Episode 2 | From Partisan to Personal: Building Common Ground for Better Health with Secretary Kody Kinsley
In this episode of In Service of Health, host Dr. Joneigh S. Khaldun sits down with Kody Kinsley, former Secretary of the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services, for an honest and wide-ranging conversation about what it takes to build a health system that truly serves everyone.
In the latest episode of In Service of Health, host Dr. Joneigh S. Khaldun talks with Secretary Kody Kinsley, former Secretary of the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services, about how bipartisan collaboration can help public health leaders move forward on shared priorities.
Secretary Kinsley shares how growing up without health insurance shaped his drive to make health care more accessible and affordable for all. Drawing from his experience leading one of the nation’s largest health and human services agencies, he discusses the urgent need to bridge the divide between health care and public health, and why rural health must be at the center of that conversation.
Secretary Kinsley emphasizes the importance of trust, empathy, and continuous quality improvement, both within health systems and between professionals and the communities they serve.
“Now is the time to be thinking about the future and to be [more] understanding, for connecting with people, for reaching across differences...Our health leaders have to lead the charge there. And this kind of up and down and circuitous nature is not a bug; it's a feature. It is a feature of democracy. It is a feature of who we are as a people.”
— Secretary Kody Kinsley, Senior Policy Advisor, Institute for Policy Solutions, Johns Hopkins University; Former Secretary of Health & Human Services, North Carolina
Tune in to this episode to discover Secretary Kinsley’s insights on how health care leaders can meet people where they are and strengthen public confidence in our health care system.
PHAB is actively working to help bridge the gaps between public health and our health care system. Discover how PHAB’s services can help drive measurable improvements in population health at https://phaboard.org/services/our-clients/
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Ep 2 | From Partisan to Personal: Building Common Ground for Better Health - Secretary Kody Kinsley
In this episode of In Service of Health, host Dr. Joneigh S. Khaldun sits down with Kody Kinsley, former Secretary of the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services, for an honest and wide-ranging conversation about what it takes to build a health system that truly serves everyone. Explo...
