HealthPartners leader appointed to CDC task force for population health
BLOOMINGTON, Minn. — HealthPartners Medical Director for Wellbeing, Thomas Kottke, MD, is one of 8 people recently appointed to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Community Preventive Services Task Force.
He will start his 5-year term in 2021, and support the panel of experts in developing community-based interventions that improve health disparities and social determinants of health, heart disease and stroke prevention, mental health, substance use, and other public health issues.
The CPSTF is an independent, nonfederal panel of 15 public health and prevention experts that provides evidence-based findings and recommendations about community preventive services, programs, and other interventions aimed at improving population health. CPSTF members represent a broad range of research, practice, and policy expertise in community preventive services, public health, health promotion, and disease prevention.
In addition to his leadership role at HealthPartners, Kottke is a clinical cardiologist and epidemiologist. He is also a senior investigator with HealthPartners Institute.
About HealthPartners Institute
HealthPartners Institute is part of HealthPartners, the largest consumer-governed, non-profit health care organization in the nation with a mission to improve health and well-being in partnership with members, patients and the community. HealthPartners Institute supports this mission through research, education and practice. The Institute annually conducts 400+ research studies and trains 700+ medical residents and fellows and 1,200+ medical and advanced practice students. Its integration with HealthPartners’ hospitals, clinics and health plan strengthens the Institute’s ability to discover and develop evidence-based solutions and translate them into practice. Based in Minneapolis, the Institute’s work impacts care, health and well-being across the region and nation as well as internationally. Visit healthpartnersinstitute.org for more information.