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Battling Racial Health Disparities in Employer-Sponsored Healthcare
No employer seeks to create disparities in the health benefits and healthcare services provided to Black Indigenous People of Color (BIPOC) populations. Nonetheless, health outcomes are worse for these employees - the result of bias and racism embedded in our systems. How can employers become allies in the move toward health equity?
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Battling Racial Health Disparities in Employer-Sponsored Healthcare
No employer seeks to create disparities in the health benefits and healthcare services provided to Black Indigenous People of Color (BIPOC) populations. Nonetheless, health outcomes are worse for these employees - the result of bias and racism embedded in our systems. How can employers become allies in the move toward health equity?
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NEBGH Medical Director’s Weekly Monday COVID-19 Update
Here’s a fast and easy way to understand what the newest info on the pandemic means for you and your employees.
From infection risk and safety measures to the outlook for vaccines and treatments, NEBGH’s medical director breaks it all down for you.
Each Monday at 1 PM – it’s appointment viewing!
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NEBGH’s Medical Director Weekly Monday COVID-19 Update: w/ Dr. Mark Fendrick
Hear the latest COVID update from NEBGH Medical Director Dr. Mark Cunningham-Hill! This special edition also features a discussion with Dr. Mark Fendrick on how employers can support the COVID vaccine’s two-step process and encourage high-value care during this pandemic.
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“Safe Space” Employer Roundtable: Racial Health Disparities
As the final part of the 3 part series, this facilitated roundtable is a safe environment for employers to discuss what we’ve heard in the previous sessions. Let’s examine our assumptions, discuss lessons learned and identify actions we can take to move forward in a positive way.
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Bicoastal Benefits Leaders’ Coffee Talk: featuring Marco Diaz
Join Northeast Business Group on Health (NEBGH) and Silicon Valley Employers Forum (SVEF) as benefits leaders from each organization share what they’re up to!
Each session, you’ll hear a brief presentation from either a NEBGH or SVEF member – and then engage in a Q&A discussion.
Hear from leaders in media, finance, consumer products and other industries based in the NYC area – and those from some of the biggest names in technology from Silicon Valley!
- Marco Diaz, Sr. VP, Global Benefits at News Corp (The Murdoch empire that owns the Wall Street Journal, New York Post, The Times of London, etc.)
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Prevention Strategies for Population Health
Increasing employee resilience and reducing the risk of chronic disease is now more important than ever.
Whether we’re facing a “second wave” of COVID-19 or something completely different, engaging in healthy behaviors is key.
So how do you engage and empower your workforce in taking charge of their health?
Hear how your peers are using creative programs and smarter technology to help employees embrace healthier lifestyles!
Topics include:
- Thriving mentally at work – whether at home or in the office
- Driving sustained weight loss through brain science
- Intervening early to prevent and manage diabetes and other chronic disease
- Preventing cancer
- Changing behaviors when it comes to nutrition and exercise
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Diabetes, Lower-Wage Workers and COVID-19
Why is diabetes more difficult to control for lower-wage workers?
And what’s the link between diabetes and COVID-19?
Why are minority groups experiencing more complications – and deaths – from COVID-19?
Learn what actions you can take to support lower-income employees at risk for diabetes and COVID-19 complications.
A conversation with NEBGH Medical Director Dr. Mark Cunningham-Hill.
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Back-to-Work Forum
A NEBGH Back-to-Work Forum
- How accurate and available is COVID-19 testing – both for infection and antibodies? Who does it? And how should it be used by employers?
- What risk do employers have if an employee contracts the virus in the workplace? What about privacy considerations for high-risk employees and those who are afraid of returning to the office?
- Which safety precautions and social distancing measures are most effective and readily available? How should you plan now for the possibility of a 2nd virus wave in the fall?
Get answers you need from the experts you trust.
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COVID-19 Mental Health Fallout: How Digital Tools Can Help
Anxiety, depression and loneliness were on the rise before COVID-19.
But employees are struggling now more than ever, and the mental health fallout will last long after the crisis ends.
Find out how digital tools fit in your strategy – and how to make sure yours is right for your employee population.
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Addressing Employee Grief and Emotional Distress During and After COVID-19
Employees and their families are going through a lot right now. The aftermath in terms of mental health issues will be significant.
Join us as we explore how the deaths of colleagues, friends and family members, fears of infection and mortality - and the loss of daily life as we’ve known it - is affecting us. Hear how COVID-19 social distancing may increase risk for prolonged grief, and the evidence base for this condition and other stress and trauma related symptoms.
What help and resources will be most helpful to employees now and in the months to come?
NEBGH’s Medical Director talks with Dr. Naomi Simon, Director of the Anxiety and Complicated Grief Program at NYU Grossman School of Medicine, who also recently led a work group on COVID-19 death and dying exposures within the American Psychiatric Association (APA) Disaster Committee.