In this presentation, Renae Badruzzaman will describe place-based interventions that bring in community development as a key partner to address social determinants of health; explore moving further upstream to systemic, institutional, and structural change; and demonstrate how the public health workforce can adapt to address systemic racism and health inequities.
Learning Objectives:
- Describe place-based interventions that bring in community development as a key partner to address social determinants of health.
- Explore moving further upstream to systemic, institutional, and structural change.
- Demonstrate how the public health workforce can adapt to address systemic racism and health inequities.
Duration: ~ 26 minutes
Continuing Education Information: 0.5 CECH for CHES
Disclosures: There are no conflicts of interest to report.
Format: Web-based Training, Self-Study
Created/Updated: 08/2020
Author(s)/ Presenter(s): Renae A. Badruzzaman, MPH
Renae Badruzzaman is Program Manager at Build Healthy Places Network where she operationalizes and implements the Network’s place-based strategy. Renae brings a decade of experience working in multidisciplinary and cross-sector collaborations to advance health equity, inclusion, and justice for people of color and communities with low-income. Prior to joining the Network, Renae served as the Program Manager for Health Equity Investments at the Bay Area Regional Health Inequities Initiative. She played a key role in the strategic development and policy advocacy of an anchor mission strategy for local public health departments. While in Chicago, Renae directed a center that promoted a socially just and self-determined system of long-term services and supports and managed a federally-funded leadership program focused on children with special health care needs. She received an MPH from the University of Illinois at Chicago in Community Health Sciences and a BA in Psychology.
