Co-Founder, Health Equity Leadership and Exchange Network (HELEN)
Associate Professor, Department of Community Health and Preventative Medicine, Morehouse School of Medicine
Author, The Political Determinants of Health; 150 Years of Obamacare
Public Health, Google/YouTube
Former Vice President & Chief Community Health Officer, CVS Health;
President, Aetna Foundation; US Deputy Assistant Secretary for Minority Health, Obama and Bush Administrations;
Assistant Dean, Health Policy and Chief of Health Services Research, University of Florida School of Medicine
Professor of Internal Medicine and Professor of Health Policy & Management
Downstate Health Sciences University
Senior Advisor on Health Equity, Beth Israel Lahey Health
Director, Patient Engagement, Healthcare Associates, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
RN, MHA, FAHA, FACHE
Chairman of The Board, Mayor's Healthy City Initiative - HealthyBR
MD
Humanitarian
Due to health and safety concerns related to the COVID-19 pandemic all attendees will be required at on-site registration to provide proof of vaccination, or a negative COVID-19 test result within 3 days of the start of the meeting to attend.
Masks are required at the 2021 Movement is Life Caucus.
MUSCULOSKELETAL DISPARITIES
THREATEN THE HEALTH OF THE NATION
Our Vision
Movement is Life is a multi-disciplinary coalition seeking to eliminate racial, ethnic and gender disparities in muscle and joint health by promoting physical mobility to improve quality of life among women who are African American, Hispanic/Latina or live in rural communities.
Caucus Chair
Mary I. O’Connor, MD
Chair, Movement Is Life Caucus
Co-founder and Chief Medical Officer, Vori Health
Professor Emerita of Orthopedics, Mayo Clinic
Past Professor of Orthopaedics and Rehabilitation, Yale School of Medicine
Past Director, Center for Musculoskeletal Care, Yale School of Medicine and Yale New Haven Health
Our Mission
Decrease musculoskeletal health disparities among women and racial/ethnic minorities by raising awareness of their impact on chronic disease management and quality of life. By promoting the importance of early intervention, we seek to slow musculoskeletal disease progression, reduce disability and encourage physical activity and daily movement to improve the overall health of the nation.
Strategic Objectives
Resources
The Health Disparities Podcast
Participating Organizations
American Academy of Physician Assistants
American Association of Hip and Knee Surgeons
American Association of Latino Orthopaedic Surgeons
American Association of Nurse Practitioners
American Osteopathic Academy of Orthopedics
American Osteopathic Association
American Physical Therapy Association
Association of periOperative Registered Nurses
Conference of National Black Churches
J. Robert Gladden Orthopaedic Society
National Association of Orthopaedic Nurses
National Black Nurses Association
National Hispanic Medical Association
National Medical Association
Nth Dimensions Education Solutions
Osteoarthritis Action Alliance
Philadelphia FIGHT
Ruth Jackson Orthopaedic Society
The Root Cause Coalition
To Our Children’s Future with Health
United States Bone and Joint Initiative
W. Montague Cobb/NMA Health Institute