Note: The meeting transcript indicates a meeting date of September 18, 2025, while the provided timestamp is September 22, 2025. This discrepancy is noted here; the summary uses the September 22 date as instructed.
The Joint Board of Health and Hospitals convened at 8:03 AM, chaired by April, with most members present. The meeting covered updates on the Community Health Improvement Plan (CHIP), a quarterly departmental report, committee updates, the introduction of a new board member, and planning for a future visit by Mayor Spencer.
Presented by Kat Pittman, CHIP Coordinator. The update covered five priority areas:
Board members requested: sending slides before future meetings, a membership list of action teams, and identifying stakeholder gaps. Dr. Tepi and others offered to leverage their networks. Kat Pittman will share slides and lists.
Presented by Victoria. Key points from the April–June 2025 quarter:
Discussion included barriers in women’s health programs (paperwork, clinical breast exam requirement) and childhood vaccination challenges (hesitancy, confusing COVID vaccine access rules in Missouri, where healthy individuals may not qualify). Board members suggested community education and using professional society resources.
Nabu Colin Sherry introduced himself. He has 10 years of public health experience, including CDC and county health department roles (led MPOX response), and now works on data modernization with AI. He expressed excitement to serve.
April announced that Mayor Spencer will attend the October 16 meeting for 30–40 minutes. Board members will be asked to submit questions via a Google Doc, which will be prioritized. A list of board member affiliations will also be shared with the Mayor’s office to provide context.
Good morning everyone. I'm sorry if my throat sounds a little scratchy. I think I'm in the process of losing my voice. But I am pleased to open up our September 18th, 2025 meeting of the Joint Board of Health and Hospitals. And as we start our meeting at 803, I'm going to begin with taking a roll call. So we know which board members are present. If you could uh say here or present when you hear your name called. Dr. Ludie here. Brittany Jones. Dr. Daly. I know Chris is here. Yes. Sorry, I am looking at a list and not necessarily at my screen. I didn't unmute them, sorry. Present. Dr. McNicholas. Here. Dr. Shockham. Here. Elizabeth Wright. Here. Dr. Tepi. Here. Dr. Shields. Here. Nabu, as I had mentioned earlier, is planning to join us later. Deedra Griffith. Are you here? Here. So the only person I called I didn't hear present was Brittany. But I do believe she's planning to come to the meeting. So she may just be running late. Okay. Well, thank you for helping us get through that piece of the meeting. We do have a pretty uh jam-packed meeting. Um we had some some items from our last meeting that we definitely wanted um to ensure that we covered in this month's meeting. Um so um I'll go ahead and ask um for us to approve um the August 21st, 2025 Zoom video as our meeting minutes. Um then we will uh hold off um on any intros of new members until uh NABU um is hopefully uh able to make it later. We'll have our um department um updates, uh committee updates, um, and then I do have some um exciting updates um about our uh engagement strategy with uh Mayor Spencer. All righty. Um so first things first, approval of the August minutes. Do I have a motion to approve? So moved. Is there a second?