Building Healthy Cities: Boston and Beyond.
Wednesday, April 5, 2017
8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Instructional Building
72 East Concord Street
Hiebert Lounge
#BUSPHSymposia
Live-Streaming Available During Event
Boston University School of Public Health and GE healthymagination have partnered to bring together leaders in health across private and public sectors to explore new approaches for creating healthier cities. Contextualized in Boston, but taking a global perspective on population health, the day will explore how cities, through innovative leadership and data ecosystems, can be a model for generating healthy populations. The day will include presentations and conversations with US and international thought leaders in health from corporations, government, foundations, academia, and civil society.
PANEL DISCUSSION I: Developing a Shared Vision for Healthy Cities: Looking Beyond Health Care to Generate Shared Accountability
PANEL DISCUSSION II: Understanding Needs of a Population: Building the Right Data Ecosystems and Infrastructure for Population Health
FIRESIDE CHAT: What Does the Future Hold for Urban Informatics?
PANEL DISCUSSION III: Empowering Communities: Lessons from the Field on Spurring Action, Developing Capabilities, and Sustaining Impact
Afternoon Keynote and Closing Remarks
Agenda
8:30 a.m. – 9 a.m.
Breakfast and Informal Greetings
9 a.m. – 9:15 a.m.
OPENING SESSION: Welcome and Opening Remarks
Sandro Galea
Dean and Robert A. Knox Professor, Boston University School of Public Health
Sue Siegel
CEO, GE Ventures & healthymagination
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Sue Siegel is chief executive officer of GE Ventures, GE’s growth and innovation business comprised of early market development, investing, licensing, and new business creation. GE Ventures partners with startups to accelerate growth and commercialize innovative ideas in software and analytics, health care, energy, and advanced manufacturing that will help drive better outcomes for customers and society. Siegel has more than 30 years of combined experience in the corporate world and in venture capital. Previously, as a Silicon Valley-based financial VC, Siegel led investments and served as a board member of companies in personalized medicine, digital health, and life sciences at MDV. Before venture capital, at Affymetrix (NASDAQ: AFFX) as president and board member, she drove the company’s transformation from a pre-revenue startup to a global, multibillion-dollar market cap genomics leader. Previously, Siegel led strategy, technology development, licensing, manufacturing, and new market creation and development at Bio-Rad, DuPont, and Amersham. Siegel has served on many corporate boards, public and private, along with nonprofit boards. She currently serves on the boards of the National Venture Capital Association, Stanford Hospital Board’s IT Council, University of California’s Innovation Council, Harvard Partners’ Innovation Advisory Board, the Cleveland Clinic’s Innovation Council, and USC’s Schaeffer Center for Health Policy. Most recently, Siegel served on President Barack Obama’s Precision Medicine Initiative as a member of the Working Group to set guidelines for its establishment and served as an inaugural board member for the NIH’s National Center for Advancing Translation Sciences. She serves on the Executive Committee of Santa Clara University’s Miller Center for Social Entrepreneurship, is a President’s Circle member of the National Academies of Science and a Henry Crown Fellow of the Aspen Institute, and is a member of YPO-WPO and Women Corporate Directors. In the bestselling business book Multipliers: How The Best Leaders Make Everyone Smarter, Siegel was a featured “multiplier.” She has also been recognized as one of “The 100 Most Influential Women in Silicon Valley.”
9:15 a.m. – 9:30 a.m.
KEYNOTE SPEAKER
Monica Valdes Lupi
Executive Director, Boston Public Health CommissionRead More
Monica Valdes Lupi joined the Boston Public Health Commission (BPHC) as executive director in February 2016. Among other public health priorities, she is committed to preventing and treating substance use, strengthening the City’s partnerships with healthcare organizations, and advancing health equity for all Bostonians. As the executive director of the BPHC, the City’s health department, Valdes Lupi manages a $162 million budget and leads 1,100 employees. In addition to operating a broad range of public health programs, the BPHC includes Boston Emergency Medical Services, school-based health centers, several substance abuse treatment facilities, and the largest homeless services program in New England. In her role as executive director, Valdes Lupi serves as the key advisor to Mayor Martin J. Walsh on health issues and continues to build innovative partnerships across city agencies to leverage strategic opportunities for housing, economic development, transportation, education, and environmental policies to positively impact the health of all Boston residents. Prior to joining BPHC, Valdes Lupi served as the chief program officer for the Health Systems Transformation team at the Association of State and Territorial Health Officials (ASTHO). Valdes Lupi also served as the deputy commissioner for the Massachusetts Department of Public Health (MDPH) before joining ASTHO. She also served as the chief of staff for Commissioner John Auerbach at the Boston Public Health Commission, where she worked for more than six years. Valdes Lupi worked previously at the Massachusetts League of Community Health Centers as a policy analyst, where she coordinated the activities for the Boston Conference of Community Health Centers. She received her JD from the Penn State Dickinson School of Law, her MPH from Boston University School of Public Health, and her BA from Bryn Mawr College.
9:30 a.m. – 10 a.m.
COFFEE CONVERSATION: On Population Health in the Service of the Public
Sandro Galea
Dean and Robert A. Knox Professor, Boston University School of Public Health
Sue Siegel
CEO, GE Ventures & healthymagination
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Sue Siegel is chief executive officer of GE Ventures, GE’s growth and innovation business comprised of early market development, investing, licensing, and new business creation. GE Ventures partners with startups to accelerate growth and commercialize innovative ideas in software and analytics, health care, energy, and advanced manufacturing that will help drive better outcomes for customers and society. Siegel has more than 30 years of combined experience in the corporate world and in venture capital. Previously, as a Silicon Valley-based financial VC, Siegel led investments and served as a board member of companies in personalized medicine, digital health, and life sciences at MDV. Before venture capital, at Affymetrix (NASDAQ: AFFX) as president and board member, she drove the company’s transformation from a pre-revenue startup to a global, multibillion-dollar market cap genomics leader. Previously, Siegel led strategy, technology development, licensing, manufacturing, and new market creation and development at Bio-Rad, DuPont, and Amersham. Siegel has served on many corporate boards, public and private, along with nonprofit boards. She currently serves on the boards of the National Venture Capital Association, Stanford Hospital Board’s IT Council, University of California’s Innovation Council, Harvard Partners’ Innovation Advisory Board, the Cleveland Clinic’s Innovation Council, and USC’s Schaeffer Center for Health Policy. Most recently, Siegel served on President Barack Obama’s Precision Medicine Initiative as a member of the Working Group to set guidelines for its establishment and served as an inaugural board member for the NIH’s National Center for Advancing Translation Sciences. She serves on the Executive Committee of Santa Clara University’s Miller Center for Social Entrepreneurship, is a President’s Circle member of the National Academies of Science and a Henry Crown Fellow of the Aspen Institute, and is a member of YPO-WPO and Women Corporate Directors. In the bestselling business book Multipliers: How The Best Leaders Make Everyone Smarter, Siegel was a featured “multiplier.” She has also been recognized as one of “The 100 Most Influential Women in Silicon Valley.”
Monica Valdes Lupi
Executive Director, Boston Public Health Commission Read More
Monica Valdes Lupi joined the Boston Public Health Commission (BPHC) as executive director in February 2016. Among other public health priorities, she is committed to preventing and treating substance use, strengthening the City’s partnerships with healthcare organizations, and advancing health equity for all Bostonians. As the executive director of the BPHC, the City’s health department, Valdes Lupi manages a $162 million budget and leads 1,100 employees. In addition to operating a broad range of public health programs, the BPHC includes Boston Emergency Medical Services, school-based health centers, several substance abuse treatment facilities, and the largest homeless services program in New England. In her role as executive director, Valdes Lupi serves as the key advisor to Mayor Martin J. Walsh on health issues and continues to build innovative partnerships across city agencies to leverage strategic opportunities for housing, economic development, transportation, education, and environmental policies to positively impact the health of all Boston residents. Prior to joining BPHC, Valdes Lupi served as the chief program officer for the Health Systems Transformation team at the Association of State and Territorial Health Officials (ASTHO). Valdes Lupi also served as the deputy commissioner for the Massachusetts Department of Public Health (MDPH) before joining ASTHO. She also served as the chief of staff for Commissioner John Auerbach at the Boston Public Health Commission, where she worked for more than six years. Valdes Lupi worked previously at the Massachusetts League of Community Health Centers as a policy analyst, where she coordinated the activities for the Boston Conference of Community Health Centers. She received her JD from the Penn State Dickinson School of Law, her MPH from Boston University School of Public Health, and her BA from Bryn Mawr College.
10 a.m. – 10:10 a.m.
Break
10:10 a.m. – 11:10 a.m.
PANEL DISCUSSION I: Developing a Shared Vision for Healthy Cities: Looking Beyond Health Care to Generate Shared Accountability
Bechara Choucair
Senior Vice President and Chief Community Health Officer, Kaiser Permanente
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Bechara Choucair is senior vice president and chief community health officer for Kaiser Foundation Health Plan, Inc. and Hospitals—known as Kaiser Permanente, one of America’s leading integrated healthcare providers and not-for-profit health plans. Choucair comes to Kaiser Permanente from Trinity Health, where he served as senior vice president of Safety Net Transformation and Community Health. For five years prior to joining Trinity Health, Choucair was the commissioner of the Chicago Department of Public Health (CDPH). Prior to his appointment as CDPH commissioner, Choucair served as the executive director of Heartland Health Centers in Chicago and as the medical director of Crusader Community Health in Rockford, Illinois. Choucair, a family physician by training, holds an MD from the American University of Beirut and a master’s degree in healthcare management from the University of Texas at Dallas.
Karen Hein
Former President, William T. Grant Foundation, and Adjunct Professor, Community and Family Medicine, Geisel School of Medicine, Dartmouth College
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Karen Hein, currently adjunct professor of community and family medicine at the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, was president of the William T. Grant Foundation. Since 2003, Hein has served in leadership positions and on boards that focus on healthcare reform, as well as on youth development, global health, and the professionalization of humanitarian assistance, including RAND Health Advisory Board, Consumers Union Board, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Clinical Scholars Program National Advisory Committee, the International Rescue Committee Overseers, and ChildFund International and ChildFund Alliance Boards, among others. Hein spent 25 years on the faculty of Columbia University and the Albert Einstein School of Medicine, where her focus was adolescent HIV and AIDS. During the Clinton health reform effort, Hein served as a Robert Wood Johnson Health Policy Fellow with the US Senate Finance Committee. She then served as executive officer of the Institute of Medicine from 1995 to 1998. Hein holds a medical degree from Columbia University and is a board-certified pediatrician. Hein was a founding member of Vermont’s Green Mountain Care Board (2011–2014). The board, created by Vermont’s visionary Act 48, has broad authority over regulation, evaluation, and innovation regarding the state’s comprehensive health reform efforts, including many “firsts.” If successful, Vermont will create the first American “all payer model,” a statewide Accountable Care Organization, an all-payer claims database and innovations in delivery system reform called The Vermont Blueprint for Health. Hein completed her term in October 2014 and remains active in population health activities as co-chair of the SIM Population Health Work group and other related activities. Following Gandhi’s words, “My life is my message,” Hein spent a decade doing humanitarian relief work and was an early proponent of professionalizing the field by developing core competencies for humanitarian assistance workers. Her global health focus emanated from a pivotal elective time spent as a Columbia University P&S medical student in up-country Liberia in 1969.
George J. Isham
Senior Advisor, HealthPartners, and Senior Fellow, HealthPartners Institute
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George J. Isham is senior advisor at HealthPartners and senior fellow at the HealthPartners Institute. He is an elected member of the National Academy of Medicine and was designated as a National Associate of the Institute of Medicine in 2003 in recognition of his contribution to its work. Isham is active in health policy nationally and currently co-chairs the National Academy of Medicine’s Roundtable on Population Health Improvement. He is a former member of the CDC’s Task Force on Community Preventive Services, AHRQ’s United States Preventive Services Task Force, founding co-chair of NCQA’s Committee on Performance Measurement, and a founding member of the Advisory Board for the National Guideline Clearinghouse. Isham was formerly executive director of University Health Care, Inc., in Madison Wisconsin, and former chief executive officer of U-Care at University of Wisconsin (UW) Hospitals and Clinics. His clinical practice was with the United States Navy; at the Freeport Clinic in Freeport, Illinois, and at the UW Hospitals and Clinics.
Dariush Mozaffarian
Dean and Jean Mayer Professor of Nutrition and Medicine, Tufts Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy
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Dariush Mozaffarian is a cardiologist, Jean Mayer Chair and Professor of Nutrition, and dean of the Tufts Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy. The only graduate school of nutrition in North America, the Friedman School’s mission is to produce trusted science and real-world impact. He has authored more than 300 scientific publications on the science of lifestyle and cardiometabolic health from a global perspective; and on systems interventions and policies to most effectively reduce these burdens. Mozaffarian has served in numerous advisory roles, including for the US and Canadian governments, American Heart Association, Global Burden of Disease Study, World Health Organization, and United Nations. His work has been featured in The New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, National Public Radio, Time magazine, and many other media outlets. In 2016, Thomson Reuters named him as one of the World’s Most Influential Scientific Minds. Mozaffarian received his BS in biological sciences from Stanford University (Phi Beta Kappa), his MD from Columbia University (Alpha Omega Alpha), and his clinical training in internal medicine and cardiovascular medicine from Stanford and the University of Washington. He also holds an MPH from the University of Washington and a DrPH from Harvard University. Before being appointed as dean at Tufts University in 2014, Mozaffarian was at Harvard Medical School and Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health for a decade, and was also clinically active in cardiology at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. He is married, has three children, and actively trains as a black belt (second degree) in Taekwondo.
Elizabeth Mitchell (Moderator)
President and CEO, Network for Regional Healthcare Improvement
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Elizabeth Mitchell serves as president and chief executive officer of the Network for Regional Healthcare Improvement (NHRI), a national network of multi-stakeholder Regional Health Improvement Collaboratives with more than 35 members across the United States. She is the vice chair of the Physician-Focused Payment Model Technical Advisory Committee, a guiding committee member of the Health Care Payment Learning and Action Network (LAN), and on the Quality Improvement Strategy (QIS) Technical Expert Panel (TEP). Prior to leading NRHI, Mitchell was the chief executive officer of the Maine Health Management Coalition, an employer-led, multi-stakeholder regional collaborative working to improve the value of health care in Maine. Mitchell led the coalition’s performance measurement and public reporting program, as well as its strategy for engaging the public in the use of cost and quality information. Mitchell served on the Board and Executive Committee of the National Quality Forum (NQF). She was a member of the Institute of Medicine’s Consensus Committee on Core Metrics for Better Care and Lower Costs and chaired the committee’s Implementation Task Force. She served for several years on the Board of the National Business Coalition on Health and was the chair of its Government Affairs Committee, and vice chair and chair of the Board of NRHI. Prior to being appointed chief executive officer of the Maine Health Management Coalition, Mitchell worked for MaineHealth, Maine’s largest integrated health system, where she worked with employers and led several transparency and quality improvement efforts. She served two terms representing Portland in the Maine State Legislature and chaired the Health and Human Services Committee. Mitchell has held posts at the National Academy for State Health Policy and London’s Nuffield Trust. She was selected for an Atlantic Fellowship in Public Policy by the Commonwealth Fund and the British Council. While in the United Kingdom, she completed the International Health Leadership Program at University of Cambridge Judge Business School while pursuing graduate studies at the London School of Economics.
11:10 a.m. – 11:25 a.m.
Break
11:25 a.m. – 12:25 p.m.
PANEL DISCUSSION II: Understanding the Needs of a Population: Building the Right Data Ecosystems and Infrastructure for Population Health
Lisa Berkman
Thomas D. Cabot Professor of Public Policy, Epidemiology, and Global Health and Population, and Director, Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
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Lisa Berkman is the Thomas D. Cabot Professor of Public Policy, Epidemiology, and Global Health and Population at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and the director of the Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies. She is a social epidemiologist whose work focuses extensively on social influences on health outcomes. Her research has been oriented towards understanding social inequalities in health and aging related to socioeconomic status; different racial and ethnic groups; and social networks, support, and social isolation. Berkman leads a large program project in Sub-Saharan Africa to collaborate with INDEPTH on studies of aging and chronic disease. This study, called HAALSI, is supported by the US National Institute on Aging. She is on the monitoring committee of sister studies in China, Europe, the United States, the United Kingdom, and Ireland. Berkman is also involved in interventions and policy evaluations to test the degree to which labor policies and practices can improve population health and well-being. Among current areas, she has identified work/family dynamics as a major health risk for working women. She has been an innovator in linking social experiences with physical and mental health. Berkman has recently written the second edition of Social Epidemiology (2014) along with co-editors Ichiro Kawachi and Maria Glymour, which is the leading textbook in social epidemiology. She is a member of the Institute of Medicine, current president of the Association of Population Centers, and past president of the Society for Epidemiologic Research.
Karen DeSalvo
Former Acting Assistant Secretary for Health, US Department of Health and Human Services
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Karen DeSalvo is a physician who has focused her career on improving the health of all people, with a particular focus on vulnerable populations. She has done this through direct patient care, medical education, policy and administrative roles, research, and public service. Her commitment to improving the public’s health includes ensuring access to quality, affordable health care; strengthening the public health infrastructure; and leveraging public-private partnerships to address the social determinants of health through environmental, policy, and systems-level change. DeSalvo most recently served as acting assistant secretary for health at the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). During her tenure, she worked with the public and private sectors as well as local governmental public health officials to develop a blueprint for the future of public health called Public Health 3.0, which calls for the development of local public-private partnerships, strengthening of local governmental public health infrastructure, and attention to the social determinants of health. DeSalvo also served as the national coordinator for health information technology, where she set policy that focused national attention on the need to move beyond adoption and focus on interoperability. At HHS, she also co-led the department’s Delivery System Reform strategy. This work leveraged the resources of the department, states, and the private sector to build a more person-centered health system that encourages more coordinated care. She was previously the health commissioner for the City of New Orleans and professor of medicine and vice dean for community affairs and health policy at Tulane University School of Medicine. Modern Healthcare named her one of the 50 most influential physician executives and leaders and 100 most influential people in health care in 2014, 2015, and 2016. DeSalvo earned her medical doctorate and her master’s in public health from Tulane University, and master’s in clinical epidemiology from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.
Jonathan Levy
Professor, Environmental Health, Boston University School of Public Health
Lonny Reisman
Founder and CEO, HealthReveal
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Lonny Reisman is founder and chief executive officer of HealthReveal. HealthReveal leverages advanced clinical analytics and biomonitoring to detect and mitigate complications in patients who suffer from chronic disease. Previously, Reisman served as Aetna’s chief medical officer for six years. During his tenure at Aetna, he was responsible for the company’s clinical strategy to improve the health of Aetna’s members and helped build a better healthcare system supported by evidence-based accountability by every participant. Prior to his chief medical officer position, Reisman was chief executive officer of ActiveHealth Management. He co-founded ActiveHealth Management, now an Aetna subsidiary, following nearly 20 years of experience as a physician and consultant to large employers concerned about healthcare quality and costs. Reisman led the development of the ActiveHealth CareEngine® System, a clinical decision support technology platform that received a US Patent in 2004. Reisman is a member of the Harvard Medical School Health Care Policy Committee; the New York eHealth Collaborative Board of Directors; the RCHN Community Health Foundation, Inc. Board of Directors; the East Coast CMO Executive Summit Committee; the New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation OneCity Health Executive Committee; and the American College of Cardiology Science and Quality Committee. From 1991 to 1998, Reisman was a principal in the Managed Care Group of William M. Mercer, where he led numerous consulting engagements with Fortune 500 corporations, healthcare providers, suppliers, and payers that focused on managing the demand for healthcare resources. Reisman was an attending physician at New York Hospital and St. Luke’s–Roosevelt Hospital Center between 1987 and 1999, and was a cardiology fellow at the University of Chicago from 1985 to 1987. He received his undergraduate degree from the State University of New York at Stony Brook and his medical degree from Tel Aviv University.
Steven H. Woolf
Director, Center on Society and Health, and Professor, Department of Family Medicine and Population Health, Virginia Commonwealth University
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Steven H. Woolf is director of the University Center on Society and Health and professor of family medicine and population health at Virginia Commonwealth University. He received his MD in 1984 from Emory University and underwent residency training in family medicine at Virginia Commonwealth University. Woolf is also a clinical epidemiologist and underwent training in preventive medicine and public health at Johns Hopkins University, where he received his MPH in 1987. He is board certified in family medicine and in preventive medicine and public health. Woolf has published more than 180 articles in a career that has focused on promoting the most effective healthcare services and on advocating the importance of health promotion and disease prevention. In recent years, his work has turned to the social determinants of health. Woolf has conducted studies demonstrating that addressing poverty, education, and the causes of racial and ethnic disparities could accomplish far more to improve the health of Americans than investing predominately in medical technological advances. In addition to scientific publications, he has tried to bring this message to policymakers and to the public through testimony in Congress, editorials in major newspapers, web-based tools, and speeches. Woolf was elected to the Institute of Medicine in 2001. Woolf served as science advisor, member, and senior advisor to the US Preventive Services Task Force. Woolf edited the first two editions of the Guide to Clinical Preventive Services and is the author of Health Promotion and Disease Prevention in Clinical Practice. He was formerly the associate editor of the American Journal of Preventive Medicine and served as North American editor of the British Medical Journal. He chaired the National Research Council/Institute of Medicine panel that produced “Shorter Lives, Poorer Health,” which compared the health of Americans with peers in 16 other high-income countries. He has consulted widely on various matters of health policy with governmental agencies and professional organizations in the United States and Europe.
Susan Dentzer (Moderator)
President and CEO, Network for Excellence in Health Innovation
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Susan Dentzer is president and chief executive officer of the Network for Excellence in Health Innovation (NEHI), a not-for-profit think tank and membership organization whose more than 80 members span the spectrum of health and health care. Through its research, publications, and convenings, NEHI works to advance the health of the public, improve health care, and produce smarter healthcare spending for the nation. One of the nation’s most respected health policy thought leaders, Dentzer was senior policy advisor to the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation from 2013 to March 2016. She was formerly editor-in-chief of the policy journal Health Affairs and the on-air health correspondent for the PBS NewsHour. Dentzer is an elected member of the National Academy of Medicine and serves on its Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice. She is an elected member of the Council on Foreign Relations; a fellow of the National Academy of Social Insurance; and a fellow of the Hastings Center, a bioethics institute. She is a member of the Board of Directors of the International Rescue Committee, a public member of the Board of Directors of the American Board of Medical Specialties, a board member of Research!America, and a member of the Board of Directors of the Public Health Institute. Dentzer is an alumna and trustee emerita of Dartmouth University, previously chaired the Dartmouth Board of Trustees, and is a longtime member of the Board of Overseers of Dartmouth’s Geisel School of Medicine. She lives in the Washington, DC, area with her husband and three children.
12:25 p.m. – 1:10 p.m.
Lunch and Networking
1:10 p.m. – 1:55 p.m.
FIRESIDE CHAT: What Does the Future Hold for Urban Informatics?
Sanji Fernando
Vice President, Optum Labs Center for Applied Data Science
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Sanji Fernando is vice president and head of the OptumLabs Center for Applied Data Science (CADS). CADS is a new kind of resource within Optum, focused on the application of new data science methods to solve complex healthcare challenges faced by UnitedHealthcare and Optum. Specifically, CADS applies breakthrough innovations in artificial intelligence and machine learning to create software prototypes. Natural Networks and Optum CommunityHealth are two of the product concepts developed by CADS. Fernando joined UnitedHealth Group in 2014 from Nokia, where he created the data science team for Nokia. The data science team was responsible for launching the first big data computing cluster at Nokia to analyze user activity and engagement and to design new product concepts from the insights generated from this cluster. Before that, Fernando spent nine years at Nokia in a variety of corporate roles with Nokia’s Advanced Business Development team, Nokia Research, and Nokia Ventures. Prior to Nokia, Fernando was a co-founder and vice president of engineering for the venturebacked mobile software company, Vettro. Fernando began his career in consulting with Viant and Accenture. Fernando is a graduate of Trinity College with a bachelor’s degree in computer science. He lives in the Boston area with his wife, Michelle, and their three boys. In his free time, Fernando enjoys coaching his sons in basketball and baseball. He also serves on the board of his local Little League.
Jascha Franklin-Hodge
CIO, City of Boston
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Mayor Martin J. Walsh appointed Jascha Franklin-Hodge as the City’s chief information officer in June 2014. As chief information officer, Franklin-Hodge leads the City’s efforts to enhance online service delivery, empower City employees with effective digital tools, and improve access to technology and the internet for all Boston neighborhoods. Prior to his work with the City, Franklin- Hodge co-founded Blue State Digital (BSD) in 2004 and ran BSD’s Boston technology office. He oversaw the development and operation of the BSD Tools, an online fundraising, email, and CRM platform that powered the digital presence of President Barack Obama’s 2008 and 2012 campaigns. He previously worked for Howard Dean’s groundbreaking 2004 presidential campaign, where he led the technology team responsible for scaling, securing, and maintaining a high-visibility, high-traffic website. Since 2009, Franklin-Hodge has served as an advisor to Code for America, a nonprofit that connects technologists with cities to solve civic challenges and encourage innovation in government technology. Previously, Franklin-Hodge was the director of software development for AOL’s Digital Music Division. He also has worked for the Art Technology Group and Software Tool and Die, and has consulted for the Computer Museum, the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, and the Niemen Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University. Franklin-Hodge studied computer science at MIT and lives in South Boston.
Peter Marx (Interviewer)
Vice President, Advanced Projects, GE Digital, and Adjunct Professor, University of Southern California
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Prior to coming to General Electric, Peter Marx was the chief technology officer for the City of Los Angeles. Under his tenure, the City implemented the open data portal (#1 in the United States), Cyber Intrusion Command Center (CICC), CityLinkLA (broadband), significant improvements in fire dispatch and control, partnerships with numerous technology providers, and the nation’s largest deployment of body-worn cameras for police officers. Los Angeles was recognized as the number-one digital large city in 2014 and number two in 2015 by GovTech/League of Cities. Marx was vice president, business development, for Qualcomm Labs, where he handled R&D strategy for numerous initiatives. He started the Gimbal initiative as part of his overall work on driving the development of new technologies ranging from augmented reality to context awareness. He was the chief technology officer for Vivendi Universal Games (which shipped World of Warcraft and many other games) and was the vice president, emerging technologies, for Universal Studios. A number of games won the highest industry awards. He previously held the position of vice president at Mattel handling digital and online products and services, including winning a Webby™ for the games portal. As an engineer, Marx was the senior research engineer for Electronic Arts with lead roles in numerous video games, including Madden Football, NASCAR, and Knockout Kings (Fight Night). He worked for Apple Computer on QuickTime and ISDN. Marx has spent his career writing software, working with technologies and technologists, and driving the state-of-the-art forward. Marx also holds the position of adjunct professor at the University of Southern California.
1:55 p.m. – 2:05 p.m.
Break
2:05 p.m. – 3:05 p.m.
PANEL DISCUSSION III: Empowering Communities: Lessons from the Field on Spurring Action, Developing Capabilities, and Sustaining Impact
Rick Brush
CEO, Wellville
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Rick Brush is chief executive officer of Wellville, a 10-year initiative founded by angel investor Esther Dyson to improve health and financial outcomes in five US communities. In addition to overseeing the national project, Brush leads the Wellville effort in North Hartford, Connecticut, where he leads a collaborative of residents, organizations, government, and investors focused on achieving better health, well-being, and value of investment. Previously, Brush was a senior consultant at ReThink Health and a coach to innovative regional health partnerships around the United States. He is the founder and chief executive officer of Collective Health, which developed the Health Impact Bond, a pay-for-success financing model. Before turning entrepreneur, Brush spent nearly a decade at the health insurer Cigna, where he was chief strategy and marketing officer for the national employer segment and launched the company’s Communities of Health venture focused on the social determinants of health. Prior to that, Brush was a corporate strategist at Ford Credit, Bank One, and KPMG. Brush graduated from UMass Amherst and lives with his wife and two children in Simsbury, Connecticut.
Jennifer Edwards
Director, Developing Health US, GE Foundation
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Jennifer Edwards is the director of the Developing Health US portfolio for the GE Foundation. Its mission is to enable access to primary care and build capacity for quality and sustainable health care for underserved populations. She leads initiatives and programs partnering with nonprofit organizations and community health centers around the country. Currently, Edwards is leading the GE Foundation’s efforts in Boston and greater Massachusetts to address the growing opioid epidemic. Edwards began her GE career in 1998 at GE Capital, where she was responsible for US healthcare strategy and wellness initiatives. For the last 20 years, she has held various positions at both GE Capital and GE Corporate. She is Six Sigma certified and Fast Works trained, and has extensive knowledge and experience in healthcare delivery, program management, compliance, and operations. Prior to joining GE, Edwards had broad experience in the healthcare sector working in both regional and national markets. She received her bachelor of arts degree from the University of Vermont in psychology, and currently resides in Stamford, Connecticut, with her husband and four children.
Tom Grilk
CEO, Boston Athletic Association/Boston Marathon
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Tom Grilk is the chief executive officer of the Boston Athletic Association/Boston Marathon (BAA). He has been a regular member of the Boston Athletic Association since 1987, and became executive director of the BAA in January 2011 and chief executive officer in 2016. He served as president of the BAA Board of Governors from 2003 until 2011. During his tenure, the BAA has focused its efforts in three areas: the conduct of athletic events, the operation of community service initiatives, and the training and development of athletes. Both he and the BAA are guided by the traditions that have fostered more than a century of achievement at the BAA, while also seeking to drive the innovation that will keep the organization and the Boston Marathon at the forefront of athletic excellence and community service going forward. That shared sense of imperative is rooted in the commitment to resilience, strength, and determination that has marked the history of the BAA and all who serve it, both in good times and in times of challenge. In addition to his duties as chief executive officer, Grilk has had his share of hands-on experience with the Boston Marathon, the BAA’s premier event. He served as the marathon’s finish-line announcer from 1979 through 2013, and he is a former competitor, having run a personal best in the marathon of 2:49:03 in 1978 and a personal best at Boston of 2:54 that same year. Born in Wakefield, Massachusetts, Grilk currently resides in Lynnfield with his wife, his twin sons, and his daughter-inlaw. He was for many years a corporate and business lawyer, both with the Boston law firm Hale and Dorr and serving as counsel and general counsel to Boston-area technology companies. From 1984 to 1987, he and his wife lived in Tokyo. He is a graduate of Cornell University and received his juris doctor degree from the University of Michigan Law School.
Rain Henderson
Founder, Elemental Advisors, and Advisor, Clinton Foundation
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Rain Henderson has dedicated her career to helping communities, organizations, and leaders at all levels to optimize and coordinate their efforts towards improving the lives of the most people possible. Her passion lies in utilizing her formal training in theory of change and movement building to leverage the most effective spheres of influence and foster systems thinking to solve complex problems. As the founder of Elemental Advisors, Henderson helps organizations make meaningful change in the world with sound guidance and tested strategies. Her work includes advising influential leaders in the private and social sectors on how to contribute to the health and well-being of others using market structures and aggressive metrics to achieve systems change. Most recently, as the chief executive officer of the Clinton Health Matters Initiative (CHMI) at the Clinton Foundation, Henderson led the foundation’s largest domestic initiative aimed at improving the well-being of all US citizens and reducing the prevalence of chronic disease. There, she led the cultivation of more than $200 million in strategic investments from Fortune 500 companies and NGOs, projected to improve the health of one in six Americans; helped secure the Clinton Foundation’s landmark agreement to improve nutrition and beverage offerings with McDonald’s in 80 percent of the global marketplace; and annually produced the Health Matters Summit featuring President Bill Clinton and prominent leaders. Previous leadership roles also include serving as the senior vice president of the Alliance for a Healthier Generation, a nonprofit organization founded by the American Heart Association and the Clinton Foundation. Henderson was instrumental in helping to build the organization from a blueprint to an award-winning nonprofit, with a presence in 50 states and a positive impact on the lives of more than 6 million children.
James S. Marks
Executive Vice President, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
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James S. Marks, executive vice president at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF), oversees all program, communications, research, and policy activities in support of the Foundation’s vision to build a Culture of Health. Since joining the Foundation, his areas of responsibility have included strengthening vulnerable families, catalyzing demand for healthy places and practices, bridging health and health care, achieving health equity, and ensuring that all children grow up at a healthy weight. Prior to joining the RWJF, Marks served as assistant surgeon general and director of the Center for Disease Control’s (CDC) National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion. Throughout his tenure at the CDC, Marks developed and advanced systematic ways to detect and prevent chronic diseases; to monitor their major risk factors such as tobacco use and the obesity epidemic; and to improve reproductive and infant health. A national leader in public health for over 35 years, he has received numerous awards from organizations such as the American Cancer Society, National Arthritis Foundation, Association of State and Territorial Health Officials, Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists, Association of State and Territorial Chronic Disease Directors, and US Public Health Service. He was elected to the Institute of Medicine in recognition of his accomplishments in epidemiology and public health. He has served on many governmental and nonprofit committees, including the Executive Board of the American Public Health Association. Marks has published extensively in the areas of maternal and child health, health promotion, chronic disease prevention, and health policy. Marks received his MD from the State University of New York at Buffalo. He trained as a pediatrician at the University of California San Francisco and was a Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholar at Yale, where he received his MPH. He and his wife live in Princeton and have two children, who are both pursuing careers in medicine.
Harold Cox (Moderator)
Associate Dean, Public Health Practice, and Associate Professor, Community Health Sciences, Boston University School of Public Health
3:05 p.m. – 3:15 p.m.
Break
3:15 p.m. – 3:45 p.m.
KEYNOTE SPEAKER
Maureen Bisognano
President Emerita and Senior Fellow, Institute for Healthcare Improvement
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Maureen Bisognano, president emerita and senior fellow of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI), previously served as IHI’s president and chief executive officer for five years, after serving as executive vice president and chief operating officer for 15 years. She is a prominent authority on improving healthcare systems, whose expertise has been recognized by her elected membership to the National Academy of Medicine, among other distinctions. Bisognano advises healthcare leaders around the world, is a frequent speaker at major healthcare conferences on quality improvement, and is a tireless advocate for change. She is also an instructor of medicine at Harvard Medical School and a research associate in the Brigham and Women’s Hospital Division of Social Medicine and Health Inequalities. Additionally, she chairs the Advisory Board of the Institute for Mental Health and Wellness, co-chairs the Massachusetts Coalition for Serious Illness Care with Atul Gawande, and serves on the boards of the Commonwealth Fund, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, and Catalysis. Prior to joining IHI, she served as chief executive officer of the Massachusetts Respiratory Hospital and senior vice president of the Juran Institute.
3:45 p.m. – 4 p.m.
CLOSING REMARKS
Sandro Galea
Dean and Robert A. Knox Professor, Boston University School of Public Health
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