Buying Health for North Carolina with Dr. Mandy Cohen
Why is whole-person care so important? And, is it even possible to shift our current model in that direction? Former North Carolina Secretary of Health Dr. Mandy Cohen joins us to talk about why a shift to whole-person care is the right approach and how she generated bi-partisan support for North Carolina’s groundbreaking Healthy Opportunities Pilots which are providing food, housing and other services to Medicaid enrollees. She shares leadership lessons from COVID and perspectives on the data infrastructure states will need to support whole person health.
Relevant Links
Health Affairs article: “Buying Health for North Carolinians”
https://www.healthaffairs.org/doi/10.1377/hlthaff.2019.01583
Federal approval of Healthy Opportunities Pilots
Kaiser issue brief on North Carolina Pilots
About Our Guest
Dr. Mandy Cohen served as the Secretary of Health in North Carolina from 2017 to 2022, where she led the State’s COVID response and the transformation of the Medicaid Program – focusing on whole-person care and the social drivers of health. Dr. Cohen also served as the COO and Chief of Staff at CMS, helping implement the Affordable Care Act. She was recently named the EVP of Aledade Inc and the CEO of Aldade Care Solutions – scaling value-based care with doctors in charge. Dr. Cohen received her MD from Yale University School of Medicine and her Masters in Public Health from Harvard Chan School of Public Health. Dr. Cohen has been elected to the National Academy of Medicine and is an adjunct professor at the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health. She trained in internal medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital.
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