Policy

Building support for data-driven policy and practice changes that give every community the opportunity to be healthy and thrive.

A community’s health is deeply connected to the way its laws, regulations, and institutions support the health of everyone in it. In many communities across the country, the system is rigged in ways that concentrate power and money away from working people, at the expense of their physical, mental, and economic health. 

The Center gathers input from experts, community members, and organizations from across the country about research-backed policies that support a fair shot for everyone to be healthy. With that vital input, we provide important insight to federal agencies that work toward and fund programs that make communities healthier. The Center’s research codevelops the kinds of evidence that can be baked into policy and practice change at all levels — organizational, local, state, and federal — to create genuine health opportunity for all. 

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