Healthier Texas Summit Series 
Networking and Facebook Session Schedule
The Healthier Texas Summit Series will offer a variety of online networking events from July 30 to October 29.
Sessions will range from in-depth virtual networking sessions to quick coffee chats to Facebook Live events – each offering a broad range of timely topics and opportunities to engage with fellow Health Champions.With each event you attend, we hope you make new connections, spark conversations, and create new opportunities. You just never know who you are going to meet, and who may be able to offer solutions or recommendations.
Please see the registration information for each session below:
To view the general Summit Series sessions, click here.
Networking Schedule
Thursday, October 1 | 10:00 - 11:30Am CST
Community Health Workers: Finding Innovative Ways to Move Forward
Community Health Workers (CHWs) wear many valuable hats. From patient navigation to project supervision, their capabilities are broad. In this networking session, sponsored by the Texas Association of Promotores Community Health Workers and Living Healthier, we will provide a space for CHW and CHW-allies to discuss current trends and the future of CHWs.
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Virtual Book Club Series Schedule
The Healthier Texas Summit team is excited to announce our first-ever virtual book club!
This is your opportunity to connect with like minded peers, engage in stimulating discussion, and enhance your journey toward lifelong learning and personal growth.
Over the course of eight weeks, we encourage you to join us as we read and discuss Dr. Sandro Galea's book Well. We will provide you with reading goals to help keep you on track.
The Summit Series Book Club is scheduled to run biweekly September 2nd through October 28, 2020. And Dr. Galea will be joining the group on the September 30th meeting to provide straight from the author insights.
Registration is limited. Cost is $30 and includes a signed copy of the book.
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Virtual Book Club
* We will send you a link to the virtual event once you have registered.
Virtual Book Club Meeting Schedule
| Date | Time | Chapters Covered |
|---|---|---|
| Wednesday, September 2nd | 10AM-11AM | Chapters 1-5 |
| Wednesday, September 16th | 10AM-11AM | Chapters 6-10 |
| Wednesday, September 30th | 12PM-1PM | Dr. Galea in attendance |
| Wednesday, October 14th | 10AM-11AM | Chapters 11-15 |
| Wednesday, October 28th | 10AM-11AM | Chapters 16-20 |
About the Book
In the book Well: What We Need to Talk About When We Talk About Health Sandro Galea, Dean and Robert A. Knox Professor, Boston University School of Public Health (SPH) examines what Americans miss when they fixate on healthcare: health.
Americans spend more money on health than people anywhere else in the world. And what do they get for it? Statistically, not much. Americans today live shorter, less healthy lives than citizens of other rich countries, and these trends show no signs of letting up.
The problem, Sandro Galea argues, is that Americans focus on the wrong things when they think about health. Our national understanding of what constitutes "being well" is centered on medicine -- the lifestyles we adopt to stay healthy, and the insurance plans and prescriptions we fall back on when we're not. While all these things are important, they've not proven to be the difference between healthy and unhealthy on the large scale.
Well is a radical examination of the subtle and not-so-subtle factors that determine who gets to be healthy in America. Galea shows how the country's failing health is a product of American history and character -- and how refocusing on our national health can usher enlightenment across American life and politics.
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* We will send you a link to the virtual event once you have registered.
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