What We Do

We seek to advance health equity via three key strategies:

Helping other organizations succeed both in the U.S. and globally by:

• Providing counseling, technical assistance, training, capacity building, program evaluation, and communication resources that address their needs and build upon existing capacities

Establishing a road map for health equity by researching and/or examining:

• Social and political factors and intermediate steps (also called determinants of behavior) leading to community and social behaviors that may contribute to health equity
• Organizational capacities and training needs in a variety of settings both in the U.S. and abroad
• Models for community participation for policy development and implementation

Engaging and mobilizing communities in the U.S. to:

• Help them define community-specific priorities and progress indicators
• Encourage the development of “communities of practice,” including community members as well as professionals from the public health, medical, private, nonprofit and policy sectors to share resources and information; foster regular interaction; and effectively build a large and action oriented community around the issue

We implement these strategies on a wide range of disease areas and health issues.