Ep 68: Community Wellbeing: The Individual's Role in Community Wellbeing with Dr Nirshila Chand PhD

🤔Do you think your community has an affect on your health? What about the flipside … does your individual health affect the wellbeing of your community?  

This week on A Coach, a Nutritionist, and an Expert Walk Into a Podcast, Mike Krause and Dr. Helena Fowler, DCN, and Dr. Nirshila Chand, DrPH, MPH, public health expert and innovator complete their deep-dive into community wellbeing with an insightful discussion spanning from governmental policies, social infrastructure, and community initiatives to behavioral health and beyond.

In the Episode:
🎧 Infrastructure and policies should reflect how we define health and wellbeing; how current systems are inadequate for improving our health span 
🎧 What we can learn, if anything, from Bryan Johnson’s pursuit of longevity
🎧 Personalized medicine 
🎧 The roles of population and community research and health interventions on the individual; the BMI use case 
🎧 Creating a sense of agency by removing barriers (actual and perceived) in the community 
🎧 Innovation never stops, but how much of that is needed when current solutions are under-utilized? Are they really solving problems in better ways? Or contributing to an overwhelming amount of options?
🎧 Surprising lessons on community and individual wellbeing taken from the makeup industry and tech space 
🎧 The importance of health literacy
🎧 Personal perspectives on health and wellbeing shape our health outcomes 

Dr. Nirshila Chand, DrPH, MPH is a Mission-Driven Public Health Specialist dedicated to improving Health Outcomes for our communities locally and globally. Health care is a Human Right!! Our public health ecosystems and sectors have tremendous possibilities to continue redesigning equitable services, innovation, and entrepreneurship to improve the quality of life and outcomes for all of us. 

She advocates for improving community healthcare access across Ages, Genders, and Racial groups. She also supports addressing the social determinants of health (education, economic housing, financial, and other social barriers) that impact children's, women's, and men's health outcomes In the United States, individuals fall under different health care systems based on insurance, and she believes every person deserves to have similar access whether you are on Medicaid or private Insurance. No one deserves to pay out of pocket!! 

She leads by embracing Joy, Health, and Optimism.

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