Q&A
Council Member Schulman questions DOHMH on Healthy NYC strategy and future plans
1:18:35
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Council Member Lynn Schulman engages in a Q&A session with Acting Health Commissioner Michelle Morse about the Healthy NYC initiative. They discuss the public availability of strategy maps, the initiative's continuity across administrations, and potential challenges with federal support for health surveillance.
- DOHMH confirms that Healthy NYC strategy maps will be publicly available in the coming weeks.
- Dr. Morse emphasizes that Healthy NYC is designed to transcend administrations due to its long-term goals.
- Concerns are raised about potential federal pullback on health surveillance and its impact on NYC's health initiatives.
Lynn Schulman
1:18:35
Okay.
1:18:35
I just wanted to ask a couple of follow-up questions.
1:18:39
One is the 7 strategy maps developed by DOHMH and you mentioned, it's mentioned, are are those public or are those just given to us?
Michelle Morse
1:18:50
Thank you for that question.
1:18:51
We are just finalizing the strategy maps and they will be publicly available in the coming weeks.
Lynn Schulman
1:18:56
Okay.
1:18:57
I appreciate that.
1:18:58
Let us know, and also just a quick follow-up on council member Nwaziz's question.
1:19:03
In general, Healthy NYC and the new administration that's coming in, is there any special thinking around that or just to make sure that Healthy NYC that we're able to move forward with, plans that we have?
1:19:20
I mean, just as a general thought about that.
Michelle Morse
1:19:24
Our perspective is that Healthy NYC really is an evidence based and a data driven approach for how we improve life expectancy across New York City.
1:19:34
We definitely see it was envisioned as a initiative and a framework that would transcend, you know, administrations because it is a long term goal.
1:19:44
And so our, plan is to continue to partner with, all of our stakeholders around advancing the goals of Healthy NYC, and really achieving that goal of, 83 years by 2030.
Lynn Schulman
1:19:58
So, you know, because one of the one of the issues I know that part of Healthy NYC is surveillance, and plus there's some issues around hn51.
1:20:09
I'm not gonna get into a whole thing around that, but at some point we will.
1:20:13
But, you know, the federal government may pull back on surveillance.
1:20:17
I mean, I just wanna make sure that, you know, New York City is inoculated about some of the negative impacts that may occur.
Michelle Morse
1:20:24
So Thank you for raising that question, Chair Schulman.
1:20:29
We'd be happy to talk more offline around, plans around the new federal administration transitioning in.
1:20:35
From our perspective, again, you know, we are prepared to continue to push forward with the goals of Healthy NYC, and we know that the science and public health values that helped us to set those goals, will still be true, and that the interventions that we have worked on developing and the strategy maps and beyond, will still be the the evidence based interventions that get us to our goal of 83 years by 2030.
Lynn Schulman
1:21:01
So I wanna I do have something I wanna say, but I wanna first acknowledge 2 things.
1:21:05
1 is acknowledge we've been joined by council member Feliz, and he has a question.
1:21:09
So let him ask a question, and I'll come back.
1:21:11
And yeah.
