DPH Lunch and Learn – Unnatural Causes: Is Inequality Making Us Sick: Place Matters - a film and discussion; and Social Determinants of Health Frameworks

When: Wednesday, April 30, 12:00 – 1:30 pm

Where: CT Department of Public Health
470 Capitol Avenue, Conference Room C

Presented by: Suzanne Blancaflor, MS, MPH, Chief
CT Dept. of Public Health, Environmental Health Section
Tiffany Cox, MPH, CPH, DHPE Fellow
CT Dept. of Public Health, CHAPs Section

About the film: Unnatural Causes: Is Inequality Making Us Sick? (produced by California Newsreel with Vital Pictures):

This is a story about health, but it’s not about doctors or drugs. It’s about why some of us get sicker more often and die sooner in the first place.

Unnatural Causes criss-crosses the country investigating findings that are shaking up our conventional understanding of health. There’s much more to our wellbeing than genes, behaviors and medical care. The social, economic and physical environments in which we are born, live and work profoundly affect our longevity and health – as much as smoking, diet and exercise.

This ground-breaking documentary series sheds light on mounting evidence of how inequities in the rest of our lives – the jobs we do, the wealth we enjoy, the neighborhoods we live in – can get under the skin and disrupt our biology as surely as germs and viruses. Solutions lie not in more pills but in more equitable social policies.

This event is free and open to all DPH staff and Connecticut Partners.

For DPH employees requiring additional time, supervisor approval is required, educational leave is pending approval.

Please RSVP to [email protected] by April 29nd.