NMQF’s Center for Sustainable Health Care Quality and Equity launched a nationwide network of churches who are working to promote health equity in their congregations and communities – the Faith Health Alliance. The groups have implemented numerous educational and service-providing activities over the last two years, with impressive results in terms of improved health awareness and care. A survey of the participating churches conducted this summer revealed not only their characteristics and activities, but what they prioritize and need to adequately help nurture not only the spiritual health of their congregants, but their physical and psychosocial health as well. Join us in learning about how faith-based organizations can promote health and how you can join the effort.

Moderator

Laura Lee Hall, Ph.D.
President, Center for Sustainable Health Care Quality and Equity
National Minority Quality Forum

Dr. Laura Lee Hall brings 20 years plus of executive experience leading health advocacy, research, education, and quality improvement efforts. Dr. Hall founded the Center for Sustainable Health Care Quality and Equity (SHC) in 2016 as part of the National Minority Quality Forum to help translate data, geo-maps, and educational efforts into improved health in underserved communities, through provider and community education and practice improvement. SHC has launched national initiatives in flu and COVID vaccination, diabetes, heart failure, and cancer screenings, working with FQHCs, other clinics, pharmacists, churches, and other community leaders.

Prior to joining SHC, Dr. Hall founded and lead the Center for Quality and Office of Grants at the American College of Physicians (ACP), creating a network of more than 2000 primary care physicians in 19 states engaged in quality improvement (QI) activities along with the largest federally qualified registry for Medicare reporting.

Panelists

Chinonso Ukachukwu, MPH
Director, Quality Improvement & Equity
National Minority Quality Forum, Center for Sustainable Health Care Quality and Equity

Chinnie is a passionate Public Health Specialist with over 10 years of progressive leadership experience in healthcare. She comes with a proven track record of accomplishments in health education, health promotion, growth strategy and high- level partnership creation. In addition to a Masters of Public Health degree from Southern New Hampshire University, she has over half a decade of results- oriented practical experiences working with statewide and national agencies to implement evidence-based practices grounded in quality improvement principles across different populations in Washington DC.

She is currently the Director, Quality Improvement and Equity at the National Minority Quality Forum’s Center for Sustainable Health Care Quality and Equity (SHC).

Prior to joining the SHC team, she was the chronic disease manager at Metro Health clinic where she coordinated health activities to close care gaps for patients in different disease states including diabetes, HIV, hypertension, asthma etc.


Reverend LaChaune Nicole Slater
Lead Pastor
Payne Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church

LaChaune Nicole Slater is a native of the Magic City - Birmingham, Alabama. Blessed with a servant’s heart, Nicole is an ordained minister serving as Lead Pastor at Payne Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church.

With 15 years of experience in the death care industry at Davenport & Harris Funeral Homes, Inc, Nicole is credentialed with the International Conference of Funeral Service, and is a Licensed Funeral Director, Cremationist, and Pre-Need Salesperson.

Driven by service and making a difference, Nicole volunteers with several civic organizations, and is a distinguished member of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. She also serves as a member of the Board of Directors for F.I.R.E., Inc. and Davenport & Harris Funeral Homes, Inc.