Seattle at dusk.
This item caught our attention in part because Cambridge Management Group has done a great deal of work on population-health and social-determinants-of-health in Washington State and Oregon, led by our senior adviser Marc Pierson, M.D.
Jarrad Aguirre, an M.D. and MBA student, writes in HealthAffairs that the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has a huge opportunity to use Washington State, its home, as a giant demonstration project to address the social determinants of health by building Accountable Communities of Health (ACHs) that improve community engagement, encourage multi-sector participation and use “transformation projects” that look beyond investments in the most expensive adults and invest in upstream social determinants and in children.
