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Applying a Racial Equity Lens in Quality Improvement: Utilizing the Racial Equity Data Road Map

09 Jun 2021
12:00pm - 1:00pm EDT

Presented by:

Antonia Blinn and Sarah Lederberg Stone

Massachusetts Department of Public Health

 

Session Description:

This presentation will describe the Racial Equity Data Road Map (Road Map), a tool developed at the Massachusetts Department of Public Health to facilitate using data towards eliminating structural racism. Use of the Racial Equity Data Road Map can support programs to authentically engage communities; frame data in the broader historical and structural contexts that impact health; communicate that inequities are unfair, unjust and preventable; and design solutions that address racism and other root causes of inequities. Presenters will highlight Section 7: Moving from Data to Action of the Road Map which includes the equity adapted Model for Improvement.

 

Learning Objectives:

  • Provide an overview of the Racial Equity Data Road Map
  • Identify how a racial equity approach can be applied to quality improvement
  • Identify data sources to use for racial equity work

 

Meet our Speakers:

Antonia Blinn, CPHQ has been the Director of Performance Management and Quality Improvement at the Massachusetts Department of Public Health for the past 6 years. Antonia has focused on establishing and fostering a culture that supports and promotes program performance goals and quality improvement and established the Department’s Academic Health Department and it’s first program the Academic Public Health Volunteer Corps.  Antonia has implemented the use of strategic methods - including the Model for Improvement - Plan-Do-Study-Act; Lean; and Six Sigma to actively improve efficiency, effectiveness, staff and customer satisfaction while incorporating racial equity and community engagement frameworks into the work. Antonia is chair of the performance management and quality improvement council and owner of DPH’s REDCap, a new secure web-based survey and data collection tool. Antonia is co-chair of the Cross-Department Racial Equity Communication Committee whose purpose is to communicate racial equity work and lift up new tools, resources and successes. Antonia’s prior experience includes leading quality and process improvement initiatives at the Massachusetts League of Community Health Centers. Ms. Blinn coached and instructed 29 community health center teams on Lean principles and tools resulting in improved patient and staff satisfaction, improved immunization and cancer screening rates, and successful integration of HIV care into primary care services.

Sarah Lederberg Stone, MPH, PhD, is a senior epidemiologist at the Massachusetts Department of Public Health, working in the Division of Maternal and Child Health (MCH) Research and Analysis for the Bureau of Family Health and Nutrition.  Dr. Stone has a lead role in data collection, complex analysis, interpretation, and dissemination for the Massachusetts WIC Program (the USDA's Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children), with an emphasis on using data to improve and promote racial equity in health. She also plays a key role in drafting the Title V Maternal and Child Health Block Grant annual application and report and conducting the five-year statewide maternal and child health needs assessment to select state Title V priorities and develop structural and process measures for priorities on substance use and substance exposed newborns, nutrition, food security, breastfeeding, physical activity, mental health, infant safety, maternal mortality and morbidity, racism, and health equity. Dr. Stone is a certified Lean Six Sigma Green Belt, and earned her MPH and PhD in Epidemiology from the Boston University School of Public Health, and completed a post-doctoral fellowship in MCH Applied Epidemiology through the Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists.

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10 Jun 2021
$30.00
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10 Jun 2021
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09 Jun 2021
12:00pm - 1:00pm EDT

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