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Health Impact Project
The Health Impact Project, a collaboration of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and The Pew Charitable Trusts, encourages local, state, and national organizations to include health considerations in policy decisions across multiple sectors, such as housing, transportation, and education. Research shows that the conditions in which people live, learn, work, and play influence their health, so the project also works to create cross-sector partnerships that include the expertise of health care and public health systems.

Through technical and financial assistance, training, and convenings, the project helps organizations and governments identify policies, practices, and research that promote health and integrate them into their work. By engaging community stakeholders and translating research into action, the project seeks to make health a key component in decision-making and to improve the well-being of under-resourced populations.

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Building Healthy Communities: Mental Health in America

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Access to mental health care is a rising concern in communities throughout the country—especially for groups already experiencing challenges connecting with primary care providers. In this episode, Mimi Narayan from Pew’s Health Impact Project outlines the factors that contribute to health disparities and how to make care more equitable.

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Search Our Toolkit

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Search Our Toolkit

The Health Impact Project’s toolkit contains resources that help communities, agencies, and other organizations take action to improve public health. The toolkit offers a collection of health impact assessments, guides, and other research to support policymakers’ efforts to consider health when making decisions across sectors, such as housing, planning, and education.

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Cross-Sector Partnerships for Health

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In 2019, The Health Impact Project launched an initiative to forge lasting collaborations among government agencies and community nonprofits that will develop solutions for complex public health problems stemming from conditions in the places where people live, learn, work, and play.

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Article

Infrastructure Law Could Advance Health Equity

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Legislation signed by President Joe Biden on Nov. 15 broadly addresses U.S. infrastructure in a way not seen in almost 70 years.

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Factors that Shape Health and Well-Being

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Research shows that the conditions in which people live, learn, work, and play influence their health. Individual health choices and access to quality care represent just part of the equation to ensure all people are as healthy as possible.