You’re invited to join NMQF’s Center for Sustainable Health Care Quality and Equity (SHC) for a Health Champions discussion on “Champions for Total Health: Vaccinations + Total Health Webinar” with a focus on flu and COVID-19 vaccination rates and additional inequities in the African American community.
Panelists
Yabo Beysolow, MD, MPH, FAAP
COVID & Flu Immunization Expert
AIM and iREACH Program for Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Dr. Yabo Beysolow is a pediatrician with over 20 years of experience in private practice and urgent care settings. She is also a public health professional with several years of work experience at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, CDC, in the Immunization Services Division, where Dr. Beysolow led as a Medical Officer and subject matter expert on immunizations, assisted in the development of and presented educational content for live, print, web-based, and remote audiences at the local, state and national levels. Dr. Beysolow led the U.S. Childhood Immunization Schedule Working Group from 2011-2014 as the CDC representative to the ACIP (Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices). Since 2020, Dr. Beysolow has served as an educator and Chair of the EPIC Immunization Advisory Committee for the Georgia Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics, educating health care providers across the state of Georgia on immunizations and also serves as the Georgia Chapter’s Immunization Representative to the National AAP.
Laurence S. Sperling, MD, FACC, FAHA, FACP, FASPC
Executive Director, Million Hearts Initiative, Division of Heart Disease and Stroke Prevention
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services
Dr. Laurence S. Sperling is the Executive Director of the Million Hearts Initiative for the Division of Heart Disease and Stroke Prevention at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services. He is the Founder and was the Director of The Heart Disease Prevention Center at Emory Healthcare. Dr. Sperling is currently the Katz Professor in Preventive Cardiology at the Emory University School of Medicine, and Professor of Global Health in the Rollins School of Public Health. He served as the President of the American Society for Preventive Cardiology from 2014-2016, served on the writing committee of 2018 the ACC/ AHA Guideline on the Management on Blood Cholesterol, and served as Chair of the World Heart Federation writing group on the Roadmap for Cardiovascular Disease Prevention among People Living with Diabetes. Dr. Sperling was the recipient of the 2017 Award of Honor from the Alumni Association of Emory University School of Medicine. He has received awards for excellence in teaching (including 4 Golden Apple Awards and The Dean’s Teaching Award), mentorship (Emory SOM 2018 Mentorship Award), and the R. Wayne Alexander Research mentor award. He has authored over 350 manuscripts/ abstracts/ books, and has been an invited speaker on every continent except Antarctica.
Moderator
Kristen Hobbs, MPH, CPH
Director, Quality Improvement & Equity
Center for Sustainable Health Care Quality and Equity
National Minority Quality Forum
Kristen Hobbs is responsible for the oversight of quality improvement and education projects for a variety of therapeutic areas. A senior-level public health professional with experience in epidemiology, public health program evaluation, public health program development and implementation, and partnership development, Kristen is proud to champion the advancement of health equity and believes in the value of implementing epidemiologic principles for the design, implementation, and management of evidence-based public health interventions. Before joining NMQF/SHC, Kristen worked at Susan G. Komen Headquarters as Senior Manager of the African American Health Equity Initiative. She served at Komen for five years and held varying roles as an evaluator and subject matter expert in the development and implementation of the initiative. Prior to Komen, Kristen worked with the Institutional Review Board and Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee of Saint Louis University on accreditation efforts, survey development, research, and analysis. She also worked for the Saint Louis County Department of Public Health’s Communicable Disease Control Services Division to evaluate and monitor the department’s perinatal hepatitis B program, conduct epidemiologic surveillance of infectious diseases, and refine behavioral health marketing messages for STD prevention and awareness in north St. Louis, Missouri. Kristen earned her Bachelor of Science in Biology and Chemistry from Texas Woman’s University and her Master of Public Health in Epidemiology from Saint Louis University.
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