Health Equity Committee

Minutes Health Equity Committee April 10th, 2:30pm Members in Attendance: Alexander Mbewe, Melissa Meyers, Michele Brezniak, Ramindra Walia, Sheila Hayes, Patrick McCormick, Sarah Duso, Bridgit Marks Members Absent: Kate Milde, Bob Farwell, John Salomone, Patrick Daley, Jennifer Granger, Erica Brennan, Dr. Mohammed Qureshi, Joseph Zuzel (provided a rep). 1. Call to order 2. Attendance a. See above b. Mr. Farwell announced that he would send a new representative from Otis Library to the next meeting. c. Mrs. Meyers is the representative from Generations d. A motion was passed to request a review of the current committee members and to provide the team with updates on members who are joining or no longer attending the committee meetings. 3. Minutes from March meeting a. Were reviewed and accepted. 4. Elect a note taker a. The committee members voted to rotate the meeting note taker at each meeting since no member volunteered as the note taker for the committee. b. Patrick McCormick recorded the minutes from our April 10th meeting. 5. Ethics Requirements a. S. Duso sent a request to Kate Milde and Angela Fuller to confirm the members who still need to complete the ethics course. 6. 6 areas of focus- Assign members to each area of focus and set initial goals for each area. Health Equity Plan (3 & 4), Data (aggregation and analysis) (5 & 6), Direct Services (7 & 8), Internal city processes (internal operations 9 & 10), Umbrella/scope Mission and Vision (2 & 11), Legislative advocacy (13 & 14), Goals and objectives (12) a. Committee members voted to focus on Data as the first priority of work. The committee agreed that with the limited attendance of members and the scope of the work 1 area of focus would be tackled at a time. b. Prioritizing the focus areas will allow for a purposeful review of the work ahead. c. The committee requested additional details regarding data from previously completed assessments. Would like to review data already collected and determine what additional data is needed. d. Committee members are reviewing the data they have access to find common data points. e. McCormick reminded the committee to ensure that the data chosen has a Statistical significance. f. The committee suggested the following data sets: Hospital data, health center data, TVCCA’s needs assessments and School demographic profiles. g. The Sub-committee focused on data agreed to meet on May 3rd at 1pm. S, Duso, M. Meyers, J. Zuzel, and Dr. Walia will participate in the sub-committee. h. A request was made for Kate Milde to reach out to Health Equity Solutions for specificity on the report they provided.  i. Ms. Hayes recommended that once the data is reviewed the committee develop a substantive plan with goals and objectives. 7. Update on members who can not attend and their recommended replacement/representative. If you miss more than 3 meetings consecutively you could be asked to resign. a. Melissa Meyers is the rep for Generations. b. Erica Brennan has been unable to attend the committee meetings. c. Email sent to Kate Milde and Angela Fuller to review Committee member list and procedure/policies for adding and removing members. 8. Other- your items https://www.hesct.org/what-we-do/ and Health Equity Committee semi-annual report summary due by 3/26- submitted. a. Reviewed and approved by committee members. 9. Set Agenda for next meeting a. No new items b. Sub-committee reviewing data will report out 10. Adjournment a. Patrick motioned to adjourn b. Melissa Meyers seconded the motion