DASH Mentee Meetup Goes Virtual

Posted on September 8, 2020September 8, 2020 by DASH-Admin

By Miriam Castro, Program Manager, Data Across Sectors for Health On August 7, Data Across Sectors for Health held its first Mentee Meetup with members of its DASH Mentor Program Round 2 Awardees. The DASH Mentee Meetup served as an opportunity to 1) introduce Mentees to peers across 7 Mentor cohorts and 2) facilitate connections so that mentees have new ideas to try out in order to advance their project work plans. Based on feedback from last round’s awardees, it seemed important to provide ...

Your DASH & All In Guide to the 3rd Annual Community Information Exchange Summit

Posted on August 13, 2020August 24, 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 key comm...

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 ...