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Social Care Effectiveness Research

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Embarcadero
Monday, February 3, 2025
1:15 PM - 2:30 PM
Embarcadero Room

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Kenneth Lim
PhD Student
Boston University School of Public Health

Association between hospital-based food pantry use and emergency department utilization among Medicaid patients with diabetes

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Biography

Ken Lim is a doctoral student in health services research at Boston University School of Public Health with research interests in payment and care delivery reform, innovation in the Medicaid program, and health equity. His current work uses causal inference and econometric methods to evaluate quality of care in Medicaid.
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MaryCatherine Arbour
Assistant Professor
Brigham and Women's Hospital

Lessons learned implementing and evaluating a Boston hospital system’s cross-sector housing intervention to prevent eviction

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Biography

I am a primary care physician committed to realizing large-scale reductions in health disparities by designing and evaluating interdisciplinary, community-based interventions that improve health outcomes using a combination of rapid cycle, iterative methods and rigorous research designs.
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Aimee Afable
Associate Professor of Community Health Sciences, Associate Dean for Community Engagement
Downstate Health Sciences University

We care about Brooklyn: A social care intervention designed to optimize engagement in maternal healthcare

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Co-presenter

Christina Pardo

Biography

Dr. Afable is Associate Dean for Community Engagement and Associate Professor of Community Health Sciences in the School of Public Health, Downstate Health Sciences University. She partners with communities in the co-design of urban health interventions in the area of maternal health crisis, chronic disease and the digital divide.
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Jennifer Makelarski
University of Chicago and Tulane University

A social care assistance intervention for dementia caregivers reduces emergency care utilization

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Biography

Dr. Makelarski a Senior Epidemiologist/Analyst at University of Chicago’s Lindau Laboratory and Assistant Professor at Tulane University’s School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine. She has been a key partner in the development and iteration of CommunityRx, a low-intensity, high-scale social care intervention designed to connect people to community resources.

Moderator

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Danielle Hessler Jones
Professor
UCSF/SIREN

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