2020 Conference Day 3 Recap

Dr. Megan Sandel's Keynote Connects the Housing Dots

Co-Director of the GROW Clinic at Boston Medical Center, Co-Lead Principal Investigator with Children’s HealthWatch and Associate Professor of Pediatrics at Boston University Schools of Medicine and Public Health.

Watch the keynote below.

  • “We have to think about all the things that drive people's basic needs, housing, food, healthcare, etc. When we isolate one thing we lose the ripple effect.”

  • “We calculate the societal benefit, take chickenpox, it isn’t that good of a deal financially speaking until you think about the societal return. We give vaccines so that parents can continue to go to work, it helps the child in school, it helps the community.”

  • “Policy is the cog in the wheel in advocating.”

  • “For all of them to have equity you must see everyone's differences.”

  • “Affordable housing not only gives you housing but also reduces your health care cost.”

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