How do we ‘re-imagine trust’ such that we effectively engage the hearts and minds in communities throughout America?  What is our responsibility as professionals within Public Health?  What are the things the we need to talk about when we talk about 21st century community engagement? Our efforts to Re-Imagining Trust: Engaging Hearts and Minds in Communities Throughout America must create more practical and effective solutions, drawing on the listening of diverse groups.  Our efforts should improve citizens' knowledge and skills through immersive experiences. Our task is to begin the conversation that generates these outcomes. 

Episode Summary and Highlights

Welcome to Profound Conversations. This is program number four of this season and we have been looking at justice, equality and all of the things that we need to balance out. And over the last few weeks as we saw the verdict in the Ahmaud Arbery case, it gave us an opportunity to reset. Everyone got a verdict that says that there can be justice there can be fair, and people have good hearts will make a choice that says despite race, an injustice has happened, and those perpetrators must go to jail. A gleeful sound came out across the country, because it was a big deal. When case after case after case before this did not end in the same level of result of the Mr. Arbery verdict allowed us to reset as a nation or have the opportunity to reset as a nation and also begs the question “Is it time to reset in the medical and public health field?”

-I really appreciate the thought about co workers and collaboration. And I think I really want to and that's not something I hear enough about when discussing trust.

-I've learned to think about the healthcare system in the past few years, is materialist. Like economics money, right, so much of our healthcare system has to do who does or who doesn't have money.

-And I think that faith in the system would be better and possibly, people wanting to donate more, could be an end result of that, knowing that they're getting good information across the board, transparent information, and they're being treated fairly and presented all options.

-I think if we looked at things much like Dr. Berger said that we were actually coworkers. And we were not competitive or in separate organizations that we were all one, I think that the system would be so much better.

-I think it's always useful to try to teach my colleagues and people about listening to patients listen to everybody and to be more compassionate.

-Really working with people involves conflict and dispute and, and, you know, working well as a team doesn't mean everyone obeys.

-And I've been really inspired recently about the history of community health care and solidarity based health care in the US.

Profound Conversations Executive Producers are the Muslim Life Planning Institute, a national community building organization whose mission is to establish pathways to lifelong learning and healthy communities at the local, national and global level.   MLPN.life

The Profound Conversations podcast is produced by Erika Christie www.ErikaChristie.com

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