2024 Men’s Health Summit Events Gallery

Title: 2024 Men’s Health Summit: Unleash the Power of Health: Awareness. Prevention. Education. Family.

Bio: Whittier strives to provide our community with compassionate, comprehensive, and culturally-sensitive care, addressing health care inequities, closes gaps in life expectancy, and pursues social justice. Aligned with this vision, Whittier’s 2024 Men’s Health Summit theme was ‘Unleash the Power of Health: Awareness. Prevention. Education. Family!’.

The Summit highlighted the achievements of a diverse group of men, honored as 2024 Men’s Health Champions for their active role in improving men’s health: State Representative Christopher J. Worrell, Nicholas Lahage, SCHC, Supervisor of Reintegration, Marcus Holmes, Esq., Assistant Attorney General, Director of Environmental Justice, Environmental Protection Divisions and the MA Attorney General Office, Joseph Marcel-Saint-Louis DeMertine, MD, M.A.L.D., M.B.A., Lead Physician, Wellness and Specialty Services, Whittier Street Health Center, Jon Santiago, MD, MPH, Secretary of the Executive Office of Veterans’ Services, and Keynote Speaker, Suffolk County District Attorney Kevin R. Hayden.

The program concluded with a rich and informative panel discussion facilitated by Stephen Wright, MD, Medical Director, Whittier Street Health Center, highlighting the importance of awareness, prevention, education, family, to advance men’s health. Panelists Rev. Art Gordon (2023 Men’s Health Champion) and Sondai Boyd (Whittier Youth patient) joined Nicholas Lahage and Dr. DeMertine to promote these important themes and engage in an informative dialogue with the audience. The panel discussion was an important forum to discuss men’s health and to help inform new programs, policy and innovative methods to improve access to health care and social services for men.

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