Reimagining Equity

Community-Led Pathways to  Health

Realizing health equity commitments requires a bold reimagination of how healthcare institutions and communities work together.

Are You and Your Team:

Wondering why traditional approaches to population health and community engagement do not go far enough in generating health impact and savings?
Wondering why traditional approaches to population health and community engagement do not go far enough in generating health impact and savings?
Wondering why traditional approaches to population health and community engagement do not go far enough in generating health impact and savings?
Wondering why traditional approaches to population health and community engagement do not go far enough in generating health impact and savings?

Shift Health Accelerator brings decades of experience in these topics, via a national network of community health-focused leaders spearheading new models that redefine health and healing — as well as how it is actualized through community governance and ownership. This May, we are launching a four-workshop series for health system leaders and other institutional actors who are ready to push their institutions beyond the status quo, as well as approach community partnership in new and equitable ways.

These Sessions

These sessions are not your typical informational webinar — in addition to learning from leaders who are advancing health equity in executive health system roles as well as community leaders who are putting forth holistic visions for health in BIPOC communities, you will also have the opportunity to engage in active reflection, real-time practice, and community-building. Participants will walk away with:

Unique strategy

Design, and execution insights from Shift’s network of community and healthcare leaders

Targeted reflection

And practice exercises aimed at translating content from each of our sessions into questions and actionable pathways that are relevant for your work

Interactive learning

And discussion with a community of like-minded peers

Specific tools

From Shift’s Practice Toolkit to advance this work inside of your institution and in partnership with communities.

Session 1: From Population Health to Health Justice

Substantively improving health outcomes and Costs

Existing approaches in population health and social needs aren’t moving the needle on health outcomes. Actualizing institutional commitments to health, racial, and economic justice requires taking a look at the root causes that shape those social needs. Hear from population health, community benefit, and racial equity leaders who are implementing approaches that tackle structural determinants and come away with tools to assess and evolve your current strategy.

Meet Our Panelists

Camryn Smith
Erika Seth Davies
Caitlin Dunklee
Robert Torres
Eugene Cooke
Melissa Bosworth

Community Expertise is Non-Negotiable for Impact

To address those root causes, we must examine not just what healthcare institutions support, but how they do so. Traditional community engagement models can result in ineffective or short-lived solutions, but accountability models can increase impact. Hear from community engagement, power-building, and healthcare accountability leaders who are actively sharing power, and access tools for internal reflection as well as facilitative skills-building.

Meet Our Panelists

Artair Rogers
Harvard School of 
Public Health

Leigh Caswell
Presbyterian 
Healthcare Services

Felipe Tendick-Matesanz
Cook County Public Health

Leverage Assets through Participatory Investing Model

Communities are experts in addressing root causes — but this expertise is rarely tapped in programmatic decisions and even less in financial decisions. Shared design and governance for health investment/grantmaking are new frontiers of health innovation. Hear from health investment, participatory governance, and equitable capital leaders with expertise in community-driven investing and learn from participatory investing frameworks.

Meet Our Panelists

Jeremy Moore
Reinvestment Fund

Carli Yoro Emerald Cities Collaborative

Corinne Chacon
Field of Stars

Investments to Support Liberatory Visions for Health

Addressing health inequities in the long-term and achieving healthy, thriving communities necessitates a rethinking of roles. Healthcare institutions can contribute significantly to community visions for healing — if they are open to reimagining current paradigms. Hear from community health, healing justice, and community organizing leaders who are imagining new futures for health and practice ways to reconceive risk and role.

Meet Our Panelists

Tap Bui
Song Community 
Development Corporation

Romi Hall
Center for
Community Investment

Jessyca Dudley
Bold Ventures

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This toolkit explores frameworks and tools to shape approaches for participatory, community-rooted investing in the health sector
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Toolkit Modules

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Community Rooted Finance

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Scarcity & Abundance

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Trust Assessment Rubric

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Cooperation Exercise

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Feedback Loops Exercise

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Community Rooted Diligence Assessment

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Participatory Investing Toolkit

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Reimagining Equity Webinar

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Policy Scan
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Nature of Trust

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Ratecards

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Accountability
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