2020 North Carolina Public Health Leaders' Conference

Shifting the Trajectory: Advancing Equity in Public Health

January 23-24, 2020
3415 Wake Forest Rd.
North Raleigh Hilton
Raleigh, NC

• 2020 Ronald H. Levine Legacy Award and Past Recipients
• 2019 State Health Director's Conference Recap and Presentations

The 2020 North Carolina Public Health Leaders' Conference was held January 23-24, 2020, at the Hilton North Raleigh Midtown. The 2020 conference focused on health equity associated with health costs, chronic disease (cancer), management, and reducing implicit bias. The conference also addressed the preparation and implementation of Healthy North Carolina 2030, the state's health improvement plan.

General session speakers included:

• Elizabeth Tilson, MD, MPH, State Health Director and Chief Medical Officer, NC Department of Health and Human Services
• Giselle Corbie-Smith, MD, MSc, Kenan Distinguished Professor, Department of Social Medicine, Department of Medicine, UNC School of Medicine
• Lisa Richardson, MD, MPH, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
• Melanie Rivera, Vice President, The Management Center
• Rosemarie Allen, EdD, Associate Professor, School of Education, Metropolitan State University of Denver
• Kelly Crosbie, MSW, LCSW, Deputy Director, Quality and Population Health, NC Medicaid, Division of Health Benefits
• Sheila F. Davies, PhD, Director, Dare County Department of Health and Human Services
• Stacie Saunders, MPH, Director, Alamance County Health Department

Presentations

• An Overview of Healthy Homes Impacts on Vulnerable Populations; Neasha Graves, MPA, UNC Institute for the Environment
• Centering Health Equity; Tanya Bass, MS MEd, CHES®, CSE
• Community Partnerships: Working Together to Address the Overdose Crisis across North Carolina; Alison Gunn, Evaluator Moderator CDC Foundation/NC Division of Public Health Injury and Violence Prevention Branch
• Cultural Humility and Positive Engagement with People Who Use Drugs; Margaret Denise Bordeaux, Justice Involved Specialist Moderator CDC Foundation/NC Division of Public Health Injury and Violence Prevention Branch
• Destination Equity: A Roadmap to Equity with the Perinatal Health Strategic Plan; Jasmine Getrouw-Moore, MPA, Women's Health Branch
• DiabetesFreeNC: Reducing the Risk of Type 2 Diabetes for North Carolinians
• Disparities in Cancer Incidence and Stage at Diagnosis; Soundarya Radhakrishnan, Statistical Supervisor, North Carolina Central Cancer Registry, State Center for Health Statistics
• Durham County Gun Safety Team: A Public Health Approach
• Firearm Deaths and Injuries among Youth in North Carolina; Scott K. Proescholdbell, MPH, North Carolina Division of Public Health, Chronic Disease and Injury Section Injury and Violence Prevention Branch
• Formerly Incarcerated Transition Program; Henry "Tommy" Green, CPSS
• Healthy North Carolina 2030; Berkeley Yorkery, MPP, Associate Director North Carolina Institute of Medicine; Elizabeth Cuervo Tilson, MD, MPH, State Health Director and Chief Medical Officer NC Department of Health and Human Services
• Implicit Bias: Aware is Only Half Way There, What's Next?; Dr. Rosemarie Allen, Metropolitan State University of Denver, Institute for Racial Equity and Excellence
• It Doesn’t Have to be This Way; Lisa C. Richardson, MD, MPH Director, Division of Cancer Prevention and Control, CDC
• Managing Equitably: Mindsets and Practices to Start Today; Melanie Rivera, Vice President, The Management Center
• Motivational Interviewing: To Build Support for Policy Change; Laurel Sisler, LCSW, LCAS, NCTTP; Adam Goldstein, MD, MPH; UNC Tobacco Treatment and Weight Management Programs
• NC Child Fatality Task Force Firearm Safety Initiative Recommendation; Kella Hatcher, Executive Director, NC Child Fatality Task Force
• Perinatal Periods of Risk: Analysis of Fetal Infant Mortality in NC, 2014-2017; Vito Di Bona, MS, State Center for Health Statistics
• Reducing Implicit Bias: Cultural Humility; Dr. Rosemarie Allen, Metropolitan State University of Denver, Institute for Racial Equity and Excellence
• The Role of the Community Health Worker; Tish Singletary, North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services, North Carolina Office of Rural Health
• The State of Black Health: NAATPN's Role in the Health Equity Movement; Michael Scott, Program Manager; Channte' Keith, Director of Programs

Ronald H. Levine Legacy Award

Evelyn Foust and Belinda Pettiford, two longtime leaders in NCDHHS’s Division of Public Health (DPH), were recognized by their peers for their accomplishments with Ronald H. Levine Legacy Awards. Foust is head of the Communicable Disease Branch and Pettiford is head of the Women’s Health Branch.

 Past Recipients

About the Legacy Award

The person honored with the Legacy Award for Public Health will have a distinguished record of achievement in one or more of the following areas:

• Expanding the scope and impact of public health services and programs;
• Significantly improving public health systems, capacity or infrastructure;
• Enhancing public health capacity through policy development or collaboration with the private sector;
• Improving the public’s health through the creation of sustained partnerships; and/or
• Fostering public health improvement through sound science and research.

In order to be considered for the Statewide Impact Award, the selected individual’s contribution in one or more of these areas must have been sustained and significant.

Criteria for Selection

To be eligible for the Legacy Award for Public Health – Statewide Impact, the selected individual must have been:

• Active in the practice of public health for a period of not less than 10 years; or,
• In a position to directly influence or guide public health systems change with regard to the body of public health work under consideration;

or,

• Successful in making an enduring contribution to North Carolina’s state and local public health system.

Selections are not limited to state and local public health staff.

Last Modified: March 3, 2020