Leadership at the Intersections 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

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 District of Columbia. Read More

healthy eating active living (HEAL) cities & Towns campaign Web site
The Healthy Eating Active Living (HEAL) Cities & Towns Campaign is an initiative to help cities and towns in Maryland and Virginia stem the obesity epidemic by leveraging policy as a driver of environmental change. Increasingly, policymakers, advocates, and health care providers are recognizing that obesity is neither caused by, nor can be prevented by, individual actions alone. The opportunity to live a healthy life is shaped by the communities in which we live, work, learn, play, and worship. HEAL Cities & Towns is modeled after the successful California HEAL Cities Campaign, which began in 2008 and has helped over 142 CA cities adopt HEAL policies. The HEAL Cities & Towns Campaign for the Mid-Atlantic is funded by Kaiser Foundation Health Plan for the Mid-Atlantic States. Learn more about HEAL Cities & Towns at: www.healcitiesmidatlantic.org