Whole Child Health Alliance

The Whole Child Health Alliance advances whole child health models that promote children’s optimal health, development and well-being across the life course while improving health equity through delivery and payment reforms. Whole child health models engage child health providers, payers, community-based organizations and other multisector partners in improving population health and addressing social needs and broader social determinants of health affecting children, youth and their families.

One-Pager

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Key Elements

Review our key elements representing essential components of holistic, family-centered child health approaches that support optimal health, development and well-being. Learn More

Whole Child Health Case Studies

• Advancing the Key Elements of Whole Child Health: Oregon Case Study
• Executive Summary — Advancing the Key Elements of Whole Child Health: Oregon Case Study Summary
• Advancing the Key Elements of Whole Child Health: State Case Studies and Policy Recommendations
  
• Executive Summary — Advancing the Key Elements of Whole Child Health: State Case Studies and Policy Recommendations

Charter

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Steering Committee

The Alliance’s Steering Committee includes:

• Daniella Gratale, MA, Associate Vice President, Federal Affairs, Nemours Children's Health
• Joshua Traylor, MPH, Senior Director, Center for Health and Research Transformation
• Jeff Steller, MSc., Director of Research and Innovation, Office of Population Health, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital
• Nathaniel Counts, JD, Chief Policy Officer, The Kennedy Forum

Organizational Members

Organizational members of the Alliance include: Aligning for Health, American Health Information Management Association, AmeriHealth Caritas, DC, Center for Health Care Strategies Center for the Study of Social Policy, Children’s Hospital Association, Children's Hospital of Wisconsin, Cincinnati Children's Hospital, Delaware Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics, Duke-Margolis Center for Health Policy, Families USA, First Focus on Children, Healthy Schools Campaign, Local Initiatives Support Corporation, Lutheran Services in America, Meadows Mental Health Policy Institute, Mental Health America, Seattle Children's, Trust for America’s Health, UnitedHealthcare Community & State, Yamhill Community Care and ZERO TO THREE.

Advisory Council

The Alliance engages with subject matter experts and community members:

• Suzanne Bierman, MPH, JD, Director, Sellers Dorsey
• Charlie Bruner, PhD, National Resource Network Manager, Integrated Care for Kids (InCK Marks) Initiative
• Elisabeth Wright Burak, MPP, MSW, Senior Fellow, Center for Children and Families, Georgetown University's McCourt School of Public Policy
• Paul Dworkin, MD, Executive Vice President for Community Health, Connecticut Children’s Medical Center
• Kay Johnson, MPH, MEd, President, Johnson Group Consulting, Inc.
• Stephen Patrick, MD, MPH, MS William R. Long Director of Child Health Policy; Associate Director of Pediatrics and Helath Policy, Emory University
• James Perrin, MD, Professor of Pediatrics, Mass General Hospital for Children/Harvard Medical School
• Gita Rampersad, JD, MHA, Principal, Health Reimagined™
• Eli Sprecher MD, MPP, Pediatrician, Children's Hospital Primary Care Center (CHPCC); Assistant Medical Director, Boston Children’s Department of Accountable Care and Clinical Integration (DACCI); Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School
• Rachel Thornton, MD, PhD, FAAP, Vice President, Chief Health Equity Officer, Nemours Children's Health
• David Willis, MD, Senior Fellow, Georgetown Thrive Center for Children, Families and Communities