North Carolina Summit on Child Health - June 7, 2019

The NC Summit on Child Health will bring together child health researchers and state policy leaders to build partnerships and identify analytic priorities that can inform policies that impact child health and well-being, and to design a data-driven road map for improving child health in NC. Featured speakers will include Dr. Mandy Cohen, Secretary of the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services, and Dr. Patrick Conway, President and CEO of BlueCross BlueShield of North Carolina.

Summit Goal: Identify a roadmap of analytic priorities in North Carolina for early childhood health and well-being, starting with maternal health and with a focus on infant mortality.  The roadmap will be developed by bringing together thought leaders and stakeholders from academia, state government, and local entities.

Summit Logistics

  • Location: Duke University, Trent Semans Great Hall
  • Date: Friday, June 7, 2019 9am-1:30pm; Leadership meeting to identify next steps from 1:30 to 2:30
  • Attendees: ~75 attendees from stakeholder groups listed below

Summit Structure

Time

Session

Goals

9:00-9:15

Welcome

Charlene Wong and Ann Reed

9:15-9:45am

Keynote

Mandy Cohen – Context setting for summit with priority areas

9:45-10:15

Spark talks

3-4 minute talks on each topic area to provide context for the break-out sessions

  • Rebecca Planchard (DHHS): Describe data and measures for the relevant sections of the ECAP (12 minutes)
  • Keisha Bentley-Edwards (Duke) – Disparities in infant mortality (4 minutes)
  • Debra Best (Duke): Social & Emotional Development (4 minutes)
  • Lindsey Haynes-Maslow (NC State): Food insecurity in early childhood (4 minutes)

10:15-10:30

Organizational break

Divide into break-out sessions

10:30-11:30

Break-out sessions
  • Interventions and policy approaches to reducing disparities in infant mortality
  • Methods and approaches to measuring social and emotional development in early childhood
  • Methods and approaches to measuring food insecurity in early childhood

Identify analytic priorities in focus areas (Criteria: Potential for impact, Timeliness, Research feasibility).  Each session will have a scribe who will be responsible for recording the discussion and reporting out

11:30-12:30

Buffet Lunch provided

Attendees will have the opportunity to eat during the reporting session

12:00-12:50

Plenary talk

Patrick Conway, BlueCross BlueShield of North Carolina

 

12:50-1:00

Q&A

Dr. Conway and other speakers will be available to take questions

12:50-1:25

Reporting Session

Each group scribe will be responsible for creating a single PowerPoint slide detailing their group’s identified analytic priorities

1:25-1:30pm

Summit Closure

Sallie Permar and Charlene Wong will close the session

1:30-2:30

Leadership meeting

Identification of next steps and action items breakout leaders, scribes, and other leadership will attend.

Which interventions and policy approaches can reduce disparities in infant mortality in North Carolina? Belinda Pettiford (DHHS), Bev Gray (Duke), Debra Best (Duke)
  • What are the potential policy approaches to reducing infant mortality?
  • Are there health system-based interventions to reduce infant mortality?
  • What interventions have previously been successful in reducing infant mortality?

How do we measure social and emotional development in early childhood at the population level?

Beth Gifford (Duke), Becki Planchard (DHHS), Nicole Heilbron (Duke)
  • Which metrics are currently being used to collect data on social and emotional development?
  • What are the strengths and limitations of current approaches to measuring social and emotional development?
  • Which types of data are we missing and how can we collect them?
  • What does existing research tell us about interventions and policy approaches to promoting social and emotional development?

How do we measure food insecurity in early childhood?

Erika Ferguson (DHHS), Carolyn Barnes (Duke), Eliana Perrin (Duke)
  • Which metrics are currently being used to collect data on food insecurity?
  • What are the strengths and limitations of current approaches to measuring food insecurity?
  • Which types of data are we missing and how can we collect them?
  • What does existing research tell us about interventions and policy approaches to reducing food insecurity in early childhood?

Please register at: https://duke.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_2t85hZJvpagwJzn

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