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Please join The San Francisco Foundation and The Public Health Institute’s Dialogue4Health for the first in a three part web forum series on designing public-private partnerships to promote healthier communities.

Program Description: Across America, billions of dollars are being invested in the built environment – specifically in housing and transportation. These investments determine the type of communities that we live in and the opportunities we are afforded. They are, as Rajiv Bhatia states it, “social policies in concrete.” In this segment, we will argue that policies around the built environment are also “health policies in concrete.” Dr. Richard Jackson will give us an overview of how investments in housing and transportation have deep implications for health equity. Dr. Rajiv Bhatia will offer housing, transportation, and health practitioners policy tools to improve the impact of planning and development decisions on community health. An example of an innovative partnership to build more transit oriented affordable housing will follow – The San Francisco Foundation’s community development program director, Vanitha Venugopal, will discuss The Great Communities Collaborative (GCC), the Bay Area’s model transit oriented development network. A specific focus will be given to the GCC’s instrumental role in catalyzing the Transit-Oriented Affordable Housing (TOAH) fund, a $50 million partnership public private partnership. Asian Health Services director of planning and development, Julia Liou, will also highlight the innovative, neighborhood-level collaborations where health promotion has been at the center of their housing and transportation planning.

“Healthy People Live in Healthy Places:” A Three Part Web Forum Series on Designing Public-Private Partnerships to Promote Healthier Communities
People are healthier when the places where they live and work support good health. Without a healthy environment, people are more likely to suffer from obesity or many other chronic diseases plaguing United States populations: diabetes, asthma, and heart disease. A vision for healthy communities will be realized when all neighborhoods, schools, and workplaces offer safe places to play and be active. Achieving this vision requires the broad expertise and influence of policy makers, researchers, advocates, practitioners and funders working across multiple fields to change policies and environments. From the perspective of practitioners in the transportation, land use, and health fields, The San Francisco Foundation’s “Healthy People Live in Healthy Places” and the Public Health Institute’s Dialogue4Health three part Web Forum series will outline a vision for healthy communities and highlight some of the insights learned from successful endeavors to create healthy and livable communities across the country.

Part 2, Healthy Homes: You Are Where You Live
Moderator: Francesca Vietor, Program Officer for Environment at The San Francisco Foundation
Date and Time TBD

Part 3, Supportive Housing: Bring Care into Homes
Moderator: Mark Cloutier,  Program Director for Public Policy, Community Health, and Civic Engagement at The San Francisco Foundation
Date and Time TBD