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Action Collaborative on Business Engagement in Building Healthy Communities

The Collaborative is an ad hoc convening mechanism under the auspices of the Roundtable on Population Health Improvement. The Collaborative is a flexible and action-oriented group that welcomes all interested organizations and individuals in an evolving conversation about business and employer actions to improve worker and community health and well-being. Any products and activities associated with this collaborative do not necessarily represent the views of any one organization, the Collaborative, the Roundtable, or the National Academies and have not been subjected to the review procedures of, nor are they reports or products of, the National Academies.

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Collaborative Webinar: How Can For-profit Businesses Serve as Anchors in their Communities? Part II

  • April 25, 2022
  • 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM (EDT)
  • Past

Join the "Action Collaborative on Business Engagement in Building Healthy Communities" to continue learning about research on the role businesses play in community health, featuring grantees in the "A...

Collaborative Webinar: How Can For-profit Businesses Serve as Anchors in their Communities? Part I

  • April 7, 2022
  • 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM (EDT)
  • Past

Join the "Action Collaborative on Business Engagement in Building Healthy Communities" to learn about research on the role businesses play in community health, featuring grantees in the "AcademyHealth...

From Healthy Communities to School Nutrition: A Company’s Commitment to its Community

  • December 8, 2021
  • 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM (EST)
  • Past

Join us to hear Kim Fortunato (Campbell Soup Company), Nancy Easton (Wellness in the Schools), and Curt Ellis (FoodCorps) share lessons from a decade long Campbell Soup Company collective in Camden, N...

Collaborative Webinar: Community Health and Economic Prosperity - Insights from the Surgeon General's Report

  • May 26, 2021
  • 1:30 PM - 3:00 PM (EDT)
  • Past

Panelists Gregory Fairchild (University of Virginia), Ursula Bauer (HHS/CDC), and Douglas Jutte (Build Healthy Places Network), who served as senior scientific editors of the 2021 U.S. Surgeon General...

Collaborative Webinar: Antidote to Pandemics – Population Health Leadership in Action

  • July 21, 2020
  • 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM (EDT)
  • Webinar
  • Past

On July 21, 2020, the Action Collaborative on Business Engagement in Building Healthy Communities hosted a webinar featuring Nick Macchione, Dr. Wilma Wooten and Carey Riccitelli, all from the San Die...

Collaborative Webinar: Faith, Community & Government – Health Collaboration to Address Health Disparities during the COVID-19 Pandemic

  • July 15, 2020
  • 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM (EDT)
  • Past

On July 15, 2020, the Action Collaborative on Business Engagement in Building Healthy Communities hosted a webinar featuring presentations and discussion about the work of partners in Live Well Erie,...

Collaborative Webinar: Coming Together to Address COVID-19--A Community's Experience

  • June 18, 2020
  • 4:30 PM - 6:00 PM (EDT)
  • Past

Join the Action Collaborative on Business Engagement in Building Healthy Communities in a webinar featuring Dr. Cathy Baase, board chair of the Michigan Health Improvement Alliance, Rebecca Bentley fr...

Collaborative webinar: A conversation about employer COVID19 issues and emerging opportunities

  • May 22, 2020
  • 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM (EDT)
  • Past

Terry Williams, MBA, Executive Vice President & Chief Strategy Officer, and William Satterwhite, MD, JD, Chief Wellness Officer, Wake Forest Baptist Health, share how their health care organization is...

Collaborative Webinar: Healthy People 2030 - The Role of Business in Building Health and Well-Being

  • March 19, 2020
  • 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (EDT)
  • Tele Conference
  • Past

On this one-hour webinar hosted by the Action Collaborative on Business Engagement in Building Healthy Communities Dr. Nico Pronk spoke about the Healthy People 2030 initiative, highlighting issues of...

Webinar: Harvard's "Culture of Health: A Business Leadership Imperative"

  • February 19, 2020
  • 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM (EST)
  • Past

Professor Howard Koh and Professor John McDonough, both of the Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health, presented on the components of the Harvard program, a joint initiative between the schools of pu...

Engaging Businesses in Creating Health and Economic Prosperity Vibrant Communities

  • September 18, 2019
  • 8:30 AM - 3:30 PM (EDT)
  • Meeting
  • Past

This joint event of the Action Collaborative on Business Engagement in Building Healthy Communities and the Innovation Collaborative on Business Engagement in Obesity Solutions featured panel presenta...
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