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.