Tray Cockerell, MA, SPHR
Senior Executive, Strategic Relationships, Office of the CMO
Humana
Tray Cockerell is a senior executive, working in the Office of Population Health at Humana Inc. leading Strategic Relationships. Mr. Cockerell currently leads Humana’s collaboration with University of Houston and other academic institutions. His background includes work in Human Resources, Innovation, Marketing, and directly for the Chief Marketing Officer, Chief Operating Officer, and Chief Executive Officer on efforts ranging from benefits design to reorganization efforts, and strategy. Additionally, Mr. Cockerell led the start-up of Humana’s Bold Goal population health effort to improve the health of communities 20% by 2020 and beyond, which currently operates in 16 communities across the country.

Presenting at the Nexus Summit:

Discuss how you are addressing the selected theme(s): While preventive and management measures are important to mitigate the spread of COVID-19, strategies like social distancing can have devastating effects on older adults who are already at risk for social isolation and loneliness. In response, the University of Houston Colleges of Social Work and Medicine leveraged a partnership with Humana, Inc in collaboration with Papa Inc. to address social isolation and loneliness in Houston-area older adults. We used administrative data to identify Humana Medicare Advantage beneficiaries who…