June 1, 2022

Buffalo State Data Talk 

Episode 19: Healthcare data an interview with Karen Hall, Program Manager for Population Health Collaborative

In this episode Karen Hall, the Program Manager for Population Health Collaborative, talks about how she uses healthcare data to improve the health of Western New York. Listen to the episode to learn how Karen analyses publicly available data to create plans with community partners with an emphasis on Social Determinants of Health. Don’t forget to stick around for the end where she provides some nontraditional tips for growing your network.  

0:00 Intro 

0:44 What Karen does 

6:14 What data do you use? 

7:42 What do you do with the data? 

9:46 The results of the data 

10:24 How do you analyze your data? 

11:25 Karen’s favorite part of her job 

12:44 Social Determinants of Health and why they are important 

17:46 Karen’s background 

19:50 Karen’s nontraditional tips to grow your network 

22:09 How to get into contact with Karen 

22:54 Outro 

Resources 

• https://www.livewellwny.org/ 
• Interested in learning more about social determinants of health 
  • https://www.cdc.gov/ 
  • http://www.ihi.org/ 
  • https://rhnscny.org/ 
• Connect with Karen Hall 
  • khall@phcwny.org 

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