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Social Determinants of Health Taskforce

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The Social Determinants of Health Taskforce for Baltimore City, led by the University of Maryland, Baltimore (UMB), works to identify and examine the conditions in which individuals are born, grow, live, work, and age and that are shaped by the distribution of money, power, and resources, whether globally, nationally, or locally. These attributes, also known as the social determinants of health, are seen as primarily responsible for what are called health inequities: the unfair and unavoidable differences in health status seen within and between countries.

Background

On May 15, 2018, then-Gov. Larry Hogan approved the creation of the Social Determinants of Health Taskforce for Baltimore City proposed in the Maryland State Assembly. The primary sponsor of the bill was Sen. Shirley Pulliam, who represented Maryland’s 44th Legislative District and chaired the Senate’s subcommittee on minority health disparities of the Health and Government Operations Committee.

Taskforce Leadership

  • Oversight Leadership

    Bruce E. Jarrell, MD, FACS
    President, University of Maryland, Baltimore

    Maryland General Assembly

  • Taskforce Leadership

    Yolanda Ogbolu, PhD, NNP, FNAP, FAAN
    Taskforce Chair

    Chris Gibbons, MD, MPH
    Co-Chair

     

  • Advisory Board

    Sen. Mary Washington, PhD
    Maryland Legislative District 43

    Del. Antonio “Tony” Bridges
    Maryland Legislative District 41

    Taskforce Chairs and Subcommittee Co-Chairs

    (Full list below)

Subcommittee Leadership

  • Social Justice

    Antoinette Mugar, RN, MSN
    Chair

    Vacant
    Co-Chair

  • Health and Human Services

    Harolyn Belcher, MD, MS
    Chair

    Denyce Watties-Daniels, DNP, RN
    Co-Chair

  • Workforce Development and Jobs

    Stacy Smith, MD
    Chair

    Vacant
    Co-Chair

  • Housing

    Marik Moen, PhD, MPH, RN
    Chair

    Nicole Earle
    Co-Chair

  • Education

    Dennis A. Scott, MPA
    Chair

    Vacant
    Co-Chair

Contact

Social Determinants of Health Taskforce

Yolanda Ogbolu, PhD, NNP, FNAP, FAAN
The Bill and Joanne Conway Dean of the University of Maryland School of Nursing and Chair, Social Determinants of Health Taskforce

410-706-0185 sdh-taskforce​@​umaryland.edu

Vicki Greene (Redding), MBA
Administrator, Social Determinants of Health Taskforce, and Academic Program Coordinator, Office of Global Health, School of Nursing

redding​@​umaryland.edu

Related Information

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