Stan and Clarence chat with Jan Malcolm - an experienced public health practitioner - about public health leadership. Jan Malcolm has an extensive 40 year career in public health leadership across public, for-profit, and not-for profit sectors. Additionally, the former Commissioner of Health has served across 3 different governors - Ventura, Dayton, and Walz - representing both political parties. Malcolm was also one of the first health care leaders to highlight health disparities and the impact of the social determinants of health. She laid the foundation for health legislation aimed at reducing health disparities in the state. Listen along as Jan Malcolm sharers her experiences and exemplifies what it means to be a public health leader.Join the conversation at healthchatterpodcast.comBrought to you in support of Hue-MAN, who is Creating Healthy Communities through Innovative Partnerships.More about their work can be found at http://huemanpartnership.org/
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Hello, everybody. Welcome to Health Chatter. Today's show is going to be a really great show. Actually, all our shows are great, but this takes it to another level. On public health leadership, past, present, and future, we have an illustrious guest with us today, Jan Malcolm. I'll get into her logistics in a minute. I want to thank our crew. As I always do without them, we would not
Be as successful as we have been. I believe this is our 66, 65, 66 show. So it's going going strong. Maddie Levine, Wolf, Aaron Collins, Deandra Howard. and Sheridan Nygaard all do are responsible for getting some background research together and great talking points for both Clarence and I. So thank you to you two. Sheridan also helps us with our marketing.
And then Matthew Campbell is our tech guru who takes care of everything technical to make sure that these shows get out to you, the listening public. So many, many thanks to you. You're the best team ever. And then, of course, Clarence Jones is my great colleague in this endeavor. We've been having a lot of fun doing this.
He comes with a really good breadth of background in community health, and I greatly appreciate your insights and perspectives. It's a wonderful partnership, and I really appreciate it. And then, of course, there's H-U-E-M-A-N Partnership, which is a community endeavor focusing on health-related issues for all of us, actually, and we hope that All of us can listen to their insights.
You can check out their website at humanpartnership.com.org. I always say com, don't I?
Yeah, you do. .org.
.org, okay. But they're a great, great organization, and many thanks to them. So today, everybody, Jan Malcolm. Jan and I go back a long ways. I remember, Jan, when you were at Health Partners. So that really goes back a way. But it's been a great collegial relationship these years. We've seen a lot of things come and go in public health and in medicine. Jan's had over 40 years of public service
and continues to have a great positive influence. She's gonna be leading up or maybe in the midst of leading up an initiative to address the issues of health sciences at the University of Minnesota. And I think that group has got kind of a deadline of what January to get your decisions made. So Jan, Jan is leading that effort, so thank you for that.
She served under three governors in the state of Minnesota, for those of you who do not live in Minnesota, Governor Ventura, Governor Dayton, and most recently, Governor Tim Walz. And it's also interesting representing two different political parties over that course of time. Wonderful health
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