The Georgia Health Policy Center convened the State Forum to Advance Health Systems Transformation, supported by the National Network of Public Health Institutes and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, with the goal of advancing momentum toward building meaningful collaborations between the public health and health care sectors.

Unlike previous efforts in the state to form collaborative bridges between public health, the health care delivery system, and private-sector partners, which focused primarily around specific disease outcomes, this forum sought to identify and develop both a framework and a few tangible strategies to move the goal of population health from a concept to an action plan.

More than 60 stakeholders participated in the daylong forum. They worked to create a consensus definition of population health, design a conceptual framework for collaboration around risk reduction and improved outcomes related to chronic disease, and develop two pilot strategies that promote cross-sector bridging.

Population Health

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