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Whole Child Health Alliance

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Advancing Whole Child Health Models

The Whole Child Health Alliance advances whole child health models that promote children’s optimal health, development and well-being across the life course while improving health equity through delivery and payment reforms. Whole child health models engage child health providers, payers, community-based organizations and other multisector partners in improving population health and addressing social needs and broader social determinants of health affecting children, youth and their families.

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One-Pager

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Key Elements

Review our key elements representing essential components of holistic, family-centered child health approaches that support optimal health, development and well-being. Learn More

Whole Child Health Case Studies

Charter

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Steering Committee

The Alliance’s Steering Committee includes:

  • Daniella Gratale, MA, Associate Vice President, Federal Affairs,Ìý¾Ã¾Ã¾Ã¾Ã¾Ã¾Ã¾Ã¾«Æ· Children's Health
  • Joshua Traylor, MPH, Senior Director,
  • Jeff Steller, MSc., Director of Research and Innovation, Office of Population Health,
  • Nathaniel Counts, JD, Chief Policy Officer,

Organizational Members

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Advisory Council

The Alliance engages with subject matter experts and community members:

  • Suzanne Bierman, MPH, JD, Director, Sellers Dorsey
  • Charlie Bruner, PhD, National Resource Network Manager, Integrated Care for Kids (InCK Marks) Initiative
  • Elisabeth Wright Burak, MPP, MSW, Senior Fellow, Center for Children and Families, Georgetown University's McCourt School of Public Policy
  • Paul Dworkin, MD, Executive Vice President for Community Health, Connecticut Children’s Medical Center
  • Kay Johnson, MPH, MEd, President, Johnson Group Consulting, Inc.
  • Stephen Patrick, MD, MPH, MS William R. Long Director of Child Health Policy; Associate Director of Pediatrics and Helath Policy, Emory University
  • James Perrin, MD, Professor of Pediatrics, Mass General Hospital for Children/Harvard Medical School
  • Eli Sprecher MD, MPP, Pediatrician, Children's Hospital Primary Care Center (CHPCC); Assistant Medical Director, Boston Children’s Department of Accountable Care and Clinical Integration (DACCI); Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School
  • Rachel Thornton, MD, PhD, FAAP, Vice President, Chief Health Equity Officer, ¾Ã¾Ã¾Ã¾Ã¾Ã¾Ã¾Ã¾«Æ· Children's Health
  • David Willis, MD, Senior Fellow, Georgetown Thrive Center for Children, Families and Communities