Events
We facilitate a variety of learning opportunities to help you collaborate in strategic and meaningful ways to improve health, well-being, and equity.
We encourage you to visit our Eventbrite page to register for upcoming opportunities. Make sure to also check our PHIL YouTube to access our previous webinar discussions.
Join Us In Making a Difference
Excited to learn more? Check out our offerings designed to support your journey toward improving health, well-being, and equity at a community level:
- Web Discussions: Join us for lively, interactive chats with experts and peers! We’ll tackle the hot topics in cross-sector, cross-boundary work—usually in 90 engaging minutes or less.
- Action-Oriented Workshops: Roll up your sleeves and get ready to build out some useful material! Our hands-on workshops will equip you with actionable strategies and products that you can use right in your own backyard.
- Learning Lab Experiences: Let’s get experimental! Collaborate, create, and learn in a structured environment with expert guidance over a period of several weeks or even months. Together, we’ll tackle shared challenges and innovate around common goals—while making sure to laugh along the way!
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Past Events
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Power Ecosystems: Multisector Collaboratives and Systems Change
The virtual session was held on Wednesday, June 26, 2024, from 11:30 am – 12:30 pm PT.
Communities most affected by problems already know the best solutions. Sadly, these communities are usually not the ones influencing policy. Those who offer direct service are close to the problems and to the solutions. These service providers sometimes join multisector collaboratives, but their already overstretched workloads prevent them from participating in advocacy and systems change. Funders may also step in with well-intended pre-set priorities, not realizing what non-profits actually need to successfully engage in systems change. Yet, some communities and funders are transcending this paradigm to form power ecosystems that have energized communities and created sustainable change. This interactive workshop presented examples of power ecosystems and their systems change successes. Dr. Lee explained the The PHaRE (Public Health and Racial Equity) Model for Systems Change©. The discussion explored:
- How direct service and advocacy naturally connect for systems change.
- Why non-profits find it challenging to do direct service and policy and systems change work at the same time.
- How successful, place-based community-led systems and policy change occurs in practice, through real life case studies.
- The mindset and the five grant making practices needed by funders to support the development of power ecosystems.
Improving Population Health Through Multisector Collaboration: A Three-Part Series
In this three-part series, Improving Population Health through Multisector Collaboration, the Population Health Innovation Lab team, joined by community practitioners, shared discoveries about aligning systems from working with Accountable Communities of/for Health (ACHs) in California and Washington.
To start off the series, we presented the three most impactful approaches for aligning systems for health identified through PHIL’s research. These approaches are further explored in a series of six briefs. Next, PHIL hosted a panel discussion with ACH leaders who shared stories, provide examples, and answer your questions about aligning. Finally, we guide you through our curated collection of resources–including stories, statistics, quotes, examples, definitions, ideas, reports, videos, and articles–focused on multisector collaboration for improved population health.
Advancing Equity: Adapting to Local Context and Confronting Power Dynamics
The Population Health Innovation Lab’s (PHIL) Division of Research and Network Science was joined by representatives from Accountable Communities of/for Health (ACHs) in Washington and California on Thursday, June 2 for a special web discussion entitled “Advancing Equity: Adapting to Local Context and Confronting Power Dynamics. Lessons learned from Accountable Communities of/for Health.”
This discussion featured recent research findings which answer the question, “How do local context and power dynamics influence an ACH’s ability to make progress toward improved equity?” It is intended for those interested in learning more about PHIL’s Aligning Systems for Health research, as well as on-the-ground practitioners interested in learning about new strategies for advancing equity.
Key findings show the role local context and power dynamics play when ACHs specifically – and multisector collaboratives broadly – seek to improve equity. This event featured a panel of experts from diverse ACHs across Washington and California who shared examples of how they are adapting to local context, confronting power dynamics, and using concrete strategies to advance equity in their communities.
