Thriving Together: Community Health Partnerships for Equitable Recovery and Resilience

Bobby Milstein, Director, System Strategy, ReThink Health and Visiting Scientist, MIT Sloan School of Management; Somava Saha, MD, Founder and Executive Lead, Well-being and Equity in the World; and Monte Roulier, President, Community Initiatives Network.  Communities across the country have an immense reservoir of energy, courage, and imagination that can propel widespread local and nationwide action around a single unifying and measurable expectation: All people and places thriving—no exceptions. Health systems everywhere are investing in community health and social equity to make this a reality. Bobby and Monte will share the work they have been undertaking to support this community-building in Thriving Together: A Springboard for Equitable Recovery and Resilience in Communities Across America. Thriving Together highlights scores of actions that communities, organizations, businesses, health systems, and funders can take and are occurring in the wake of COVID-19 and other related national issues. Our health systems are all committed to helping their communities heal and to secure the vital conditions that all people and places need to thrive (i.e., a thriving natural world, basic needs for health and safety, humane housing, meaningful work and wealth, lifelong learning, reliable transportation, and belonging and civic muscle).

Additional material: Well Being in the Nation (WIN) Measures