Community Impact
Achieving Health Equity
The Health Equity Collective’s focus and mission is establishing a sustainable, data-driven, human-centered ecosystem of care that equitably addresses the Social Determinants of Health (SDOH) among residents of the Greater Houston area. We promote cross-system and cross-sector partnerships among organizations serving SDOH needs, including healthcare, social services, public health, government, for-profit, insurance companies, and academia, among other areas.
THERE ARE KEY MILESTONES ACROSS THE
FRAMEWORK’S FOUR ACTIONS FOR HEALTH:
HEALTH & SOCIAL SERVICES COORDINATION
- Develop multi-sectoral data governance process
- Implement resource directory exchange infrastructure with the master resource index
- Implement referral network infrastructure linking social services in the Greater Houston area
advocacy & policy change
- Advocate for SDOH policies to support the Collective efforts at the local, state, and national levels
- Develop community voice capacity for advocacy to support grassroots policy promotion
Cross sector programs & interventions
- Compile best practices, opportunities, and challenges for SDOH interventions across the region
- Develop and facilitate implementation of multi-sector SDOH intervention workflows – starting with food security
- Establish recommended SDOH data processes for the region (in accordance with developing national & state efforts)
research, evaluation, & learning
- Establish a Geographical Information Systems analytics core to support social service organizations and Health Equity Collective needs
- Work to develop policy and advocacy capacity with a focus on the Greater Houston area
- Support alignment of SDOH efforts across the regional and state ecosystem, both thematically and geographically
Resources
In addition to these key milestones, each workgroup is working towards a set of complementary goals. Please view the Collective’s latest Quarterly Report to track the progress of this work.
