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Ever since BUILD Health came on the scene, it’s had our attention. It’s ambitious, integrative, and it’s taking aim at a huge roadblock to implementing basic health care improvements in this country: data.
Last year, when this effort launched, we talked to Brian Castrucci, chief program and strategy officer at the de Beaumont Foundation, one of the collaborators on BUILD. He explained the focus on data with this example: “If you look up numbers for diabetes, you’re getting a rate about two years old, that represents a sample with about a 35 percent response rate… We’ve put people on the Moon. We go to other planets, we come back, but the best data for diabetes prevalence is two years old and self-reported!”
BUILD Health, (the acronym stands for Bold, Upstream, Integrated, Local, Data-driven) is one of those ambitious funder collaboratives that aims to torpedo barriers to public health improvements by getting people out of their silos and making vital connections—across disciplines, sectors, and institutions…
