Education & Leadership

Health Equity Conference, Events & Website

The Dalio Center has created a wide variety of content to help educate hospital teams and our community about health disparities and the role structural inequities play in our health.

In 2023, we continued to expand our public-facing website, launching new videos on the social determinants of health, the second annual Health Equity Report, and new publications.

In addition to these digital resources, Dr. Iyasere and other team members have participated in over 40 community discussions, hospital presentations, and external events about the Dalio Center for Health Justice, Health Equity, and Diversity in Medicine, including, but not limited to:

• Guest on the Reset Talk Show on Caribbean Power Jam Radio
• Presenter at the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Inaugural Conference on Health Equity: Framing the Future of Equitable Healthcare
• Presenter for the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists
• Presenter at the Louisiana Perinatal Quality Collaborative
• Panelist at the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS)’s “Sharing Social Determinants of Health Data to Improve Health and Healthcare Outcomes”
• Panelist on “Achieve Equity in Healthcare” at the Queens Public Library
• Panelist on “How Academic Medicine Can Address Health Justice” at the Association of American Medical Colleges Annual Conference
• Panelist at the UJA Federation Healthcare Equity and Tech Event
• Guest lectures at Columbia Business School and Columbia Mailman School of Public Health

The Dalio Center has hosted several internal and external events, focused on health disparities and community building, including:

• Sickle Cell Disease Patient Celebration with speakers, vendors, and resources for patients
• Sickle Cell Disease Awareness Symposium featuring stories from sickle cell disease patients and educational sessions from sickle cell disease providers
• NewYork-Presbyterian Dalio Center for Health Justice Conference “Focusing on Early Childhood to Achieve Equity: The First 1,000 Days” at the Brooklyn Museum with keynote speakers Dr. Nadine Burke-Harris and Dr. James Heckman

Awards, Honors & Publications

The Dalio Center team members had numerous publications in 2023 including:

• Peretz P, Shapiro A, Santos L, Ogaye K, Deland E, Steel P, Meyer D, Iyasere J. Social Determinants of Health Screening and Management: Lessons at a Large, Urban Academic Health System. The Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety. 2023;49(6-7):328-332. Doi:10.1016/j.jcjq.2023.04.002
• Harris W, Alleyne F, Kahsai M, Hemway R-J, Raso R, Shapiro A, Iyasere J. Black Hair Care Matters: NewYork-Presbyterian’s Crown Hair Care Program. New England Journal of Medicine Catalyst. Published online May 25, 2023. Doi:10.1056/CAT.23.0031
• Cryts A. NewYork-Presbyterian Works to Improve Patient Health by Addressing Social Needs. Journal of AHIMA. September 5, 2023. Accessed December 4, 2023. https://journal.ahima.org/page/newyork-presbyterian-works-to-improve-patient-health-by-addressing-social-needs.
• Cron J, Shapiro AA, Carasimu L, Iyasere J, Schisler JM, Nagy S, Angus S, Burgansky A, Dayal AK, Hemmerdinger TB, Howard D, Oxford-Horrey C, Phillibert DC, Sheen JJ, Goffman D. Understanding Clinician Knowledge About Race Adjustment in the Vaginal Birth After Cesarean Calculator. Health Equity. 2023;7:1, 1–6, DOI: 10.1089/heq.2023.0049.
• Finkel MA, Barrios D, Partida I, Kelman E, Hulse E, Rosenthal A, Reiss J, Schwartz R, Meyer D, Woo Baidal JA, the HERALD collaborative. Participant and Stakeholder Perceptions of the Food FARMacy Emergency Food Assistance Program for the Coronavirus Disease 2019 Pandemic: A Qualitative Study. Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics. Published online November 4, 2023. doi:10.1016/j.jand.2023.10.021
• Woods M, Appel G, Daulbayeva A, Harris C, Picard R, Iyasere J, Avery J. Integrating technology into Undergraduate Medical Education: Can affective computing help teach empathy? Academic Psychiatry. Published online November 13, 2023. doi:10.1007/s40596-023-01900-8

Awards received by the Dalio Center for Health Justice in 2023, include:

• Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Inaugural Conference on Health Equity Featured Poster Presentation: We Ask Because We Care
• American Public Health Association 2023 Public Health Film Festival Featured Short Films: One Decision for Us and What to Know About Sickle Cell Disease
• Finalist for a PR Daily's Nonprofit Communications Award: Dalio Center’s Social Determinants of Health Videos
• Crain’s 2023 Notable Health Care Leaders: Julia Iyasere, MD, MBA
• 2023 Empire Whole Health Hero: Julia Iyasere, MD, MBA

Spotlight on Health Equity Education

Throughout 2023, the Dalio Center for Health Justice undertook a variety of initiatives to educate staff at NewYork-Presbyterian on topics in health equity. In July, the Dalio Center released a health equity training covering core concepts around health disparities, health equity, and health justice. Over 15,000 NewYork-Presbyterian team members have completed the training and core concepts from this module have been incorporated into NewYork-Presbyterian’s mandatory annual hospital training.

In collaboration with several teams across NewYork-Presbyterian, the Dalio Center also compiled a series of 13 one-page educational resources on health equity-related topics. These resources have been distributed across all NewYork-Presbyterian campuses and are available electronically on the internal Dalio Center Infonet site. To reinforce the topics covered in the one-page resources, Dalio Center team members led education sessions at more than 130 hospital units and participated in over 90 speaking engagements.

Next year, we will continue to create education opportunities for team members at NewYork-Presbyterian, who are eager to deepen their knowledge of health equity and health justice.

Spotlight on Health Literacy Education

At NewYork-Presbyterian, our goal is to give all patients an equal opportunity to achieve their optimal health. Health literacy is a patient’s ability to receive and understand information to make good health decisions. Patients who understand their health information report better health outcomes and more satisfaction with their hospital experience. In 2023, we refreshed our resources and materials on health literacy. To further educate our team members, we launched a new health literacy learning module focusing on the importance of health literacy and techniques that staff can use to help patients with health literacy challenges. Through our internal Patient Education Infonet site, in collaboration with team members from Patient Education, Nursing, and Information Technology, we posted resources on health literacy, including a Health Literacy Tip Sheet, Health Literacy Checklist, and electronic medical record tipsheets on how to document patient education and interpreter services. We will continue to update and refresh our educational resources on health literacy for our NewYork-Presbyterian team members.

Communicating through NewYork-Presbyterian

To help inform our key stakeholders, including leaders, licensed practitioners, and staff, about our progress to reduce identified health care disparities, the Dalio Center for Health Justice provides updates on health equity related work through several communication channels:

• The Annual Progress Report is posted to both NewYork-Presbyterian’s external website and the Infonet
• Updates are included in monthly “MD Topline”, a physician-facing NewYork-Presbyterian newsletter
• Quarterly newsletters are sent to all NewYork-Presbyterian Vice Presidents for distribution to their staff, and copies of the newsletter are available on the NewYork-Presbyterian Infonet
• The Dalio Center presents at Patient Centered Academies across campuses each quarter
• The Dalio Center maintains an email account where staff can pose questions or suggest projects

Additionally, health equity updates are provided quarterly to the NewYork-Presbyterian Board of Trustees’ Community Mission & Health Justice Committee, ad-hoc to the NewYork-Presbyterian Board of Trustees’ Committee on Quality and Patient Safety, and monthly to the Dalio Center’s executive steering committee.

Health Justice in
Action Awardees

At NewYork-Presbyterian, we recognize that our trainees—residents and fellows—are uniquely positioned to advance health justice work. With more than 150 accredited programs and more than 1,800 trainees, we are one of the largest centers of graduate medical education in the country and greatly impact health care. We are deeply committed to training the most talented and diverse residents and fellows to be the next generation of leaders in medicine and health equity.

The Health Justice in Action (HJA) Fund supports trainee initiatives in health equity and social justice. HJA awards are granted to trainees pursuing equity-oriented projects across NewYork-Presbyterian, including projects in quality and patient safety, hospital and clinical operations, community relationship building, community health, medical education, or technology and innovation. In 2023, we funded the following projects:

Program for Individualized Mentorship Education Solutions (PrIMES) Lite

Aaron Zelikovich; Neurology (NYP-WC)
Alexandra Giantini Larsen; Neurosurgery (NYP-WC)

Columbia Radiology Youth Mentoring Program

Eleanor Kim; Interventional Radiology (NYP-CU)
Tina Roa; Interventional Radiology (NYP-CU)
Sean Matuszak; Interventional Radiology (NYP-CU)

NewYork-Presbyterian Resident-Medical Student Mentorship Program

Nickolas Dreher; Internal Medicine (NYP-CU)
Matias E. Pollevick; Internal Medicine (NYP-CU)

Book Club

In 2022, we launched our Dalio Center Book Club with the aim to engage our Dalio Team members & NewYork-Presbyterian colleagues in health justice and anti-racism discourse. We continued this program in 2023. Each quarter we have one book focused on a specific topic and feature a review of it in our newsletter, in addition to an annual event centered around one of our book topics. Our 2023 Books are:

• Quarter 1: The Deepest Well by Nadine Burke-Harris
• Quarter 2: Beautiful Country by Qian Julie Wang
• Quarter 3: The Stonewall Reader by The New York Public Library
• Quarter 4: The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates by Wes Moore