Employers and Public Health Priorities
The workplace is a community in and of itself that can contribute meaningfully to a healthier ecosystem. Employers have a critical role to play in advancing whole-person health by taking a stand for specific action, helping raise awareness among their employees, and taking steps to advance the health of the communities in which they operate. The Employer Action Exchange provides a trusted platform and includes expert guidance, briefings, and networking to advance customized, tangible actions on whole-person health priorities.
Employers and Public Health Priorities
Highlights
Supporting Family Caregiving: How Employers Can Lead
More than 53 million people provide unpaid care for loved ones, with 61 percent also holding paid jobs. Family caregiving impacts financial stability, career progression, and overall well-being.Read Report
The Evolution of Employers’ Role in Public Health
On the Public Health team at the Milken Institute, we are fortunate to have the opportunity to collaborate with organizations across nonprofits, industry, academia, and government. Our work with employers is one component of our larger...Read ArticleImage
Sabrina Spitaletta
Senior Director, Public HealthSabrina Spitaletta has been at the Milken Institute since 2017. She leads the work focused on the role of employers in public health and develops strategic collaborations across sectors and industries to advance whole-person health and performance at work. Spitaletta designed and created the Employer Action Exchange, a platform that advances employer priorities and insights with specific actions that impact employees, communities, and businesses.
Modernizing Care for Obesity as a Chronic Disease: A How-To Guide for Employers
As a country, we face an urgent need to develop and implement public health and health-care strategies that recognize obesity as a chronic disease, address disparities in multifaceted care, focus on person-centered solutions, and eliminate...Read Report
Employer Investments in Digital, Whole-Person Health for Substance Use Disorders
Employers seek to support their employees while normalizing a whole-person approach to substance use disorders (SUD). The response to addiction and the opioid crisis requires a whole-of-society approach, including employers of all sizes...Read Report
Racial Equity and Mental Health in the Workplace: Actions to Drive Systems Change
Nationwide protests in the summer of 2020 sparked many of the largest US corporations to pledge more than $200 billion to advance racial equity and confront the nation’s history of systemic racism. Nonprofits, government agencies, and...Read Report
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Final Recap: Leidos CEO Pledge Collaborative Action Group
In 2021, Leidos and the Milken Institute Center for Public Health (CPH) created a partnership to address two significant crises in our country: the growing addiction epidemic and the mental health crisis that has deepened since the global...Read Report
Employer Action Exchange
The Employer Action Exchange provides a trusted platform and includes expert guidance from key opinion leaders, briefings, and networking to advance customized, tangible actions on whole-person health priorities and investments. It offers a cultivated experience for employers representing diverse sectors and industries.
The summaries below are two of the publications that have resulted from the Employer Action Exchange work. To learn more about the 35+ publications that capture action-based insights for employers, contact Sabrina Spitaletta at [email protected].
Session Summaries
An Evolving Workplace for Next-Gen Employees
Employers at the Intersection of Public Health and Public Safety
