Kneipp invited to White House panel on health equity

Dr. Shawn Kneipp was invited to present to the White House Office of Community Engagement as one of a select panel of experts in health equity from North Carolina in early April. Her comments focused on integrating public health systems with other sectors that regulate the social determinants of health:

“As a nation, we cannot achieve health equity by looking solely to solutions delivered to individual patients through our traditional healthcare system; rather, we must modify the social determinants of health by employing the full weight of, and sufficiently resourcing, our public health system to work in partnership with sectors that regulate or control the social determinants of health in communities.”

The panel will be meeting on a regular basis to both advise staff and disseminate information from the Office of Community Engagement. Dr. Kniepp was one of two nurses who were represented on the panel. You can read her full comments here.