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March 17, 2022
Centering Equity in Community Health Partnerships
In collaborating with seasoned community health practitioners over the last year, it has become clear that many of us in […]
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October 22, 2020
All Roads Lead to Prevention
In the latest 2020 “Fresh Perspectives” blog post presented by the de Beaumont Foundation, Jonathan Wetstein, MS, manager of Roots to Prevention in […]
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February 20, 2020
Community Approaches to Systems Change
Why is it that improving community health is so challenging? One answer is that because doing so requires change that […]
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January 22, 2020
What Does It Take to BUILD Health? Q&A with Emily Yu
The BUILD Health Challenge® (BUILD) welcomed 18 new awardees to its third cohort in November. These communities throughout the […]
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February 27, 2019
Apply Now for the BUILD Health Challenge
The BUILD Health Challenge is now accepting applications to support up to 17 innovative collaboratives that include a community-based organization, […]
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September 12, 2017
19 Communities Embark on Two-Year Endeavor to Transform Health in their Communities as Part of the “B...
Funders from across the country have joined together to announce their support of 19 community collaborations over the next two […]
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August 15, 2017
Bridging the Data Gap: Connecting Communities with the Tools They Need
by Catherine Patterson, Alison Rein, and Peter Eckart Data are among the most powerful yet under-developed and under-appreciated resources in […]
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March 10, 2016
What I Know From G.I. Joe: Knowing Is Only Half the Battle
In the four years since the Institute of Medicine (IOM) released Primary Care and Public Health: Exploring Integration to Improve […]
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August 28, 2015
Partnering to BUILD a New U.S. Health System
Last night, a mother hurriedly gathered clothes, insurance cards, toys, and medications. She was heading to the ER again because […]
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July 2, 2015
Prevention in the Shadows: America’s Quick Fix Culture
Photo courtesy ep_jhu (CC BY-NC 2.0) There is an 1895 poem by Joseph Malins titled “A Fence or an Ambulance.” […]
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December 5, 2014
BUILDing Better, Healthier Communities
Health care in America is designed to manage the consequences rather than the causes of disease. It has created expensive […]
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November 12, 2014
BUILD Health Challenge Launches $7.5 Million Initiative to Fund Innovative Collaborations That Improve Comm...
The Advisory Board Company, de Beaumont Foundation, Kresge Foundation, and Robert Wood Johnson Foundation have announced the launch of the […]