This discussion was first published as part of the NFPA 2021 Education Conference, entitled ‘Forward: Hope. Care. Change’.
For the past 35 years, Dr. Bethell has built her work and career around an intentional goal to catalyze health care and public health transformation at the policy, systems, and practice levels. This has been driven by an unwavering focus on advancing a whole-person, whole-family, and whole-community model of care that engages patients and the public, is transparent, continuously learning, and collaborative. Dr. Bethell has maintained a consistent focus on assessing and building knowledge related to positive health development, social and emotional well-being, and family and community health. She also advocates for policy reform and is currently advocating for positive health development, healing-centered and trauma-informed approaches nationally and in state and local areas.
