Whole Child Health Alliance
Advancing Whole Child Health Models
The Whole Child Health Alliance advances whole child health models that promote children’s optimal health, development and well-being across the life course while improving health equity through delivery and payment reforms. Whole child health models engage child health providers, payers, community-based organizations and other multisector partners in improving population health and addressing social needs and broader social determinants of health affecting children, youth and their families.
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One-Pager
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Key Elements
Review our key elements representing essential components of holistic, family-centered child health approaches that support optimal health, development and well-being. Learn More
Whole Child Health Case Studies
- Advancing the Key Elements of Whole Child Health: Oregon Case Study
- Executive Summary — Advancing the Key Elements of Whole Child Health: Oregon Case Study Summary
- Advancing the Key Elements of Whole Child Health: State Case Studies and Policy Recommendations
- Executive Summary — Advancing the Key Elements of Whole Child Health: State Case Studies and Policy Recommendations
Charter
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Steering Committee
The Alliance’s Steering Committee includes:
- Daniella Gratale, MA, Associate Vice President, Federal Affairs,Ìý91´óÉñ Children's Health
- Joshua Traylor, MPH, Senior Director,
- Jeff Steller, MSc., Director of Research and Innovation, Office of Population Health,
- Nathaniel Counts, JD, Chief Policy Officer,
Organizational Members
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Advisory Council
The Alliance engages with subject matter experts and community members:
- Suzanne Bierman, MPH, JD, Director, Sellers Dorsey
- Charlie Bruner, PhD, National Resource Network Manager, Integrated Care for Kids (InCK Marks) Initiative
- Elisabeth Wright Burak, MPP, MSW, Senior Fellow, Center for Children and Families, Georgetown University's McCourt School of Public Policy
- Paul Dworkin, MD, Executive Vice President for Community Health, Connecticut Children’s Medical Center
- Kay Johnson, MPH, MEd, President, Johnson Group Consulting, Inc.
- Stephen Patrick, MD, MPH, MS William R. Long Director of Child Health Policy; Associate Director of Pediatrics and Helath Policy, Emory University
- James Perrin, MD, Professor of Pediatrics, Mass General Hospital for Children/Harvard Medical School
- Eli Sprecher MD, MPP, Pediatrician, Children's Hospital Primary Care Center (CHPCC); Assistant Medical Director, Boston Children’s Department of Accountable Care and Clinical Integration (DACCI); Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School
- Rachel Thornton, MD, PhD, FAAP, Vice President, Chief Health Equity Officer, 91´óÉñ Children's Health
- David Willis, MD, Senior Fellow, Georgetown Thrive Center for Children, Families and Communities