Daniel Kass is the senior vice-president (Environmental, Climate, and Urban Health) at Vital Strategies, where he leads a team working on using the tools of public health to address environmental threats and ensure healthy and sustainable outcomes for people living in an increasingly urbanised world. Kass is an expert on environmental health and environmental disease prevention, with 35 years of experience in enforcement, education, policy, and research programmes at Hunter College, as the head of environmental health for the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene in New York City, and at Vital Strategies. Dan completed doctoral studies (ABD) in Public Administration at NYU and held a Master of Science in Public Health degree from the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health and a Bachelor of Science degree from Brown University.
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In 2011, the US Department of Health and Human Services launched the Million Hearts initiative, led by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) with participation from a wide range of federal agencies, state governments, clinical consortia, community and professional organizations, and other partners. The goal of the initiative was to prevent 1 million myocardial infarctions and strokes over 5 years.
To achieve this goal, community-wide preventive interventions were to reduce tobacco use and sodium consumption and eliminate artificial
trans fats from the food supply. In clinical care, the initiative focused on improving the “ABCS”: aspirin use, blood pressure control, cholesterol management, and smoking cessation treatment. A second phase, Million Hearts 2022, aims to reduce tobacco use, sodium intake, and physical inactivity by 20%; achieve 80% performance on the ABCS and 70% participation in cardiac rehabilitatio