PHIL partnered with the State of Vermont and Vermont ACH sites to co-create the Peer Learning Lab, which supported teams from 10 communities statewide to test ACH implementation while increasing community capacity and readiness across the 9 Core Elements. This work included utilizing in-person and distance learning methods to support peer learning and community facilitation to support each community’s development over eight months. See the report to learn more.

The Population Health Innovation Lab (PHIL) partnered with the Office of Rural Health (ORH) at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to develop The Cookbook: A Guide to Using CDC Data for Rural Analysis. This resource was created to increase awareness and understanding of rural variables available in public health datasets provided by CDC, which can be used to help inform the rural public health knowledge base. The Cookbook provides step-by-step instructions (i.e., recipes) for accessing and processing CDC data for secondary analysis for rural public health research. Download the Cookbook Development Brief | Download the Cookbook Methods Brief