Efforts by the private sector have potential to close the gap in health equity in the United States. That was the message at the recent Culture of Health (COH) Conference, one of several yearly convening meetings under the three-year Building a Culture of Health: A Business Leadership Imperative initiative, a joint program developed between Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and Harvard Business School (HBS) under the leadership of Principal Investigator Howard Koh, Fineberg Professor of the Practice of Public Health Leadership. This initiative has served as a unique opportunity for the worlds of business and public health leaders to work together, both within Harvard University and outside its walls.
Culture of Health encourages businesses to adopt activities that promote well-being into their regular business practices on behalf of employees, consumers, communities, and the environment. The program, funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF), aims to bridge private business and public health and includes six sets of projects focused on research, convening leaders, and training executives to build a COH within their businesses.
Hosted at the Harvard Faculty Club on October 10, 2018, the conference convened COH faculty and staff, their advisory council, representatives from RWJF, and other RWJF COH grantees and partnering organizations. The aim of the conference was for attendees to discuss the role of business in addressing health equity, share what they have learned from their work with the private sector around well-being, and find ways to work together.
[For more on this story by Amy Roeder, go to https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/n...lth-equity-business/]
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