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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 […]

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