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Heidi Hagen McPherson will provide project support to the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston project “Incorporation of a Health Equity Approach to Hospital Violence Intervention Programs: The Integration of a Community and Hospital Based Initiatives to Reduce Gun Violence in a Large Metropolitan Area.”
Heidi Hagen McPherson has dedicated two decades to public health and community development service, in local, national, and international roles. Her focus and expertise are in catalyzing collective capacity for improved population health systems and outcomes. This focus on improving the ecosystem to provide a foundation for better health and health equity, led to her current role as Co-Lead of the Health Equity Collective with the UTHealth School of Public Health’s Center for Health Equity. The Health Equity Collective (“Collective”), now 200+ organizations strong, was developed to serve as a long-term, durable driver for improving health outcomes and health equity through collaboratively improving social determinants of health systems, with a singular mission of establishing a sustainable, data-driven, human-centered ecosystem of care that equitably addresses SDoH among residents of the Greater Houston area. Heidi has extensive experience building collaborations with healthcare, public health, corporate, and community partners in building cultures of health.