Who We Are

Data Across Sectors for Health (DASH) is a national initiative that elevates models, principles, and practices that support multisector data-sharing ecosystems to achieve health equity.

Who We Are

DASH is co-led by the Illinois Public Health Institute and the Michigan Public Health Institute. The two institutes make up the DASH Program Office (PO), which is funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.*

*The views expressed on this site do not necessarily reflect the views of the Foundation.

What We DO

We provide financial support and technical assistance, share resources, survey the field, support peer learning, and build networks among leading practitioners at the local and national levels.

Since 2015, we have funded over 200 projects through seven different funding programs.

Our APproach

We consider the social, political, economic, and historical context of information systems to ensure that our efforts lead to a fair, just, and inclusive future for all.

This systems approach has led us to center collaboration, the inclusion of people with lived experience, peer learning, asset framing, and policy-level impact as core values in our work.

Ultimately, we envision a society where information and technology support systems that provide every person a fair and just opportunity to achieve their full potential for health and wellbeing.

Data Across Sectors for Health (DASH) is a national initiative that elevates models, principles, and practices that support multisector data-sharing ecosystems to achieve health equity.

Who We Are

DASH is co-led by the Illinois Public Health Institute and the Michigan Public Health Institute. The two institutes make up the DASH Program Office (PO), which is funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.*

*The views expressed on this site do not necessarily reflect the views of the Foundation.

What We DO

We provide financial support and technical assistance, share resources, survey the field, support peer learning, and build networks among leading practitioners at the local and national levels.

Since 2015, we have funded over 200 projects through seven different funding programs.

Our Approach

We consider the social, political, economic, and historical context of information systems to ensure that our efforts lead to a fair, just, and inclusive future for all.

This systems approach has led us to center collaboration, the inclusion of people with lived experience, peer learning, asset framing, and policy-level impact as core values in our work.

Ultimately, we envision a society where information and technology support systems that provide every person a fair and just opportunity to achieve their full potential for health and wellbeing.

DASH Framework

Since 2015, DASH has been funding community collaborations that aim to share data, or use multi-sector data, to improve community health. Along the way, we have collected insights and learnings from our network of partners and grant recipients.

One result of this work is our DASH Framework, which maps out all potential considerations in data-sharing projects. Think of it as a map for data sharing that identifies all major landmarks.

Ultimately, it demonstrates how people can use data to make educated, informed decisions regarding programs and policies that improve community well-being.

Our People

  • Waldo Mikels-Carrasco

    DASH PO Co-Director (IPHI)

  • Melissa Moorehead

    DASH PO Co-Director (MPHI)

  • Celestine Emberton

    Program Manager (IPHI)

  • Norma Narsa

    Program Manager (IPHI)

  • Ellen Clewett

    Program Manager (IPHI)

  • Sheila Rurangirwa

    Program Assistant (IPHI)

  • Stephanie Johnson

    Research Associate (MPHI)

  • Beenish Kamran

    Research Associate (MPHI)

  • Kadrianna Cohen

    Research Assistant (MPHI)

  • Shaohui Zhai

    Statistician (MPHI)

  • Catherine Gillis

    Program Research and Content Manager (IPHI)

  • Kaara Kallen

    Content Producer (IPHI)

  • Andras Ferencz

    Communications Manager (IPHI)

All In: Data for Community Health

All In: Data for Community Health is a nationwide coalition of organizations and practitioners invested in advancing health equity through multisector data sharing.

Together, All In participants build the evidence base to advance practice, identify gaps, highlight investment needs, and inform policy in the field of multisector data sharing.

DASH is a founding and coordinating partner of All In. We help to disseminate innovative approaches that address the root causes of inequity and poor health at individual, local, and policy levels.

Coming Soon: DASH Knowledge Base

DASH will soon launch a knowledge-sharing platform called the DASH Knowledge Base (DKB).

Our ambition with the DKB is to strengthen institutional memory and elevate community experiences so that organizations engaged in multi-sector data sharing can avoid duplicating efforts and advance their work more efficiently.

The platform will provide a repository of people, organizations, collaboratives, projects, and resources, including white papers, articles, toolkits, and other media related to best practices.

The DKB will offer an increased understanding of relationships and connections between entities, which means it will potentially reveal new opportunities for cooperation and more impactful solutions for communities.

If you’d like to be among the first to join, enter your name and email address below and we’ll notify you when the DKB goes live.