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What Shapes Health

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WHAT SHAPES HEALTH

Presented in Collaboration with the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and NPR

Health is more than the sum of its parts. Sometimes in surprising ways, factors such as childhood experiences, housing conditions, poor diets, and healthcare access drive who ends up sick — and who does not. This Forum event, held in connection with a new poll by the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and NPR, investigated these factors from the perspective of experts and the U.S. public, as well as examined public perceptions of what impacts health and what actions can be taken to improve health.

Part of: Policy Controversies.

Presented in Collaboration with the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and NPR

Image Credit: © GettyImages/Mitchell Funk

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Moderator

Joe Neel
Deputy Senior Supervising Editor and a Correspondent on the Science Desk, NPR

Expert Participants

Robert Blendon
Professor of Health Policy and Political Analysis, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and Harvard Kennedy School

Lisa Berkman
Professor of Public Policy and of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Dwayne Proctor
Senior Adviser to the President and Director, Achieving Health Equity Portfolio, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

Rebecca Onie
Co-Founder and CEO of Health Leads

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