On June 4, the Partnership to Fight Chronic Disease hosted a Capitol Hill breakfast briefing - the second in a series of three - to discuss successful programs in health promotion, wellness, and disease prevention and management, and their impact on improving health outcomes and providing higher value health care.
At the briefing, panelists talked about how private and public employers and community-oriented organizations are emerging as leaders in the effort to redesign the health care delivery system so that it promotes health and productivity through an emphasis on disease prevention, detection and management. Topics discussed include successful wellness programs, including how they work, why they work and what we can learn from them.
Speakers Included:
- Kenneth E. Thorpe, Ph.D., Executive Director, Partnership to Fight Chronic Disease; Professor and Chair, Department of Health Policy and Management, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University
- William Ellis, MS, Executive Director and Chief Executive Officer, American Pharmacists Association (APhA) Foundation
- John Harris, M.Ed., FAWHP, Chief Wellness Officer and Senior Vice President of Healthways
- Tracey Moorhead, President and Chief Executive Officer, DMAA: The Care Continuum Alliance
- Audrey Tayse Haynes, Senior Vice President and Chief Government Affairs Officer, YMCA of the USA