Manisha Sharma
Heartbeat on the Street: Designing a Street Medicine + Nutrition Program
Manisha Sharma, MD, FAAFP, Founder, Chief Care Innovation Officer | MitoKhon Advisors
During this two hour session participants will walk through an interactive human-centered design session focused on developing a Street Medicine + Nourishment program to provide culturally congruent health and wrap-around services to those experiencing homelessness. Using social medicine as a foundational lens for this workshop, participants will work together to design and iterate upon a street medicine program (from idea to implementation). Depending on the group size, this may be done in one large group, or smaller teams.
Key learnings and takeaways: (1) Learn the cornerstones of social medicine as a foundation to street medicine [Social and Structural Drivers of Health (SSDOH), interdisciplinary approach, prevention and health promotion, social justice), (2) Gain a deep, heart-centered understanding of the complex needs and challenges faced by of the most vulnerable individuals and communities, (3) understand the intricacies of working within regulatory requirements while delivering innovative care rooted in equity and dignity, (4) collaborate across sectors, lived experience, and expertise to learn from one another and “see, hear, and feel” differently, and (5) inspire individuals and teams to take lessons learned (mini, small, or big) from the session and integrate into their lives to make a ripple effect of social impact.
About Manisha
Manisha Sharma, MD, FAAFP is a constellation of identities. She is a board certified family medicine physician, trained in social medicine, who works at the intersection of social justice and equity, patient care, health policy, care delivery system design and clinical innovation.
Dr. Sharma leads and provides strategic advisory support on multiple local, state, and national initiatives geared to end health inequities. She appears often on several major television and radio networks, addressing topics such as health and racial equity, health in all policy, social justice, wellness, health, and medicine.
She has organized and led numerous grassroots physician campaigns through the organization Doctors for America where she served as the National Director of Leadership Cultivation.
She is a graduate of the California Health Care Foundation Leadership and Innovation Fellowship. She is a founding partner of Civic Health Alliance (a non-partisan coalition of health professionals and students, committed to helping peers and patients register to vote and vote safely), and Centivox Group, a social impact firm that transforms public health communications by elevating health care providers, scientists, health and racial equity experts as trusted messengers.
She loves spending time with her son, family, and friends.
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