Meaningfully Engaging with Communities: Experiences from Community Organizations
This panel explores what it means to engage with the community meaningfully and why/how healthcare organizations get it right (or wrong). The panel will also address disconnects between organizations and the communities they want to serve as well as issues raised by pawer disparities in healthcare provision.

•Silaphone Nhongvongsouthy
Behavioral Health Program Manager, Providence Healthy Communities Office

•Beata Nelken, MD
Founder, CEO, and Medical Director of Jenks Park Pediatrics, Inc.

•Rev. Howard M. Jenkins, Jr.
Pastor, Bethel AME Church

•Swanette Salazar
Community Health Worker, Family Services of RI

Built Environment and Public Health: Chronic Conditions and the Physical Environment 
This panel will explore the connection between environmental factors linked to the built environment and public health, particularly chronic conditions. The panel will also address efforts to mitigate harms associated with problems in the built environment.

•Tyler McMillen
Providence Planning Department

•Susan Shim Gorelick
Founder & Executive Director, CC4ES (Coalition Center for Environmental Sustainability)

•Scott Wolf
Executive Director, Grow Smart RI

Using Location Intelligence for Health Equity Data Visualization
RIDOH is working to affect change in Rhode Island Health Equity Zones by utilizing contemporary GIS (mapping) resources. The organization leverages interactive dynamic data visualization and examination of the social determinants of health. GIS is the perfect environment to put your data-to-action and concentrate on capacity building to bring about a healthier environment in which to live. Please join Jennifer Latham and Health Equity Institute GIS Lead, Chuck Gurney, as they discuss the health equity road ahead.

•Chuck Gurney
Enterprise GIS Consultant

•Jennifer Latham
Health Equity Evaluator, Rhode Island Department of Health

How Healthcare Payers are Addressing Health-Related Social Needs 
Given that health outcomes are more associated with factors that lie outside of the exam room than with clinical care itself, health insurers are investing in programs that address these drivers of health, like food and housing. Research also shows the individuals with chronic diseases are more likely to have unmet social needs, further impacting their health and welfare, making social care a critical component of chronic disease management. Each panelist will speak to efforts led by health insurers in partnership with community-based organizations, and communities themselves, that seek to improve health by addressing the social care needs of their members.

•Meghan Grady
Executive Director
Meals on Wheels of Rhode Island

•Amy Hulberg, MPP
Director of Medicaid Policy
Rhode Island Executive Office of Health and Human Services

•Gary Chavez
Senior Manager of Clinical Engagement, Neighborhood Health Plan

•Travis Sherman
United HealthCare 

•Breanna Lemieux
Accountable Entity Program Analyst, EOHHS RI

Outreach to Spanish-speaking Populations 
This panel will address how outreach to Spanish-speaking communities differs from English-speaking outreach. Panelists will be invited to discuss their experiences engaging Spanish-speaking audiences, particularly with information about chronic conditions. The panel will also address the resources that are (or should be) to Spanish-speaking community outreach.

•Margarita Jaramillo
Programming Services Operator, Department of Public Health

•Luz Filpo 
Director of Outreach
Meals on Wheels of RI

•Marisol Camilo-Liriano
Entre Nos Con Marisol 

•Wilson Villamar
Chaplain, Roger Williams Medical Center 

Allying with LGBTQ+ Community Organizations 
The Rhode Island Executive Office of Health and Human Services will moderate a panel of community leaders that include: Haus of Codec, Providence Gay Flag Football League, Aldersbridge Communities, Youth Pride, Inc., and Project Weber/Renew

•Lauren Nocera, MSW MPH 
Chief Health Program Evaluator Rhode Island Executive Office of Health and Human Services

•Julio E. Berroa
Executive Director Haus of Codec

•Red McSwiggan Hampson 
Assistant Commissioner of the Women’s+ Division Providence Gay Flag Football League 

•Kathy Shatraw
Navigator Aldersbridge Communities

•Anthony Taubman, LCSW
Director of Youth Services Youth Pride, Inc. 

•Mikel Wadewitz
Director of Partnerships Project Weber/ Renew  

Outreach to Refugee, Immigrant, and Migrant (RIM) Populations
This panel will address the main challenges for RIM populations, particularly related to chronic conditions. The panel will also discuss how their work has sought to overcome those obstacles as well as gaps in services observed in RIM communities.

•Adderlin Bailey
Refugee Health Program, RIDOH

•Khalid Alwan
Medical Case Manager
Dorcas International

•Omar Bah
Director, Refugee Dream Center

•Aline Binyungu
Co-Founder and Executive Director, Women’s Refugee Care

Rhode Island Arts and Health Network: Advancing the Integration of the Arts, Art-Therapies, and Health and Wellbeing in Rhode Island
We often think of arts in healthcare as painted murals and music in the halls. This function of art as a humanizing presence in sterile, busy healthcare settings should be embraced. However, the arts can accomplish much more. The arts can serve as a public health opportunity and intervention—providing a connection to social services, mental health, neurosciences, and other fields that have historically been disconnected from one another.

This session will engage participants in conversation around Rhode Island initiatives that are advancing the integration of arts and health in our State around five broad focus areas: Patient Care, Education, Community Wellbeing, Healing Environments, and Care for Caregivers.

•Steven Boudreau
Chief Administrative Officer, RI Department of Health, Co-Chair Rhode Island Arts and Health Network

•Anisa Raoof
Grants Program Manager RI State Council on the Arts, Co-Chair Rhode Island Arts and Health Network

•Rachel Balaban
Founder and Director, DAPpers [dappers.us] (Dance for All People), Teaching Associate in Medical Science in the Section of Medical Education, Brown University, Warren Alpert Medical School, Co-Founder, Artists and Scientists as Partners [asap-gives.net], Regional Coordinator for Dance for PD

•Melody Gamba
Director, Lighthouse Creative Collaborative LLC

•Wendy Grossman
Activities Therapist and Coordinator of the Healing Arts Program
Butler Hospital

•Nicole O'Malley
Assistant Professor and founding director URI's Music Therapy program
Founding Executive Director
Hands in Harmony