Healthy Work Environments Summit
The Interdisciplinary Center for Healthy Workplaces (ICHW) partnered with University Health Services for the planning and execution of the Healthy Work Environment Summit held at UC Berkeley in June 2019. A total of 120 attendees were welcomed to the event.
Goals of the day included:
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Develop a shared understanding of how communities can redesign work environments to foster greater health and wellbeing.
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Identify health in all policies (HiAP) and built environment efforts that would have the greatest impact at campus and departmental levels.
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Identify steps we could take to embed health and wellbeing into daily decision making at UC Berkeley and to elevate healthy work environments to the level of a strategic goal for campus.
Speakers included:
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Internationally recognized keynote speaker Tony Buettner: Blue Zones - Learn How to Transform Your Community to Live Longer, Better(link is external)
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Julia Caplan: Program Director for California's Health in All Policies Task Force(link is external), a collaborative project between the Public Health Institute, the California Strategic Growth Council, and the California Department of Public Health.
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Linda Rudolph: Founding Chair of California's Health in All Policies Task Force(link is external).
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Lindsay Graham(link is external) and Gail Brager(link is external) from UC Berkeley's Center for the Built Environment(link is external) and Courtney Chandler(link is external), Chief Strategy and Operating Officer, Haas School of Business.
This event was sponsored by University Health Services(link is external), Berkeley’s Interdisciplinary Center for Healthy Workplaces, Human Resources(link is external), and other partners.
