Leadership at the Intersection of Health
The Institute for Public Health Innovation (IPHi) provides leadership at the intersections of health by working across disciplines and sectors to develop, support, implement, and evaluate creative strategies to improve the public's health. With a focus on Maryland, Virginia, and the District of Columbia, IPHi strives to improve the public's health by providing a nexus for trans-disciplinary collaboration that promotes health, reduces chronic disease, and builds community capacity to sustain progress. IPHi is one of the newest institutes within the National Network of Public Health Institutes (NNPHI), an organization of 35 members throughout the US; NNPHI membership is increasing each year.
Supporting a "Health in all Policies" Approach
Our region has strong governmental public health departments, but the public sector alone cannot produce optimal community health.
The future of the public's health depends on a collective, coordinated effort to improve the conditions in which all people live, work, learn, and play. Achieving better health outcomes requires significant collaboration across the fields of public health, environmental health, medical care, housing, transportation, education, parks and recreation, land use planning, law enforcement, and other sectors. IPHi exists to help forge
partnerships across these sectors and to boost the region's capacity for innovative, prevention-oriented approaches to improving the health of individuals and entire communities. IPHi is the only public health institute in the nation that specializes in addressing social determinants of health and health equity.
Serving the Region
Recently established in 2009, IPHi is already providing critical support to the region. A few
examples of our current work include coordinating needs assessment and health improvement
planning activities for Montgomery County, Maryland, developing a policymaker training
curriculum for the Commonwealth of Virginia on social determinants of health, and leading
the implementation of a groundbreaking initiative to increase access to HIV/AIDS care in the
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