Whole Child Health Alliance
Advancing Whole Child Health Models
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
View a one-pager that describes the Whole Child Health Alliance. Learn More
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
Charter
Review the structure of the Alliance. Learn More
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, Health Care Transformation Task Force
General Members
General Members of the Alliance include: Aligning for Health, Center for the Study of Social Policy, Children’s Hospital Association, Delaware Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics, Duke-Margolis Center for Health Policy, Families USA, First Focus on Children, Local Initiatives Support Corporation, Mental Health America, Seattle Children's, Trust for America’s Health, UnitedHeatlhcare Community & State and ZERO TO THREE.
Advisory Committee
The Alliance engages with subject matter experts and community members:
- 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.
- James Perrin, MD, Professor of Pediatrics, Mass General Hospital for Children/Harvard Medical School
- Karen Marie Wilding, VP and Chief Value Officer, Nemours Children's Health