Chief Healthcare Executive February 28, 2025
Northwell Health’s annual event sought to build common ground by avoiding partisanship and focusing on firearm deaths as a public health issue.
Michael Dowling, president and CEO of Northwell Health, says it’s important to maintain a sense of optimism about finding solutions to reduce gun violence.
He spoke about building more support and avoiding pessimism at Northwell Health’s sixth annual gun violence prevention forum Thursday. Hospital executives, business leaders and political figures attended the event.
Dowling, who kicked off the forum, stressed that gun violence is a public health issue and one that goes beyond politics, pointing out that it’s the leading cause of death among children. Yet he also suggested greater challenges with the new political climate in Washington,...
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