In honor of National Public Health Week, Indiana Wesleyan University’s Graduate Program in Public Health is coordinating a countywide community meeting at 6:30 p.m. on Tuesday, April 4 at Marion High School to address local health opportunities and challenges. The event is titled Grant County Conversations About Health and will focus on this year’s National Public Health Week theme: “Healthiest Nation 2030.”
Grant County Conversations About Health will begin with a brief presentation of the 2016 Community Health Survey that was conducted by Marion General Hospital. Following the presentation, a roundtable of panelists representing a variety of Grant County health promoting organizations will provide their perspectives on this survey and the work their organizations are doing to promote health in Grant County.
Panelists will include Dr. John Kennedy, Grant County health officer; James Allbaugh, chief executive officer of Carey Services; Tanya Smith, executive director of the Grant County Minority Health Coalition; Dr. Robert Aronson, associate professor of Public Health at Taylor University; and Karen Aaron, director of IWU Health Center.
Afterward, community attendees will be invited to ask questions of the roundtable panelists to receive information and facilitate community awareness of health promotion activities in Grant County.
“We’re excited to put on this event and believe it will greatly benefit the community,” said Dr. Philip Renfroe, assistant professor, Graduate Program in Public Health. “It’s a great opportunity to come together as a community to both learn about and address local health challenges.”