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DPH launches Black/African'American Health Initiative to address long'standing disparities
Summary
The department presented a multi'pronged Black/African'American Health Initiative that pairs cultural'humility training, workforce development and collective'impact metrics to tackle persistent disparities across cardiovascular disease, alcoholism'related deaths, breast cancer mortality and reproductive health.
The San Francisco Department of Public Health outlined a new Black/African'American Health Initiative and design team aimed at addressing entrenched disparities in multiple health indicators.
Roland Pickens, director of the San Francisco Health Network, described a two'tier structure: a smaller design team of core staff and a larger think tank of more than 70 contributors to guide policy and implementation. The initiative will focus on three interlocking areas: cultural humility training across the workforce, workforce recruitment and retention that reflects the populations served, and collective'impact approaches to align program metrics and interventions.
John Grimes, deputy director for adult and older'adult care and behavioral health, said the initiative will prioritize measures in four areas where African Americans in San Francisco have had disproportionately poor outcomes: cardiovascular disease mortality, rates of alcohol'related death among men, breast cancer mortality among women and reproductive/sexual health concerns. The initiative includes training cohorts on cultural humility and trauma'informed systems and is coordinating with the CDC'funded Healthy Hearts SF project.
Commissioners asked that working'group implementation plans come to committee level for detailed review and that progress be tracked through measurable indicators. DPH said working groups will finalize headline indicators and report back on implementation and outcomes.
