Live Blog: TEDxJacksonville Salon on Community Health

[TheCat]

I've been at JU since 5 pm or so interviewing tonight's community discussion leaders.

We talked to the following people fairly incredible incredible leaders in the community. I'll post the video interviews throughout the night.

The quality of the videos are not...great but take the time to watch them if you can. I think they're enlightening and you'll get to meet possible new people focused on Jacksonville health.

Dr. Christine Sapienza, Dean of Health Sciences at Jacksonville University, discussing the need to educate young adults on the spread of HPV infections

Dr. Kelli Wells, Director of the Florida Department of Health for Duval County, discussing health disparities within Duval County caused by purely geographic factors

Dr. Richard Christensen, Professor at the UF College of Medicine and Director of Behavioral Health Services at the Sulzbacher Center, discussing the concept of "recovery" from mental illness

Dr. Nasrullah Ghafoor, Medical Director of Muslim American Social Services, discussing a growing free care clinic in Duval County

Susan King, Executive Director of BEAM, discussing a promising new method to combat food deserts in our city.

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JU is a primary sponsor of TEDxJacksonville.

We're on to the first TED talk:

http://www.youtube.com/v/EzZzZ_qpZ4w

Ron Finley: A guerilla gardener in South Central LA
"Funny thing is more people are being killed by drive thrus than drive bys..."

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One of my favorite talks. He received a letter threatened his arrest for planting a garden.

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"growing your own food is like printing your own money..."

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More on Ron Finley:


http://ronfinley.com/

"If you want to meet with me bring your shovel so we can plant some s***"

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Next Talk:
on a crisis text hotline.

http://www.youtube.com/v/LiUClSItcy0

Published on Apr 27, 2012
"When Nancy Lublin started texting teenagers to help with her social advocacy organization, what she found was shocking -- they started texting back about their own problems, from bullying to depression to abuse. So she's setting up a text-only crisis line, and the results might be even more important than she expected."

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She is the founder and CEO of Do Something

https://www.dosomething.org/staff/nancy_lublin

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Next Talk:

http://www.youtube.com/v/cZ7LzE3u7Bw

We feel instinctively that societies with huge income gaps are somehow going wrong. Richard Wilkinson charts the hard data on economic inequality, and shows what gets worse when rich and poor are too far apart: real effects on health, lifespan, even such basic values as trust.

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Trust for others is higher in more equal countries. States in the USA are the same. Sates with more economic equality have more trust for each other.

Mental illness, violence, prisoners are all greater in unequal societies.

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"Folks that want to live the American dream...They should go to Denmark."

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Inequality does not just impact people at the "bottom" negatively. The "upper" have negative consequences as well.

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More info on this topic

Richard is co founder and board member of this group.

http://www.equalitytrust.org.uk/about-us/people


Richard's bio:

Richard has played a formative role in international research on the social determinants of health and on the societal effects of income inequality. He studied economic history at LSE before training in epidemiology. He is Professor Emeritus of Social Epidemiology at the University of Nottingham Medical School, Honorary Professor at UCL and a Visiting Professor at the University of York. Richard co-wrote The Spirit Level with Kate Pickett which won the 2011 Political Studies Association Publication of the Year Award and the 2010 Bristol Festival of Ideas Prize. Richard is also a co-founder of The Equality Trust.

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Interview with Dr. Kelli Wells. The focus of her discussion is about Duval Counties health disparities.

Read the report here http://dchd.net/files/Place%20Matters%20_Final.pdf

Again, forgive the quality and enjoy the interview.


http://www.youtube.com/v/wKUMy4vu7WM


Kelli T. Wells, M.D., is a family physician and the director of the Florida Department of Health in Duval County.  Dr. Wells was named to her current position in early 2013.  Known for her passionate patient advocacy and compassionate leadership, she is committed to advancing the agency.

Dr. Wells is a graduate of Florida A&M University, and the University of Florida College of Medicine.  She completed a Family Practice Residency at St. Vincent's Hospital in Jacksonville, Florida.  As a National Health Service Corps Scholar, she spent the first years of her medical career working in Health Department clinics in Duval County, which fostered a love of public health and an intense interest in addressing health disparities.  Dr. Wells became knowledgeable in cultural competency, and developed a series of lectures for physicians about the provision of culturally competent care.  Such proficiency has been shown to improve health outcomes.  After a number of years in the private sector, Dr. Wells returned to public health in 2009, first as the Clinical Services Director at the Florida Department of Health in Escambia County, where she remained for 4 years.  In May of 2013, the Jacksonville City Council and Mayor approved Dr. Wells' appointment by the State Surgeon General to the position of Health Director.

As the Director of the Florida Department of Health in Duval County, Dr. Wells has the opportunity to impact health outcomes on a large scale.  She oversaw the development of a new agency strategic plan and is working to strengthen collaborative relationships which meet the needs of the residents of Duval County and its surrounding areas.  Anticipating the significant changes in health care reimbursement and healthcare access, particularly in the state of Florida, Dr. Wells is leading an agency reorganization focused upon the more effective use of health resources.  At the center of the agency reorganization is the focus upon interdivisional communication, employee support, and improved efficiency.  Since she became the Health Officer for Duval County, Dr.Wells has been elected to the Board of Directors for the Florida Association of County Health Officials, and leads the New Health Officer mentoring workgroup.

Dr. Wells is a member of the Board of Directors of Partnership for Child Health, the co-chair of the Public Health Committee of the Duval County Medical Society, and a member of the Board of Directors for the Northeast Florida Healthy Start Coalition. She is serving on the Mayors League of Cities Taskforce to Improve Access for Uninsured Children, and The 100 Resilient Cities Initiative.   She also served on the City Council Taskforce on Consolidated Government.  Dr. Wells feels her role is to lead the conversation about public health, and help leaders, officials, and residents recognize that health is a part of every conversation.

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The Next Talk:

http://www.youtube.com/v/f6CILJA110Y

"Is it okay if I totally trash your office?" It's a question Elyn Saks once asked her doctor, and it wasn't a joke. A legal scholar, in 2007 Saks came forward with her own story of schizophrenia, controlled by drugs and therapy but ever-present. In this powerful talk, she asks us to see people with mental illness clearly, honestly and compassionately.

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Very powerful talk.