Harvard Club of Cape Cod

The Moral Determinants of Health

Special Guest and Speaker Dr. Donald Berwick President Emeritus and Senior Fellow, Institute for Healthcare Improvement

MEETING DATE: Thursday, March 11, 2021 TIME: 7:00 PM PLACE: On Line via Zoom DIRECTIONS: register to receive a link to join a Zoom meeting

Health care is largely a repair shop, trying and CEO for 19 years. He is one of the to fix damage to health whose causes lie nation's leading authorities on health care far from the care system. Much is known quality and improvement. In July, 2010, about Social Determinants of Health, President Obama appointed Dr. Berwick to which affect longevity, functional status, the position of Administrator of the and comfort far more than medical care Centers for Medicare and Medicaid does. And yet investments in care delivery Services (CMS), which he held until continue to dwarf investments in December, 2011. A pediatrician by improving social determinants. This lecture will background, Dr. Berwick has served as Clinical review the evidence on the true causes of illness, Professor of Pediatrics and Health Care Policy at injury, and disability, and will explore why that the Harvard Medical School, Professor of Health illogical imbalance of investment continues. Policy and Management at the Harvard School of Assuming both pragmatic and moral reasons for Public Health, and as a member of the staffs of addressing social determinants of illness, where, Boston's Children’s Hospital Medical Center, ideally, should resources flow? Massachusetts General Hospital, and the Brigham and Women's Hospital. He has authored several Donald M. Berwick, MD, MPP, FRCP, KBE, is books and over 100 journal articles. He is a President Emeritus and Senior Fellow at the summa cum laude graduate of Harvard College, Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI), an and graduate of Harvard Medical School. organization he co-founded and led as President

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