Correspondent Briana Vannozzi speaks to Robert Woods Johnson Foundation senior policy officer Dr. Giridhar Mallya about the report “Building a Culture of Health,” which presents policymakers with a framework to close existing gaps in health care and outcomes based on recent findings. Mallya says “culture of health” means that “everybody in this state has a fair and just opportunity to live out their full health potential” — that means access to health care, affordable and safe housing, benefits like paid family leave and more. He also discusses some of the 13 multi-layered policy recommendations made to the state to help close gaps that are disparate across race and income lines.
Report outlines for policymakers how to build a ‘culture of health’
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An Emmy award-winning journalist, Briana Vannozzi serves as the anchor for NJ Spotlight News, the newsroom of NJ PBS. She's worked in several capacities since joining the news division in 2012, as interim anchor and senior correspondent after years of general assignment reporting as a multimedia journalist. Vannozzi began her television journalism career by cutting her teeth on New Jersey State House politics for New Jersey Network News, and later as a news radio correspondent at FM News 101.9 covering crime and politics in New York City. Her work has taken her to national presidential nominating conventions, Capitol Hill, up and down the East Coast and every corner of the Garden State. She's interviewed every New Jersey governor dating back to Jon Corzine and moderated numerous political debates and forums. Her work has also earned awards from the New Jersey Society of Professional Journalists and the Philadelphia Press Association. A Burlington County native, she's honored to be serving and covering her home state and raising her family there.