Center for Community Health Innovation

Centering partnerships with frontline communities to improve social determinants of health for all.

About

The Center for Community Health Innovation (CCHI) works with community partners to address systemic factors that cause disproportionate health outcomes for long-underserved racial and socioeconomic groups in the United States and globally. Our work recognizes that health care access, economic and job stability, the natural and built environment, housing status, and other social determinants are key to shaping and improving health outcomes.

Our Work

CCHI’s projects address four cross-cutting priority areas: access to oral health, climate change, displacement and gentrification, and workers’ rights. Each focus area emphasizes building power in frontline communities and workforces, fostering interdisciplinary collaboration, and using law and policy to improve public health for all populations.

Alongside our grassroots partners, CCHI co-creates innovative policy solutions that improve social determinants of health in cities and neighborhoods — using a combination of law, policy, strategy, and coalition-building to bring community solutions to scale at every level. By centering community priorities and expertise at every stage of work, we can help pioneer solutions to improve comprehensive and holistic health outcomes, developed with and for the people most impacted.

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