Designing Health Systems Resilience: Surviving the Present, Ensuring the Future

Join us on February 26th at NYAM for a full-day symposium addressing the critical challenges our healthcare and public health systems face in the wake of COVID-19 and the escalating climate change crisis. This session is a call to action to collaboratively reimagine health to better support our systems, workforce, and communities.

Participants will be able to:

• Describe how healthcare and public health systems can address the climate crisis and other stressors, in partnership with communities
• Analyze ways in which system vulnerability factors can be identified and ameliorated
• Connect with peers to support health resilience best practices

Featuring (selected):

• Jonathan B. Perlin, President & CEO, The Joint Commission
• Liz Grant, Director, Global Health Academy at the University of Edinburgh 
• Ashwin Vasan, Commissioner, NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene
• Rohit T. “Rit” Aggarwala, Chief Climate Officer & Commissioner, NYC Department of Environmental Protection 
• Vivian S. Lee, Executive Fellow, Harvard Business School
• Jodi Sherman, Co-director, Lancet Commission on Sustainable Healthcare
• Peggy Shepard, Co-founder & Executive Director, WE ACT for Environmental Justice 
• Ann Kurth, President, The New York Academy of Medicine

Topics explored will include:

• Best Practices for Healthcare/Public Health System Adaptation to highlight effective strategies.
• Empowering Next-Generation Changemakers, highlighting how emerging leaders can drive transformative change in the health sector.
• Community Advocacy and its role in shaping equitable health policies.
• Resilience Data and Tracking, emphasizing the importance of assessing risk to enhance the resilience of health systems.

This is just the beginning for this critical work as we collaboratively build a community of practice. Together, we will lay the groundwork for a Program for Health System Resilience that can serve as a model in New York and beyond.

NYAM’s Legacy of Innovative Public Health Initiatives

NYAM, a leader in public health, has a rich history of addressing landmark issues and fostering collaborations for health equity. Our work includes influential summits that bring together diverse leaders to turn insights into actionable policies and practices.

Join us as we extend this tradition to tackle the pressing issue of climate change and its impact on health equity.

Joint Accreditation Statement

In support of improving patient care, this activity has been planned and implemented by Amedco LLCand The New York Academy of Medicine. Amedco LLC is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Councilfor Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education(ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education forthe healthcare team.

Physicians
ACCME Credit Designation Statement
Amedco LLC designates this live activity for a maximum of 6.25 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits^TM for physicians. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Nurses
ANCC Credit Designation Statement
Amedco LLC designates this activity for a maximum of 6.25 ANCC contact hours.

Scholarships are available for qualifying individuals/organizations. For more information, contact jargabrite@nyam.org.

Special thanks to our sponsors and partners including The Commonwealth Fund, Mount Sinai, Netflix, Northwell Health, and City & State for their generous support of this program.