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1 - Laying the Groundwork & Defining Social Determinants of Health with Dr. Pierre Vigilance RadioRev
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Pierre Vigilance, MD, MPH is a population health expert joining the premiere episode of RadioRev to talk about social determinants of health. In this episode, Pierre lays the foundation for the SDoH season and answers questions like:
How should we be talking about SDoH?
Is there a dedicated dictionary of terms and definitions for SDoH?
What are the biggest barriers that healthcare needs to overcome to successfully address SDoH?
To connect with Pierre:
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/pierrevigilance/
Junctional Thinking Podcast: https://junctionalthinking.simplecast.com/
Dr. Pierre Vigilance is a health executive with 20 years experience in community development, social determinants of health, people and operations management, population health strategy, and executive education from time spent working in the non-profit, government, and education sectors.
He is a systems-level thinker who has established cross-sector partnerships to impact health and founded HealthUp as an advisory consultancy to assist organizations and companies dedicated to improving health and social outcomes in underserved communities. His client-partners range from community health and transportation agencies to municipal bodies considering “smart growth”, and an impact investment group focused on housing. He consistently makes use of human-centered design tools to gain a better perspective on the challenges faced by his clients and the people they serve.
As the George Washington University School of Public Health’s (GWSPH) first Associate Dean for Practice from 2013 to July 2019 he led the school’s applied public health efforts. He continues to engage learners and serve in an advisory capacity to the school as an Adjunct Professor and is also an adjunct faculty member at the Institute for Emerging Health Professions at Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia. Prior to his time in academia Dr. Vigilance was the Health Commissioner for the District of Columbia from 2008-2011, and from 2002-2008 he served communities in Baltimore as an Assistant Health Commissioner in Baltimore City and Director of the Department of Health in Baltimore County. His early career postgraduate career was spent in the non-profit sector work where he directed a new case-management based substance abuse program seated in a community development corporation.
Dr. Vigilance is a member of the Trinity Health Mid-Atlantic Board of Directors; and as an Advisory Board Member of the Millennium Alliance a tech, business, and educational advisory firm. He is also an advisor to civic tech company Seam Social Labs, and the workplace creativity outfit, Innovators Box. He has served as a member of the Practice Committee for the Association of Schools and Programs of Public Health (ASPPH); Board member for the non-profit, DC SCORES; and is an alumnus of the National Association of City & County Health Officials and the Association of State and Territorial Health Officials.
A graduate of the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, and the Bloomberg School of Public Health at Johns Hopkins, he currently resides in Philadelphia, PA.
Pierre Vigilance, MD, MPH is a population health expert joining the premiere episode of RadioRev to talk about social determinants of health. In this episode, Pierre lays the foundation for the SDoH season and answers questions like:
How should we be talking about SDoH?
Is there a dedicated dictionary of terms and definitions for SDoH?
What are the biggest barriers that healthcare needs to overcome to successfully address SDoH?
To connect with Pierre:
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/pierrevigilance/
Junctional Thinking Podcast: https://junctionalthinking.simplecast.com/
Dr. Pierre Vigilance is a health executive with 20 years experience in community development, social determinants of health, people and operations management, population health strategy, and executive education from time spent working in the non-profit, government, and education sectors.
He is a systems-level thinker who has established cross-sector partnerships to impact health and founded HealthUp as an advisory consultancy to assist organizations and companies dedicated to improving health and social outcomes in underserved communities. His client-partners range from community health and transportation agencies to municipal bodies considering “smart growth”, and an impact investment group focused on housing. He consistently makes use of human-centered design tools to gain a better perspective on the challenges faced by his clients and the people they serve.
As the George Washington University School of Public Health’s (GWSPH) first Associate Dean for Practice from 2013 to July 2019 he led the school’s applied public health efforts. He continues to engage learners and serve in an advisory capacity to the school as an Adjunct Professor and is also an adjunct faculty member at the Institute for Emerging Health Professions at Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia. Prior to his time in academia Dr. Vigilance was the Health Commissioner for the District of Columbia from 2008-2011, and from 2002-2008 he served communities in Baltimore as an Assistant Health Commissioner in Baltimore City and Director of the Department of Health in Baltimore County. His early career postgraduate career was spent in the non-profit sector work where he directed a new case-management based substance abuse program seated in a community development corporation.
Dr. Vigilance is a member of the Trinity Health Mid-Atlantic Board of Directors; and as an Advisory Board Member of the Millennium Alliance a tech, business, and educational advisory firm. He is also an advisor to civic tech company Seam Social Labs, and the workplace creativity outfit, Innovators Box. He has served as a member of the Practice Committee for the Association of Schools and Programs of Public Health (ASPPH); Board member for the non-profit, DC SCORES; and is an alumnus of the National Association of City & County Health Officials and the Association of State and Territorial Health Officials.
A graduate of the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, and the Bloomberg School of Public Health at Johns Hopkins, he currently resides in Philadelphia, PA.
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