To build the capacity of 11 High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area (HIDTA) programs through sourcing, hiring, training and providing technical assistance to public health analysts and public health practice coordinators to aid in local response activities.
To address the root causes of poor health through the rigorous adoption of evidence-based policies by expanding the CityHealth policy menu and footprint.
To work with local, state and national partners and develop a set of recommendations in the form of a roadmap on how to optimize the interface between public health and community-based organizations (CBOs) to best prepare future responses to public health emergencies and effectively promote broader community health objectives, including achieving health equity and overall community health and wellbeing.
To serve as an applied learning hub for community-based organizations (CBO), public health departments, funders and others to co-create the systems-level changes needed to get to the root causes of health inequities. Phase 1 will focus on community driven capacity building of all public health ecosystem actors.
To host Atlanta-based arts events and experiences to bring together community activists, health experts, arts professionals and members of the public to engage in important, thought-provoking conversations about race and health equity.
To support the participation of community members and other partners in convenings (both virtual and in-person) whose ultimate goal is to increase health equity and improve population health outcomes.
The goal of the Improving Engagement in Community Level Data Collection program is to improve the nation's access to community-relevant and nationally significant data that measure health and equity.
To reduce the incidence of the rodent-borne disease hantavirus among residents of the Navajo Nation by preventing exposure to the virus through empowering residents to repair and reinforce their homes against rodents, notably deer mice, the vector species for hantavirus.
To convene a statewide meeting bringing together non-profits, advocacy organizations, policymakers and funders in Georgia with the goal of developing an action plan to eliminate hunger and address food and nutrition insecurity.
To support implementation of a set of recommendations and a roadmap developed in the "Strengthening Public Health and Community Based Organization (CBO)" Interface report.