The Health Improvement Partnership for Cuyahoga County will release its first-ever Community Health Improvement Plan at a kickoff event on Thursday, June 11, from 10 to 11 a.m. at the Ariel International Center (1163 E. 40th St.).
Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine has been a key partner in the countywide initiative, and many faculty members were instrumental in creating the plan, which is a comprehensive report that identifies and addresses significant health priorities in Cuyahoga County.
The Steering Committee for the partnership included four Case Western Reserve faculty members:
- Elaine Borawski, the Angela Bowen Williamson Professor in Community Nutrition;
- Heidi Gullett, assistant professor in the School of Medicine;
- Erika Trapl, associate director of the Prevention Research Center for Healthy Neighborhoods and assistant professor in the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics; and
- Scott Frank, director of the Master of Public Health program and associate professor of epidemiology and biostatistics and family medicine.
Gullett, who became co-chair of the consortium, and Trapl, whose Prevention Research Center for Healthy Neighborhoods serves as an anchor institution, will speak at the kickoff event.
Learn more about the Health Improvement Partnership of Cuyahoga County at hipcuyahoga.org.