Panel Session: Building Relationships & Working with Local Officials

Session Goal

  • To increase understanding of what policy engagement for community health equity looks like at the local level by hearing from those doing it and those who serve–or recently served as local officials

Panelists:

  • Grace Kyung, MPH, MUP – Senior Strategic Initiatives Manager for Mayor Tishaura O. Jones, City of St. Louis, MO
  • Kelly McGowan, MPH – Founder and Executive Director of Transform 314, Special Projects Coordinator – Policy with Missouri Center for Public Health Excellence
  • Ian Thomas, PhD – State and Local Program Director for America Walks, past city council member for City of Columbia, MO

ACCOMPANYING RESOURCES

Resource guide – compilation of tips and best practices from multiple sources

Back: Core Research Project

This session was developed as part of the PRC at Washington University in St. Louis Core Research Project (2019-2024), funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U48DP006395). The project’s overall goal is to develop and share strategies to increase the use of effective policies to reduce obesity and community health disparities.