North Carolina Medical Society’s approach to transitioning from “fighting for doctors,” to “leading on health”.  

Health Leads’ initiative, Building Healthy Communities, partners with communities and health systems to address the systematic causes of inequity and disease by transforming how essential needs are identified and treated.

Joseph Valenti, MD, board member of The Physicians Foundation, discusses how we must ensure our country is developing policies that address how social drivers influence health care behaviors and patient outcomes.

Rebecca D. Onie, et al., a Physicians Foundation grant-supported partner, published a twenty-year case study of adaptation and diffusion of integrating social needs into clinical care.

Joseph Valenti, MD, board member of The Physicians Foundation, discusses social drivers’ tangible effects on health care costs and life expectancy.