidemiology at University of California, Berkeley, she completed a primary care internal medicine residency at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston. Dr. Koo is a graduate of CDC’s Epidemic Intelligence Service and Preventive Medicine Residency. Prior CDC positions have included running the National Notifiable Disease Surveillance System, serving as Director of the Division of Public Health Surveillance and Informatics, and serving as Director of CDC’s Division of Scientific Education and Professional Development. Dr. Koo holds appointments as Adjunct Professor of Global Health and of Epidemiology, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, and Consulting Professor, Department of Community and Family Medicine, Duke University Medical Center.
Virginia Watson, MA
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- Project Manager, The CDC Experience Legacy Project
Virginia Watson is the Managing Editor of Success Stories for The Practical Playbook. She is also the Project Manager for The CDC Experience Legacy Project, which aims to disseminate learning materials she designed and developed for The CDC Experience Fellowship in Applied Epidemiology for medical students, at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta.
After graduating with degrees in Economics and Journalism from Georgia State University, Ms. Watson began her career as a medical writer and editor, specializing in a range of public health topics including epidemiology, reproductive health, violence prevention, immunization, global health, and HIV/TB. In this capacity she won several prestigious national awards for analytic and investigative reporting from various organizations, including the National Press Club.
After realizing she wanted help alleviate problems rather than simply report about them, Ms. Watson earned a masters degree in instructional systems design and development from Georgia State University. Since then she has been involved in many educational projects for organizations such as CARE International, the Christian Children’s Fund, and the Coca Cola Company. Before working with CDC’s Student Programs, Ms. Watson’s instructional design, development and evaluation work for the agency included projects for E.X.C.I.T.E. (“Excellence in Curriculum Integration through Teaching Epidemiology”), the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS), and the Epidemic Intelligence Service (EIS) fellowship program.
Content Description:
A 2012 Institute of Medicine report emphasized the increased need for public health and primary care to partner and work together to address multiple determinants of health and improve health outcomes. To this end, Duke University's Department of Community and Family Medicine, the de Beaumont Foundation, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention developed the Practical Playbook (PPB). The PPB provides tools and resources for both practitioners and educators in public health and primary care who want to implement practical strategies to improve population health outcomes. The PPB also coordinates and provides technical support for collaborative stakeholders in communities selected by the BUILD Health Challenge, evaluating and disseminating best practices for what works and how partners can work together. In this session, we wish to share with participants lessons that we have learned from supporting partnership development processes and insights that could be valuable about such collaborative work for others.
Learner Objectives:
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Describe how the Practical Playbook's resources and technical assistance can support collaborative work.
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Demonstrate use of the Practical Playbook by public health and primary care practitioners across the nation.
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Discuss new partnerships and insights that have evolved from the Practical Playbook since its inception, and how that can be applied to developing partnerships to improve health outcomes.