Message from the Director
Greetings!
As we welcome the beginning of Spring, we are also welcoming Nancy Ma as our new Project Manager for the Champion Provider Fellowship! In her new role, Nancy will work closely with me to oversee all operations of Champions. She will have a pivotal role in helping to advance our mission of training, supporting, and empowering physicians and dentists across California to improve the health of their communities.
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Prior to joining UCSF, Nancy spent over 10 years working in the LA area for various non-profits and with the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority where she collaborated with multiple funders and community stakeholders. She brings to Champions a passion for addressing public health and social issues that negatively impact vulnerable communities. Nancy is a "foodie," who also enjoys physical activity. On the weekends, you can find her on a hiking trail or trying new foods around the Bay Area. Welcome Nancy! We are thrilled to have you join the Champions team! |
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I recently had the opportunity to share about Champions with a group of general internists from across the country. On April 9th, I co-facilitated a workshop with our previous Champion Provider Fellowship Director, Vanessa Thompson, at the Society of General Internal Medicine 2022 National Meeting. During the workshop, Engaging Community Stakeholders in Conversations to Promote Policy, Systems, and Environmental Change, we guided participants in understanding how to effectively leverage diverse partnerships to address pressing public health issues facing their communities. We highlighted the successful partnership in Riverside County between Cohort 3 Champion Provider Fellow, Dr. Moazzum Bajwa, and local health department representative, Valerie Comeaux, through which they are identifying and addressing food insecurity.
In Health and Solidarity,
Wagahta Semere, MD, MHS
Fellowship Director & Assistant Professor
UCSF School of Medicine
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Reminder! Find articles and resources related to your area(s) of interest by clicking on the icon(s) that correspond to our five focus areas, below:
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Champion Provider Fellow (Cohort 3, Long Beach)
COVID-19 and COVID-19-related illness is, unfortunately, the disease that has swept across the entire world for the past two years. News outlets have devoted nearly 24/7 hour coverage to the minute-by-minute developments of this pandemic. Simultaneously, while these tragic events are unfolding – we continue to see cases of heart attacks, obesity, cancer, and cavities. Read More
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Webinar: Engaging Policymakers (All)
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Thurs. May 12 | 12:15 - 1:15pm | Register
Quarterly Works-In-Progress Call (Fellows)
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Thurs. May 19 | 2:00 - 3:00pm | Register
Quarterly Local Health Department Check-In (LHDs)
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NEW DATE! Current Fellows, Alumni Fellows and LHDs:
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Dr. Kristen Hughes (Cohort 4, Santa Barbara County) (above) and her LHD released Project Play, a resource guide for physical activity. |
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Cohort 4 Fellows from San Diego County: Dr. Fadra Whyte (above, left) is featured in a video discussing “healthy teeth” that Dr. Melissa Campos (above, right) helped coordinate.
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The Food is Medicine Garden that Dr. Chang has been involved in developing was the site for a “Garden Work Day” recently hosted by CommuniCare as part of #NationalHoriculturalTherapyWeek!
Want to learn more about the garden? Email Edye Kuyper, Food & Wellness Manager. |
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Reminder! Brown·Miller Communications is here to help you!
Need help with message development, op-ed support, or preparing for an interview? Make sure to contact Mike Miller or Muriel Bañares of Brown·Miller Communications. They provide a multitude of media and communication services to Champion Provider Fellows and local health departments. Send them an email to find out how they can help you!
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*Champion Provider Listserv*
Collaborate & communicate with Champion Provider
Fellows across the state about your community change efforts.
NOTE: Please do not use the listserv to promote lobbying efforts or to discuss patient care.
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DGA wants to hear from you! Public comment period for Dietary Guidelines, 2025-2030.
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Note: Materials included in this section are for reference and information purposes only and do not imply endorsement by the federal government, California Department of Public Health, or the University of California, San Francisco.
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Barnhill, A., Ramírez, A., Ashe, M., Berhaupt-Glickstein, A., Freudenberg, N., Grier, S., Kumanyika, S. (2022). Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics, 50(1), 52-59
The authors propose a framework for racialized marketing, describing how the marketing of unhealthy foods and beverages to Black and Latino consumers results from the intersection of a business model in which profits come primarily from marketing an unhealthy mix of products, standard targeted marketing strategies, and societal forces of structural racism, and contributes to health disparities.
The paper is part of a special issue of the Journal of Law, Medicine, and Ethics focused on Health Law and Anti-Racism. A link to the full issue is here.
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Food as Medicine: Overview and Report: How Food and Diet Impact the Treatment of Disease and Disease Management
Platkin, C., Cather, A., Butz, L., Garcia, I., Gallanter, M., Leung, MM. (2022). Center for Food As Medicine and Hunter College NYC Food Policy Center.
The comprehensive academic review and report of the food as medicine movement dives into the overwhelming evidence demonstrating the impact of food and diet on health, specifically among food-related diseases.
Download the report here.
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Rhoads E, Seeley E, Varela VB, et al. (2021). Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
A new book by UCSF Assoc. Prof. of Medicine Dr. Rupa Marya and Research Professor Dr. Raj Patel, reveals the interconnectedness of social and economic injustice, the environment, and human health.
Inflamed: Deep Medicine and the Anatomy of Injustice examines inflammation of both the body and the world. Taking readers on a tour of the human body, Patel and Marya argue that the food people eat, the environments they inhabit, and the injustices they experience impact everything from respiratory to reproductive systems. “Deep medicine, for us, is the understanding that health can no longer be viewed as something we can try to get as individuals,” Marya says. “We have to understand that health must be attained in the context of our communities, of our families, where we are in our societies, and in relationship to the web of life.”
A link to a press release about the book and an interview with the authors is here.
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Changing Policies and Practices to Implement Beverage Consensus Recommendations
Survey of Pediatric and Family Dentists
Healthy Eating Research (HER), a national program of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF), invites Pediatric or Family Dentists who work with young children ages 0-5 years and their families to complete a 10-15 minute survey as part of their implementation research.
The results of this survey will help inform the development of educational content for health care practitioners with the goal of facilitating implementation of the HER beverage recommendations into patient counseling practices. More information about this research.
If you would like to share ways for HER to reach Pediatric Dentists for this survey (through professional organizations, health systems, Universities, etc.), please email kirsten.arm@duke.edu.
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