Your Guide to the 3rd Annual Community Information Exchange (CIE) Summit

Posted on August 13, 2020August 13, 2020 by DASH-Admin

Originally scheduled for May, the 2020 Community Information Exchange (CIE) Summit has moved to a virtual platform and is taking place on August 12-14. The COVID-19 pandemic and the murder of George Floyd has cast a spotlight on the impacts of systemic racism. The harmful impacts of long standing social and economic inequities that contribute to ill health are a public health emergency that can be mitigated by connecting information systems across sectors. The CIE Summit brings together ke...

Crowdsourcing Ideas to Improve Mental Well-being and Housing Stability

Posted on July 16, 2020July 16, 2020 by DASH-Admin

The Public Health National Center for Innovations (PHNCI), launched a blog series last month called "Innovating through Cross-sector Alignment," sharing stories of innovative approaches to address needs unearthed by the COVID-19 pandemic in the hopes that other communities can learn from and possibly replicate those efforts. DASH is cross-posting these articles here. DASH and PHNCI partner on All In: Data for Community Health, a learning network of communities improving community health outcomes...

Addressing Food Insecurity through Economic Partnerships

Posted on July 16, 2020July 16, 2020 by DASH-Admin

Health Leads’ Webinar Explores Strategies for Dismantling Racist Power Structures in Public Health

Posted on June 30, 2020June 30, 2020 by DASH-Admin

By Esther Babawande When there is a conscious shift in our ideals, beliefs, and attitudes—we respond. When that conscious shift happens on a national scale communities’ band together and responds collectively. We gauge different communities' responses to compare them and look for what works, we ask questions expecting answers. As a nation, a collective shift is occurring that reveals more than ever before the reality of being a person-of-color (POC) in America, the intersectionality of ...

ReThink Health invites you to share your experience as a steward of well-being

Posted on June 15, 2020 by DASH-Admin

We are experiencing multiple systemic crises at once—including Covid-19, racially-motivated violence and injustice, and an economic recession—and one result is that more and more people see and understand that our lives and livelihoods depend on each other and on a system that is poorly designed for equitable outcomes. As we learn alongside one another to determine how to bring about a better system—designed for everyone to thrive, without exceptions—ReThink Health is committed to fielding a ...